the Strategic Systems Resource Group

About tSSRG

Client Interactions:

• The nature and details of the commercial work products are confidential.  We encourage work within a mutual non-disclosure agreement context.

 
• We help our clients to take advantage of the rapidly expanding opportunities to exploit both existing and emergent chemical, materials and technology systems advances in the construction of advanced analytical monitoring capabilities including the development of completely new levels of integrated systems functionality,  or more modest improvement of existing capabilities.  Typical projects might be systems to characterize one or more physical, chemical or biological properties, processes or species at various scales, from submicron to macro system ecology.

 
• We help clarify and resolve immediate and ongoing needs, issues and concerns.  We help set direction and explore possibilities for development of capabilities to improve existing operations;   We can help define, prototype and field a completely new generation of systems, as well as  identify areas for future development with emphasis on generating completely new business opportunities or joint ventures.

 
• We help identify risk and barriers, both technical and market oriented, and help plan scenarios to resolve identified issues.

Our work has two major tracks:

A short term "needs oriented"  practical solutions track

• Here we help define and/or create systems capabilities that can be fielded, within the context of months to several years.  The approach is to use, but push the current state of technology envelope, in an incremental but accelerated, creative fashion, in the areas of fabrication and novel systems integration, and hopefully cost reduction.

 
• We identify and integrate a wide variety of appropriate disciplines into the sensing core of the analytical and monitoring systems.  This 'needs based approach' enables us to resolve the often complex requirements statements, to understand and partition the actual needs across a phased solution set that considers the urgency and the limitations of current technology, while solving the immediate  practical problem.

 
• This track is appropriate to extending the capabilities of an existing system, enabling it to generate new unique information or enabling new markets for the revised system -- for example adding new sampling or analysis capabilities.

 
• This track applies to near term, at times urgent, commercial and governmental interest in the context of the aquatic domain, from environmental, to public health, to drugs and natural resource discovery and phenomenological tracking relevant to those sectors.

A longer term "barriers oriented"  track

Our 'research track' has both fundamental and applied  dimensions but above all remains needs focused.  Here the 'need' is actually a more elusive technical, physical or knowledge barrier that prevents direct satisfaction of the application domain need.   We identify, track and research the historical and application specific context and scientific basis of key  barriers and have internal or joint programs aimed at resolving the issues.  This vital endeavor enables fully exploiting the potential of field observations, and of new published and private research.   This is a higher risk activity, and often requires longer engagement times.  We use grant opportunities and joint research partners with mutual interest to further this activity.

 

Because we are a systems oriented organization, we also research the barriers of current and state-of-the-art science and technology when formulated with the aquatic domain as the focus.  We examine, identify and match the potential for newly emergent, more fundamental chemical, bio* and material science knowledge, phenomena and methods, as well as  research grade technological advances, in engineering,  software and the communications protocols domains.  

We determine strategic directions which directly address the barriers with more fundamental solutions which would result in disruptive business opportunities.  Our objective is to look for paradigm shifts rather than incremental improvements.

We strive to raise the abstraction level of our internal and client applications area scientists and engineers, leveraging the technology, science and knowledge available, to further accelerate the understanding of the environment, its entities and ecologies at both fundamental and applied levels.

 

Examples of this track include:

Entirely new instrument concepts or levels of integration;

New power, communications, distributed control and systems management capabilities;

New power sources, signaling mechanisms, transduction principles and integration technologies for the aquatic domain;

Barriers preventing long term deployment of system;

New levels of knowledge integration to facilitate both local sensing and control and higher level mission goals.

An brief overview of this advanced research is noted under our Research web pages.

Our People

We anticipate substantial growth in our internal applied research and development and marketing activities, and are always interested in discussions with highly competent, exceptionally creative, self directed entities;   with businesses with complementary interest, with agencies, public an private foundations, and with academic associates.