Recent Events

• 5/20/2011- Echo Ridge, LLC has been awarded a Phase I SBIR contract from the Missile Defense Agency under topic MDA10-004 "GPS and Command Link Assured Operation." The objective is to design and implement a comprehensive realtime GPS and command link simulator.
  
  
• 4/1/2011- Echo Ridge, LLC has been awarded a Phase II SBIR contract from the Army under topic AF09-060 "Virtual RF Environment." The objective is to develop a platform for developmental testing of both military C3 and commercial wireless devices in a user-defined, field emulation RF environment through real-time digital signal processing. Echo Ridge will be constructing and validating the prototype Virtual RF Environment through hardware in the loop testing and field verification.
  
  
• 2/7/2011- Echo Ridge, LLC has been awarded a Phase II SBIR contract from the Air Force under topic AF093-154 "User Equipment (UE) Cognitive Functions." The objective is to validate the Phase I research through the development and testing of a software defined cognitive GPS UE. Performance improvements will be assessed with respect to user interfacing, PVT accuracy, TTFF latency, jamming/spoofing resistance and power consumption efficiency.
  
  
• 1/25/2011- Echo Ridge, LLC has been awarded a Phase I SBIR contract from the Air Force under topic AF103-168 "Unknown Wireless Network Discovery." The objective is to "define and analyze through trade studies, approaches and methods to discover and characterize unknown wireless networks."
  
  
• 10/1/2010- Echo Ridge, LLC has been awarded a contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, RF Sensor Technology Division (AFRL/RYR) with value estimated at approximately $2.4M, including options. This effort will focus on the development of a multi-functional, flexible first-generation Cognitive Jammer architecture that can be applied towards both near-term and futuristic EW needs.
  
  
• Echo Ridge, LLC delivered a presentation on "Realistic Testing for Cognitive and Software-defined RF Systems" at the AFRL-sponsored workshop "Cognitive & Software-Defined RF Technology: Achieving Spectral Dominance for the AF of the Future," in Rome, NY on September 15-16, 2010. The presentation reviewed Echo Ridge's Dynamic Spectrum Environment Emulator (DYSE) product that creates real-time hardware-in-the-loop RF scenario emulation for complex RF environments. For more information, or a copy of our white paper, please contact us.
  
  
• Echo Ridge, LLC has co-authored an IEEE paper entitled "SMSE-Based DSA Radar Waveforms." This paper was presented at the 5th IEEE Invitational Waveform Diversity & Design Conference, August 8-13, 2010, in Niagara Falls, Canada. The paper was also presented at the "5th Annual Emerging Spectrum Technology (EST) Workshop on Advanced Radar Technologies to Improve Spectrum Use," sponsored by the Defense Spectrum Organization in Annapolis, Maryland on September 13-14, 2010. For more information, or a copy of the paper, please contact us.
  
  
• 4/10/2010 - Echo Ridge, LLC is teamed with Shared Spectrum Company (SSC) to support a Phase II SBIR contract award from the Air Force under topic AF083-160 "Cognitive Radio Technology." Echo Ridge will contribute technology in the areas of non-contiguous spectrum waveform design and signal processing for radar applications, and a virtual RF environment emulation research and test bed.
  
  
• 6/2/2010 - Echo Ridge, LLC presented a paper at the Virginia Tech Wireless Symposium entitled Cognitive Radio Migration into Commercial Wireless Networks. For more information, or a copy of the paper, please contact us.
  
  
• 2/25/2010 - Echo Ridge, LLC has been awarded a Phase I SBIR contract from the Air Force under topic AF093-154 "User Equipment (UE) Cognitive Functions". The objective is to "Apply cognitive radio technology concepts to GPS User Equipment (UE), and demo a proof-of-concept cognitive GPS UE that autonomously optimizes functionality to dynamically changing environments."
  
  
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