Enhancing safety & security along the Northern Border
With border security an urgent concern for both Canada and the United States and involving numerous agencies at the federal, provincial/state, and local levels, Accipiter Radar’s proven smart surveillance network is helping to secure a section of the 2,000 km water border that runs through the Great Lakes at the Ports of Windsor and Detroit, using an integrated network of state-of-the-art Accipiter® radars and Axis bi-spectral cameras installed on both sides of the border. “This smart surveillance network simply needs to be expanded as was originally planned under Harper and Obama to cover the critical lakes and rivers through which the border runs, in order to quickly achieve effective border security across Detroit Sector, Buffalo Sector and Swanton Sector as urged by Trump and Homan”, says Accipiter’s President and CEO Tim Nohara. Accipiter’s network is designed to support secure information sharing and interoperability by automatically generating (using sophisticated signal and data processing, data mining and AI) and delivering the right surveillance-derived information to the right person at the right time. These capabilities are recognized and have been proven operationally by multiple agencies in Canada and the US to enable intelligence-led enforcement and the efficient use of frontline resources and response assets such as boats, vehicles, aircraft (e.g. Black Hawks), and drones resulting in force multiplication. “We’ve designed our smart surveillance networks similar to cellular networks, and you roll them out the same way”, says Nohara. “The expanded network can use different surveillance sensors (needed on both sides of the border, kind-of-like roaming) which plug-and-play together just like iPhone and Android smart phones. And the supported sensors include those that track small vessels, low-flying aircraft and drones (C-UAS) used in smuggling guns, drugs and other contraband across our borders, while also enabling the safe, beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) use of drone as first responder (DFR) by law enforcement by detecting and avoiding (DAA) crewed aircraft in accordance with aviation regulations to share the airspace. Furthermore, each user can run their own apps (or use ours) and share information with each other just like sending e-mails or calendar invites to each other even though you are using different software or service providers on your smart phones.” Port of Windsor Accipiter Common Operating Picture Accipiter is ready to help Ottawa secure the border to reduce gun crime and make our streets safe again, and Ontario to make Fortress Am-Can a reality. Let’s get it done as the time for talk is over. “We are committed to assisting Canada and the United States in their goal to rapidly and affordably secure our Great Lakes border to protect North American lives and livelihoods on this critical, continental trade corridor, and I invite you to reach out to me directly.” Tim Nohara Berry & RCMP on Accipiter – CBC News Accipiter News About Accipiter Radar We believe a safer world is a better world. That’s why we help keep you safe. We do this by giving safety and security practitioners better awareness and understanding of the threats they protect us from. To achieve this, we design smart surveillance networks engineered to monitor the environment and characterize the behavior of targets such as vessels, aircraft, drones, birds, and vehicles, as well as distributed phenomenon such as weather, waves and ice. Accipiter Radar is a North American company who sells and operates its smart surveillance networks around the world to provide all domain awareness for 21st century applications in homeland security, aviation safety and security, and environmental protection. Accipiter has been Targeting a Safer World® for 30 years and has won business from of all levels of government in North America, as well as major corporations and governments in various parts of the world. For more information visit www.accipiterradar.com Or contact: Dr. Tim J. Nohara President & CEO, Accipiter Radar info@accipiterradar.com Download PDF
Accipiter Radar and Maerospace team to deliver superior integrated wide area surveillance networks
Maritime authorities, including coast guards, navies, ports, and others have a growing need for maritime domain awareness to combat illegal fishing, piracy, smuggling and other threats to ocean safety and security. Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc. and Maerospace Corporation today announced that they have entered into a Co-Operation Agreement to promote the combined capabilities of their respective surveillance products, delivering short, medium, and long-range maritime domain situational awareness. Accipiter is a recognized leader in the supply of affordable, all-domain situational awareness systems for ports, waterways, airports and critical infrastructure through their Radar Intelligence Network™ (RIN) platform technology, that enables a sensor agnostic approach to detection, tracking and alerting of cooperative and uncooperative targets of concern, in the air, on the water and on land. Maerospace provides an integrated “over-the-horizon” radar and AI analytics platform through their PASE® High Frequency Surface Wave Radar (HFSWR), enabling the persistent surveillance coverage of a nation’s 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zones. With the combined capabilities of both companies’ solution platforms, customers will be able to dramatically expand their maritime domain awareness coverage for cooperative and uncooperative targets both onshore, near shore and long range, allowing for better real-time situational awareness and decision support for safety, security, and risk mitigation. “Accipiter is well known for our affordable, sensor agnostic and scalable approach to wide area surveillance,” said Simon Jerome, VP Sales & Marketing at Accipiter. “Teaming with Maerospace will enable customers to benefit from their over-the-horizon maritime domain awareness to compliment our all-domain awareness of critical infrastructure, ports and coastlines.” “We are delighted to be collaborating with Accipiter”, stated Eric Meger, CEO of Maerospace. “Our PASE® High Frequency Surface Wave Radar (HFSWR) combined with our TimeCaster™ AI-driven analytics solution continuously monitors all vessel-based activity up to 200 NM from shore with continuous coverage of 41,000 square miles. Accipiter’s M3® Target Information System and wide selection of integrated sensors will bring a new dynamic to the overall capabilities that Maerospace can offer.” About Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc. Accipiter Radar is a North American company that develops, sells, and operates high-performance radar and sensor intelligence networks engineered to monitor the environment and characterize the behavior of targets such as small vessels, low flying aircraft, vehicles and birds, as well as distributed phenomenon such as weather, waves and snow/ice. The result is enhanced wide-area safety and security through unprecedented domain awareness for 21st century applications in homeland security, aviation safety and security, public safety and environmental protection. Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc. of Niagara, Ontario Canada and Accipiter Radar Corporation of Niagara, New York, USA are Targeting a Safer World® and have won business from all levels of government in North America, as well as major corporations and governments in various parts of the world. About Maerospace Corporation. Maerospace Corporation, based in Waterloo, Ontario, helps protect national sovereignty by extending maritime domain awareness and intelligence to cover the entire exclusive economic zone and beyond. Maerospace’s integrated “over-the-horizon” radar and AI analytics transforms the real-time discovery, identification, and assessment of ocean-based vessels into a continuous, real-time capability. Authorities are presented with the largest possible response window in which to deliver precise, proportional, and cost-effective mitigation of economic, environmental, and human threats to critical national interests. For more information visit www.accipiterradar.com Or contact: Simon Jerome VP Sales & Marketing Accipiter Radar info@accipiterradar.com PDF Download
Accipiter Radar awarded upgrade of CBP Radar on Gull Island
Accipiter Radar, a North American industry leader in the development and deployment of situational awareness solutions for use in homeland security and safety applications, has been awarded a contract to upgrade the radar system associated with Custom and Border Protection’s (CBP’s) MDP System on Gull Island near Detroit, Michigan. Accipiter’s innovative radar technologies were competitively selected for this important Tech Refresh along the US/Canada Border. Jeff Ogden, CAPT, USCG (Ret.), Accipiter’s VP of Homeland Security and Safety Programs explains, “We are delighted to once again be working closely with the United States Border Patrol on critical surveillance of our waterways, helping to ensure the security of the public on both sides of the International Border.” Accipiter works with various US and Canadian authorities on safety and security on an on-going basis. “We understand the complexities of surveillance, particularly over vast maritime areas like the Great Lakes” adds Tim J. Nohara, Accipiter’s President and CEO, “We continuously innovate our products and services to respond to the changing demands placed on our security and safety practitioners who work to keep us safe. Helping these men and women who protect us to succeed is at the core of everything we do at Accipiter.” Downland Press Release