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Barr Group's military and aerospace expert witness team comprises experienced software developers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers as well as PhD cryptographers with expertise in the design of state-of-the-art mission-critical defense electronics. Our experts have assisted with IP infringement and hacking/security breach litigation.
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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.
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
Communication Theory and DSP Expert Profile
Microwave and RF Electronics Expert Profile
End-to-End Network Architecture Expert Profile
Advanced Military Radar Systems Expert Profile
Data Center and Cloud Storage Expert Profile
Physical Layer Communications Expert Profile
Computer Vision and Perception Expert Profile
Industrial Automation Robots Expert Profile
Augmented Reality Wearables Expert Profile
Wireless Power Transfer Expert Profile
Spread Spectrum Communications Expert Profile
GPS-Guided UAV Flight Systems Expert Profile
Computer Music and Multimedia Expert Profile
Wireless and Cellular Standards Expert Profile
Electronic Warfare and Cybersecurity Expert Profile
Internet and Cellular Standards Expert Profile
Thermal Management Heat Transfer Expert Profile
Image and Facial Recognition Expert Profile
Vehicle Informatics & Safety Expert Profile
Battery Design & Testing Expert Profile
Experienced electrochemist, consultant, and adjunct professor of materials science and engineering. Has extensive experience in research and industry for battery electronics, including new product development, manufacturing and testing, applications engineering, as well as battery system design.
Battery Failure Electrochemistry Expert Profile
Chemist and consultant with four decades of experience in the area of electrochemical energy related devices, including batteries, capacitors, fuel cells, electrolysis and corrosion. Has significant expertise in laptop, cell phone, and e-cigarette batteries, electric vehicles, and other applications of electrochemical energy storage. Expert working knowledge of electronics and laboratory instrumentation as applied to the testing of batteries, chargers, and battery-powered devices.
Cellular Wireless Air Interface Expert Profile
Professor of electrical engineering and computer science with decades of R&D experience in communications networks and wireless signal detection and estimation.
Deep Learning & A.I. Systems Expert Profile
Aircraft Avionics Software Expert Profile
FAA-certified Designated Engineering Representative (DER), flight instructor, and commercial pilot and former director of engineering and chief software architect for next generation cockpit flight displays.
Drone & UAV Navigation Expert Profile
USAF Academy researcher in image processing and GPS-denied navigation with decades of experience in control systems design and DSP algorithms for applications including drone unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Medical Image Processing Expert Profile
Research scientist and independent consultant with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and specialized expertise in signal, image, video, and content processing and data compression.
Manufacturing Automated Test Expert Profile
Registered Professional Engineer (PE) with several decades of hands-on industry experience developing products and software for industrial, consumer, enterprise, military, and medical applications.
Virtual Reality Worlds & Gaming Expert Profile
Database-Backed Website Expert Profile
MIT-educated technology entrepreneur with hands-on engineering experience and wide expertise including in big data and chat and instant messaging protocols.
Digital Signature & Document Expert Profile
Former computer science professor who taught courses in operating system and compiler design and also designed datacom equipment for decades.
Energy Storage and Transfer Expert Profile
Professor of electrical and computer engineering with over twenty-five years of experience in materials science, systems engineering and design of microelectronics.
Naval & Underwater Systems Expert Profile
Engineering consultant with nearly thirty years of hands-on software development experience designing products ranging from autonomous underwater robots to cable modems and set-top boxes.
Linux-Based Computer Systems Expert Profile
Space and Satellite Systems Expert Profile
Adjunct professor of computer science and independent consultant with decades of experience in the field of telecommunications and information security. Has specialized technical expertise in GPS, VPNs, digital and analog electronics including RF signals and antennas, data communications and networks including fiber-optics, cellular protocols, and communication satellites.
Smartphone Software & Apps Expert Profile
Computer engineer and consultant with more than two decades of industry experience developing software for embedded systems and mobile apps powered by Android, Linux, Windows, and real-time operating systems such as VxWorks.
Optical Systems & Interfaces Expert Profile
Physicist with over three decades of industry experience and a prolific innovator in electro-optical systems who invented a new type of optical microscopy, co-invented solid immersion microscopy, designed the first commercial atomic and magnetic force microscope, and invented a laser noise canceller. Has specialized technical expertise in analog circuit design, low noise circuits, optical systems, instruments, and measurements, interferometry, ultrasensitive measurements, and silicon photonics.
Software Quality Assurance Expert Profile
Independent consultant and former vice president of engineering with significant experience leading development of enterprise software systems, including systems for electronic payments, information management, and e-commerce. More than two decades of work in software industries and a strong background in core natural sciences to the analysis of neural networks and other complex mission-critical information management systems.
Lithium Battery Ultracapacitor Expert Profile
Chemist and portable power expert with thirty years of industry experience in the fields of lithium batteries and ultracapacitor technologies including management of the team that first commercialized lithium-ion battery technology in North America. Has worked at the leading edge of battery and supercapacitor technology throughout his career, having led battery R&D as well as testing and application engineering organizations.
Analog & Digital Electronics Expert Profile
Electronics and computer science expert with more than twenty-five years of hands-on experience analyzing, designing, and implementing real-time systems for commercial, industrial, and military applications. Has been chief architect or technical lead on numerous projects covering all aspects of the architecture and development of electronics (including circuit boards and FPGAs), embedded software, network and communication protocols, and graphical user interfaces.
Penetration Testing Security Expert Profile
Software & Binary Disassembly Expert Profile
Airbag Propellant & Failure Expert Profile
Global Positioning Systems Expert Profile
Electrical engineer with substantial design experience in the fields of GPS and navigation systems, digital signal processing, semiconductors, image processing, and software-defined radio for airborne and ground-based systems and devices in the military, agricultural, industrial, and other markets. Experience includes technical team and architectural leadership for multiple product launches.
TCP/IP Internet Protocols Expert Profile
Software and systems engineer with several decades of hands-on experience in the design and implementation of complex embedded systems based on Linux, Windows, and real-time operating systems. Specialist in Internetconnected products such as consumer electronics and IoT devices using WiFi 802.11, GSM/LTE cellular, and other wireless and wired protocols. Also has experience with FPGAs and implementing M2M communications through the use of Microsoft .NET-based web services.
Autonomous Robot Navigation Expert Profile
Smart Grid Electrical Power Expert Profile
Professor of electrical and computer engineering with significant industry experience in telecom, aerospace/defense, security, and healthcare application domains. Director of a university program that supports NASA’s Johnson Space Center and co-director of a connected infrastructure program that prototypes smart grid, smart energy, smart transportation, and other smart city projects. Research relates to those and other topics that touch on embedded computing systems and communication and networking protocols.
Mechanical Electrical Software Expert Profile
Mechanical engineer with hands-on experience in all phases of product engineering, including system architecture, system engineering, system modeling, system integration, mechanical and electrical design, as well as software and firmware development and testing. Areas of deep technical specialization include electronics design and simulation, digital signal processing (DSP), and software development in a range of programming languages.
Battery Chemistry Expert Profile
Technology consultant with more than thirty years of experience in battery, materials, and control system technology and strong capabilities in all aspects of battery systems and energy storage.
Settop On-Screen Guide & DVR Expert Profile
Electronics Source Code Review Expert Profile
Biometrics & Tamper Detection Expert Profile
Security consultant and professor who has developed novel and patented security technologies including for biometric and physical security.
Battery & Power Electronics Expert Profile
Electrical engineer and expert in battery and power electronics technology with special technical expertise in motor drives and inverters.
User Interface Design Expert Profile
Accomplished software and systems engineer with specialized expertise in user interface design and human factors issues for embedded, mobile, web, desktop, and server software.
Wireless Protocols Expert Profile
Computer networking and wireless technology expert with over thirty years of industry experience who has been significantly involved in multiple wireless standardization efforts.
Military Systems Design Expert Profile
Embedded systems industry veteran who built or managed the development of more than one hundred computer products.
Electronic Safety Systems Expert Profile
Electrical engineer with over thirty years of experience in the development and deployment of automotive electronic systems, including safety systems.
Secure Computer Systems Expert Profile
Electrical engineer with extensive electronics and software product development experience across a broad range of industries and platform architectures.
USAF Academy researcher in image processing and GPS-denied navigation with decades of experience in control systems design and DSP algorithms for applications including drone unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Accomplished software and systems engineer with specialized expertise in user interface design and human factors issues for embedded, mobile, web, desktop, and server software.
Adjunct professor of computer science and independent consultant with decades of experience in the field of telecommunications and information security. Has specialized technical expertise in GPS, VPNs, digital and analog electronics including RF signals and antennas, data communications and networks including fiber-optics, cellular protocols, and communication satellites.
Computer networking and wireless technology expert with over thirty years of industry experience who has been significantly involved in multiple wireless standardization efforts.
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