Red Cat Holdings, a military technology company integrating robotic hardware and software to protect and support the warfighter, announces that subsidiary Teal Drones will partner with Doodle Labs on Teal’s sUAS prototype for the U.S. Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program.
Teal is one of only three vendors competing in SRR Tranche 2, which the Army has advised will now be the final tranche of the SRR program. The winning vendor(s) will produce a rucksack-portable sUAS to provide platoons with rapidly deployable reconnaissance capability.
Doodle Labs produces industrial-grade wireless networking solutions. By integrating Doodle Labs’ Helix Mesh Rider Radio, Teal’s SRR prototype will be capable of reliably transmitting thermal imagery, AES-256 encrypted video and other high-bandwidth data back to a ground station 3+ miles away. Mesh Rider Radio uses FIPS 140-3 certified encryption, protecting this data and flight control functionality even in contested environments.
Teal’s previously announced technology partners for its SRR effort include Teledyne FLIR and Immervision.
Teal and Doodle Labs are both certified as “Blue UAS,” which designates manufacturers authorized to provide equipment to the U.S. military. Doodle Labs developed its Helix Mesh Rider Radio with sponsorship from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).
Helix Mesh Rider Radio uses Doodle Labs’ proprietary multi-band technology to cover – in a single radio for bands M1 to M6 (1.6 GHz to 2.5 GHz) – a range of licensed radio frequencies often used by the U.S. military. The radio’s mini-OEM form factor is extremely low-SWaP (size, weight, and power).
