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:
Professor of electrical and computer engineering and robotics with more than a decade of industry experience developing embedded systems for guidance,…
Chemist and consultant with four decades of experience in the area of electrochemical energy related devices, including batteries, capacitors, fuel cells,…
Electrical engineer and expert in battery and power electronics technology with special technical expertise in motor drives and inverters. Experienced in…
Experienced electrochemist, consultant, and adjunct professor of materials science and engineering. Has extensive experience in research and industry for battery…
Technology consultant with more than thirty years of experience in battery, materials, and control system technology and strong capabilities in all aspects of…
Security consultant and adjunct professor who has developed novel and patented security technologies including for biometric security. An early developer of iris…
Professor of electrical engineering and computer science with over two decades of research and engineering experience in communications networks and related…
Scientist, educator, and technologist with over thirty years of experience. Leading expert in datacom and telecom…
Professor of electrical engineering and independent consultant with twenty-five years of hands-on engineering experience in industry. An…
Electrical engineer with extensive electronics and software product development experience across a broad range of industries and platform architectures. Former…