The security industry is being asked to monitor areas never previously under surveillance and detect threats that are being hidden in ways that are new and ever increasingly difficult to detect. The Army is fighting a war against an enemy it can't readily identify and the enemy is devising ingenious ways to conceal weapons and threats.
Advanced Reconnaissance has developed a new line of high resolution systems that are capable of addressing these needs. ARC's sensor systems are not an incremental improvement on current technology, but are instead a superior solution that results from a fundamental difference in the underlying engineering approach. This technology squarely positions ARC to win a significant portion of the billion dollar sensor market with both airborne and ground based systems.
Since September 11th, 2001, government budgets for the various requirements for homeland security and defense have been significantly increased and placed on the highest priority. Surveillance is the central component of this effort. Civilian and military agencies use multispectral and hyperspectral data for numerous critical mission applications such as detecting tunnels and caves, locating underground pipes, searching for buried land mines, locating and identifying camouflaged areas, and locating areas of clandestine human activity. The major immediate goal would be to utilize ARC's technology to locate enemy positions, concealed terrorist devices, deployed active weapons, detect hostile forces, and provide the ability to take action against hostile threats.