2. Team Guardian
Protection against commercial off the shelf drones
Number of Stakeholders Spoken to: 6
Total Number of Stakeholders Spoken to: 110
Activities last week:
Understand AWG funding cycle
Technological development: Build up Video & Acoustic library
Plan Trip to Tempa, Florida
Project: Countering Asymmetric Drone Activities
Military Liaisons: John and Scott
Interview dashboard
Week
9
Total to
date
Users 1 24
Buyers 2 39
Experts 4 48
Total 7 111
3. HW From Week 8: How to get funding from sponsor ?
1. “AWG does not have any authority to purchase products for
fielding to the Army.”
2. “AWG has limited ability to purchase items for testing or
research, but that is primarily done Johns Hopkins Applied
Physics Lab (APL) who they have a contract with.”
3. “AWG’s duty is usually not to test out a product.”
6. Mission Budget
First prototype
development (3
months)
Second prototype
(radar integration)
(5 months)
Initial
Deployment
(10 months)
Salaries 0 radar engineer
$30000
Engineering team
$120000
deployment
team
$500000
Engineering
team
$250000
Purchase Cameras,
transceivers,
CPUs, other
hardware
$10000
Radar $150000
Supporting hardware
$10000
OEMs
$100000
Services Lab space
$7500
Travel: $12000
Lab space
$12500
Travel: $12000
Lab space
$25000
Travel:
$50000
Total: $29,500 $334,500 $925,000
7. Guardian: Mission Model Canvas
Pre-prototype:
- Software development
- Hardware development
Post prototype:
- Deployment
- Maintenance
- U.S. Army Asymmetric
Warfare Group
- REF
- Ground forces
- Commercial drone
manufacturers (e.g. DJI)
- SOCOM
- Other agencies working on
the same problem:
- JIDA
- DHS
- CTTSO
- I2WD (Intelligence and
Information Warfare
Directorate)
- Other companies working on
countermeasures and
detection:
- ELTA
- Skyview
- VERUS
- Battelle
- Blacksage Technologies
FOBs: (1)
● Lieutenant/Captain in
charge on FOB
protection Private at
guard tower (front line)
● Technician in Control
Center
Air Force personnel in control
center surveilling the air space
(2)
Program Manager, concept
generator, requirement writer in
U.S Army Asymmetric Warfare
Group (3)
Countermeasure providers
/manufacturer (alerting,
jamming, kinetic)
- Effective countering regardless of
specific drone
- Classify and counter
reconnaissance
- Bring drone down without
crashing
- Provide modular solution to
escalate the situation proportionally
to the threat (sequential)
- Gain intelligence while mitigating
threat
- Scalability for swarms
- Low training need, easy to use
- Symmetric solution: costs of
countering is symmetric to cost of
attack
- Geo-localizing operator
Current focus: classification -
identify type of drone, payload and
potential threat:
- Autonomous
- Provides data essential for
interception / jamming
- Scalable (part of a large
air-control system)
- Provide drone detection and threat assessment capabilities
- Provide a platform for existing and future countermeasure
- Demonstration day
- Modification (based on
testing results)
After initial contract:
- Limited User Assessment
- Train field operators
- First Prototype (3 months): $29,500
- Second Prototype (5 months): $334,500
- Initial Deployment (10 months): $925,000
Pre-prototype:
- Lab
- Initial Funding
- Engineering Team
- Patent
- Advisory board (AWG and
DoD )
Post prototype:
- Partners
- Contract
- SBIR
- Military VC
- IRAD
- Angel
- SOCOM
Beneficiaries
Mission Achievement
Mission Budget/Costs
Buy-In/Support
Deployment
Value PropositionKey Activities
Key Resources
Key Partners
8. Value Proposition Canvas
Products & Services
- Classification capabilities
- Threat analysis system
- Data from multiple
sensing technologies
Customer
Jobs
Provide UAV
countermeasures
(alerting, kinetic,
jamming)
- no existing localization capabilities
- no existing classification capabilities
- detection is inaccurate and unreliable
- no existing automatic threat analysis
Countermeasure Manufacturer
Gains
Pains
Gain Creators
Pain Relievers
- Accurate real-time UAV
location
- Threat classification and
characterization
- Large and dynamic sensing
range
- Accurate location
- Differentiation between UAV
and other low-altitude flying
objects
- API
- API for the
following features:
+ tracking
target
+ target
information
+ threat
analysis
9. Value Proposition Canvas
Products & Services
- Countering with basic training
- Countering regardless of specific drone
- Layered solution, countering multiple
threats posed by commercial drones
Customer
Jobs
Protect FOB:
frontline protection
responsible on a
specific section
- Threats( Reconnaisse,
weaponized, swarms…)
- No easy way to take down
next gen UAVs
- No existing solution tailored
for off-the-shelf drone threat
Private in guard tower
Gains
Pains
Gain Creators
Pain Relievers
- Can react to threat with easy to use
equipment
- Can act rapidly and efficiently
- Reduce mission irritation from drones
- Mitigate threat
- Minimal training, easy to use
- Drone counter measure
- Drone Classification
10. Value Proposition Canvas
Products & Services
-Countering without crashing
- Highly autonomous system
-Classification capability
- Fast reaction period
Customer
Jobs
Protect FOB
- Surveillance
- Unresolved threat
Lieutenant/Captain
Gains
Pains
Gain Creators
Pain Relievers
- Focus on mission without worrying
about surveillance, or by spending less
time on threats posed by commercial
drones
- Capturing the drone without crashing
provides the opportunity to exploit the
drone and trace back to origin for
further mission
- Reduce mission irritation from drones
- Mitigate threat
- Drone counter measure
- Drone Classification
11. Value Proposition Canvas
Products & Services
Gain capability:
1. Countering drone without
crashing and potentially
exploiting data from it
2. Scalability: countering
swarm of drones
3. Classification of drone
threats
4. Solution can be deployed
within 2 years
Customer
Jobs
Bridge capability
gaps in asymmetric
warfare against for
US forces
- Unresolved emerging threat
Asymmetric warfare
group(Program
Manager/Concept
Generator/Requirement
Writer…)
Gains
Pains
Gain Creators
Pain Relievers
- Provide counter-drone capability to US
forces
-Fill in capability gaps between current
technologies
-Mitigate threat
- Drone counter measure
- Drone classification
12. Type of Signals:
Radar:
● Of the shelf
● Range: 1-10 km
● Sensitive to objects of
low-profile radar
signature
Visual:
● 360 coverage
● Video
Acoustic:
● Passive Sonar
● Targets rotor
frequencies
Radio:
● Tracks control and data
signals
13. Core System Description
Input: signal features from all sensors, approximate location from radar
Output: spatial location, type of drone, type of load
Feature
extraction from
real-time data Geo-location
Sensing
signal
Pre-processing
supervised learning and
classification
Drone model, type of
payload
Main processing
algorithm Output
Radar data
Drone database