A new surveillance system called the Echo uses underwater microphones and AI to detect submarines. The team trained it on whale calls first, then classified data, and went from concept to a working test on Lake Ontario in 90 days. Dominion is marketing it as protection for Canadian life.
A lot of that data is classified. And so our approach is, well, if we could detect sounds that are widely available, like whale noises, then they could give us the classified data.
This device is one of a kind. Quite literally. This is the only Echo that exists. If Dominion gets this right, thousands of them could be monitoring every corner of the country for bad guys.
So the whole premise is we're trying to do passive sensing, just listening to what's going on underneath with hydrophones. That's detected underground. There's a computer inside that's doing that processing, and it'll send it back over Starlink connection. So a lot of the anomalies that we're trying to catch, like submarines, a lot of that data is classified. And so our approach is, well, if we could detect sounds that are widely available, like whale noises, once we've proven that out, then they could give us the classified data to train on. Within 90 days, we— it went from conceptual design to actually proving this out on Lake Ontario.
For now, It's more likely to find Russell a good fishing spot than a Russian submarine, but everything has to start somewhere. Dominion's whole pitch is defending the Canadian way of life. Turns out the most convincing version of that pitch is just fishing and drinking with Russell.
We got the Molson.
