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Since 1982, SEAKR Engineering, Incorporated, has been developing Solid State Storage Solutions, offering higher performance and greater reliability for the user community. Our experience spans over twenty years delivering more than 600 Mass Memory Systems to U.S. Government and Foreign Service Customers. SEAKR's innovation and creativity is acknowledged throughout the industry as the World's leading supplier of solid state recorders for spacecraft. Since our inception, SEAKR has designed and built over eighty (80) spacecraft solid state memory (SSSM) systems. Thirty-five (39) have launched and are operating flawlessly. Our organization has been credited with pioneering the SSSM market by building small 100 Mbit systems. The company has continued to evolved its designs to current deliverable capacities of well over a terabit.
Our first phase I and phase II SBIR program in 1982, launched our company. The SBIR program was a critical key to the successful startup of SEAKR. Additionally, SEAKR worked with AFRL on an Advanced SSR project. This effort went on to receive a Phase II award. As a result of this program, SEAKR delivered a QC-40 DSP board, which was successfully launched on the MightySat-II spacecraft on July 19th, 2000.
Since our initial SBIR award in 1982, SEAKR through the support of the SBIR program, has become the leader in solid state data storage systems for space based applications. Over the past 20 years, SEAKR's capabilities have substantially grown, offering expanded product capabilities in data storage and processing systems for space.
In 1997, using the expertise and reputation gained from our success in producing spaced based data recorders, SEAKR entered the "Other Than Space" market. Our approach to this segment has been to leverage our proven architectures while concentrating on the user mission environment both physically and logistically. As such, SEAKR has developed a range of products that allow users to select a solution, which provides appropriate levels of performance and cost. One such product, again through the support of the SBIR program, is our Tape and Rigid-disk Replacement System (TARRS). Initially, this SBIR phase one explored the potential of a solid state storage system targeted at replacing aging tape recorders in airborne applications such as Reconnaissance missions. Currently these data acquisition systems utilize tape based storage technology. While tape technology is proven, it still suffers from low mean time between failure (MTBF) and substandard data throughput rates. Our Phase two effort concentrated on producing a solid state recorder with a unique data off load system. Our successful efforts on the TARRS and Data Transfer System (DTS) became the standard system approach and has since been adopted by most of our competitors.
Randolph Twogood
Director, Military Electronics
Phone: 303-790-8499
Website: http://www.seakr.com
