Aalyria Awarded Contract to Utilize Tightbeam Laser Comms Capability for Naval Research Laboratory SOAR Project
This contract with NRL fits into Aalryia’s larger mission to create, organize and manage the world’s most advanced networks to enable connectivity everywhere. In addition to Tightbeam, the company is commercializing a separate and complementary advanced networking capability called Spacetime.This technology is capable of orchestrating and managing networks of ground stations, aircraft, satellites, ships, urban meshes, and more. It optimizes and continually evolves the antenna link scheduling, network traffic routing, and spectrum resources -- responding in real time to changing network requirements.
- Aalyria – a startup commercializing networking and communications technologies acquired from Google – has been awarded a contract with the Office of Naval Research and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to utilize the company’s Tightbeam technology to develop a first-of-its-kind capability to enable ultra-fast, hyper-secure, over-the-horizon connectivity across the Navy’s sea, air, and land assets.
- The initial $7 million contract award is for the first phase of the Navy’s Secure Optical Aerial Relay (SOAR) project.
- Tightbeam’s Pointing, Acquisition and Tracking (PAT) capability can establish connections among static or in-motion objects in seconds.
- The goal of SOAR is to provide a robust, low latency, high bandwidth free space optical communication capability for warfighting scenarios.