UNITE offers enhanced interoperability and integration, optimized resource utilization, improved decision-making speed and accuracy, increased operational resilience in challenging environments, adaptability to changing mission requirements, robust security protocols, advanced AI and machine learning capabilities, reduced total cost of ownership, accelerated mission outcomes, and global defense network enablement.

A unified data layer ensures that all data from different sensors is integrated and processed cohesively, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of analytics. This unified approach reduces redundancy, improves data quality, and enables more effective decision-making and situational awareness.

Security is paramount for UNITE, employing comprehensive strategies like the principle of least privilege, secure credential storage, continuous monitoring, and stringent access control. These measures protect mission and system data, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive information throughout the mission.

UNITE adopts a strategic approach to partnerships and hardware compatibility to enhance and augment larger solution providers’ product offerings. Here’s how it works:

1. Partnerships with Solution Providers:

   – UNITE primarily partners with larger solution providers, enhancing or augmenting their existing products and solutions.

   – As a result, our primary customers are our partners, who then engage in direct sales to end users and customers.

2. Hardware Compatibility:

   – Given the diverse hardware environments that UNITE may encounter, it is challenging to account for all possible hardware dependencies.

   – To address this, we continually add to a catalog of “vetted” hardware, certifying that UNITE will run on it. This ensures that the platform is compatible with a wide range of hardware configurations.

3. Opportunities for Direct Sales and Professional Services:

   – The catalog of vetted hardware is particularly beneficial for opportunities that may lead to direct sales or professional services engagements.

   – By certifying hardware compatibility, we can confidently offer solutions to end users, knowing that UNITE will perform reliably on their systems.

This approach ensures that UNITE can seamlessly integrate with various hardware configurations, providing flexibility and reliability for our partners and their end users.

Yes, UNITE is designed to function effectively in denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) communication environments. It ensures continuous operations without total reliance on cloud connectivity, enhancing battlefield resilience and enabling operations to continue smoothly even in communication-contested environments.

UNITE addresses challenges like non-interoperable proprietary systems, data silos, and reliance on reach-back connectivity by providing advanced functionalities in edge management and orchestration, peer-to-peer edge networking, IT-OT integration, and edge AI solutions. These functionalities improve information delivery, decision-making latency, and adaptability to emerging mission requirements.

UNITE optimizes resource utilization and reduces the need for extensive hardware deployments and maintenance. Its advanced functionalities streamline data, user, and resource management, leading to significant cost savings and more sustainable operations over time.

UNITE enhances edge computing by providing smart fleet management, smart data orchestration, smart workload optimization, autonomous data translation and fusion, and intelligent decision support. These functionalities collectively improve the performance, reliability, and security of edge devices, ensuring continuous and effective operations in various environments.

Yes, UNITE is designed to function effectively in denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) communication environments. It ensures continuous operations without total reliance on cloud connectivity, enhancing battlefield resilience and enabling operations to continue smoothly even in communication-contested environments.

UNITE addresses challenges like non-interoperable proprietary systems, data silos, and reliance on reach-back connectivity by providing advanced functionalities in edge management and orchestration, peer-to-peer edge networking, IT-OT integration, and edge AI solutions. These functionalities improve information delivery, decision-making latency, and adaptability to emerging mission requirements.

UNITE optimizes resource utilization and reduces the need for extensive hardware deployments and maintenance. Its advanced functionalities streamline data, user, and resource management, leading to significant cost savings and more sustainable operations over time.

UNITE enhances edge computing by providing smart fleet management, smart data orchestration, smart workload optimization, autonomous data translation and fusion, and intelligent decision support. These functionalities collectively improve the performance, reliability, and security of edge devices, ensuring continuous and effective operations in various environments.

UNITE employs AI-driven data analysis to offer actionable insights and recommendations from the unified operational view created by its data translation and fusion capabilities. This AI component, called Teachable Infant Agent (TIA), evaluates incoming data streams and provides decision-makers with recommended courses of action based on mission objectives, reducing decision latency and enhancing situational awareness.

The Teachable Infant Agent (TIA) is an AI component that learns continuously and understands situational contexts. It enables near-real-time autonomous data ingest and translation, data fusion, and intelligent decision support. TIA enhances UNITE’s capabilities by providing deterministic answers, reducing the need for expensive hardware, and eliminating AI model hallucinations.

UNITE enhances decision-making by providing AI-enabled, real-time data-driven insights and recommendations. Its decision support capability evaluates incoming data streams and offers actionable courses of action based on mission objectives, improving the speed and accuracy of decisions in critical scenarios.

In MDO environments, UNITE creates a common data layer that connects data producers with data consumers in real-time, enabling dynamic workload orchestration and prioritizing information transfer in bandwidth-constrained or contested environments. This ensures critical information reaches the right person at the right time, enhancing operational effectiveness.

UNITE manages IoBT and edge devices by securely deploying, updating, and monitoring them. It enables dynamic actions and immediate objective achievement, facilitating the integration and optimization of small form factor, decentralized devices operating in communication-contested environments.

UNITE’s modular architecture allows for rapid adaptation to changing operational needs and technologies. This future-proof design ensures that UNITE can scale as required by mission dynamics, making it a flexible solution that can grow with evolving defense requirements.

Yes, UNITE is designed to handle diverse data types and formats from various sensors. It can process simple JSON files, complex radar data, raw audio data, and more, integrating them into a unified data layer for comprehensive analysis and visualization.

Yes, UNITE is scalable and can accommodate additional sensors and data sources as needed. Its flexible architecture allows for easy integration of new sensors and data types, ensuring continued operational efficiency and adaptability to changing requirements.

UNITE employs standard ETL processes and advanced data fusion techniques to handle diverse data formats and types. It extracts, transforms, and loads data from various sensors into a unified data layer, facilitating seamless integration and analysis.

The UNITE platform is an application hosting platform designed specifically for small form-factor devices, such as those used in IoT or edge computing environments. It excels in low space, weight, and power (SWaP) conditions. Here’s how it functions:

1. Services Provided: UNITE offers a comprehensive set of services via API and SDK. These services include:

   – Logging

   – Telemetry/metrics collection

   – Event handling

   – Software management

   – Security features (e.g., certificate rotation)

   – Potential access to underlying hardware

2. Developer Integration: Application developers can leverage the UNITE SDK to natively integrate these services into their applications, referred to as mission workloads. This integration allows developers to focus on their specific functionalities without having to build these common services from scratch, akin to using a “plugin.”
3. Standalone Application Support: Even if a standalone application runs alongside UNITE, it can still access the platform’s services by making direct calls to the UNITE API.
4. Mission Workloads: Typically, mission workloads are provided by customers, their vendors, contractors, or as professional services by a system integrator or Parasanti.

This setup enables efficient and secure application development and deployment on small form-factor devices, enhancing their functionality and performance.

When operating in an environment with multiple devices (nodes or endpoints), the UNITE platform establishes a fully connected mesh network over the mission’s communication network, which can include radio, IP, satellite, etc. Here’s a breakdown of how this works:

1. Network Initialization:

   – Each device is initialized as a basic UNITE node, complete with trusted certificates, tokens, and keys.

   – The devices will self-discover their neighbors and self-organize into a fully connected mesh network.

2. Service Distribution:

   – Once connected, each node can be loaded with mission workloads or additional service software.

   – These workloads and services are provided either locally on each device or distributed across the mesh network.

3. Event and Message Handling:

   – UNITE is aware of each device’s mission workloads and can generate and manage events and messages needed to utilize or control these workloads.

   – This is done according to the mission workloads available and the mission objectives.

This mesh network approach ensures that all devices are interconnected, can share resources, and efficiently manage workloads and services across the network.

By processing data locally at the edge, UNITE minimizes the need to transfer large volumes of data over the network. This edge processing reduces network bandwidth requirements, lowers latency, and ensures timely access to critical information.

The UNITE platform significantly enhances the functionality and adaptability of drones that use Collins RapidEdge flight software. Here’s how:

1. Flight Operations Control:

   – Collins RapidEdge flight software is responsible for controlling the flight operations of the drone and can provide necessary inputs to any installed payloads, such as sensors.

2. Integration with UNITE:

   – UNITE is installed on the same computer as RapidEdge.

   – A series of protobuf messages were developed to facilitate bidirectional communication between RapidEdge and UNITE.

3. Flexibility and Adaptability:

   – RapidEdge has a fixed configuration and is not very adaptable to on-mission changes. Once set up and integrated with a payload, it remains fixed for the mission duration.

   – UNITE, on the other hand, allows for mission changes that can be addressed by leveraging new software, thereby increasing the probability of mission success.

Practical Example:

   – In a scenario where a team of three drones equipped with UNITE was on a mission, they traveled out of communications range with headquarters.

   – Instead of scrubbing the mission, a fourth drone was sent to deliver, install, and configure a communications relay software package.

   – One of the original three drones had the necessary radio hardware but lacked the relay software.

   – UNITE installed the relay software on this drone, enabling it to extend the comms range and allowing the mission to proceed successfully.

This integration and flexibility provided by UNITE ensure that drones can adapt to changing mission requirements in real-time, enhancing overall mission success rates.

For more details, you can read the article from Raytheon/Collins Aerospace

The UNITE platform supports dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of software to adapt to changing or emerging needs. Here’s how this process works:

1. Configuration/Reconfiguration:

   – The term “editing” might be overstated; the focus is on configuring or reconfiguring software based on changing requirements.

   – This can include running different algorithms, changing geographic boundaries (geo-box), adjusting timing parameters, and similar modifications.

2. Human Operator Involvement:

   – A human operator typically determines the necessary changes and captures them in a configuration file, such as a config, YAML, or similar format.

   – This file reflects the new settings and parameters required for the software to adapt to the new needs.

3. Software Update Process:

   – The configuration file is part of a software update package.

   – Once the software update is delivered to the local device, an install script runs to apply the new configuration.

   – This updated configuration file changes the software’s behavior to meet the new requirements.

4. Config File Delivery:

   – In some cases, the update might only involve delivering a new configuration file without a new software package.

   – The new config file is delivered, and a software restart is performed to apply the changes.

This approach allows the UNITE platform to adapt swiftly and efficiently to changing operational needs, ensuring that the software remains responsive and effective in dynamic environments.

The UNITE platform offers flexible support for application development through its Software Development Kit (SDK) and API, catering to a wide range of developer needs. Here’s how it works:

1. Software Development Kit (SDK):

   – UNITE provides an SDK for application developers, allowing them to easily integrate with the platform’s services.

   – Using the SDK, developers can leverage features such as logging, security, messaging, and mesh services.

2. Alternative Development Options:

   – Applications are not required to use the SDK. Developers with preexisting applications can make UNITE API calls directly without utilizing the SDK.

   – These applications can use their own logging and security mechanisms, but it is recommended to use UNITE’s messaging and mesh services for better integration.

3. Compatibility and Development:

   – UNITE-compatible applications can be developed by anyone, including customers, their vendors, or third-party developers.

   – Parasanti offers professional services to develop mission workloads (applications) in collaboration with customers, ensuring tailored solutions that meet specific needs.

4. Native Workloads:

   – Parasanti also monitors customer and industry demand signals to identify common needs.

   – Based on these insights, new workloads may be added as native features of UNITE, benefiting all users of the platform.

By offering both an SDK and flexible API integration, the UNITE platform supports a wide range of development scenarios, ensuring that applications can be tailored to meet diverse requirements while leveraging UNITE’s robust infrastructure.