Serenity is equipped with the FireFly acoustic sensor technology, electro-optical cameras and other government-designed hardware, algorithms and software, the Army said Dec. 22.
ARL and AMRDEC built the platform to provide warfighters a 360-degree hemispherical surveillance coverage area to track incoming enemy fires.
The branch has deployed Serenity with Lockheed Martin‘s aerostat-based Persistent Threat Detection System and has implemented the sensor technology in the branch’s Middle East theater of operations.
The AMRDEC-made FireFly is intended to operate as a standalone sensor or in conjunction with the Serenity system and was used to support a 2012 fires detection mission in Afghanistan.