Vadum, Inc. is pleased to announce it was awarded a contract for the Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling of $151B for the rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter.

In this first episode, Vadum CEO Aaron Walker discusses the company’s humble beginnings supporting the counter IED mission in Iraq and Afghanistan and the path into Directed Energy systems, current Cognitive Electronic Warfare capabilities, and the challenges of countering drones at scale.

Vadum has developed Prediction, Optimization, and Scheduling of System Engagements (POSSE) algorithms to efficiently and effectively schedule AEGIS Combat System engagements of closely spaced air defense threats.

Introducing Sonar Adapted Low-shot Model for Ordnance Neutralization (SALMON) – a sonar automatic target recognition (ATR) platform with targeted data generation to improve mine countermeasures while reducing training data needs.

During this Phase 1 SBIR project for the U.S. Navy, Vadum developed an RF Measurement and Planning (RMAP) tool that combines aspects of both RF mission planning and real-time sensor-informed spectrum management to facilitate spectrum sharing in both training and deployed mission environments.

During this Phase 1 SBIR project for the U.S. Navy, Vadum studied system tradeoffs and design guidelines for optimum solid-state wide bandgap HPM RF PA realization matched to narrowband (NB) or wideband (WB) HPM antennas.