ARES: Adaptive Resilience against EW and Spoofing
Track: Moonshot-Track (TRL ~2–3)
ARES – Adaptive Resilience against EW & Spoofing enables unmanned systems to maintain mission effectiveness under electronic warfare through distributed detection and autonomous coordination. Using €500 COTS nodes, ARES creates a resilient mesh that detects jamming in <3 seconds, localizes threats cooperatively, and maintains operations through intelligent degradation. Rather than fighting jamming, ARES treats it as an environmental condition to be detected, mapped, and adapted to, transforming vulnerable individual drones into survivable swarms.
Problem: Electronic warfare neutralizes drone swarms by breaking their communication and navigation. Current military solutions cost €50K+ per platform and still represent single points of failure.
Solution: ARES employs distributed intelligence across multiple low-cost nodes to maintain swarm cohesion despite jamming.
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Paradigm Shift: From "hardening against jamming" to "operating with jamming as a given environmental condition" — like aircraft dealing with turbulence rather than trying to eliminate it.
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Company: Wardspire GmbH - Swiss defense technology startup focused on resilient communications and distributed systems for contested environments.
Byron Vergoes Houwens – Founder & Lead Engineer, South African
Expertise: Distributed systems, Byzantine consensus, RF systems, cryptographic protocols
Relevant: Developed BFT protocol achieving consensus under 33% node compromise; built telemetry systems processing 200K events/second; implemented software-defined radio applications
Languages: English, German, Afrikaans
Katarzyna Wiewiora – Operations & Integration Lead, Polish
Expertise: Program management, stakeholder coordination, technical documentation
Relevant: 15+ years of project management experience across both start-ups/SMEs and large enterprise and B2B
Languages: English, Polish
Development Approach: Agile/iterative with bi-weekly stakeholder demos. Operating as integrator — proving concept with COTS before custom hardware phase.
Future Partnerships: Open to collaboration with established primes (Rohde & Schwarz, Hensoldt) for production scaling and with research institutions for advanced signal processing algorithms.
Unique Position: Bridge between commercial innovation speed and military reliability requirements — bringing Silicon Valley development practices to defense challenges.
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