Logos Technologies announced a nearly $19.4 million arrangement for its
  Serenity systems, pictured here, in late February. Logos Technologies
  announced a nearly $19.4 million arrangement for its Serenity system in
  late February 2024. (Logos Technologies)

  A subsidiary of Elbit Systems of America will supply the U.S. Army
  shot-spotting sensors that can be mounted to watch towers, surveillance
  aerostats, unmanned vehicles and more.

  Logos Technologies announced a $19.4 million deal for its Serenity
  hostile fire detectors late last month. The five-year arrangement also
  accounts for maintenance and operation costs [1]across U.S. Africa
  Command.

  Serenity combines electro-optical and acoustic sensors to pinpoint the
  origin of weapons fire and explosions as far as 6 miles away. It can be
  paired with a wide-area motion imagery, or WAMI, device to document
  swaths of land over extended periods of time.

  “Serenity can cue the WAMI system to a particular area of interest —
  say, the location of an enemy mortar team — and then the WAMI system
  can track their movement across the battlefield, as well as ‘go back in
  time’ and discover their initial staging area,” Doug Rombough, vice
  president of business development at Logos, said in a statement.

  Serenity systems are already used by U.S. troops, Rombough added, and a
  quickly deployable version for international forces is under
  consideration. The Army Research Laboratory is also looking into a
  smaller version of Serenity that can be mounted on a gyrocopter,
  according to the company.

  Counterterrorism missions across the African continent involve multiple
  countries and their forces. The region has been plagued by [2]violent
  organizations affiliated with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. In
  addition, coups in Mali in 2020, Burkina Faso in 2022 and Niger in 2023
  have complicated U.S. Defense Department operations and assistance
  programs there.

  Elbit Systems of America is itself a part of Israeli business Elbit
  Systems, the [3]21st largest defense contractor in the world when
  ranked by defense-related revenue. Elbit Systems earned nearly $5
  billion in defense revenue in 2022 and about $4.8 billion in 2021,
  according to Defense News Top 100 analysis.

  Colin Demarest is a reporter at C4ISRNET, where he covers military
  networks, cyber and IT. Colin previously covered the Department of
  Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration — namely Cold
  War cleanup and nuclear weapons development — for a daily newspaper in
  South Carolina. Colin is also an award-winning photographer.

References

  1. https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2022/12/22/cyber-to-be-featured-for-first-time-at-us-military-exercise-in-africa/
  2. https://www.c4isrnet.com/intel-geoint/2024/01/30/us-sees-footprints-of-iran-backed-group-in-tower-22-drone-attack/
  3. https://people.defensenews.com/top-100/

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