Company Profile

Signal Solutions, Inc.

DRS Signal Solutions, Inc. (DRS-SS) is the legacy of the Watkins-Johnson Company. With more than 45 years experience leading technology development for the signal intelligence community, the company has established a standard of state-of-the-art-surveillance equipment that has become the benchmark of the industry. CEI became Watkins-Johnson Company in 1971, extending its RF performance leadership in the market while introducing digital signal processing capacities into the mix. Although in today’s marketplace, many companies tout their prowess in the DSP arena, few have developed the ability to integrate that high performance DSP with RF performance of similar caliber. Watkins-Johnson Company refined the techniques for tightly integrating these two capabilities into small packages. A series of acquisitions beginning in 2000 and ending with DRS Technologies acquiring the company in 2004 saw the division renamed DRS Signal Solutions, Inc. and its commitment to providing high performance signal intelligence equipment endures.

DRS-SS has a broad product profile covering all aspects of SIGINT. Major product areas include tuners, receivers, signal processing, subsystems, SATCOM, power amplifiers and microwave components. DRS-SS reinvests a significant portion of its revenue back into the company in the form of internal research and development. This in combination with extensive customer-funded research and development maintains the company at the leading edge of technology.

DRS-SS is in a unique position to supply proof of concept technology as well as define, design and develop the small, lightweight, low power software radio assets necessary to address the various mission requirements. Its background in SIGINT system development provides significant insight into the problems and necessary development to achieve high performance equipment under real world conditions. Its understanding of system tier problems, combined with its extensive experience in the development of high performance software defined receivers makes it an ideal partner.