Tucson Embedded Systems | Press Release


		August 23, 2007	Tucson Embedded Systems, Inc Ranks among the top 5000 Fastest Growing Companies on the 2007 Inc. 5,000 List
			NEW YORK, August 23, 2007 – Inc. today ranked Tucson Embedded Systems, Inc Number 4972 on its first-ever Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. The Inc. 5,000, an extension of Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 500 list, catches many businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to make the Inc. 500, as well as a host of smaller firms. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy.
		July 8, 2007	4 companies in Tucson race to build a self-driving vehicle Source: BizAZ by A.S. Berman
			According to Larry Head, interim department head of the systems and industrial engineering department at the University of Arizona in Tucson, autonomous vehicles would give American forces the means to penetrate deep behind enemy lines to gather intelligence, deliver supplies and rescue soldiers like those who went missing in May. "And if an unmanned vehicle hits an IED, nobody dies," Head said. For about a year now, he has been working closely with a handful of tech companies - Tuscon-based Raytheon, Preferred Chassis Fabrications, Tucson Embedded Systems, UA and the Burlington, Mass., technology firm iRobot Corp., the company that brought us the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner - to develop Congress' dream vehicle. Calling themselves Team Scorpion, they all are part of the Urban Challenge, a biennial competition administered by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the central research arm of the Defense Department, since 2003.
		May, 2007	Tucson Embedded Systems,Inc(TES)presents a briefing to the American Helicopter Society
			On 3 May 2007, Tucson Embedded Systems, Inc. (TES) presented the “Capability Driven Architecture: An Approach to Airworthy Reusable Software” to the American Helicopter Society in Virginia Beach, Virginia at its 63rd Annual AHS International Conference. TES developed this “Capability Driven Architecture" in response to a request by the US Army Program Manager for Aviation Mission Equipment to find a way to reduce cost, schedule and risk in the integration of common components onto various platforms through software reuse in support of their Common Software Initiative (CSI). TES demonstrated the architecture by integrating the capabilities of two Army tactical radios onto four different Aviation platforms employing different operating systems and verifying each integration by using one automated test suite. A great amount of cost savings is made in documentation reuse too. Other presenters included NASA Ames Research Center, SAIC, Rockwell Collins-Ft. Collins, the Boeing Company-Mesa, US Army AMRDEC, and Lockheed Martin-Owego. Attendees included representatives from the U.S. Army’s Product Manager for Aviation Mission Equipment (PM-AME), the Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD), and a host of industry partners.
		April, 2007	Tucson Embedded Systems, Inc was awarded $5,000 from the AZFAST Grant
			Between 1999 and 2004, 613 Arizona technology companies received Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants, ranking Arizona 13th nationwide. In an effort to assist Arizona technology companies to obtain federal research moneys; the Arizona Department of Commerce funds and administers the AZFAST Grant Program. AZFAST Grants are specifically designed for entrepreneurs to develop and commercialize technology by accessing Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) federal funding. The AZFAST Grants are competitively awarded to Arizona technology companies to cover expenses (up to $5,000) related to customized, one-on-one technology commercialization services, such as SBIR/STTR grant writing services, grant coaching sessions and other relevant assistance in submitting a competitive SBIR/STTR proposal. The grants are targeted to Arizona small technology companies with less than 100 employees and less than $4 million in revenue. The company’s primary business has to be in one of the following technology areas: Advanced Manufacturing - Advanced Materials - Aerospace - Biotech - Electronics - Environmental Sciences - Information Technology - Life Sciences - Nanotechnology - Optics - Telecommunications - Sustainable Systems.
		November , 2006	Press release for AS9100 Certification
			TES is proud to announce our approval for ISO 9001: 2000 and AS9100 Revision B certification by National Quality Assurance on November 7, 2006. This certification will allow TES to provide quality services and products applicable to the development, maintenance, implementation, testing, validation and verification of embedded systems and communication applications.
		October , 2006	UA Engineers Building Smart Vehicle with Urban Challenge Team
			University of Arizona engineers are part of a team selected by a Department of Defense agency to build a smart vehicle that can drive itself through 60 miles of city traffic. The team, named Team Scorpion, is led by Raytheon Co. and includes Preferred Chassis Fabrication, of Tucson; Tucson Embedded Systems; and iRobot, of Burlington, Mass. The UA engineers are being led by Professor Larry Head, of Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE), and Professor Jerzy Rozenblit, of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).
		October , 2006	Robot car will drive itself through 60 miles of traffic
			The U.S. military wants to build vehicles that can drive themselves through traffic, so it has issued 10 grants, each for $1 million, to design vehicles for the Urban Challenge in November 2007. Raytheon Missile Systems and the University of Arizona are part of Team Scorpion, one of 10 teams selected from a field of 60. Also on the team are Tucson's Preferred Chassis Fabrication, Tucson Embedded Systems and iRobot of Burlington, Mass.
		September, 2006	Minority Technology Firm of the Year
			Click here to watch video. Three small businesses were singled out today as the most outstanding local minority-owned firms of the year. - Minority Technology Firm of the Year - Tucson Embedded Systems, 5620 N. Kolb Road, co-owners David Crowe, Antonio Procopio, Dennis Kenman and Sean Mulholland
		September, 2006	Tucson Embedded Systems was recognized as one of the top 50 Arizona Companies to Watch

		December, 2005	Two AZ Companies Awarded Federal Grants
			The U.S. Navy awards Tucson Embedded Systems Inc., located in Tucson a $100,000 Phase I SBIR grant to develop reusable "plug and play" software systems. TES will create a modular Mission Package Infrastructure (MPI) to support the seamless integration of common capabilities across the U.S. Naval fleet. TES specializes in the development and certification of safety / mission critical embedded software systems for the aerospace, transportation, military, scientific, and medical marketplaces. Tucson Embedded Systems Inc (TES) is certified ISO 9001:2000.
		September, 2005	Medipacs, L.L.C. teams up with Tucson Embedded Systems
			Medipacs announced today it has formed a development and equity partnership with Tucson Embedded Systems for undisclosed terms. Medipacs a Tucson biotech company is developing advanced infusion technology based on it's new digital pump system. Tucson Embedded System is a Tucson based engineering firm that develops safety critical software.