ARC Nano — Edge AI Electronic Warfare

Overview

ARC Nano is 577 Industries' edge AI electronic warfare system — autonomous RF countermeasures running on a single-board computer. It detects threats (including unknown emitters) and deploys countermeasures with sub-second response times while maintaining >99.9% link availability.

Operational Flow

Listens: 24/7 RF monitoring across frequency bands with software-defined radio front-end.

Detects: Open-set threat identification — classifies known threats and flags unknown emitters.

Protects: Autonomous countermeasure deployment with sub-second response times.

Reports: CoT/ATAK-compatible alerts with hash-chained audit logs for full accountability.

System Architecture

RF Front-End (SDR) — Wideband signal capture with Radio-HAL feature extraction for real-time spectrum analysis.

ES-Lite — Open-set detector for unknown threat identification with no pre-programmed threat library required.

EP-Lite — Contextual bandit for autonomous countermeasure selection optimized over time.

DDS Pub/Sub Bus — Real-time data distribution with Redis fallback for reliable IPC.

Policy & Telemetry — Hash-chained audit logs and configurable engagement policies for ROE compliance.

ATAK/CoT Integration — Native Cursor on Target output for seamless C2 integration.

Hardware Platform

ARC Nano runs on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB with ~40 TOPS of AI compute in a form factor under 2 kg.

Deployment Configurations

Dismounted — Rucksack-portable with 12+ hour battery life and MOLLE-compatible mounting.

Vehicle — 12/24 VDC vehicle power, multi-channel SDR expansion, and extended antenna options.

UAV — Lightweight payload variant with networked ARC nodes for distributed sensing coverage.

Performance Benchmarks

Independent testing demonstrates significant improvements over unprotected baseline operation.