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:
Mechanical engineer with hands-on experience in all phases of product engineering, including system architecture, system engineering, system modeling, system…
Distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering with more than sixty years of experience in engineering R&D, product…
Embedded systems industry veteran who built or managed the development of more than one hundred computer products. Started three technology companies and…
Electrical engineer and seasoned software developer with experience as a university professor and researcher. Has…
PhD chemist and expert in explosives, including airbag propellants, with thirty-five years of industrial research and development experience as both a staff…
Computer engineer and information security expert specializing in the secure design of embedded computing devices and their networks. White hat hacker who uses…
Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering with more than three decades of experience in industry and academia. Has…
Electrical engineer and embedded computing pioneer with over thirty years of experience designing electronics hardware and low-level software as well as more…
Professor of electrical and computer engineering with significant industry experience in telecom, aerospace/defense, security, and healthcare application domains…
Computer engineer and consultant with more than two decades of industry experience developing software for embedded systems and mobile apps powered by Android,…