Federal Government

Multi-domain sensor fusion for federal agencies with field operations; deployed to the point of action, not just headquarters.

Your field teams have sensors. They don't have fusion.

A Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) watch floor tracks air and maritime movement across an entire theater. Radar feeds, AIS, camera networks, signals collection, and analyst reporting all contribute - through separate systems, separate logins, and manual correlation on whiteboards and spreadsheets. The picture exists in pieces. Assembling it is a human bottleneck that runs 24/7.

A USSS protective detail deploys temporary C-UAS sensors around a venue for 72 hours. The detection system flags drone activity. Now what? Who gets notified? What's the escalation? What's the airspace authority? Those answers live in a binder somewhere - not in the system that detected the threat.

Border and port security operations may already have a tactical COP that fuses radar and camera tracks. But the electromagnetic picture - drone control links, anomalous emitters, spectrum activity that correlates with physical movement - isn't in that system. Neither is narrative intelligence on coordinated social media activity timed to operational windows. Neither is automated policy enforcement that maps escalation authorities to detected events without an operator manually working a checklist. The sensor picture is a starting point, not the finish line.

The gap isn't detection. It's everything that should happen between detection and decision.

The sensors work. The data exists. The fusion doesn't - at least not where the operators are.

Empyrean fuses at the edge, where the mission runs.

The Decision Dominance Engine ingests every sensor your teams deploy and correlates them into a single operational picture - running on hardware you control, at the location where decisions get made.

Any sensor, one picture. Radar, EO/IR, RF detection, ADS-B, AIS, acoustic, UAS tracking: Empyrean connects through an open architecture designed for rapid integration. New sensor on site? Connector configuration, not a contract modification. The fusion engine correlates tracks across sources, maintains identity when individual sensors lose coverage, and resolves conflicts through configurable trust hierarchies so operators see one track, not six.

Detection to decision, not just detection. A radar hit without a workflow is just a dot on a screen. The Policy Engine turns your escalation procedures, airspace authorities, interagency notification requirements, and use-of-force policies into executable logic. When a track enters a protected zone, the system doesn't just alert - it recommends a course of action within the authorities your leadership has defined, routes notifications to the right people, and logs every step. Operators make decisions. The system enforces the guardrails.

Full provenance for every action. Federal operations answer to oversight - inspectors general, congressional committees, interagency review boards. Every detection, every correlation, every automated recommendation, every human decision in Empyrean carries a complete audit trail. What sensor generated the data. What policy applied. Who was notified. What action was taken and by whom. Compliance isn't a post-mission reporting exercise. It's native to every event the system processes.

Deploys where you need it. Disappears when you don't.

Permanent installations at a port of entry. A 72-hour protective security package at a venue. A surge deployment on a border sector. A JIATF watch floor running continuous operations. Same software, different deployment patterns.

Empyrean runs on a single edge node - a rack, a transit case, whatever fits the mission profile. No cloud dependency. No reach-back to a data center for core fusion and decision support. Stand it up in hours, connect your sensors, run the mission, tear it down clean. For permanent sites, deploy once and integrate into the facility's sensor architecture. For temporary operations, the portability is the point.

Air-gapped by design. Compatible with FedRAMP High, IL5, and SCIF environments. All processing stays on your hardware. No vendor telemetry. No data exfiltration risk. The enclave boundary is whatever your mission requires and Empyrean operates inside it.

The electromagnetic picture your teams don't have yet.

Most federal field operations treat spectrum as someone else's problem. But RF detection is already part of many C-UAS deployments, FCC enforcement is fundamentally a spectrum mission, and border security increasingly involves detecting drone control links and communication signals alongside the physical track.

Empyrean's EMSO workspace brings the electromagnetic domain into the same operational picture - not as a separate specialist tool, but as another layer on the COP your operators already use. Detected emitters correlate with tracked objects. Known-good transmitters filter out of the picture automatically. Anomalous signals flag for attention alongside the radar and camera tracks they correspond to. An operator doesn't need to be a spectrum warfare officer to see that a detected drone has a control link pointing back to a specific location.

Train your teams on the system they'll use in the field.

Empyrean's simulation engine runs physics-grounded scenarios on the same interface, same fusion logic, and same policy rules used in live operations. Build a training scenario around your actual site, your actual sensor layout, your actual escalation procedures. The operators train on the exact system they'll use when it matters - not a separate training platform with different controls and different logic.

Judgment built in simulation transfers directly because nothing changes but the data source.

The Challenge

01Field teams deploy radars, cameras, RF sensors, and ADS-B - each with its own display, none fused into a single picture
02C-UAS is a sensor problem and a decision problem. Detection without automated assessment and response workflows just creates more work for operators already overloaded
03Enterprise platforms built for headquarters analysts don't deploy to a border checkpoint, a protective security detail, or a JIATF watch floor running 24/7 ops
04New sensors take months to integrate. By the time the contract mod clears, the threat has moved on
05Temporary deployments (protective events, surge operations, disaster response) need full capability that stands up in hours and tears down clean
06Oversight and audit requirements demand full decision provenance - who saw what, when, what policy applied, what action was taken - not after-action reconstruction

Who This Is For

Counter-UAS & Airspace Security ProgramsBorder, Port, & Critical Infrastructure ProtectionJoint Interagency Task Forces & Protective Operations

Relevant Domains

Air / UASGroundMaritimeElectromagneticCyberInformation

Relevant Capabilities

Outcomes

Fused operational picture across all deployed sensors - radar, camera, RF, ADS-B, AIS, acoustic - on one screen
Authority-gated response workflows that encode escalation procedures, interagency protocols, and use-of-force policies with full audit trail
Edge-deployable on a single box. No cloud dependency, no reach-back required for core functionality
Sensor integration in hours through open connector architecture - not months through contract modifications
Portable deployment for protective events and surge operations. Stand up in hours, tear down clean, leave nothing behind
Compatible with FedRAMP High, IL5, and air-gapped enclaves. Data stays inside the boundary your mission requires
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