Areté delivers low-SWaP sensing products of the highest caliber.
Areté specializes in reliably providing low size, weight, power, and cost (low-SWaP-C) sensing solutions for government and commercial customers. Our solutions include stand-alone software and hardware as well as fully integrated systems. In addition to finished products, we routinely have mature prototypes available for testing as a result of our rapid prototyping efforts. Arete features 220K square feet of lab, office, and production capacity and our QMS is AS9100 and ISO-9001 certified.
Lasers
Areté’s AIRTRAC line of laser products offer a wide range of solutions, including lasers for designators, LIDAR, UV lasers, and custom configurations. AIRTRAC lasers lead the industry with their compact size, lightweight design, low power consumption, and cost-effectiveness. Additionally, they can be customized to meet the specific requirements of various missions.
Lidar
Areté’s LIDARs offer a diverse range of solutions, spanning from heliborne situational awareness to maritime surveillance and mapping. Areté’s Lidar for Situational Awareness (LiSA) provides pilots with superior navigation and tactical insight, enabling them to identify hazards, wires, obstacles, flight paths, and landing zones in all weather conditions, particularly in Degraded Visual Environments (DVE). Areté’s Pushbroom Imaging LIDAR for Littoral Surveillance (PILLS) is a LIDAR system mounted on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), capable of conducting hydrographic surveys and detection missions effectively.
Counter UAS
Areté’s Counter UAS solutions prioritize low size, weight, and power while ensuring high-confidence detections and tracks with extremely low false alarm rates. BASILISK™ is modular, passive, camera based unmanned air systems (UAS) and UAS swarm detection and tracking system.
FORCE PROTECTION
AIMS is an automated imaging capability that enhances situational awareness by remotely detecting and monitoring humans using real time computer vision. It processes imagery on low size, weight, and power hardware to locate and geolocate people, assess body position, and measure vital signs such as heart and respiration rates without physical contact. AIMS supports rapid remote triage and search and rescue operations from aerial or ground platforms, including night and obscured environments, and integrates with TAK to deliver actionable information to the end user.
MARITIME SURVEILLANCE
Areté’s maritime surveillance solutions deliver integrated intelligence above and below the surface, from the air to the undersea. PILLS (Pushbroom Imaging LIDAR for Littoral Surveillance) is a airborme LIDAR system capable of conducting hydrographic surveys and detection missions in the littoral zone. VCM (Video ATR Common Module) is a modular, passive EO payload for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) that enables real-time, high-accuracy automatic target recognition and maritime surveillance. STRIDR (Sea-Trekking Rechargeable Instrumented DRifter) is a small, low-cost Lagrangian drifter that provides remote sensing via internal or modular sensors, relaying data by satellite in near real time.
Space Systems
Areté’s space solutions span space domain awareness and near real-time activity detection, sensing both from and to space. WALLACE is a low-SWaP, expeditionary, neuromorphic SDA telescope that allows for rapid detection and tracking of satellites, leveraging the capabilities of a traditional framing camera and a neuromorphic camera. PRIMER is a fully automated software product for near real-time human activity change detection, fusing multiple satellite sources and modalities into actionable information within minutes.