ROME, N.Y. — The Air Force Research Lab in Rome (Rome Lab) has awarded ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC (ANDRO) a $3.2 million research and development contract for work on software-based waveforms for radio-communications systems. The company is looking to fill up to 10 new jobs in this growing area of research and development, Andrew Drozd, […]
ROME, N.Y. — The Air Force Research Lab in Rome (Rome Lab) has awarded ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC (ANDRO) a $3.2 million research and development contract for work on software-based waveforms for radio-communications systems.
The company is looking to fill up to 10 new jobs in this growing area of research and development, Andrew Drozd, president of ANDRO, announced.
Drozd tells CNYBJ the jobs that ANDRO has available are for this Air Force contract and other pacts that the firm is working on.
“We also have an Army contract for over $3 million for WASP-related waveform development. We are seeking new hires for the Air Force and Army work. Further, we are attempting to build out a commercial lab that will work with commercial radio manufacturers and provide digital waveforms, software, and technical services, so we are trying to expand our operations and staff to accommodate all that growth,” Drozd says.
He also noted ANDRO anticipates needing additional employees heading into 2021.
The company is located in a 20,000-square-foot space in One Beeches Place at 7980 Turin Road in the Beeches Business Park in Rome.
ANDRO’s next-generation, waveform agile systems pallet (WASP) “significantly” reduces the time and cost to generate “validated” digital-communications waveforms for the rapid field deployment of military-radio platforms, per the company.
ANDRO employees are performing the work in its Heisenberg Lab in support of Rome Lab.
“The contract opens avenues for new advancements in true software-based waveform developments and growing the government’s software waveform ecosystem to support the warfighters’ needs, including 5G cellular commercial technologies and applications,” says Drozd. “WASP is one of the cornerstone ANDRO technologies that will advance the communications landscape of the future both for the military and civilian radio-product manufacturers.”
ANDRO provides research, engineering, and technical services to the defense and commercial industries. Established in 1994, the independently owned company focuses on research, development, and the application of advanced computer software and hardware products for spectrum exploitation; secure wireless communications for cognitive radios; multi-sensor and multi-target tracking; advanced radar-data fusion; and sensor-resource management.
The firm currently has nearly 60 full-time employees. ANDRO recently hired three more engineers and hopes to increase its employee count to 75 by mid-first quarter in 2021, Drozd tells CNYBJ.
Besides its headquarters in Rome, ANDRO also has offices in Syracuse at the Central New York Biotech Accelerator, along with Dayton, Ohio, and anticipates opening additional offices in Rochester and Melbourne, Florida to provide local support for advancing customer-radio technologies, the company says.