Defense Electronics and Avionics
Barr Group is in the business of designing reliable and secure computers and our team of expert software engineers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers are familiar with electronic military and aerospace systems such as:
- Drones, i.e. unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
- Physical security and surveillance systems
- Airplane avionics and ARINC-standard communications equipment
- Soldier-worn electronics, including hardened/low-power computers
- Military field radios, including software-defined radios (SDR)
- Aviation systems safety standards including DO-178 and DO-254
- Battlefield robots, smart weapons and GPS guidance systems
- Cybersecurity and secure wireless communications and protocols
Barr Group's experts are familiar with most operating systems used in embedded systems, including real-time operating systems like OSEK and QNX, as well as Linux, and programming languages including assembly, C, C++, and Matlab. And we are just as comfortable with electronic circuits and ASICs and the Verilog and VHDL languages.
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Expert Witness Services
Barr Group's weapons systems and avionics experts support plaintiffs and defendants in litigation in U.S. District Courts, at the International Trade Commission (ITC), and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Our services include:
- Technical assistance with drafting of discovery requests
- Software source code review and analysis
- Source code comparisons for copyright and trade secret theft
- Analysis of electronics and related design documents
- Prior art review for patent invalidity
- Reverse engineering, including disassembly of binary code
- Forensic analysis and electronic data and metadata retrieval
- Expert reports, declarations, and witness statements
- Testimony at deposition, oral hearings, and trials
Barr Group has a demonstrated ability to quickly activate one or more code reviewers to match the size, scope, and complexity of any project.
Further Reading
- Lethal Software Defects: Patriot Missile Failure
- The State of Software Design for Safety and Security
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
Military & Aerospace Expert Witness List
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
Senior hardware verification engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience in electronic product development, with specialized expertise spanning USB…
Senior engineer and signal processing specialist with over three decades of experience designing and implementing advanced DSP systems spanning defense,…
Assistant Professor specializing in advanced thermal management for high-performance electronics, with over a decade of industry experience designing cooling…
Chartered engineer and world-recognized authority in FPGA architecture and System-on-Chip design for mission-critical aerospace, defense, and space applications,…
Professor and optical engineer with over 30 years of specialized expertise in solid-state lighting systems, unmanned aerial vehicle design, and embedded control…
Assistant Professor of information studies with 15+ years of research experience in social media misinformation detection, online political communication…
Senior embedded systems security engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and implementing secure systems across defense, automotive, and commercial…
Professor of Computer Science with 25+ years of combined academic and industry experience specializing in real-time operating systems, embedded kernels, and…
Senior-level electronic engineering professional with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and over two decades of hands-on experience designing power electronics…
Senior optical engineer with nearly two decades of specialized experience designing advanced ophthalmic and medical imaging optical systems, with particular…