and development company in virginia . for other uses see artis disambiguation . type privately held company industry defense road traffic safety founded 1999 headquarters herndon virginia united states key people keith brendley president brian detter executive vp products iron curtain active protection system r & d products safety systems owner u.s. owned privately held slogan when microseconds matter . website www.artisllc.com artis is a research and development company located in herndon virginia . founded in 1999 the company provides services and creates products for defense and commercial markets using extremely high speed sensing and parallel processing . the name of the company stems from an acronym short for advanced real time information systems . contents 1 products 2 services 3 references 4 external links products edit one of the company s products is iron curtain an active protection system designed to defeat attacks from rocket propelled grenades tandem rpgs and other recoilless rifle systems . in april 2013 it was reported the company achieved a perfect score during u.s. government testing . 1 2 the company also features smartmat which is designed to monitor pedestrian traffic such as counting humans walking in and out of buildings or to and from events . funded by the centers for disease control and prevention the smartmat system connects to the internet for ease of tracking and can run off battery or ac . 3 services edit artis provides software design simulation and modeling engineering and other high speed analytical and design services for safety and defense applications . some of the areas being developed include active protection systems digital armor underbelly ied blast mitigation robotics and motion detection and highway worker safety systems . references edit vehicle protection system excels . u.p.i. may 1 2013 . retrieved 2013 05 08 . iron curtain successful in firing tests . defense update . april 29 2013 . retrieved 2013 05 08 . smartmap web page . artis . retrieved 2015 08 02 . external links edit company website national geographic tv report on iron curtain march 11 2015 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title artis llc & oldid 718368895 categories technology companies established in 1999defense companies of the united statesprivately held companies of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 may 2016 at 03 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view