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ANDRO Awarded Army Contract to Develop AI Radios

ANDRO Awarded Army Contract to Develop AI Radios

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ANDRO Computational Solutions of Rome has been awarded a $3 million Army Rapid Innovation Fund contract to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) based radio called DEEPLink under its I-ROAM (Intelligent RadiO with Agility via Machine-learning) project.

The company, headquartered in the Beeches Business Complex on Turin Road, said that the DEEPLink radio will be capable of self-learning and autonomously adapting to its environment to optimally enhance the reliability and survivability of tactical communications in harsh operating conditions.

The work will be performed under ANDRO’s Marconi-Rosenblatt Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab headed by Dr. Jithin Jagannath and Anu Jagannath and will be in support of the Army Futures Command-Cross Functional Team mission partner.

The DEEPLink will employ a unique self-organizing wireless mesh network for expanding wireless coverage together with using distributed transmission power control for cooperative dynamic spectrum sharing.

“This is a next step in our plans to get critical technologies to the warfighter including solutions that will benefit the civilian and commercial sector,” said Dr. Andrew Drozd, ANDRO president and chief scientist.

“The world is moving fast towards AI-assisted, agile spectrum managed, edge-based communications which has major implications on the defense industry and beyond including 5G, autonomous vehicles, and the drone market, and we are in the critical path of all this,” Drozd said.

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ANDRO briefs the G46 Working Group at the 2020 IEEE EMC + SIPI Virtual Symposium

ANDRO briefs the G46 Working Group at the 2020 IEEE EMC + SIPI Virtual Symposium

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ANDRO continues redefining real-time spectrum management to accelerate worldwide availability of high speed wireless communications. To advance edge-based spectrum knowledge for the benefit of humanity, Mr. Timothy Woods of ANDRO Computational Solutions briefed the G46 EMC Committee at the 2020 IEEE EMC+SIPI Virtual Symposium on August 25th. G46 has a long history in spectrum technologies and is a strong community to advance the knowledge base. The days of static frequency assignments and long spectrum cycles are over, while the need for true ubiquitous connectivity and real-time spectrum sharing is becoming a reality. Mr. Woods and his team of world-class engineers consisting of Chris Maracchion, Sean Furman, John Hrabik Jr., and Katlyn Goode, are developing these technologies and advocating for a distributed spectrum access paradigm through a series of community presentation in 2020 and into 2021.

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Cites ANDRO Success Story for Work in 5G Spectrum Dominance

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Cites ANDRO Success Story for Work in 5G Spectrum Dominance

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The global 5G race is well underway and the Department of Defense is positioning the United States as a leader in spectrum dominance. Through significant investments by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense through the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), game-changing spectrum prototypes are being produced to give the United States a competitive advantage against major international players. Via a competitive selection, the NSC, led by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Dr. Jonathan Ashdown, chose ANDRO Computational Solutions LLC, led by Mr. Timothy Woods, to solve major spectrum sharing issues that have been insurmountable over the past decade or more. ANDRO’s team consists of highly skilled electrical, computer, and spectrum engineers, supported by Spectrum Bullpen―a group of accomplished spectrum managers and electronic warfare officers, Freedom Technology Inc., a team of regulatory experts who work closely with the decision-makers in the National Capital Region, and a cadre of spectrum experts from Spectronn, Stevens Institute, and Clarkson University. The ANDRO team recently received high praise for its work in AFCEA’s Signal Magazine in an article titled “It’s All About Spectrum in Race for 5G Dominance,” by George I. Sefferrs on February 1st, 2020 [1]. Seffers calls out the work ANDRO and team have accomplished that is making an impact on the way the DoD can and will manage the 5G spectrum in the very immediate future. ANDRO is well poised to tackle many of the spectrum sharing challenges that come along with 5G. “ANDRO has state-of-the-art spectrum related technologies that will change not only the way the DoD conducts spectrum transactions but also the way that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will use and assign spectrum,” says Mr. Andy Drozd, president of ANDRO. “How the world uses spectrum is changing and we at ANDRO are on the leading edge of this change,” Drozd says. ANDRO is currently making significant in-kind investments to transfer the technology developed for the DoD to commercial markets that include smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT), and autonomous vehicles.

[1] https://www.afcea.org/content/its-all-about-spectrum-race-5g-dominance

ANDRO announces expansion with new AI Machine Learning Lab

ANDRO announces expansion with new AI Machine Learning Lab

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ROME — ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC located at the Beeches Business Park in Rome, New York and celebrating its 25th year of business, is expanding its operations. The company is launching the Marconi-Rosenblatt Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Innovation Lab, named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi and Frank Rosenblatt, two pioneers notable in the fields of radio communications and artificial intelligence, respectively. The new lab will be headed by Jithin Jagannath, Chris Maracchion and Anu Jagannath of ANDRO and falls under the company’s expansion efforts through the New York State Consolidated Funding Application (CFA) grant reimbursement program.
The lab will focus on applying artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for next-generation wireless networking to advance the state of the art in Internet-of-Things technologies, space communications and other customer applications. The pioneering solutions will also be applied to natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, big-data analytics, brain-computer interfaces and intelligent solutions for a better AI-enabled future. The lab’s applied research will directly impact healthcare, education, transportation, security, smart cities, and defense markets among others. The expansion will bring up to ten new jobs to ANDRO over the next 6-9 months. The company is planning a further expansion in the near future to establish a quantum communications lab and a medical technology subsidiary called AcceliPHI, which are expected to be announced in the coming months. The company is taking these steps as part of an incremental plan to expand and launch additional operations in new commercial ventures.
The combined artificial intelligence, machine learning, and Internet-of-Things business sector is a trillion-dollar market that continues to grow as systems are becoming increasingly wireless, autonomous and intelligent. The catalyst for ANDRO’s expansion has been recent contracts to develop autonomous command and control solutions for drone applications and realizing the potential market growth that exists.
Andrew Drozd, president stated, “This is a significant step in our company’s expansion into new markets building upon our proven success in wireless command, control, communications, cyber, and computational technologies for edge services. Jithin Jagannath and the team have successfully leveraged innovative artificial intelligence and wireless communication solutions that are on a fast-track through federal funding of $5 million. Our solutions will benefit a wide variety of military and commercial applications including connected vehicles, smart cities and other autonomous uses. We plan to announce a further expansion in the near future of our quantum communications lab and medical technology research subsidiary as a result of new opportunities that have come our way.”
ANDRO, headquartered in approximately 20,000 square feet in the Beeches Business Park at One Beeches Place, 7980 Turin Road in Rome, provides research, engineering, and technical services to defense and commercial industries. The independently owned company, established in 1994, is dedicated to research, development and the application of advanced computer software for spectrum exploitation, secure wireless communications for cognitive radios, multisensor and multi target tracking, advanced radar data fusion, and sensor resource management.
ANDRO also has offices in Syracuse at the Central New York Biotech Accelerator and Dayton, Ohio and anticipates opening additional offices in Rochester, New York and Melbourne, Florida. For more information, visit www.androcs.com.