PHOTON
Optical & photonic intelligence — EO/IR, thermal, multi/hyperspectral, LiDAR.
OVERVIEW
A zero-trust platform for distributed sensing
TESSERA turns fleets of heterogeneous sensors — cameras, radios, microphones, environmental probes, navigation sources — into a single, live, trustworthy operating picture. Every sensor, service, and operator carries a cryptographic identity; every piece of data carries its provenance; and the picture keeps working when the network doesn't, from connected sites to disconnected, intermittent, low-bandwidth edges.
TESSERA is built on the MILENKO assertion ontology, so everything it senses is recorded as replayable evidence — not just a screen that shows the present, but a record that can answer what was known, when, and from where.
CAPABILITY FAMILIES
One platform. Nine capabilities.
RADIAN
Electromagnetic capability — RF sensing, spectrum awareness, emitter geolocation.
RESONANCE
Acoustic & sonic intelligence — microphones, arrays, seismic, sonar and hydrophones.
TRACE
Environmental & chemical sensing — chem, bio, gas, particulate, atmospheric, radiation.
VECTOR
Position, navigation & kinematics — GNSS, INS, IMU, platform state.
PERCEPT
Multi-modal detection, correlation & fusion across every sensing domain.
ATRIUM
Universal connectivity & protocol integration — bridging systems that don't speak the same language.
MISSION
Command authority & tasking — governed, auditable control over what the platform does.
COP
The common operating picture — a live moving map for operators, fed by everything above.
PLATFORM SPECIFICATIONS
Spec Sheet
| Architecture | Tiered edge-to-core: lightweight Kubernetes (k3s) with GitOps-managed deployment; runs from single-board computers and mini-PCs at the edge to clustered core nodes |
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| Security model | Zero trust by design — cryptographic workload identity (SPIFFE/SPIRE), mutual TLS everywhere, least-privilege service boundaries, full audit trail |
| Data backbone | NATS messaging fabric; time-series persistence; artifact and evidence stores |
| Data model | MILENKO assertion ontology — immutable, provenance-carrying claims with replayable projections |
| Resilience | DDIL-tolerant: designed for disconnected, intermittent, and low-bandwidth operation with reconciliation on reconnect |
| Sensor integration | Adapter framework with off-the-shelf integrations (ADS-B receivers, software-defined radios, network video) and an SDK for new sensors |
| Egress & interop | TAK ecosystem output (CoT), open APIs, and standards-based exchange via the MILENKO splice library |
| Deployment | Reference configurations from a single field kit to multi-site installations; infrastructure-as-code throughout |
Detailed data sheets, interface control documents, and deployment guides are available on request.