As nations strengthen their coastal defenses and maritime awareness networks, they increasingly require a communications backbone capable of unifying sensors, teams, and command elements across vast operational environments. Persistent Systems’ Infrastructure-based Regional Operation Network (IRON) provides this capability by delivering wide-area, resilient connectivity that supports real-time decision-making across shorelines, ports, and open waters.

IRON’s long-range network architecture blankets large regions with reliable coverage, allowing coastal patrol units, shoreline security teams, and command centers to share video, sensor feeds, and positional data without relying on fragile local infrastructure. Its rugged design and ability to integrate existing surveillance systems make it a natural fit for environments where communications are mission critical.

Value of IRON for Coastal Security

Securing long and complex coastlines and critical infrastructure requires resilient communication, and seamless coordination between shore installations and mobile forces. IRON provides these advantages by:

  • Creating continuous communications coverage along extensive coastlines, including remote or infrastructure-poor regions
  • Supporting real-time video surveillance, sensor networking, and shoreline monitoring to detect illicit transfers, smuggling operations, and unauthorized landings
  • Allowing coastal border units, fixed observation posts, and command centers to remain synchronized through shared situational awareness
  • Enhancing emergency response and interdiction timelines by ensuring all units operate on a unified operational picture
  • Offering a rugged, weather-resistant design built for permanent installation along coastlines and coastal terrain

With IRON in place, coastal security forces gain the ability to observe, respond, and coordinate across vast areas with unprecedented reliability.

Value of IRON for Maritime Security

Maritime operations demand uninterrupted connectivity between vessels, aircraft, coastal sensors, and inland command centers, often across wide expanses of water where commercial or legacy networks cannot reach. IRON strengthens maritime security by:

  • Extending secure waveform coverage from the shoreline into territorial waters, ensuring consistent communication with patrol craft
  • Integrating maritime radars, coastal cameras, and vessel-mounted sensors into a single, cohesive operational picture
  • Supporting vessel tracking, interdiction missions, and blue-force visibility for naval and maritime police units
  • Enabling aircraft, unmanned systems, and maritime response teams to share video and sensor data with low latency
  • Providing a self-healing communications fabric that maintains connectivity even under dynamic RF conditions or high-mobility operations

IRON gives maritime forces tools to detect, track, and respond to threats before they reach the shoreline, ensuring a seamless flow of information across joint maritime units.

IRON Deployments Around the World

  • GCC Coastal Security Program
    A Gulf nation deployed IRON to enhance coastal defense and wide-area shoreline monitoring, creating a long-range communications backbone that supports sensor integration, coordinated patrols, and persistent maritime situational awareness.
  • Baltic Sea Coastline Surveillance Network
    Baltic Sea nations implemented IRON across more than 2,500 miles (≈4,023 km) of coastline, establishing a unified coastal surveillance and communications network that strengthens cross-border maritime awareness.
  • U.S. Air Force Regional Operating Picture (ROP) Program
    The U.S. Air Force awarded Persistent Systems a $75.5 million contract to deploy an IRON-based architecture for the Regional Operating Picture program, demonstrating IRON’s suitability for regional-scale, mission-critical situational awareness across large geographic areas.
  • Middle East Armed Forces and Signal Corps (Near Operational Deployment) Multiple armed forces and signal corps in the Middle East have tested IRON extensively throughout 2024–2025. The system has shown strong performance during coastal and maritime trials and is now approaching operational deployment as regional militaries modernize their coastal defense and communications frameworks.

IRON continues to prove its value in missions requiring durable, wide-area connectivity, particularly along coastlines and maritime borders where persistent visibility and synchronized response are essential.

IRON will be showcased at the World Defense Show (Persistent Systems – Booth H1-N13), where attendees can experience its capabilities firsthand.

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