Artis is a
research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, and improving existi ...
company located in
Herndon, Virginia
Herndon is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area of the United States. The population was 23,292 at the 2010 census. In 2020, the population was estimated to be 24,532, which makes it the largest of three i ...
. Founded in 1999, the company provides services and creates products for defense and commercial markets using extremely high-speed sensing and parallel processing. The name of the company stems from an acronym, short for "advanced real-time information systems."
Products
One of the company's products is
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union (USSR) to block itself and its s ...
, an
active protection system
An active protection system is a system designed to actively prevent certain anti-tank weapons from destroying a vehicle.
Countermeasures that either conceal the vehicle from, or disrupt the guidance of an incoming guided missile threat are design ...
designed to defeat attacks from
rocket-propelled grenades
A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) is a shoulder-fired missile weapon that launches rockets equipped with an explosive warhead. Most RPGs can be carried by an individual soldier, and are frequently used as anti-tank weapons. These warheads are ...
, tandem RPGs and other
recoilless rifle
A recoilless rifle, recoilless launcher or recoilless gun, sometimes abbreviated "RR" or "RCL" (for ReCoilLess) is a type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propel ...
systems. In April 2013, it was reported the company achieved a perfect score during U.S. government testing.
The company also features SmartMat, which is designed to monitor pedestrian traffic such as counting humans walking in and out of buildings or to and from events. Funded by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency, under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgi ...
, the Smartmat system connects to the Internet for ease of tracking and can run off battery or
AC.
Services
Artis provides software design, simulation and modeling, engineering and other high-speed analytical and design services for safety and defense applications. Some of the areas being developed include
active protection system
An active protection system is a system designed to actively prevent certain anti-tank weapons from destroying a vehicle.
Countermeasures that either conceal the vehicle from, or disrupt the guidance of an incoming guided missile threat are design ...
s, digital armor, underbelly
IED blast mitigation, robotics and motion detection, and highway worker safety systems.
References
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External links
Company websiteNational Geographic TV report on Iron Curtain, March 11, 2015
Technology companies established in 1999
Defense companies of the United States
Privately held companies of the United States
1999 establishments in Virginia