ROME, N.Y — North Point Defense, Inc. in Rome has been awarded a more than $9.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop highly flexible software-based applications to perform real-time digital-signal processing of complex radio waveforms. 

The software solutions will enable processing of existing and future communication signals without the need for changes to the competed software by providing a dynamic processing flow based on user-defined input parameters, according to a June 15 contract announcement from the U.S. Department of Defense.

Work will primarily be performed in Rome and is expected to be completed by June 14, 2024. North Point Defense beat out one other company’s bid to win this contract. 

Fiscal 2021 research, development, test, and evaluation funds totaling $745,000 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome is the contracting authority.

North Point Defense says it provides critical capabilities to the national-intelligence community by developing communications-network access tools and advanced methods for communications-signal exploitation. The company’s areas of research and development include analog and digital multiplexing, signal conditioning, automated end-to-end processing from radio-frequency detection to intelligence end-product, network exploitation, parallel processing, and system miniaturization. North Point Defense is headquartered at 1300B Floyd Ave. in Rome.