Field Notes
ASTIRON · SOVEREIGN DEFENCE SOFTWARE
Field Notes & Technical Briefings
01Counter-UAS
Detecting a drone is easy. Tracking it long enough to stop it isn't.
Radar and acoustic sensors tell you a drone exists. An electro-optical track tells you exactly where it is, frame by frame. Here is why the tracking layer decides every counter-drone engagement.
23 July 20264 min read
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02Counter-UAS
Why sound might be the sensor counter-drone systems have been ignoring
Radar and RF direction-finding both have blind spots. Passive acoustic detection covers exactly the gap they leave, and unlike RF, cannot be jammed or spoofed.
16 July 20264 min read
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03Air-Gapped AI
Running AI without the cloud: what air-gapped LLMs actually require
"Air-gapped" is an architecture, not a checkbox. Here is what it actually takes to run modern AI models on-premises with zero route to the outside world.
09 July 20265 min read
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04Document Intelligence
The hidden cost of manual tender scrutiny in defence procurement
Every bid response has to be checked line-by-line against the SOTR. At defence scale, that manual process is where timelines and compliance both quietly break.
02 July 20264 min read
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