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Today's tactics are highly mobile, decentralized, and sensor-driven

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The "Soldier as a System" Vision was Always Right

June 6, 2025

By Kayla Haas and David Marra

For more than three decades, the U.S. military has pursued a quietly radical idea: treat the individual Soldier not just as a person with a rifle, but as a fully integrated system. Wire them in. Help them see more, decide faster, and win.

Next generation Soldier

We’re ensuring every Soldier is equipped with situational awareness, maneuver, and targeting capabilities that mesh with squad and command networks. The result is an ultra-clear, shared understanding of the battlespace and decentralized engagement decisions.

Designed to work with current weapons, data streams, and tactics, Rivet’s body-borne system fuses optics, sensors, compute, and comms to reduce cognitive load and enhance warfighter lethality. Every Soldier deserves tools they can trust in tough conditions.

The digital domain has changed the fight. Modular components form a new software-centric and continuously upgradeable platform to win it.

Austere site operations

Rivet is creating new muscle and flexibility for forward expeditions. The model: arrive on site, unbox Rivet toolsets, and connect to virtually any terrestrial or satellite signal with a choice of waveforms and encryption. Command people, weapons, and drones with the lowest possible signature.

With Rivet's open systems approach, teams and individuals match their loadout to the task. A next-gen surveyor gets the job done with sensors, software, and computing to transform sites into digital twins representing physical terrain and invisible electromagnetic signals.

Sustainment and logistics

Manned and unmanned aircraft. Armored land and sea vehicles. Energy and materiel equipment. All require hands-on support informed by real-time diagnostics and operating histories, in both depot and field locations.

Rivet systems are configurable for the personnel who must keep critical assets running. Jobs are made clear through generated work packages that specify service protocols, confirm necessary parts and consumables, and direct testing. This digital approach introduces new skills on the job so even novices achieve first-time quality.

The architecture for overmatch

In forward environments, every capability must be selected for lethality and survivability while minimizing size, weight, and power. Streamlined hardware is essential. Software-defined workloads, including sensing and communications, reduce mass while adding unique functions. For organizations, software syncs tactics at algorithmic speed. Expeditions adapt on the fly.

Rivet provides systems with unrivaled SWaP characteristics, so dismounted forces work with agility, cohesion, and the lowest possible profile. Compressing traditional observation and targeting hardware into body-borne loadouts creates stealthy advantage. Ubiquitous passive and low-power sensors generate collective intelligence with a fraction of the electromagnetic footprint of company-size equipment.