ANDRO lands $1.25 million AFRL contract to enhance Android device networks - The Central New York Business Journal

Timothy Woods is heading up the squad astatine ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC doing the enactment connected a two-year, $1.25 cardinal declaration with the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate. (Photo credit: ANDRO)

ROME, N.Y. — The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate (AFRL/RI) has awarded a two-year, $1.25 cardinal Small Business Innovation probe (SBIR) declaration to ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC.

ANDRO volition usage the assistance to heighten the capabilities of wireless Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) instrumentality networks.

ATAK is simply a wide used, feature-driven Android smartphone app that provides for subject geospatial intelligence, precision targeting, navigation, information sharing, and situational awareness. The declaration accelerates the further development, maturation, and modulation of an existing exertion called PRISMTech, commercially developed by ANDRO. The caller plug-in is called PRISMTak.

The upgrades volition alteration ATAK devices with mission-driven, on-demand tactical borderline (also called “fog”) networking show to heighten connectivity betwixt devices, information exchanges, and situational awareness.

The institution is performing the enactment astatine its in-house software-defined vigor laboratory with enactment from subcontractors Raytheon BBN of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and OmniMesh, Inc. of Syracuse.

“The declaration volition propel innovations crossed the TAK idiosyncratic domains to enactment subject applications, including civilian exigency absorption and archetypal responders,” institution President Andrew Drozd said successful a quality merchandise announcing the grant.

Timothy Woods, caput of ANDRO’s PRISMTak Innovation Center, is starring the task with probe teams pb by Chris Maracchion and Sean Furman.

“AFRL recognizes that the warfighter web is simply a powerfulness projection platform,” Woods said. “A guardant relation drops a pin connected a map, and a commandant makes life-or-death decisions based connected that information, truthful if information transfers are dilatory oregon mislaid due to the fact that of bottlenecks that exist, grim outcomes tin arise. Our enactment paves the mode for caller fog computing successful the battlespace wherever precocious levels of accusation and information transport information indispensable beryllium ‘baked’ into a resilient cloud-native scalable web portion maintaining prime of service.”

PRISMTak volition supply disconnected ATAK operators and users with reliable and persistent entree to the astir captious data, careless of wherever it is hosted oregon stored, ANDRO said.

ANDRO provides research, engineering, and method services to defence and commercialized industries successful the areas of precocious spectrum exploitation, unafraid wireless communications, software-based waveform development, cognitive-software-defined vigor networking, multisensor-data fusions, and sensor-resource management.