Unattended ground sensors have been deployed since the Vietnam War to sense military targets such as tanks, tracked vehicles and infiltrators. Today, there is a growing need to use the technology for non-military border and infrastructure security. However, cost has been the limiting factor for wide-scale deployment of advanced sensing technologies, which have to overcome shortcomings of limited detection range, unreliable target characterization, and high associated battery costs. The Coyote™ Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) Network is a state-of-the-art, joint sensor and communications system that is easy to deploy; resistant to security attacks; can reliably scale from small, focused targets to nationwide networks; and, most importantly, is cost-effective. In 2007, Innovative Wireless Technologies (IWT) approached the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) with the idea that UGS technology, which both entities were jointly developing for Army applications, could be applied to other federal agencies and commercial needs. Working under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, ARDEC transferred technology to IWT, which provided funding for the sensor signal processing development. The resulting advances in the Coyote™ UGS gave it a greater than 95 percent detection and classification rate—at half the cost and more than five times the battery life of similar systems. IWT and ARDEC developed patents and patent disclosures, and are currently negotiating license agreements. The partners successfully manufactured a prototype in less than a year, and IWT has committed funding to ARDEC for further work to address other applications. IWT’s underlying communications platform allows it to rapidly transition Coyote™ to other applications. The Coyote™ has already been supplied to the Department of Homeland Security. The current result of the marketing has been that the Army has purchased 35 sensors, 2 repeaters, a gateway, and a server for its Homeland Defense Technology Facility, and plans to purchase 25 more sensor units. WIT also sold 16 units to the Canadian government for the Vancouver Olympic Games. Border security, both here and abroad, represents a multi-billion dollar market for systems, according to The Wall Street Journal. The potential exists for tens of thousands of Coyote™ UGS Network systems to be sold in the U.S. alone. With sales to other countries, the market is estimated to be tens of millions of dollars.