Completed Project Portfolio
Our completed projects reflect a breadth of systems engineering, autonomy, and technical integration work across defense and national security domains. This prior experience informs and grounds our current focus on applied research, scientific modeling, and prototype-driven experimentation.
Completed Projects
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DoD 5G Prototyping & Experimentation: System Engineering support to design, prototype, experiment and test 5G solutions for multi-service support-Smart Warehousing, Virtual Training, and Frequency Management.
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Brilliant Effect Employment Shadow (BEES): System testing and evaluation for swarming unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations for global strike.
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Freedom of Movement in Global Ops (DOMINGO): Sense and Avoid (SAA) capability for Group 4/5 UAVs (MQ-9 Reapr, RQ-4 Global Hawk).
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Advanced Weapons Enhanced by Submarine UAS Against Mobile Targets (AWESUM): Submarine-launched unmanned aerial system providing submarines with other-the-horizon intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance coupled with kinetic strike capability.
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KNIFE: Information system that combined legacy with emerging kinetic and non-kinetic force effects database and analysis systems.
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Joint Medical Distance Support & Extraction (JMDSE) and Joint Precision Air Drop System (JPADS): Autonomous precision airdrop/combat casualty care system, including precision guided air delivery pallet with advanced tele-medical combat casualty care system dropped from high altitude to the point of injury.
Former Clients
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U.S. Navy Research Laboratory
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U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
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U.S. Strategic Command
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U.S. Pacific Command
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U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center
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U.S. Defense Acquisition University
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U.S. Army Night Vision Laboratory
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U.S. Joint Forces Command
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U.S. Navy Information Warfare Center, Atlantic
Other Work
Prior Industry Experience:
Directed two dozen prototype engineering efforts for Department of Defense spanning early concept development through prototype demonstration, informing later research-oriented approaches to complex system design and experimentation.
Military Experience:
Project and operational management roles supporting the Predator (MQ-1) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the RQ-4 Global Hawk development programs.
The following experience predates the founding of Rigel Science and provides professional context for the applied research and systems-level work described elsewhere on this site.
Contact: Gregory Koumbis, PhD
gkoumbis@rigelscience.net
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