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Spectrum Dominance  •  Edge Supercomputing

Dragonfly

The industry's first GPU-accelerated Spectrum Cognition node.

Dragonfly™ is a sensor and a ruggedized, AI-driven fusion platform that packs workstation-class supercomputing into 3.5 lbs. It processes the electromagnetic spectrum autonomously at the tactical edge, with zero cloud reachback required.

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The Operational Shift

One asset doing what a fleet couldn't.

Traditional EW requires blanketing an area with assets — each one burning fuel and each one needing to get dangerously close to confirm a target visually. One platform per patrol zone.

A single Dragonfly-equipped platform can cover the same area from standoff range — passively detecting and geolocating threats by their RF emissions, processing the data onboard in under five seconds with zero signature. No emissions. No detection risk. No analyst required.

That's not an upgrade. That's a different concept of operations.

BEFORE

Fleet of Assets • Close-Range • Analyst Required

Multiple platforms, each requiring manual analysis, operating at detection risk to confirm threats visually.

WITH DRAGONFLY

One Asset • Standoff Range • Autonomous

A single Dragonfly node detects, classifies, and geolocates threats passively from standoff. No reachback, no analyst, no exposure.

DRAGONFLY IN ACTION

Intelligence at the edge — from any platform, anywhere.

Hardware Reframe

You're not buying a sensor. You're buying a platform.

Dragonfly goes beyond just sensing. It consolidates an entire intelligence stack into a single, man-portable unit, replacing the heavy logistical footprint and specialized teams usually required for signal processing at the edge.

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Processor

Intel Xeon W · 8-Core Server

AI Accelerator

NVIDIA RTX-A4500 · 384 Tensor Cores

Storage

~7TB Onboard SSD

Weight

3.5 lbs · Backpackable

Architecture

Open · Containerized (Docker)

Reachback

Zero Required

What Dragonfly Does

An entire EW stack. One 3.5lb unit.

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Automatic Signal Classification

GPU-accelerated AI automatically detects, categorizes, and characterizes signals of interest across the full spectrum — no operator required to watch a waterfall display.

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Search & Survey · 1000× Zoom

Navigate from an hour of time and 200 GHz of bandwidth down to sub-kHz or sub-microsecond resolution. See what no other tactical sensor can resolve.

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Direction Finding & Geolocation

Immediate Lines of Bearing from a single unit. Networked Dragonflys triangulate for precise geolocation. One moving platform takes sequential bearings autonomously using AI.

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Retroactive Direction Finding

The time machine. A rolling log of spectrum data lets operators track the origin of a signal that went dark up to an hour ago. Every other system loses that signal the moment it stops. Dragonfly doesn't.

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Swarm Networking

Control a network of Dragonfly sensors across the battlespace. Larger area coverage, fewer vehicles, and longer standoff. One Dragonfly is powerful. A swarm is dominant.

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EMCON Monitoring & Adversary UAS

Monitor friendly emission control plans for compliance. Detect, classify, and geolocate adversary UAS by exploiting their inherent RF emissions — control links, video feeds, remote ID, and ground controllers.

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OPERATOR-READY

Powerful enough for the mission. Simple enough for anyone running it.

Dragonfly doesn't require an EW specialist to operate. The mission-configurable interface lets operators at the edge build collection profiles, tune frequencies, and act on signal intelligence — without training courses, without a signals analyst in the room, and without stopping the mission to troubleshoot.

MISSION APPLICATIONS

Multi-domain missions. One platform. Fielded results.

Just some of the operational problems Dragonfly was built to solve:
  • Your unit stops being a target – before a single shot is fired.

    Dragonfly monitors blue-force RF emissions in real time, catching EMCON violations the moment they occur — not after the fact. A single unit watches every radio, data link, and comms system in the tactical network. No analyst. No cloud. No delay. Commanders see their own spectrum signature before the adversary does.

  • The interference event is over. The investigation is just beginning.

    Dragonfly retains a rolling wideband record of up to one hour of spectrum history — fully onboard and zero reachback required. When a signal goes dark, the data doesn't. Analysts can reconstruct interference events, geolocate sources, and feed the Joint Spectrum Interference Resolution process with precision captures that other systems simply cannot provide.

  • The effector gets a coordinate. The target gets nothing.

    Dragonfly geolocates RF-emitting targets passively in under five seconds — no emissions, no detection risk, no analyst in the loop. A single moving platform takes sequential bearings autonomously, tip-cueing HIMARS, PrSM, and launched effects without exposing the sensing asset. The decision cycle compresses. 

  • One USV covers what a fleet couldn't — and transmits nothing doing it.

    Dragonfly-equipped unmanned surface vessels become autonomous coastal listening posts — persistently detecting, classifying, and geolocating RF emitters across wide littoral areas without human operators or reachback. Integrated and mission-rehearsed on Navy USV platforms. 

  • Every adversary drone transmits. Dragonfly hears all of it.

    Control links. Video downlinks. Remote ID. Ground controller traffic. Every small UAS emits RF it cannot suppress — and Dragonfly detects, classifies, and geolocates those emissions the moment they appear, without broadcasting a single signal of its own. 

  • A persistent SIGINT node — emplaced in minutes, recovered in seconds.

    At 3.5 lbs with no calibration required, Dragonfly goes where the EW operator goes — and stays where it's left. A single operator establishes a fully capable, unattended SIGINT node with no comms back and no analyst watching. When the mission changes, it recovers just as fast. No logistics tail. No signature. No waiting.

  • Spectrum data arrives where commanders already look — automatically.

    Dragonfly feeds EWPMT, ATAK, and CPCE natively — no separate display, no workflow change, no manual data transfer. Geolocated emitter detections appear on the COP in real time. EW officers and commanders see the same picture, simultaneously, the moment a signal is detected. The decision cycle compresses because the data is already where it needs to be.

PLATFORM INTEGRATIONS

Deploys anywhere. Integrates everywhere.

Platform-agnostic by design. Dragonfly integrates seamlessly where other systems can't — because of its form factor, not in spite of it.

Man-Portable

Backpackable. Rapid setup. No calibration. Deploy in minutes, vanish in seconds.

Vehicle-Mounted

Light tactical vehicles, maritime vessels, USVs. Mobile direction finding and geolocation in any environment.

UAS-Mounted

Tethered or free-flying drones. Higher elevation expands sensing range dramatically — filling RF detection gaps deep beyond the forward line.

Autonomous Platforms

Unattended maritime, land, and air nodes. Dragonfly transforms any autonomous platform into a persistent EW sensing node.

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IN THE NEWS

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Deploy Dragonfly on your mission.

Contact RII to discuss integration, configuration, and fielding timelines.

Or schedule a demonstration with our EW team.

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