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The below article makes for pretty interesting reading, particularly when you consider how General Atomics and Raytheon have previously collaborated on several projects, primarily focusing on integrating Raytheon's advanced sensor and radar technologies into General Atomics' unmanned aerial systems (UAS).

Notable collaborations between Raytheon and General Atomics (supplied by ChatGPT) include:

  • Integration of SeaVue Radar and Multi-Spectral Targeting System (MTS-A): Raytheon successfully integrated and demonstrated its SeaVue maritime surveillance radar and AAS-52 MTS-A aboard General Atomics' Mariner unmanned aerial vehicle, a derivative of the Predator B UAS.
    raytheon.mediaroom.com

  • Advanced Radar Detection System (ARDS) Integration: General Atomics and Raytheon Deutschland GmbH integrated the ARDS, a fully digital, high-precision radar-detection sensor developed by Raytheon Deutschland, onto a GA-ASI Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper. This integration added Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) capabilities to the multi-mission UAS.
    ga.com

  • SeaGuardian Support for Japan Coast Guard: Raytheon's maritime surveillance systems, including the SeaVue XMC radar and DAS-4, were flight-tested on General Atomics' SeaGuardian UAS for the Japan Coast Guard. This collaboration aimed to enhance the Coast Guard's intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
    ga.com
These collaborations highlight the integration of Raytheon's sensor technologies into General Atomics' UAS platforms, enhancing their surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.


Not only that, General Atomics and the AFRL have also previously collaborated in a variety of defense and aerospace technologies. Their partnerships focus on advancing cutting-edge technologies in areas such as unmanned aerial systems (UAS), advanced propulsion, and directed energy systems.

One area of collaboration has been in the development of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) like the MQ-9 Reaper drone, a General Atomics product widely used by the U.S. Air Force. AFRL has apparently worked with General Atomics to improve the performance and capabilities of these drones, especially in areas like surveillance, targeting, and weaponry systems.




General Atomics to unveil new ‘super wide area’ sensor for ‘Iron Dome for America’

"This Iron Dome is perfect timing for us, and I'd be willing to go into Trump’s office and tell them we're ready to go today," said Dave Alexander, president of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.​

By Valerie Insinnaon

February 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM


MQ-9 Reaper

MQ-9 Reaper aircraft and assigned personnel in Hawaii, Aug. 7, 2024. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Joseph Pagan)
WASHINGTON — General Atomics is ready to step in the ring to compete for contracts to build President Donald Trump’s “Iron Dome for America” with a new technology the company believes can radically contain the costs of the project, the head of General Atomics’ aeronautics unit said.
The special sauce, Dave Alexander told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview, is a long-range, high resolution sensor that has been under development for about a decade, has a “super wide area” of coverage, and is ready for production.
“We’re ready to rock and roll on this. We’d go straight into production, full-rate production,” he said. “This Iron Dome is perfect timing for us, and I’d be willing to go into Trump’s office and tell them we’re ready to go today.”


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General Atomics envisions fielding a collection of sensors that would detect threats to the homeland as a ground-based capability and on an air layer integrated onto MQ-9 Reaper drones. Because the sensors have such a wide area of coverage, fewer would be needed to encompass the entirety of the United States, Alexander said. The data gleaned from those sensors can then be digested and combined into a single operating picture by General Atomics’ CCRi division.
“What we’re trying to do, is just to grab available technology combined with this new sensor that we’re talking about, so that we can get out there and scale and do it for a very affordable price,” he said. “The cost of what we’re talking about on this ground layer sensing is two orders of magnitude less cost than your traditional systems out there today. So that means it’s 1/100th of the cost. That’s what’s game changing about it.”
Beyond that, Alexander was willing to give few specifics about the technology, citing classification.
He said the sensor has a “high technology readiness level,” noting that “the technology has already worked in other areas” outside of the Iron Dome program, with about 80 percent of its funding coming from General Atomics’ internal investment. However he declined to detail what kind of a sensor the company is proposing, whether the sensor has been demonstrated or if it was developed for an existing program.
General Atomics intends to respond to Defense Department requests for information and will participate in an industry day on the program this week, said Alexander. The company is also interested in proposing technologies associated with the missile interception piece of Iron Dome, but Alexander declined to provide details about its potential offering.
Just a week after taking office Trump released a Jan. 27 executive order that gives the Pentagon 60 days to develop a plan to defeat “ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries” through a system he calls “Iron Dome for America.”
Since then, both the Missile Defense Agency and Space Development Agency have put out solicitations for industry on technologies that could be incorporated into the architecture.
Alexander’s comments come just days after Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), told lawmakers that the “top priority” for Iron Dome should be fielding a sensing grid with nodes located undersea, on the ground, in the air and in space.
General Atomics is not the only company that sees Iron Dome for America as a potential moneymaking opportunity. During an earnings call last month, RTX chief executive Chris Calio said the company views the program “as a significant opportunity for us, something right in our wheelhouse,” while Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden said it was “very well positioned to support that architecture” during its own earnings call in January.

 
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Hi MD,

I've been looking into Arm's involvement in relation to 1) SoftBank's Project Izanagi, 2) OpenAI's custom AI chips, 3) the Stargate Project, and 4) Arm Holdings' chip development. Looking broadly at these projects, they are interconnected through strategic collaborations and shared objectives in advancing AI and semiconductor technologies. And Arm, in particular, is likely pivotal role in all of these initiatives IMO.

Bearing in mind, BrainChip's AKIDA processor, has been designed to integrate with Arm's product families and it actually enhances Arm's product offerings and performance in edge AI applications, it would be quite bizarre if Arm were not to eventually utilize our technology to their competitive advantage IMO.

However, given BrainChip's Akida processor is primarily designed for ultra-low-power edge AI applications and Arm's upcoming chip due for launch in 2025 is intended for high-performance data centre servers, the integration of Akida into Arm's server CPU is probably pretty unlikely at this time. But in future, you'd have to think it would be extremely likely , especially if further Arm chip designs focus more on devices and applications at the edge.

BTW, initially I thought that Arm's decision to start designing its own chips might be aligned with SoftBank's broader ambitions under Project Izanagi, but I can't find any explicit confirmation that Arm’s decision is a formal part of the Project Izanagi plan. It seems as though the aim of Project Izanagi is to pivot Softbank towards more direct technological advancements and investment in areas like AI, robotics, and semiconductor chips which will involve building infrastructure, focusing on AI-specific hardware and optimizing semiconductor designs.

1. SoftBank's Project Izanagi: Initiated in February 2024, Project Izanagi is SoftBank's ambitious venture aiming to raise up to $100 billion to develop AI processors that rival industry leaders like NVIDIA. This project seeks to leverage Arm's design expertise to create advanced AI chips, with prototype processors expected by summer 2025 and mass production targeted for 2026. Arm's involvement is crucial, as SoftBank owns a significant stake in Arm, facilitating seamless collaboration in chip design and development.

2. OpenAI's Custom AI Chips: OpenAI is developing its own AI chips in partnership with Broadcom, utilizing TSMC's 3-nanometer manufacturing technology. The goal is to finalize the chip design in the near future and commence mass production by 2026. While Arm isn't directly mentioned in this collaboration, its architecture could influence the design, given Arm's prominence in AI and data centre applications. SoftBank is a significant investor in OpenAI, but it doesn't seem to be directly involved in the development of these custom AI chips.

3. Stargate Project: Announced in early 2025, the Stargate Project is a monumental $500 billion initiative focused on building AI infrastructure across the United States. Spearheaded by SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and other partners, the project plans to invest $100 billion over four years to enhance AI capabilities. Masayoshi Son, SoftBank's founder, serves as chairman. Arm's technology is integral to this project, providing the necessary chip designs for the AI infrastructure being developed.

4. Arm Holdings' Chip Development: In a strategic shift from its traditional licensing model, Arm Holdings plans to launch its own chip in 2025, with an unveiling expected as early as this summer. The new chip is anticipated to be a central processing unit (CPU) designed for servers in large data centre, aligning with the timelines of the aforementioned projects. This move positions Arm not only as a designer but also as a direct competitor in the semiconductor industry, potentially supplying chips for both Project Izanagi and the Stargate Project.
BRING ON IZANAGI, woohooo that word is music to my ears! ❤ and yes I love Softbank :) just the same as I love Arpan Pal ❤ :) ❤❤ (different companies i know but hey I'm allowed to have more then one love ❤ MD :)
 
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The below article makes for pretty interesting reading, particularly when you consider how General Atomics and Raytheon have previously collaborated on several projects, primarily focusing on integrating Raytheon's advanced sensor and radar technologies into General Atomics' unmanned aerial systems (UAS).

Notable collaborations between Raytheon and General Atomics (supplied by ChatGPT) include:

  • Integration of SeaVue Radar and Multi-Spectral Targeting System (MTS-A): Raytheon successfully integrated and demonstrated its SeaVue maritime surveillance radar and AAS-52 MTS-A aboard General Atomics' Mariner unmanned aerial vehicle, a derivative of the Predator B UAS.
    raytheon.mediaroom.com

  • Advanced Radar Detection System (ARDS) Integration: General Atomics and Raytheon Deutschland GmbH integrated the ARDS, a fully digital, high-precision radar-detection sensor developed by Raytheon Deutschland, onto a GA-ASI Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper. This integration added Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) capabilities to the multi-mission UAS.
    ga.com

  • SeaGuardian Support for Japan Coast Guard: Raytheon's maritime surveillance systems, including the SeaVue XMC radar and DAS-4, were flight-tested on General Atomics' SeaGuardian UAS for the Japan Coast Guard. This collaboration aimed to enhance the Coast Guard's intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
    ga.com
These collaborations highlight the integration of Raytheon's sensor technologies into General Atomics' UAS platforms, enhancing their surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.


Not only that, General Atomics and the AFRL have also previously collaborated in a variety of defense and aerospace technologies. Their partnerships focus on advancing cutting-edge technologies in areas such as unmanned aerial systems (UAS), advanced propulsion, and directed energy systems.

One area of collaboration has been in the development of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) like the MQ-9 Reaper drone, a General Atomics product widely used by the U.S. Air Force. AFRL has apparently worked with General Atomics to improve the performance and capabilities of these drones, especially in areas like surveillance, targeting, and weaponry systems.




General Atomics to unveil new ‘super wide area’ sensor for ‘Iron Dome for America’

"This Iron Dome is perfect timing for us, and I'd be willing to go into Trump’s office and tell them we're ready to go today," said Dave Alexander, president of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.​

By Valerie Insinnaon

February 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM


MQ-9 Reaper

MQ-9 Reaper aircraft and assigned personnel in Hawaii, Aug. 7, 2024. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Joseph Pagan)
WASHINGTON — General Atomics is ready to step in the ring to compete for contracts to build President Donald Trump’s “Iron Dome for America” with a new technology the company believes can radically contain the costs of the project, the head of General Atomics’ aeronautics unit said.
The special sauce, Dave Alexander told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview, is a long-range, high resolution sensor that has been under development for about a decade, has a “super wide area” of coverage, and is ready for production.
“We’re ready to rock and roll on this. We’d go straight into production, full-rate production,” he said. “This Iron Dome is perfect timing for us, and I’d be willing to go into Trump’s office and tell them we’re ready to go today.”


See how we Define the Possible.
General Atomics envisions fielding a collection of sensors that would detect threats to the homeland as a ground-based capability and on an air layer integrated onto MQ-9 Reaper drones. Because the sensors have such a wide area of coverage, fewer would be needed to encompass the entirety of the United States, Alexander said. The data gleaned from those sensors can then be digested and combined into a single operating picture by General Atomics’ CCRi division.
“What we’re trying to do, is just to grab available technology combined with this new sensor that we’re talking about, so that we can get out there and scale and do it for a very affordable price,” he said. “The cost of what we’re talking about on this ground layer sensing is two orders of magnitude less cost than your traditional systems out there today. So that means it’s 1/100th of the cost. That’s what’s game changing about it.”
Beyond that, Alexander was willing to give few specifics about the technology, citing classification.
He said the sensor has a “high technology readiness level,” noting that “the technology has already worked in other areas” outside of the Iron Dome program, with about 80 percent of its funding coming from General Atomics’ internal investment. However he declined to detail what kind of a sensor the company is proposing, whether the sensor has been demonstrated or if it was developed for an existing program.
General Atomics intends to respond to Defense Department requests for information and will participate in an industry day on the program this week, said Alexander. The company is also interested in proposing technologies associated with the missile interception piece of Iron Dome, but Alexander declined to provide details about its potential offering.
Just a week after taking office Trump released a Jan. 27 executive order that gives the Pentagon 60 days to develop a plan to defeat “ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries” through a system he calls “Iron Dome for America.”
Since then, both the Missile Defense Agency and Space Development Agency have put out solicitations for industry on technologies that could be incorporated into the architecture.
Alexander’s comments come just days after Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), told lawmakers that the “top priority” for Iron Dome should be fielding a sensing grid with nodes located undersea, on the ground, in the air and in space.
General Atomics is not the only company that sees Iron Dome for America as a potential moneymaking opportunity. During an earnings call last month, RTX chief executive Chris Calio said the company views the program “as a significant opportunity for us, something right in our wheelhouse,” while Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden said it was “very well positioned to support that architecture” during its own earnings call in January.


Hi Bravo,

From a quick squiz in their secret sauce cupboard, it seems GA have a patent for comparing lidar point clouds:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US11106936B2/en?oq=US11106936

.Object Point Cloud Comparison and Matching

US11106936B2 (A1) • 2021-08-31 • GENERAL ATOMICS

Earliest priority: 2019-09-05 • Earliest publication: 2021-03-11

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Point clouds of objects are compared and matched using logical arrays based on the point clouds. The point clouds are azimuth aligned and translation aligned. The point clouds are converted into logical arrays for ease of processing. Then the logical arrays are compared (e.g. using the AND function and counting matches between the two logical arrays). The comparison is done at various quantization levels to determine which quantization level is likely to give the best object comparison result. Then the object comparison is made. More than two objects may be compared and the best match found

A need remains in the art for apparatus and methods for comparing and matching point clouds of objects in an efficient and general manner, using regularly spaced logical arrays. Our logic array approach gives the same spatial information with regards to the difference between two point clouds as prior art methods. We first used an octree approach and subsequently invented the logic array method to streamline, speed up, and reduce the complexity and memory requirements for comparison of point clouds.

1. The method for comparing point cloud data for objects comprising the steps of:

(a) selecting a first analog point cloud representing a first object and a second analog point cloud representing a second object;

(b) azimuth aligning the first and second point clouds;

(c) after step (b) translation aligning the first and second point clouds;

(d) generating regularly spaced logical arrays at a first resolution based upon the first and second point clouds;

(e) comparing the logical arrays generated in step (d) and generating a first-resolution comparison response value;

(f) generating regularly spaced logical arrays at a second resolution based upon the first and second point clouds;

(g) comparing the logical arrays generated in step (f) and generating a second-resolution comparison response value;

(h) selecting one of the comparison response values; and

(i) generating a comparison result for the first object and the second object based upon the selected response value.




And this one:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11350034B1/en?oq=US11350034 20200417

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Some embodiments provide enhanced resolution imaging systems comprising: a mounting; an electro-optical image capture system; an angular jitter sensor system; an illumination source system; and an image capture control circuit is configured to: receive ling of sight displacement sensor data; obtain, during the capture frame, an angular displacement of the image capture system and monitor when the detected angular displacement of the image capture system, based on the sensor data, is beyond an angular displacement threshold envelope; and activate exposure of the image capture system to illumination, during the capture frame, when the detected angular displacement of the image capture system is within the angular displacement threshold envelope, and control a level of exposure of the image capture system to illumination, during the capture frame, when the detected angular displacement is not within the angular displacement threshold envelope.

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I believe we are partnered with Cadence?


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We’re can I find if this partner Cadence is in fact with Brainchip ?.
It was in the partner section of the brn website but some seem to have been removed.
 
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Good afternoon all , I am not sure how this forum works and I can't find a thread on charting so may I post a chart on this thread please ?

Note I am old poster from over the road but can't return . I also want to slow up a few blatant rampers on the other forum who are down right dangerous .

So may I post a chart or two here or where ?

thanks in advance
 

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I believe we are partnered with Cadence?


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We had adjoining interconnected rooms at the Venetian Hotel (CES 2025), but I don't know who had the key.
https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/11/alliance-members-at-2025-ces/
 
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It’s interesting they pulled a few names from BRN site I guess there are two opinions, we are out or asked by these companies to keep hush hush on any publicity.
 
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It’s interesting they pulled a few names from BRN site I guess there are two opinions, we are out or asked by these companies to keep hush hush on any publicity.
Honestly can’t remember Brainchip ever being in a partnership with cadence.
 
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The "Enablement Partners" section on the website needs to be cleaned up a bit.

It has the company name/logo first and then the spiel, for the first 7 and then the spiel first and name/logo after, for the next 5..

Not a huge deal I guess, but a "little" confusing and maybe evidence that changes "have" been made.
 
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Honestly can’t remember Brainchip ever being in a partnership with cadence.
It was definitely there. I remember because I recall the logo from it and remember always confusing Cadence with Cerence.
 
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This is news to me - US limits AI transfer to India!

How does this affect BRN software in India?

How does it affect TATA?

From the map, it seems that Indian restrictions (Tier 2) are not as strict as the China restrictions (Tier 3).

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/neur...d&rcm=ACoAADD5vmcBugAaIDGpUFyw5jXteYnor1qYetg

Aditya ChauhanAditya Chauhan • 3rd+ • 3rd+Product @Sprinklr | Ex. Construction Check | DTUProduct @Sprinklr | Ex. Construction Check | DTU2w • 2 weeks ago
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Are we just going to ignore US's Ban for India Alongside China for AI Access??

Not everyone knows that United States has imposed a ban on AI chip exports to India. I am sharing a map showing these restrictions. This move highlights a harsh reality: the AI war is not just between the US and China - India is also a prime target in this geopolitical race.

These restrictions are not just economic - they're strategic. By limiting our access to critical AI technologies, the US is attempting to cripple India’s potential to emerge as a global AI leader.

I think It’s time for India to recognize the urgency of this challenge and invest in building our own AI ecosystem, starting with homegrown AI foundation models and robust government initiatives.

Let’s not let this be another missed opportunity for India. It’s time to lead the future, not just follow it
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It was definitely there. I remember because I recall the logo from it and remember always confusing Cadence with Cerence.
I could be wrong, but can’t remember it personally.
 
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This company have a rolling award for the transportation of equipment etc for NASA and I see they are moving a payload for a launch soon.

What caught my eye was the plural...architecture(s) to be tested.

Wonder if we in the mix (Intel probs there) or whether it means just diff devices with neuromorphic architecture.


Open this one in a private tab to get round sign up / trial...well worked for me anyway.



 
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This company have a rolling award for the transportation of equipment etc for NASA and I see they are moving a payload for a launch soon.

What caught my eye was the plural...architecture(s) to be tested.

Wonder if we in the mix (Intel probs there) or whether it means just diff devices with neuromorphic architecture.


Open this one in a private tab to get round sign up / trial...well worked for me anyway.




Lines up with this item


Testing neuromorphic architectures for high capacity/low-power AI in Sub Orbital flight​

 
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Testing neuromorphic architectures for high capacity/low-power AI in Sub Orbital flight​

Thanks.

Stand alone or our assist :unsure:

Conflicting that the snip at thw bottom shows perm closed, maybe site(?) but is based at UCSB... LinkedIn active about 3 months ago posting....strange.





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NASA tested a few architectures for the RadNeuro trade study, pre sure the mentium chip was analog or mixed


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