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An sa国际传媒官网网页入口-based defense contractor acquired earlier this year, but that still maintains a presence in the city, has been awarded two multimillion-dollar contracts this month by the U.S. Navy.

Verus Research, now part of Radiance Technologies, secured contracts with the military branch for $6.7 million and $6 million to develop weapons defense systems, Verus CEO Grady Patterson said.

That includes the Ship Electromagnetic Acquisition System and the Adaptive Radio Frequency Chamber and Hardware, the former of which is for and will see the company build a 鈥渟uite of sensors鈥� that will then analyze simulated pulses on ships to dictate how those vessels will react to the environment, Patterson said.

Verus is not building a ship or the simulator, he added, only the instrument that will measure the effects of electromagnetic energy hitting them. Patterson said electromagnetic pulses can be generated from devices, like what was used to cause the citywide blackout in the film 鈥淥cean鈥檚 Eleven,鈥� or by nuclear explosions.

鈥淭he Navy has a need to understand how its ships will survive an electromagnetic pulse,鈥� Patterson said. 鈥淗ow do we know what our naval vessels will do in that environment?鈥�

The , which spans four years, will implement Verus鈥� Adaptive Radio Frequency Chamber and Hardware technology 鈥� basically, a sensor sent into the air that measures radio frequencies 鈥� within Navy operations on testing targets or actual threats. The company, founded in 2014, will examine how it can add these sensors onto items like drones to get a sense of what 鈥渁ctually gets to鈥� what is being aimed at, Patterson said.

For example, if someone is shooting bullets at a large bucket in the air, Patterson said the Navy wants to understand how many bullets made it into the bucket. Similarly, Verus would do the same test from different directions and speeds.

鈥淵ou want to do all these different testing elements to understand what scenarios might be effective or what scenarios might not be effective,鈥� Patterson said. 鈥淲hat we鈥檙e doing is building radio frequency hardware that allows us to better understand the engagement.鈥�

Both contracts are all about 鈥渂eing proactive,鈥� Patterson said. In dangerous situations, like weaponized fighting or inclement weather, it鈥檚 important for services like the Navy to be prepared for anything.

Patterson said the awards show that, despite being acquired, Verus is still 鈥渉ere in sa国际传媒官网网页入口.鈥�

鈥淭hese are just two examples of how we鈥檙e continuing to try to bring new technology, business and jobs to New Mexico,鈥� Patterson said. 鈥淣othing鈥檚 changed. We鈥檙e still doing what we鈥檝e been doing.鈥�