Areté Associates was founded in 1976 as an early stage (6.2 and 6.3 S&T contracts) research company working on Navy contracts. In the succeeding decades, Areté has grown to become an integrated technology company with customers in all branches of the Department of Defense and elements of the Intelligence Community. Areté offers complete operational-capability development across the technology spectrum from applied research to Limited Rate Production and Systems Engineering. Areté has teamed with many Aerospace and Defense Primes to deliver sophisticated hardware and software, enhancing their products delivered to the Government. 

Our core competencies center on the exploitation of weak sensor signals in heavily cluttered environments.  Our focus is on enhancing the performance of existing systems by developing order-of-magnitude improvements in the processing algorithms.  This software based approach makes Areté performance improvements broadly applicable to most sensor hardware.

Occasionally, software alone cannot provide sufficient capability enhancement.   Areté has developed new sensor hardware in those instances when this has been the case.  Whether software- or hardware-centric, Areté has a unique capability to offer industry partners an integrated technology development function that seamlessly integrates development from new technology research through Limited Rate Production.

Current capability enhancements Areté is able to offer Industry Partners for integration into their systems include:

     ·    Active Electro-optic Sensors

     ·    Passive Electro-optic Sensors

     ·    Sensor Enhancements through Improved Processing

     ·    Mine Counter Measure Systems

     ·    Degraded Visual Environment (DVE)

     ·    CBRNE

For more information on how Areté can contribute to your success in fielding enhanced capabilities to our operating forces, contact Areté Associates at info@arete.com