SignalEye™: Software-Defined RF Sensing Hardware for Spectrum Surveillance & SIGINT

SignalEye Hardware Specifications

• Architecture: Direct RF Software Defined Radio
• Frequency Range: 1-18 GHz
• Channels: 4 - TX / RX
• Instantaneous Bandwidth: Programmable, up to 8 GHz
• Receiver Type: Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer
• Outputs: Max/Mean spectra, Pulse Descriptor Words
• Interfaces: 1Gb Ethernet, SFP single-mode fiber, JTAG, Console
• Reference: 10 MHz (input/output)
• Input Power: 12 VDC
• Size / Weight: 6 x 8 x 4 in, 5 lbs

Overview

SignalEye™ is BANC3's flagship software-defined RF sensing system for spectrum surveillance and signal intelligence (SIGINT). It is designed to detect, capture, and analyze modern frequency-agile and fast-hopping RF threats that legacy systems cannot reliably track.

Built on a direct RF software-defined radio (SDR) architecture, SignalEye™ delivers wide instantaneous bandwidth, full-spectrum coverage, and mission-adaptable performance across space, airborne, maritime, drone, and ground ISR deployed RF sensing systems. The mission-ready SDR hardware is upgradeable post-deployment, enabling long-term adaptability without hardware replacement.

SignalEye™ systems are field-proven, standards-compliant, and optimized for integration into U.S. and allied defense architectures where spectrum dominance and real-time RF awareness are mission critical.

Program of Record: NRO customer supporting NROL-87, NROL-85, NROL-91, and NROL-68 missions.

Market Challenge

Modern electronic warfare (EW) and signal intelligence (SIGINT) missions operate in increasingly contested and congested RF environments. Adversaries employ frequency-agile, fast-hopping signals that legacy spectrum systems struggle to detect and characterize in real time.

At the same time:

• Many existing solutions are bulky, with large SWaP footprints that limit deployment on space, airborne, and unmanned hardware platforms
• Legacy architectures are often hardware-locked, restricting post-deployment upgrades and adaptability
• Mission requirements increasingly demand wideband, software-defined, and scalable spectrum systems that can evolve as threats change

These conditions create a growing need for flexible, software-defined spectrum surveillance and SIGINT capabilities across space and multi-domain operations.

BANC3 Solution

BANC3 addresses these mission needs with SignalEye™, a software-defined RF hardware platform built to operate across highly contested RF environments. Using a direct RF SDR architecture, SignalEye™ enables wide instantaneous bandwidth, full-spectrum coverage, and scalable multi-channel operation in compact, low-SWaP form factors — a true hardware footprint with software-upgrade economics.

The deployed RF sensing system's software-defined, upgradeable design allows capabilities to evolve post-deployment as missions and threats change — without hardware replacement — providing defense and space customers with a flexible, future-ready approach to spectrum surveillance.

Key Attributes

• Software-Defined RF Hardware Platform: Upgradeable after delivery to support new missions and threats
• Wide Instantaneous Bandwidth (up to 8 GHz): Captures today's most agile RF signals
• Full Spectrum Coverage (100 MHz - 50 GHz): Single direct RF chip across the operational range
• Scalable Architecture: Supports up to four channels per system
• Standards-Compliant: VPX / VITA open architecture for seamless U.S. and NATO integration

SignalEye™ Product Family

(Mission-aligned, pre-deployment configurations)

1. SignalEye™ - Space: Space-oriented spectrum surveillance payloads designed to support persistent ISR, threat detection, and space domain awareness missions. Optimized for low-SWaP LEO and GEO hardware platforms, with architectures aligned to U.S. Space Force mission requirements for wideband RF intercept and edge processing.
2. SignalEye™ - Air Force: Airborne spectrum surveillance configurations intended to support manned and unmanned ISR hardware platforms operating in contested RF environments. Designed for small form factor, wide RF bandwidth, and single-unit DF capability to address high-altitude and strategic ISR mission needs.
3. SignalEye™ - Navy: Maritime and littoral spectrum monitoring configurations architected for shipborne and maritime ISR applications. Designed to support wideband (1 MHz - 18 GHz) RF monitoring and non-blocking RF switching in VPX form factors aligned with naval aviation and maritime ISR mission profiles.
4. SignalEye™ - Drone: Low-SWaP spectrum surveillance configurations designed for UAV and expendable drone hardware platforms. Architected to enable distributed and forward-deployed RF sensing using delta-TOA DF techniques and high-speed ADC data, aligned with Army and joint tactical ISR concepts.
5. SignalEye™ - Ground ISR: Ground-based spectrum surveillance configurations intended to support tactical ISR and threat warning missions. Designed for combat vehicle and fixed-site deployments using wideband RF sensing, signal characterization, geolocation, and AI/ML-assisted analytics in compact VPX form factors.