Founded in 2007 by Walter Szczepanski, Helios Remote Sensing Systems, Inc. is headquartered in Rome, NY at the Griffiss Business and Technology Park. The Helios team includes a number of recognized radar, image analysis, and software experts. Since its establishment, Helios has secured numerous highly competitive prime contracts from various Department of Defense agencies and research labs.

Major radar & RF systems focus areas include:

• Advanced radar architectures: Monostatic, bistatic & multistatic
• Dismount detection & classification
• Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and fighter radar systems
• Passive radar applications
• Over-The-Horizon Radar (OTHR) systems
• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging
• Radar tomographic imaging
• Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Sense-Through-The-Wall (STTW) radar systems
• Foliage penetration (FOPEN) radar
• Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) radar systems
• Electronic Support & electronic intelligence (ELINT)

Relevant advanced radar technologies include:

• Diverse waveform transmit and receive processing
• Advanced clutter mitigation signal processing
• MIMO radar signal processing
• Dismount detection & discrimination techniques
• Active and passive operation techniques
• Adaptive interference suppression
• Signal de-interleaving & classification

Electronic Support:

• ESM system architectures and processing
• Digital receiver design, development and testing
• Signal detection, parameter measurement, feature extraction, pulse clustering, de-interleaving, mode detection, and emitter identification
• LPI signal detection
• Automatic modulation classification
• Interference mitigation
• Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) / Frequency Difference of Arrival (FDOA) Geolocation

Electronic Intelligence (ELINT):

• System architectures design for processing both radar and communications signals: Design, development, and integration of wide-bandwidth digital receivers for Electronic Support Measures (ESM) systems.
• Development of advanced processing algorithms
  • Signal detection in the presence of interference
  • Parameter measurement and Specific Feature Extraction
  • Radar pulse clustering and de-interleaving
  • Emitter mode detection and identification.
• Experienced with wideband signal processing algorithms
  • Detection of Low-Probability of Intercept (LPI) signals
  • Automated modulation detection and classification
  • Geo-location of signals using TDOA/FDOA techniques.

Relevant advanced imagery exploitation expertise includes:

• Sensor assessments: optimal loiter orbits, coverage, predicted performance, single and multi-sensor
• Pre-processing: radiometric calibration, registration, atmospheric correction
• Enhancement: contrast, pan-sharpening, derivative bands, leveraging polarimetric SAR
• Target feature extraction: algorithm development and assessment, multi-level approaches, biological-inspired algorithms (e.g., neural networks, genetic algorithms), anomaly detection, robust performance
• Geospatial reasoning: object attribute correlation, multiple discriminants for increased confidence
• Implementation: workflow, automation, distributed processing,
• Supporting a variety of formats, high performance electronic light table (ELT) visualization

Major digital signal processing technologies include:

• Detection enhancement: AMTI / GMTI / SMTI / MIMO...
• Clutter suppression: Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP), ADPCA, Adaptive MTI...
• Electromagnetic Interference Suppression
• Knowledge-Aided radar signal processing
• Spatial-Temporal Differential Analysis (STDA)
• Time-frequency & reassigned time-frequency analysis
• Non-linear signal analysis
• Independent Component Analysis (ICA) & Higher Order Statistical Processing
• Biologically-inspired detection and classification algorithms
• Target discrimination and classification
• Multi-feature extraction & correlation
• ESM & ELINT processing algorithms
• Signal sorting and de-interleaving
• Neural network processing

Other technology competencies include:

• Digital processing implementation (Multi-core CPU/GPGPU)
• Performance analysis, modeling & simulation, and assessment
• Software development
• Program & project management

• Comprehensive and detailed radar, ESM and image exploitation performance analysis
• Radar, ESM and image exploitation system and subsystem modeling & simulation
• Advanced algorithm development
• Integrated signal processing development
• Measured data analysis and exploitation
• Modeling and simulation utilizing high level languages, e.g., MATLAB & JAVA
• High throughput multi-core and GPU signal processing implementation