News and Announcements
January 6, 2012 - GIRD Systems Profiled as a SBIR Innovation Story by the US Air Force
GIRD Systems' work in developing a new direction finding algorithm for sources with unknown bandwidths and center frequencies was recently profiled by the US Air Force as an SBIR/STTR Innovation Story. The program highlights the results of our SBIR Phase II work for the Air Force Research lab for topic number AF07-217. Download a copy of the release here.
October 31, 2011 - US Air Force Selects GIRD Systems for SBIR Phase I Award
GIRD Systems was selected by the U.S. Air Force for an SBIR Phase I award to study sub-millisecond internal LAN time synchronization. Working with researchers from the academic field, we will be working to construct a demonstration of a new methodology to synchronized nodes in a local-area network with a higher degree of accuracy.
March 25, 2011 - GIRD Systems Awarded Contract by Air Force Research Lab
The Air Force Research Lab has awarded GIRD Systems an SBIR Phase I contract to develop and study jamming resistant communications architectures for cognitive radio networks. Working with researchers at SUNY-Binghamton, GIRD will be developing and simulating an approach to improve spectrum utilization and resistance jamming from hostile sources.
March 14, 2011 - Navy SPAWAR Awards Phase II Contract to GIRD Systems
U.S. Navy SPAWAR has awarded GIRD Systems an additional Phase II to further study and develop technologies to remove the effects of in-band interference for UHF SATCOM systems. Our technology will allow legacy SATCOM receivers to experience improved reception of SATCOM channels even when interference is present within the band.
March 1, 2011 - GIRD Systems Awarded SBIR Phase I Contract
GIRD Systems has been selected by U.S. Navy SPAWAR to develop technologies to mitigate the effect of interference for the Multi-User Objective System (MUOS). GIRD Systems will be building on their experience in developing innovative algorithms for RF communications including for satellite communication systems.
December 15, 2010 - Office of the Secretary Of Defense (OSD) Selects GIRD Systems
GIRD Systems was selected to design and assess innovative methods to create cognitive cross-layer wireless networking protocols to achieve autonomous network resiliency in contested RF spectra that provides robust, spectrally-mutable wireless connectivity, operation in highly dynamic environments, and tolerate to long feedback delays.
December 7, 2010 - U.S. Navy Selects GIRD Systems
GIRD Systems was selected to develop methods and algorithms for mitigating wideband interference in UHF SATCOM channels from sporadic unregulated RF transmission such as pirate radio and TV stations or other devices, as well as other sources, and prevent corruption of mission critical communications.
November 1, 2010 - U.S. Army Selects GIRD Systems
GIRD Systems was selected to develop and improve the current state of radio frequency (RF) technology, specifically in the area of wideband active noise cancellation to achieve electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) between multiple friendly RF systems including Blue Force Communications and Counter Improvised Explosive Device (IED) RF Jammers with the goal to develop such technologies in a single RF system with dual functionalities of Electronic Warfare (EW) and Communications.
August 8, 2010 - GIRD Systems to Attend Beyond Phase II Conference
GIRD Systems will be an exhibitor at this year's DoD SBIR Beyond Phase II Conference in San Antonio, TX. GIRD will be exhibiting in booth 404 and is available to meet with both prime contractors and small businesses to discuss future work teaming opportunities.
July 31, 2010 - U.S. Navy Selects GIRD Systems for SBIR Phase II Award
U.S. Navy SPAWAR has selected GIRD Systems for an SBIR Phase II award to further develop our technology to remove the effects of narrow in-band interference for UHF SATCOM systems. Our unique approach, which removes interfering in-band signals without corrupting signals of interest, has the potential to improve the availability and reliability of existing UHF SATCOM systems using existing SATCOM terminals.
January 18, 2010 - U.S. Navy Selects GIRD Systems for SBIR Phase I Award
GIRD Systems was selected by the U.S. Navy to study and show proof-of-concept for a compressive sensing system. GIRD's unique compressive sensing approach will be simulated and studied during Phase I in anticipation of creating a hardware prototype during Phase II.
January 10, 2010 - U.S. Air Force Selects GIRD Systems for SBIR Phase II Award
After evaluation of their Phase I work results and the submitted Phase II proposal, the U.S. Air Force has selected GIRD Systems for a Phase II SBIR award. GIRD will continue their research in the area of polarization invariant direction of arrival estimation and will be building a hardware prototype that demonstrates the approach.
December 15, 2009 - U.S. Navy Selects GIRD Systems for Phase II Option Award
As part of their NORS GPS-denied navigation program, U.S. Navy SPAWAR has recommended GIRD Systems for follow-on funding to their ongoing Phase II program. During the Phase II option, GIRD Systems will be expanding their original design to include additional features and expects to end the period with a full flight test demonstration.
GIRD Systems' work in developing a new direction finding algorithm for sources with unknown bandwidths and center frequencies was recently profiled by the US Air Force as an SBIR/STTR Innovation Story. The program highlights the results of our SBIR Phase II work for the Air Force Research lab for topic number AF07-217. Download a copy of the release here.
October 31, 2011 - US Air Force Selects GIRD Systems for SBIR Phase I Award
GIRD Systems was selected by the U.S. Air Force for an SBIR Phase I award to study sub-millisecond internal LAN time synchronization. Working with researchers from the academic field, we will be working to construct a demonstration of a new methodology to synchronized nodes in a local-area network with a higher degree of accuracy.
March 25, 2011 - GIRD Systems Awarded Contract by Air Force Research Lab
The Air Force Research Lab has awarded GIRD Systems an SBIR Phase I contract to develop and study jamming resistant communications architectures for cognitive radio networks. Working with researchers at SUNY-Binghamton, GIRD will be developing and simulating an approach to improve spectrum utilization and resistance jamming from hostile sources.
March 14, 2011 - Navy SPAWAR Awards Phase II Contract to GIRD Systems
U.S. Navy SPAWAR has awarded GIRD Systems an additional Phase II to further study and develop technologies to remove the effects of in-band interference for UHF SATCOM systems. Our technology will allow legacy SATCOM receivers to experience improved reception of SATCOM channels even when interference is present within the band.
March 1, 2011 - GIRD Systems Awarded SBIR Phase I Contract
GIRD Systems has been selected by U.S. Navy SPAWAR to develop technologies to mitigate the effect of interference for the Multi-User Objective System (MUOS). GIRD Systems will be building on their experience in developing innovative algorithms for RF communications including for satellite communication systems.
December 15, 2010 - Office of the Secretary Of Defense (OSD) Selects GIRD Systems
GIRD Systems was selected to design and assess innovative methods to create cognitive cross-layer wireless networking protocols to achieve autonomous network resiliency in contested RF spectra that provides robust, spectrally-mutable wireless connectivity, operation in highly dynamic environments, and tolerate to long feedback delays.
December 7, 2010 - U.S. Navy Selects GIRD Systems
GIRD Systems was selected to develop methods and algorithms for mitigating wideband interference in UHF SATCOM channels from sporadic unregulated RF transmission such as pirate radio and TV stations or other devices, as well as other sources, and prevent corruption of mission critical communications.
November 1, 2010 - U.S. Army Selects GIRD Systems
GIRD Systems was selected to develop and improve the current state of radio frequency (RF) technology, specifically in the area of wideband active noise cancellation to achieve electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) between multiple friendly RF systems including Blue Force Communications and Counter Improvised Explosive Device (IED) RF Jammers with the goal to develop such technologies in a single RF system with dual functionalities of Electronic Warfare (EW) and Communications.
August 8, 2010 - GIRD Systems to Attend Beyond Phase II Conference
GIRD Systems will be an exhibitor at this year's DoD SBIR Beyond Phase II Conference in San Antonio, TX. GIRD will be exhibiting in booth 404 and is available to meet with both prime contractors and small businesses to discuss future work teaming opportunities.
July 31, 2010 - U.S. Navy Selects GIRD Systems for SBIR Phase II Award
U.S. Navy SPAWAR has selected GIRD Systems for an SBIR Phase II award to further develop our technology to remove the effects of narrow in-band interference for UHF SATCOM systems. Our unique approach, which removes interfering in-band signals without corrupting signals of interest, has the potential to improve the availability and reliability of existing UHF SATCOM systems using existing SATCOM terminals.
January 18, 2010 - U.S. Navy Selects GIRD Systems for SBIR Phase I Award
GIRD Systems was selected by the U.S. Navy to study and show proof-of-concept for a compressive sensing system. GIRD's unique compressive sensing approach will be simulated and studied during Phase I in anticipation of creating a hardware prototype during Phase II.
January 10, 2010 - U.S. Air Force Selects GIRD Systems for SBIR Phase II Award
After evaluation of their Phase I work results and the submitted Phase II proposal, the U.S. Air Force has selected GIRD Systems for a Phase II SBIR award. GIRD will continue their research in the area of polarization invariant direction of arrival estimation and will be building a hardware prototype that demonstrates the approach.
December 15, 2009 - U.S. Navy Selects GIRD Systems for Phase II Option Award
As part of their NORS GPS-denied navigation program, U.S. Navy SPAWAR has recommended GIRD Systems for follow-on funding to their ongoing Phase II program. During the Phase II option, GIRD Systems will be expanding their original design to include additional features and expects to end the period with a full flight test demonstration.