WASHINGTON, D.C. The rapid spread of drones, jamming systems, and frequency-agile threats is changing what defense customers expect from radio-frequency hardware, an industry source said during a recent interview.

This week’s product, the Epiq Solutions NDR684 software-defined radio (SDR), a four-receive-channel SDR, combining a super-heterodyne RF front end that provides 1 MHz to 18 GHz frequency coverage with an AMD Xilinx RFSoC for digitization and signal processing. The solution is suitable for autonomous payloads, direction-finding, counter-uncrewed systems, ELINT, COMINT, and other mission-critical defense applications.

This week’s product, the Epiq Solutions VNX+ Development Platform, enables the demonstration and development of a self-contained radio-frequency (RF) payload capable of hosting artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) applications out of the box. The solution is suitable for search, DF, transmit applications, electronic intelligence (ELINT), counter-radar, counter-uncrewed system, jamming/electronic attack, UXS payloads, and more.

On‑orbit AI promises faster decisions, lower down-link burden, and scalable autonomy — but most missions are not designed with the compute, power, memory, and software flexibility needed to keep up with rapidly evolving AI models.

The proliferation of small, low-cost uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) has transformed the threat landscape for military and civilian infrastructure worldwide.

This week’s product, the Epiq Solutions Matchstiq V40, is a software-defined radio (SDR) and signal-processing platform that combines an Analog Devices AD9084 MxFE RF front end with an AMD Versal Adaptive SoC [system-on-chip]. Together they form a low-latency platform with as much as 2 GHz of instantaneous bandwidth, large numbers of definable digital down-converters (DDCs) and digital up-converters (DUCs), fast frequency hopping, and an extremely fast sweep speed.

This week’s product, the Epiq Solutions Matchstiq Z4, is a software-defined radio (SDR) and signal-processing platform suited for small-form-factor applications with stringent size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements for applications like small UxS (uncrewed) payloads, jamming/electronic attack, and counter-UxS, among other mission critical systems. The SDR builds on Epiq’s Matchstiq Z2 and Z3u models, which are valued for their small size, weight, and power consumption (SWaP) combined with on-board processing to enable self-contained signal acquisition without the need for an external host.