North Point Defense, Inc
Ben Pokines is an accomplished Systems Engineer at North Point Defense, Inc, since July 2015, specializing in hardening feature extraction and statistical classification of various signal types within a collaborative team environment. Prior to this role, Ben worked as a Software Engineer at SRC from May 2013 to July 2015, contributing to software development projects, including text-to-speech, cyber security analysis, and leading efforts in big data product development with a focus on cyber intelligence. Additionally, Ben served as a Research Engineer at Oasis Systems from October 2007 to May 2013, conducting research in speech processing, particularly in the areas of speaker and language identification technologies. Ben holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from SUNY Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from St. John Fisher College.
North Point Defense, Inc
NPD provides critical capabilities to the national intelligence community developing state-of-the-art communications network access tools and advanced methods for communications signal exploitation. NPD employs a blending of scientific research and expert domain knowledge to design robust processing solutions against complex and evolving communications technologies. 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 > System miniaturization NPD performs all aspects of solution development including: > Concept of operations > Scientific research and algorithm development > System design > Hardware and/or software application development > Field testing and evaluation > System field integration > Operator training and sustained support Leveraging extensive operational domain knowledge, NPD personnel have decades of experience providing novel technology solutions to the warfigher. NPD personnel have proven track records in academia, research and development and government contracting.