About this episode

Logan Harris discusses the development and impact of compact radar and drone detection technologies at Spotter Global.

Logan Harris is CEO, President, and Founder of Spotter Global —a company specializing in compact radar and drone detection technologies. Spotter Global imagines, designs, manufactures, and coordinates the software development of compact surveillance radars, Remote Drone ID, NetworkedIO command and control, and its Integrated Management Center. The company was originally founded to meet the needs of U.S. Special Forces, who required a very small, wide-area radar to protect small units conducting Village Stability Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. From that need, the first Compact Surveillance Radar—the M600—was developed to protect warfighters operating in austere environments. In 2013, the attack on the Metcalf substation in California highlighted the need to detect threats far beyond the fence line. In response, Spotter introduced its first Compact Security Radar, the C40. Since then, the company has expanded its commercial off-the-shelf offerings to include 17 radar models covering areas from one acre to more than 380 acres, serving markets well beyond critical infrastructure—and far beyond North America. Logan is widely recognized as the inventor of the compact surveillance…

People in this episode

Host: Randy Goers

Guest: Logan Harris

Topics covered

• drone detection
• radar technology
• security
• defense
• infrastructure protection
• RF engineering

Keywords

• drone threats
• compact radar
• surveillance
• security radar
• critical infrastructure
• RF engineering
• digital signal processing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Spotter Global, U.S. Special Forces, Wavetronix, ImSAR

Products: Compact Surveillance Radar, M600, C40, NanoSAR

Places: Iraq, Afghanistan, California

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