Northrop Grumman Corporation has formed a strategic supplier agreement with Epirus, to offer the company’s Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) capability as a component of Northrop Grumman’s Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) systems-of-systems solution offering. The agreement augments Northrop Grumman’s advanced end-to-end C-UAS capabilities by including Epirus’ EMP systems to defeat UAS swarms and specifically supplements the company’s suite of non-kinetic C-UAS effects.
UAS threats are proliferating across the modern battlespace. By integrating the Epirus EMP weapon system into the C-UAS portfolio, they continue maturing their robust, integrated, layered approach to addressing and defeating these evolving threats. Northrop Grumman’s end-to-end C-UAS solutions deliver a layered architecture with a full complement of kinetic and non-kinetic effects, aerial and ground sensors and the battle-hardened, proven and deployed Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (C2) system, recently selected by the U.S. Army as the interim C2 system for counter-small-UAS capabilities.
Epirus’ C-UAS EMP system called Leonidas is designed for static and mobile C-UAS defense and utilizes solid-state commercial semiconductor technology to deliver capability with an unprecedented reduction in size and weight. This enables increased stand-off ranges and speed-of-light engagements that do not suffer from issues with magazine depth and capacity. When fired, a Leonidas creates an EMP that can be steered for precision engagements, or adjusted to sanitize a volume of terrain or sky, creating a force field effect.
Epirus is excited to work closely with the Northrop Grumman team to support their C-UAS systems-of-systems solution offering. Unprecedented EMP capabilities will complement this offering as they continue to look to the future to understand how asymmetric threats will evolve. Epirus is a third-year startup that develops EMP weapons for the U.S. military. Their team combines veteran experience from aerospace and the Special Operations community. Their offices are located in Los Angeles, California.
