Silvus Technologies, Inc.

Silvus Technologies came out of a university lab. Babak Daneshrad, then teaching electrical engineering at UCLA, founded the company in 2004 with three partners to turn multiple input multiple output research into a product, and what came out was MN-MIMO, a mobile ad hoc networking waveform that uses spatial processing to hold a link where an ordinary radio would drop it. The company markets a single network scaling past 550 nodes. Motorola Solutions bought the business from private equity owner TJC in a deal announced in May 2025 and closed that August, paying about $4.4 billion up front with as much as $600 million more tied to performance through 2028, and Motorola has since put money into new production capacity in Salt Lake County. Silvus kept its Los Angeles base and now trades as a Motorola Solutions company.

StreamCaster radios are the catalogue. The SC4200EP is a two by two set running to 10 watts, the SC4400E is a four by four running to 20 watts, and both ship as rugged bricks, handhelds and non-rugged OEM modules carrying joint military designations in the AN/PRC-169 and AN/VRC-147 families. Smaller formats followed the originals. The StreamCaster LITE 4200 was the first mesh radio on the AUVSI Green UAS cleared components list and sits with the SC4200EP in the Defense Department's Blue UAS framework, which is what lets an American drone builder buy it without arguing the point. The 5000 series brought the LITE 5200 module and the MINI 5200, the radio inside StreamCaster NEXUS, a dismounted kit pairing the radio with a Samsung end user device and a chest mount for Nett Warrior integration.

Integrated solutions build on those radios. StreamCaster PRISM combines them with high gain dual polarity sector antennas for coverage out to a full circle, and the US Army bought it under a $5.5 million contract. The FASST 6000 spectrum sensor took the company somewhere new, covering 1 MHz to 6 GHz fast enough to catch a transmission lasting a single millisecond and using several antennas to find the direction it came from. Spectrum Dominance is the umbrella for the electronic warfare hardening, gathering interference avoidance, interference cancellation, power control that shrinks a radio's emitted footprint, dual frequency links and a protected waveform mode. Software solutions ship free with the hardware, the main one being StreamScape, a management interface with an ATAK plug-in that puts network control on a tablet a soldier already carries.

The applications the company sells into are military, law enforcement, unmanned systems, airborne ISR, maritime and broadcasting, and that mix is less odd than it looks, because a live outside broadcast and an infantry squad want the same thing from a mesh. Army work has been the anchor. Silvus beat more than a dozen rivals to supply over 1,000 radios for Integrated Visual Augmentation System prototyping under a $3.9 million order. Anduril uses Silvus mesh to control groups of unmanned vehicles where communications are contested.