AUDS Team Extends its Exclusive Partnership in North America With Liteye Systems, Inc.

LONDON and CENTENNIAL, Colorado, June 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Liteye Systems' Role as Integration and Support Partner Grows to Include Local Manufacturing as Well as Development and Customisation of the AUDS Counter-UAS Platform; AUDS Mobile Trailer Platform Developed by Liteye for Rapid Deployment Purposes to Support National Security Applications  

The British team that created AUDS (Anti-UAV Defence System), the world's first production-ready and fully integrated counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) has extended its exclusive partnership in North America with Liteye Systems, Inc., in Centennial, Colorado.

Liteye has been leading the AUDS sales drive in the USA and Canada since the beginning of 2015 as the exclusive integration and support partner for the region. However, as interest in the AUDS system has grown, and following multiple government-sponsored trials, the partnership agreement has now been extended to include local manufacturing as well as local development and customisation of the AUDS platform.

Mark Radford, speaking for the AUDS team, said: "We have worked with Liteye for a number of years now and it has become an invaluable part of the AUDS group. We are delighted to now extend our strategic partnership with the company. We believe there is huge potential for our system in the North American market and Liteye's selection by the FAA for US airport trials (see link to Liteye's FAA release below) is testament to both the system's capabilities and their hard work. Liteye has the knowledge and skills to manufacture, support and develop the AUDS platform for the US and Canadian markets and to provide full customisation where needed."

[Liteye FAA press release - http://www.liteye.com/news.html]

Liteye will be responsible for manufacturing and supporting major components of AUDS including the radar, turret, thermal camera system, inhibitor and command and control (C2) system. Liteye will also be involved in designing and manufacturing the various platforms necessary to support a diverse range of end-users within the North American market. This will include the military, critical infrastructure providers such as airport operators, and other government agencies.

"Liteye is already providing development effort for US-specific C-UAS programs allowing us to integrate AUDS into and alongside other military and government assets," added Mark Radford. "We have also worked with their engineers to enhance our system's detect-track-disrupt-defeat capabilities by integrating a new 'friendly asset' into the platform. This allows us to use a drone as part of the AUDS remote observation and enforcement capabilities providing the ability to search out enemy UAS operators."

Thomas Scott, president of Liteye Systems, said: "We are proud to be spearheading the AUDS North American operation to establish this highly effective counter-UAS system in the US and Canadian markets. Over the last 18 months, Liteye with AUDS has been at the cutting edge of counter-UAS development in this region, witnessing the proliferation of UAS use, both the bad and the good, from the front row. We are excited to expand our relationship with our UK partner companies in developing capabilities to meet this growing challenge."

"The AUDS production-ready system is field proven in multiple trials to detect, track, identify, disrupt and defeat a wide range of unmanned systems - day and night whatever the weather," added Thomas Scott. "And our new AUDS mobile trailer platform - an example of our integration capabilities - was developed and built at our Colorado site for rapid deployment purposes in national security applications and is already receiving much interest."

Liteye's 'AUDS 360 Trailer' system features a fully integrated AUDS system comprising Blighter Surveillance Systems' 360° fully electronically-scanned A400 radar system, Chess Dynamics' precision turret with thermal camera system, and Enterprise Control Systems' directional multiband RF inhibitor system. This is a robust, go-anywhere rapid deployment system typically of the type used by the military. Other configurations of AUDS include a portable, quad-pod mounted rapid-deployment package and a fixed system that is compact enough to be installed on rooftop locations, remote masts or even on the ground.

The AUDS counter-UAS system was developed by a trio of British companies including Blighter Surveillance Systems, Chess Dynamics and Enterprise Control Systems. AUDS can detect a drone six miles (10km) away using electronic scanning radar, track it using precision infrared and daylight cameras and specialist video tracking software before disrupting the flight using an inhibitor to block the radio signals that control it. This detect, track, disrupt, defeat process is very quick and typically takes 8-15 secs. Using AUDS, the operator can effectively take control of a drone and force a safe landing or send it back home.

For more information about AUDS, please contact any of the partner companies:

For North America contact: Liteye Systems: visit http://www.liteye.com , telephone Kenneth Geyer at +1-720-974-1766 ext. 155 or email kgeyer@liteye.com.

For rest of the world contact any of the following:

Blighter Surveillance Systems: visit http://www.blighter.com , telephone +44-(0)-1223-491122 or email auds@blighter.com.  

Chess Dynamics: visit http://www.chess-dynamics.com , telephone +44-(0)-1403-249888 or email auds@chess-dynamics.com.

Enterprise Control Systems: visit http://www.enterprisecontrol.co.uk , telephone +44-(0)-1327-860050 or email auds@enterprisecontrol.co.uk.

High resolution photographs of the AUDS system are available via the links below:

http://www.blighter.com/images/images/pr/auds-on-tower-high-res.jpg

http://www.blighter.com/images/images/pr/auds-with-drone-high-res.jpg

A promotional video of the AUDS system can be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8aZ0zWX3SA

About Liteye Systems (http://www.liteye.com)

Liteye Systems, Inc. is a leader in surveillance systems for protection of critical infrastructure. Products include radars, covert thermal cameras, tactical displays, and the new AUDS counter-UAS system. All of its cutting edge solutions feature revolutionary designs that enable a broad range of military and commercial applications. Headquartered in Centennial Colorado, the company has a 24,000 sq.ft. manufacturing/assembly facility with on-site engineering and test services, as well as state-of-the-art production and prototype manufacturing capability. Liteye has been designing and manufacturing defence and surveillance products since 2000.

About Blighter Surveillance Systems (http://www.blighter.com)

Blighter Surveillance Systems Ltd. is an independent electronic-scanning radar and sensor solution provider. It delivers an integrated multi-sensor package to systems integrators comprising the Blighter e-scan radars, cameras, thermal imagers, trackers and software solutions. Blighter radars combine patented solid-state Passive Electronically Scanned Array (PESA) technology - utilising digital beamforming (DBF) on transmit and receive - with advanced Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) and Doppler processing to provide a robust and persistent surveillance capability and an unmatched combination of high reliability, accuracy and performance with a low cost of ownership. Products are manufactured under a BS EN ISO 9001:2008 certified management system. Blighter Surveillance Systems Ltd. is based at Great Chesterford on the outskirts of Cambridge, England.

About Chess Dynamics (http://www.chess-dynamics.com)

Chess Dynamics is an entirely UK owned British company providing end to end electro-optic and video tracking solutions. Its platforms and cameras are in service with military forces around the world. From the range of Hawkeye electro-optic surveillance systems, the Hawkeye Deployable System (DS) is at the heart of AUDS, combining the proven Viper dynamic positioner (VDP), cooled IR camera, Chess Piranha 46 high resolution daylight camera and video tracking and Graphical User Interface (GUI). All of the elements of the Hawkeye DS are already in service with the Royal Navy and British Army and have been used and supported on operations in Afghanistan. Chess Dynamics' products and EO systems are manufactured on site to BS ES ISO 9001, Mil-Std-461 and 810C. Chess Dynamics is based in Horsham, West Sussex in the UK.

About Enterprise Control Systems (http://www.enterprisecontrol.co.uk)

For over 25 years Enterprise Control Systems Ltd (ECS) has been supplying mission critical RF inhibition systems and surveillance data links in support of security services around the world. ECS is a proven and trusted British supplier to the UK MoD, the UK Police and to specialist military and government users in over 40 other countries. ECS designs and produces a range of programmable jammers (RF Inhibitors) to counter a variety of threats. ECS understands the complex integration necessary between equipment performance, training, tactics, techniques and threat assessment needed to achieve optimum user capability in demanding and dynamic situations. ECS also designs and produces specialist COFDM data links optimised for use in high level military and security domains. ECS data links are fully secured (encrypted), optimised for long range performance and are designed to be robust in complex RF environments. ECS brings together their expertise in data link technology and RF Inhibition to provide a highly effective RF Disruptor for AUDS. ECS is based in Wappenham, Northamptonshire in the UK.