Epirus

Today, we take a monumental step forward as a company with the unveiling of our new website and brand refresh. We are reintroducing ourselves, more committed than ever to our mission of overcoming the asymmetric challenges inherent to the future of national security. As the asymmetric tactics of our adversaries evolve, our future depends on building solutions that are better, faster, and more affordable. We have tons of new content, videos, and more on our website. Direct your energy over to https://www.epirusinc.com/ to explore.

“The committee encourages DoD to prioritize rapidly developing and acquiring directed energy systems to defeat large drone swarms and believes that the Department should utilize all available rapid acquisition pathways to develop and acquire directed energy counter drone swarm systems." More in DefenseScoop ↘ https://bit.ly/3S4qqBr

OU Vice President for Research and Partnerships Tomás Díaz de la Rubia and COO Mick Jaggers of Epirus celebrated the opening of the defense technology company’s new location on the #OU campus.

With the advent of deployable, distributable unmanned systems has come the need to develop effective counter measures to these new threats—and American innovators are rising to the challenge. We must deploy next-gen technologies at the speed and scale required by the evolution of the drone threat. "AI drones will put our forces at risk, from ships to infantry. Just as the armored blitzkrieg caught Europe off-guard in World War II, so has the proliferation of drone munitions today." More in The Wall Street Journal ↘ https://on.wsj.com/3RXPQ3R

Today, we celebrate the land of the free and the home of the brave. Happy birthday, America!

A new report from Forecast International explores the evolution of the UAS threat and the criticality of developing effective and efficient cUAS measures at speed and scale. The authors provide an analysis of existing cUAS solutions ranging from costly kinetic munitions to jamming, spoofing and directed energy before advocating for a layered defense approach to optimize defense against UAS swarms. Modern-day, solid-state high-power microwave systems, which incorporate the latest in advanced electronics, are “changing the cUAS game” and, as part of layered approach, “could provide a last layer of short-range defense against group 1-2 drone swarms, saving the more expensive air defense missiles for more strategic threats.” The era of asymmetric drone warfare is here to stay—and with it must come a prioritization of cUAS technologies. Read the full report ↘ https://bit.ly/3LrYp3n

Per Center for a New American Security (CNAS), investing in the development and fielding of counter-drone technology will be critical for the future fight. "To deal with the drone threat that already exists today and the threat that will exist tomorrow, the DoD needs to invest in cheaper, proven technologies that offer affordable defenses against drones, as well as higher-end future technologies, such as high-powered microwaves and directed energy, that could offer very effective defenses against swarms of drones."

Cheers to International Women In Engineering Day—and [some of] the amazing women of Epirus! We're committed to not just encouraging women in STEM+, but building a company where the voices of women in engineering are heard, valued and amplified. #INWED2024

"Why should the United States care more about [Gallium Nitride] GaN?" asks a new Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report. GaN is at the center of our innovation at Epirus—and is core to our revitalization of high-power microwave technology. Unlike massive and cumbersome vacuum tube-based high-power microwave systems, our utilization of GaN-based semiconductors within the Leonidas family of HPM systems enables a range of size, cost and efficiency advantages. That’s how we #InnovateWithImpact Read the full report ↘ https://bit.ly/3VyAxPZ

“At the moment, there aren’t any really good options for defeating large swarms of 100 or more drones that are simultaneously attacking a target,” Epirus CEO Andy Lowery tells Fast Company. “Today, we not only have a good system for short-range air defense against those types of threats, we believe we are the only effective program solution to counter large swarms.” https://lnkd.in/ebYtn6v4