Epirus announced on April 29 that it has provided an Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter-Swarm (ExDECS) system to Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren to support the US Marine Corps. ExDECS, a derivative of the company’s Leonidas Expeditionary technology, is an energy-based, high-power microwave (HPM) counter-drone system.
The mobile, solid-state HPM system was developed as part of a contract awarded by the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR). ONR awarded Epirus an additional follow-on contract in September 2024 to support further testing and evaluation of the system as part of the Preliminary Evaluation of Ground-based Anti-Swarm UAS System (PEGASUS) programme.
Upon signing of the Department of Defense Form DD250, which documents Factory Acceptance Testing, the ExDECS prototype was shipped to Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division earlier this year where it completed Government Acceptance Testing. The system will now support the US Marine Corps’ experimentation objectives to evaluate the benefits of HPM to the Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD) mission and enhance Ground Based Air Defense (GBAD) capabilities.
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