Kirk J. Griffin

Mr. Griffin co-founded WGS Systems, LLC in 2007. His responsibilities focus on technology advancement, scientific development, oversight and guidance on engineering functions, and corporate management.

Bringing extensive experience in large systems development, he provides leadership to help guide the company’s product, systems, and scientific endeavors. Mr. Griffin is a subject matter expert in the field of signals intelligence and has provided direct support to the United States government in the fielding of systems.

He also offers significant expertise in the areas of signal processing, geolocation technologies, video and image processing, communications networking, and other key technologies that are central to WGS business areas. He has acute knowledge and understanding of radio frequency signal propagation, antennas, signal processing and adaptive beamforming techniques.

Prior to the founding of WGS, Mr. Griffin has worked in a number of organizations both large and small. He has held key leadership positions in various defense contracting firms that include: L3 Communications, Northrup Grumman, California Microwave Inc., and others.

His emphasis in these organizations was on the development of multi-sensor systems for all key operational domains: space, air, sea, and land. He has had the opportunity to work with a number of cutting-edge technologies in computing, imagery, radar, signal processing, data exploitation and others.

He continually researches and envelops new techniques and technologies into company products and services. Mr. Griffin has also worked in commercial communications and telecommunications product development focusing on broadband wireless networking.

He has a master’s of science degree in electrical engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and a bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio.