<p><a href="https://doodlelabs.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Doodle Labs</a> engineered multi-band radios that frequency-hop in milliseconds, outpacing jamming attacks that make satellite control impossible for real-time drone operations. When conflict in Ukraine started, the engineering team repurposed this architecture for anti-jamming by hopping between bands faster than adversaries could track and jam. </p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishparikh/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ashish Parikh</a>, Co-CEO, details their monthly software release cadence driven by field engineers embedded with Ukrainian operators, where mission requirements emerged directly from combat: silent-mode mesh networking for operators who become targets the moment they emit RF, listen-only modes for monitoring video feeds without signature exposure, and coordinating multiple drones plus ground users while one expeditionary asset pushes 100+ kilometers into heavily jammed territory. Their modular architecture layers like Lego blocks that combine for complex mission profiles. </p><p><strong>Topics discussed:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Repurposing multi-band capability from Army requirements into millisecond frequency-hopping anti-jamming during Ukraine conflict</p></li><li><p>Monthly software releases driven by field engineers embedded with Ukrainian operators testing under active electronic warfare</p></li><li><p>Building modular architecture layering sense anti-jamming algorithms, mesh optimization, and silent modes for coordination at 100km+ range</p></li><li><p>Designing point-to-point mesh networks for 20-100km missions requiring sub-100ms latency where satellite infrastructure adds prohibitive delay</p></li><li><p>Maintaining NDAA-compliant supply chains with Singapore and US manufacturing capacity scaling to millions of units at commercial pricing</p></li><li><p>Deploying listen-only modes and RF signature management so ground operators monitor feeds without becoming targetable network nodes</p></li></ul>