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Defense & Intelligence Solutions

Ongoing threats to national security require timely intelligence data, including signal intelligence obtained through electronic surveillance. Since the 1940s, SwRI has supported U.S. and friendly foreign governments, as well as commercial clients, developing communications signal intercept, direction finding, surveillance, and tagging and tracking systems.

Advanced Electronic Warfare

We serve the aerospace and defense community assisting with decision support relating to aircraft reliability and management. We have a wide array of capabilities and expertise for avionics and electronic warfare systems, instrumentation, software development, and systems engineering.

Avionics & Support Systems

We design, develop, and maintain hardware and software systems for the aerospace community, including aircraft and ground support equipment ranging from microcircuits to major subsystems. A variety of platforms, including microprocessor-based and RISC-based systems and other engineering workstations, supports extensive software development.

SIGINT Solutions

We provide comprehensive design, development, systems engineering and production capabilities for signal acquisition, exploitation and radiolocation requirements. In addition to offering turnkey systems, we work with clients to integrate off-the-shelf signal processing applications and software tools with new and existing systems for search and rescue, law enforcement, and intelligence missions.

 

Software Engineering

We design and develop software solutions for tactical and strategic signal processing systems, information exploitation systems, and signal intelligence systems. Our expertise includes developing embedded systems, distributed processing, graphical user interfaces, and databases used for real-time and post-processing analysis.

Tactical Products

Our development and delivery of tactical communications intelligence (COMINT) products and engineering services focuses on detection, acquisition, and geolocation of RF signals of interest. We incorporate off-the-shelf products to meet the specialized, challenging demands of our clients in the intelligence community.