SRT Group Named to the 2020 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Florida

SRT Group does it again!

We have been recognized for the 5^th time in six (6) years by Inc. 5000—this time for being the 158^th fastest-growing private company in Florida!

While Inc. has honored thriving companies in America for decades, this was the first time regional honorees were identified—of which SRT was one.

Though uncertainty abounds in the global economy, we take time to recognize our accomplishments of days past. For if U.S. history has taught us anything, it’s that American companies and the people therein are resilient.

Here’s to victories won and more to come.

Throwback to last quarter’s

Dubai AirShow

where SRT had the honor of showcasing our ground-breaking products among fellow industry leaders from November 17 – 21, 2019.

                Working with Boeing/Insitu, SRT has created a game-changing new Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) satellite communications option for the ScanEagle Group 2 UAV.

                Knowing that this is just the beginning, we look forward to continued success with our partners, Thuraya/Yahsat.

For the 4th Time, SRT Group Appears on the Inc. 5000, Ranking No. 2111 out of 5000 With a Revenue Growth of 192 Percent from 2015 – 2018

SUNRISE, FLORIDA, August 30, 2019 – We are proud to announce that SRT Group has officially made it to Inc. 5000’s 2019 list as one of America’s fastest-growing private companies. This honor means that SRT has made this list three (3) years in a row, bringing us to a total of four (4) times being recognized for this important milestone.

The Inc. 5000 list is known as the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Microsoft, Dell, Domino’s Pizza, Pandora, Timberland, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.

“Being selected for the fourth time in the last 5 years as one of America’s fastest growing companies is a reflection of the trust and confidence that our customers have placed with our entire team of dedicated engineers and professionals to provide solutions that endure the ever changing environment our customers work in. This achievement also demonstrates an extreme commitment to our customers to provide highly specialized, state of the art wireless solutions that are 100% American Made from cradle to grave.”
– Rick Lund, Chairman

Not only have the companies on the 2019 Inc. 5000 been very competitive within their markets, but the list as a whole shows staggering growth compared with prior lists. The 2019 Inc. 5000 achieved an astounding three-year average growth of 454 percent, and a median rate of 157 percent. The Inc. 5000’s aggregate revenue was $237.7 billion in 2018, accounting for 1,216,308 jobs over the past three years.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.

Congratulations SRT Group!

SRT will be in attendance at NATIA 2019 in Kansas City, MO.
Come and visit us at booth #825 to learn about our full range of capabilities.

NATIA 2019
Kansas City, MO
July 30 – August 1, 2019

It’s Been an Eventful Week here at SRT!

(July 15, 2019 – July 19, 2019)

SRT Food Drive

We started out this week by successfully donating over 100 pounds of non-perishable food items to the Salvation Army as part of their Summer initiative to end Summer hunger. With school being out, many low-income families no longer have subsidized school lunches to feed their children.

We are proud to have partnered with a great cause to help practically fill this gap for Broward County residents in need.

As Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.” And we are so grateful to every employee who took the time to make a donation. For in acting as “our brother’s keeper”, we collectively make a difference in the lives of deserving families in our own backyard.

Thank you.

(NOTE: There’s still time to donate to the Salvation Army’s Summer Food Drive, which ends on Friday, July 26^th, 2019! For more information, visit https://www.salvationarmyflorida.org/fortlauderdale/)

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Lunch & Learn: The Power of Kinesiology

We closed out this week with a dynamic, hour-long workshop discussing the health benefits of movement & stretching (Kinesiology).

At SRT, we seek to make wellness a continued focus in the programs we offer our employees. This week’s Lunch & Learn did just that where we had a General Manager from the Stretchzone come teach our employees about how to practically incorporate beneficial stretching into their routines. We also provided resourceful handouts that attendees could take with them—supplying feasible next-steps in their pursuit of optimal health.

We laughed, we ate, and most importantly became that much more educated about how simple choices we make today will pay dividends for years to come in the form of flexibility, agility, and excellent posture.

Stay tuned for future SRT News Updates!

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Written by Naida L. Alcime

We are pleased to launch the 5^th year of our Summer Internship Program (SIP) here at SRT!

Each year, we are flooded with resumes from students competing for a chance to take part in our dynamic, 12-Week program.

In honor of this milestone and the success of our SIP, here are 5 Reasons Why Interning at SRT is the Best Investment in a College Student’s Career.

 #1: SRT’s Summer Internship Program Gives an Authentic Taste of the Real-World Tech Industry

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             One of the top complaints recent graduates have while searching for entry-level work is that employers require an “astronomical amount” of work experience. Our internship program helps to close that gap by accepting students with all levels of experience and providing a safe, non-judgmental environment for them to expand their horizons.

Further, our SIP strategically places interns in departments related to their fields of study—departments that range from Engineering to Marketing, Production to Software Development, Human Resources and more! The interns work full-time schedules, receive competitive salaries for their work, and are assigned tasks that contribute to actual, live projects.

#2: Individualized Professional Development is a Top Focus of Our Summer Internship Program

               Another invaluable aspect of our Summer Internship Program is the way professional development is personalized for each intern and embedded into every aspect of the job. More specifically, each intern is assigned a mentor that works closely with them throughout their program–showing them the ropes and helping them to sharpen their craft.

Our interns are also given the opportunity to cross-train in more than one department in accordance with their interest in other areas of our company and/or as it begins to be clear that their emerging strengths would best be applied in another department.

#3: Good Old Networking!—with the best and the brightest in Technology! 

(SRT Class of 2019 Weekly Business Meeting | 6/4/2019)

                We’ve all heard it said that Technology is the future. And more than ever, businesses across industries are seeking to capitalize on improving what they do via technology. This has created a huge demand for the companies and professionals that power those technological advances. At SRT, we are proud to have 20+ years of experience as pioneers of next-generation technology and with that, have employed some of the best, the brightest, and the highly knowledgeable in the field.

When we bring on interns for our Summer Internship Program, we are inviting them to network, train and “rub shoulders” with these very people: The engineers, the software developers, the scientists and more! Our interns are also provided opportunities to take those professional contacts to the next level by way of a weekly intern meeting called, “Weekly Business Meetings”.

These meetings are conducted round-table style and are designed to help interns:

1. Glean from their peers
2. Engage in ongoing dialogue about their SIP experience, and
3. To listen to short presentations from 2-3 of our managers per meeting.

In the manager speeches, the focus is sharing what they do and how their respective departments contribute to the success of the company. They also share their personal journeys of how they got to where they are in their careers and then answer any questions the interns have in a Q&A fashion.

#4: Interns Have the Potential to be Hired After Completing our Program

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                 Since the inauguration of our Summer Internship Program, we have consistently hired an average of 25% of our interns from each graduating class. And each year, that percentage steadily increases.

While getting hired post completing our program is not guaranteed, the fact is that our fast-growing company is constantly looking for great candidates.

Last year alone, we hired over 100 people—a feat that has gotten us recognized by Inc. 5000 in 2015, 2017 and 2018 as one of the fasting growing private companies in America.

That said, we’ve been encouraged by the progress of past interns who have transitioned from new hires with little experience to significant contributors to their teams. This fact combined with the strong selling point that our interns essentially complete “12-week long working interviews”—make each graduating intern class top picks for who we want to hire next.

#5: Our Summer Internship Program is Literally so Much fun!

(SRT Class of 2019 | 6/4/2019)

              Last but not least, that which makes completing an internship at SRT one of the best ways for a college student to invest in their future careers is how very much our program is an enjoyable experience.

From frequent company events to group recreational activities—SRT means it when we say we like to work hard and play even harder!  During the Summer in particular, Interns have the opportunity to participate in our Summer golf league, ping-pong tournament, weekly Pilates & Yoga classes, Summer Kickoff events and more!

Final Thoughts

It’s no secret that the Summer Internship Program we offer is one of a kind! Ultimately, we seek to set our interns up for success whether they join our team or launch their careers elsewhere. And we’re thrilled to report, this is exactly what we’ve been able to do each year since the inauguration of the program.

Returning intern Paitin K. said it best when she said,

“This is my 2^nd time doing the Summer Internship Program with SRT. I decided to come back because of how much hands-on experience I was able to gain involving what I want to do when I graduate. I now feel confident about the process of applying for work, interviewing, and working a full-time schedule in the Marketing industry, which is part of my degree.”
–Paitin

If the SRT Summer Internship Program sounds like the right fit for you, consider joining us next year! We’d love to be part of your journey–helping to jumpstart your career!

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Written by Naida L. Alcime

When one envisions a VPX system, the image that often comes to mind is a multislot high performance computing system full of processing and I/O boards. But there is a completely different class of VPX “systems” that range from one to three slots in size, primarily in a 3U form factor. What do these “systems” look like and what is driving their existence?

Two applications seem to be leading the charge. Development systems with one to three slots provide engineers a quick way to get started with the development process. These are usually commercial grade, air-cooled chassis designed for use in development labs environments.

The second type are small, portable or mobile systems, usually conduction or passively cooled and designed for rugged operating environments.

Trends in slot count are emerging
One-slot: These tend to be dedicated to a very specific purpose, i.e. development system. The single slot is dependent on a backplane primarily for power and connection to external I/O.

Two-slot: Also dedicated to very specific functions, with a fair amount of application essential functionality built into the chassis. The second slot provides a degree of expandability to add or change functionality as needed.

Three-slot: The choices for three-slot VPX systems increase dramatically with many products available from virtually all VPX system suppliers. This is a sweet spot because it is still a very small size but has the capability to support a system with a dedicated processing board and a couple of slots for application specific I/O or additional processing. A three-slot system lends itself well to a simple full mesh backplane configuration for maximum bandwidth between modules. Many of the suppliers of three-slot systems offer customizable I/O so that the system can be effectively adapted to ­specific application needs.

To further understand what these systems look like, let’s look at a few examples.

Development Systems
Many companies offer small development systems for VPX. In fact, these were the first of the products announced using VPX technology. They come with 1-3 VPX slots in a generic configuration so that board and software engineers can quickly begin the prototyping stage. The chassis is small with a power supply and cooling for a small number of VPX boards.

One of the more extreme examples is a recently announced development system, the Model 8257, from Pentek that has only one 3U VPX slot (See Figure 1). It is intended to be a quick start development platform designed for a specific 3U VPX board with a mezzanine. The backplane simply provides power to the board and provides an interface to a rear transition module for I/O access. Developers can connect a notebook or desktop PC and develop, run, and debug their application right out of the box. The advantage to this strategy is that Pentek can use an off-the-shelf chassis and with a few minor tweaks, load it with a carrier card for whatever mezzanine is preferred so that a developer can be up and running in no time. The modularity of the architecture makes it easy to incorporate other options as new products are developed. In this case, both Pentek and their customers win with a proven, cost-effective solution that can be quickly modified.

Figure 1: Model 8257 3U VPX. Photo courtesy of Pentek.

Deployable Systems
Here is where it starts to get interesting. 3U VPX lends itself well to small, mobile systems in rugged operating environments. To achieve the size, weight, and power (SWaP) goals of these applications, conduction or passive cooling strategies are often used, eliminating the need for fans.

SR Technologies implements an interesting low slot count product strategy for their products with capabilities that include waveform, protocol stack, and user interface (UI) development primarily for Signal Intelligence (SigInt)/Electronic Warfare (EW) markets. Historically these capabilities have been delivered, as individual federated tactical ‘black boxes’ incorporating general purpose processors (GPPs), RF front ends, and custom designed software-defined radios (SDRs). As open architecture standards such as VPX have emerged, customer requirements required redesigning and deploying these capabilities as 3U conduction cooled VPX modules.

As customer needs changed, SR Tech­nologies needed to find a way to take these second-generation capabilities and deploy them back into the tactical market without large redesign efforts. For the tactical market, SWaP is at a premium and there were no easy solutions to this without designing an ecosystem of chassis to support it. For SR Technologies, the concept of a small tactical VPX chassis, incorporating just the essential elements of a standard sensor module, quickly came into focus.

Each chassis has basic building blocks within it, that are deemed essential to any operation and worthwhile of being embedded into the chassis, for example, power supply, Global Position System (GPS), and chassis management. Each module slot gets its allocation of power along with GPS on either a serial link and/or Ethernet.

Once the initial roll out of SR Technologies’ developed capabilities was deployed, it was very quickly seen that any third-party capability could be inserted into the chassis with minimal cost and time. This is obviously the whole intent of the open modular standard and it played out as per this intent. From an integration viewpoint, the integration exercise became a 10-minute phone call with the third-party module developer followed up by one to two days of integration testing. Very few problems have been encountered and on a number of occasions it’s been plug and play.

One of SR Technologies VPX modules is called the LANShark so it was not a stretch to call the family of chassis Shark­cages! (See Figure 2). Currently there are single slot and dual slot Shark­cages with up to four slots to follow.

Figure 2: Sharkcage, Photo courtesy of SR Technologies.

With all of these variations, the funda­mental philosophy of the cage has remained intact:

• Embed the PSU, chassis management card and GPS.
• Keep everything passively cooled
• Use common off the shelf connectors and stock all the long lead items for quick delivery.

These small systems point out how important a “system-level” strategy is to a success­ful VPX product line. One quickly notices that key functionality, very generic to a series of applications, can be built into the chassis. This functionality can be used over a broad range of products making it possible to swap out core VPX modules to quickly redefine a platforms mission without going through long and expensive development and integration processes.

One problem that is becoming apparent is the need for system level standards to ensure the interchangeability of system modules. A lot of focus is going into ensuring that board-level modules comply to standards, but more work needs to be done at the next level up. Many applications consider the box level to be a replaceable unit and standards are going to be needed to make this possible.

Expect to see many more of these small 3U systems.

Wireless communications company SR Technologies has selected Sunrise for its new headquarters, and will create 40 new jobs and retain 161 positions, the company announced Wednesday.

The company has an office in Davie but was considering other potential locations for its headquarters including Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Maryland, according to Enterprise Florida and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, which work with companies on expansion and relocation.

SR Technologies, part of SRT Group, was offered state and local incentives of $280,000 for the confirmed creation of 40 jobs, according to the Alliance.

The company will occupy more than 77,000 square feet of office space at the Sawgrass Technology Park, expanding its footprint by 40,000 square feet in the new location. It is making an investment of more than $1 million, according to a news release from the state.

The company, which specializes in design, engineering, and research and development for wireless communications, said a key reason it chose Sunrise was access to software companies in the area.

“The location provides us with the room we needed to grow our company,” said Rick Lund, chairman and founder of SR Technologies.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-bz-sr-technologies-sunrise-hq-20181017-story.html

The SRT Group is proud to launch our newly revamped SRT Aviation Services Page, and we’re off to a flying start. As a full-service operation, we offer our clients state-of-the-art systems and devoted technical service from world-class experts.

SRT Aviation has invested more than a decade of research into developing sophisticated aviation, navigation, and communication solutions for our clients while meeting the stringent requirements of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Our quality assurance is unmatched, and our passion for our clients is boundless.

Find out how SRT Aviation can strengthen your mission: contact us and we’ll pilot you through everything you need to get off the ground.

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