Digital System Resources, Inc.

Location: Fairfax, VA Employees: 450 Sales and Investment to Date: $368,956,871

Company Background

Digital System Resources, Inc. (DSR) was founded in 1982 with two employees as System Re-sources providing structured system resource methodology for monitoring software development. The company was incorporated as Digital System Resources in 1988 with 30 employees and has now grown to about 450 employees and nearly $110 million in annual sales. DSR is headquartered in Fairfax, VA; and has now expanded with offices in the District of Columbia, Virginia Beach, VA; Or-lando, FL; Anaheim, CA; San Diego, CA; and Kauai, HA. DSR specializes in providing innovative engineering services in system engineering, performance analysis/assessment, concept develop-ment, prototyping, algorithm development, software engineering, and system/software integration. Digital System Resources' phenomenal success is attributable to its participation in the SBIR program and specifically to the development and production of the Multi-Purpose Processor (MPP) for the Navy.

Innovative Technology Developed

Through the SBIR program, Digital System Resources, Inc. (DSR) developed the highly innovative Multi-Purpose Processor (MPP) and associated Multi-Purpose Transportable Middleware (MTM) for the Navy submarine force. This new approach to sonar data proc-essing couples commercial technology and practices to the unique requirements of military systems resulting in unprecedented affordability, capability introduction and pace of capability im-provement. The MPP and MTM are the technological underpin-nings of the Submarine community's phenomenally successful Acoustic-Rapid COTS Insertion (A-RCI) program (the AN/BQQ-10 sonar system). The A-RCI program has been identified by the Secretary of Defense as a transformational technology due to its success in delivering affordable capability to the submarine fleet.

Now additional submarine and surface warship systems are capitalizing on the proven DSR technology insertion methodology to achieve comparable affordability and capability advances in imaging, tactical control, electronic warfare, and other complex military systems' modernization.

FEATURES

• Multi-Purpose Processor (MPP) architecture permits cost-effective, rapid updating of military systems to most current "state of the market" commodity COTS processing elements
• Multi-Purpose Transportable Middleware (MTM) facilitates migration and reuse of previous system software preserving the military's investment in legacy software
• MTM allows for integration of new software-based system performance features, even from multiple vendors, to be straightforward, cost-effective, and quickly accomplished
• MTM and MPP makes it possible to develop system software on a broad variety of processing platforms and operating systems without overly complicating eventual integration on the target processing platform and operating system
• Exploits U.S. technological advantages in commercial-based processing and broad spectrum in-formation technology (IT) in the development and production of tactical systems

DoD Implementation and Commercialization Summary

DSR's commercial success is primarily being realized through sales of these innovative products to the Department of Defense. The Navy is currently installing MPPs throughout the submarine fleet as the principal acoustic signal processor, and has purchased $52 million of the processors to date. The MPP is providing the Navy a processor with 200 times the processing power developed at one-tenth the cost of the previous legacy sonar processor and with unit costs now reduced to one-thirtieth that of the system it replaced. In addition, the Navy is receiving capability upgrades, designated Advanced Processing Builds (APBs), on an unprecedented annual basis to the submarine fleet. DSR is experiencing strong sales of its technology to the Navy and military prime contractors and anticipates this will accelerate in the future.

Contact Information

For more information about Digital System Resources or the affordable, rapid technology insertion and capability introduction, contract Joe Caliri at (703) 263-2843, or visit the DSR website at www.dsrnet.com