Trusted Mission Partner
COMPASS is in production today across U.S. special operations, conventional forces, federal law enforcement, allied partners, and a growing tech ecosystem — six years of mission-validated deployment.
"Compass is so much more than just streaming video, it has changed the way we can share information broadly, tactically. It is the democratization of our data enabling us to push fluidly from enterprise to the edge simply and with confidence. We literally find new uses for it monthly and whenever we think we’ve come up with something novel, the vidterra team has already done it with another partner agency, providing us valuable information on implementation."
— User, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Vidterra Founded
AFWERX Open Topic SBIR Phase I
JSOC · Canadian DND · DHS CBP
U.S. Naval Special Warfare
USMC Project Dynamis · ACC MCHMR · Australian SOCOMD
USMC II MEF · DHS Secret Service · USSOCOM TACLAN PoR · Microsoft Partnership Acquired by NTS
4th Fleet Experimentation · AFRL Joint Cloud Enterprise · UK MoD
What it solves
Four operational situations COMPASS was designed to make routine. Drawn from real engagements across SOF, joint task forces, federal LE, and the emerging unmanned fleet.
Scenario · 01
A mission needs live ISR video in the hands of decision-makers, analysts, or partners inside a hard operational window. But the feed is trapped on the wrong network, at the wrong classification, or running over the most expensive transport on the bill.
What COMPASS makes possible: live video delivered over the best available transport, normalized in flight, and shared with permission-based access — inside the window that matters.
Scenario · 02
A tactical feed needs to reach a different network — analysts at a higher classification, coalition partners on a separate enclave, or an enterprise destination across a cross-domain solution. The usual path is manual transfer, custom integration, or a deployable CDS that isn't on station.
What COMPASS makes possible: secure delivery to a remote COMPASS node, KLV remediation through approved cross-domain partners, and automated distribution into the destination network.
Scenario · 03
Tactical radios with limited throughput. SATCOM that comes and goes. The feeds still need to reach commanders, analysts, and AI/ML pipelines at multiple classification levels — and they need to get there in real time.
What COMPASS makes possible: real-time compression from 10+ Mbps to under 1 Mbps, KLV-aware routing across whatever transport is available, and seamless handoff to TAK, PED, and machine-learning destinations.
Scenario · 04
A growing population of mission sensors — drones, body-worn cameras, unmanned platforms, IP cameras — each from a different vendor, each with different codecs and protocols. The common operating picture needs them all, normalized, in real time, without a custom integration for every new source.
What COMPASS makes possible: sensor- and platform-agnostic distribution across the entire fleet, with a common, repeatable architecture from edge to enterprise.
The Platform
COMPASS replaces complex network routing and manual video orchestration with intelligent software. Three steps move video from any source to any destination, automatically.
COMPASS auto-discovers ISR video sources on the network — without specialist FSRs, manual configuration, or stovepiped integrations. Plug into Starlink, cellular, MANET, SATCOM, or any tactical link and COMPASS finds what's there.
Real-time compression from 10+ Mbps to under 1 Mbps. Codec normalization, transport protocol translation, KLV metadata remediation, and AES-256/VPN secure transport — so video and metadata flow across networks that wouldn't otherwise carry them.
Auto-delivers across tactical, mobile, and enterprise networks to TAK users, web viewers, AI/ML pipelines, and C2 systems. Approved cross-domain transfer partners enable low-to-high movement when classification requires it.
Real-World Use Cases
Each story is drawn from an approved customer engagement. Operations and tradecraft generalized where required for public release; outcomes preserved.
USSOUTHCOM and JIATF-S patrol a six-million-square-mile transit zone for maritime drug trafficking. With Metrea Special Aerospace, COMPASS delivers live AISR video from a King Air B350 ME — equipped with EO/IR sensors and a SpaceX Starlink terminal — directly to a JIATF-S COMPASS instance in commercial cloud. Permission-based access lets analysts share live, unclassified video with coalition partners and local authorities within the legal interdiction window.
Before COMPASS
After COMPASS
A SOF unit in the CENTCOM AOR needed to distribute a tactical Stalker feed to a UVDS at higher headquarters. The unit had no tactical cross-domain solution in theater, and standing one up through the program office would have taken days. SOMPE engineers used commercial internet plus VPN to push the feed via SRT to a stateside USASOC CUTNET COMPASS, which performed KLV remediation across a Ft. Bragg CDS into a SIPR COMPASS for local viewing and automated distribution into the UVDS.
Before COMPASS
After COMPASS
USSOCOM operates COMPASS as a program of record across multiple Special Operations Task Forces. Each SOTF ingests video from tactical platforms — military drones, commercial drones, surveillance, phone and body cameras — into a TACLAN COMPASS VM. From there, KLV metadata is remediated and video is transferred low-to-high through a Cross-Domain Guard into SOFNET-S, where SIPR COMPASS nodes serve ATAK and web mobile users and aggregate into the SOCOM Enterprise AISR-T and UVDS.
Before COMPASS
After COMPASS
Anything in. Everything out.
COMPASS doesn't care what's on either end of the wire. It discovers what's available, processes what's needed, and delivers what's required — across whatever network is in between.
Any source
COMPASS handles everything in between
Any destination
Where It Runs
The same platform deploys across the surfaces your mission already uses. Dynamic licensing means capabilities follow the mission, not the hardware.
Get Hands On
Every demo is built around the customer. Tell us what feeds you need to move, where, and over what — we'll show you what COMPASS does to it.
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