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 expert in automotive crash safety systems with over two decades of experience in restraint system design, airbag sensor algorithms, and vehicle…
Electrical engineer with more than two decades of experience in precision electromagnetic measurements, antenna characterization, and RF/microwave systems…
Expert in aerospace systems safety and federal aviation with four decades of experience in major government programs. Key specialties include spacecraft systems…
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology and Physics with more than twenty-five years of experience in materials science and engineering, particularly in…
Professor of Electrical Engineering with over 30 years of research and industry experience in wireless communications systems. This expert specializes in 5G and…
Electronics and computer science expert with more than twenty-five years of hands-on experience analyzing, designing, and implementing real-time systems for…
Consulting electrical engineer and computer scientist with over twenty-five years of hands-on experience prototyping and developing…
Professor of mechanical and electrical and computer engineering with over two decades of industry and academic…
Consulting electrical engineer with several decades of hands-on industry experience developing products and software for industrial, consumer, enterprise,…
Independent consultant and electrical engineer with more than four decades of industry experience. Has significant experience in systems engineering, advanced…