​TRX was awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to demonstrate TRX’s NEON® Personnel Tracker application in an assessment of mature technologies that are available for backup Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) services in the event of a disruption to GPS. DOT awarded a total of more than $2.5 million to 11 companies that are capable of providing backup PNT solutions for critical infrastructure if GPS is temporarily unavailable. Supported by DOT’s Volpe National Transportation Center, NEON Personnel Tracker will be used to provide location of personnel operating in GPS-denied environments in support of a broad number of use cases during the technology demonstrations planned for March 2020.

​Last month, ​TRX Systems was selected as a U.S. Army xTechSearch 3.0 Phase IV finalist by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. TRX’s NEON® GPS-denied dismount PNT solution was one of 12 finalists selected from over 125 new technologies that were evaluated by the Army. Each of the winning solutions was awarded a $120,000 prize at the 2019 AUSA Annual Meeting and Expo at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

​TRX Systems announced today the successful delivery of mission-critical 3D personnel tracking and location data in support of the Department of Homeland Security S&T Directorate’s Next Generation First Responder (DHS S&T NGFR) - Birmingham Shaken Fury OpEx. From August 19th-23rd, the OpEx demonstrated the ability of NEON® Personnel Tracker​ and other integrated technologies to enhance first responders’ mission capabilities and improve response time in search and rescue, mass casualty treatment, and HAZMAT containment during a simulated earthquake scenario in Birmingham, Alabama.

​TRX Systems will be at the AUSA Annual Meeting & Expo in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. from October 14th-16th.  The TRX team will be with our partner Federal Resources in booth #4219 demonstrating NEON Location Service technology that delivers continual GPS-denied location and supports navigation for dismount situational awareness.

​TRX announces today its membership in the L3Harris Technologies Mission Critical Alliance (MCA), a consortium of public safety technology providers with a common goal of advancing the capabilities, compatibility, and security of mission-critical solutions. The L3Harris MCA members are leading technology vendors offering products and services that complement the L3Harris​ core network and radio platforms. Alliance members explore technology synergies, furthering the development of mission-critical solutions that meet the needs of federal, state, and local public safety personnel. 

​The first half of 2019 has been a time of exciting growth, development, and outreach for TRX Systems. We invite you to read highlights of our achievements in this blog or you can download the full newsletter​ by selecting the link below.  Please contact us for more information and sign up for our blog to stay current with TRX news and updates.

​The TRX team will be in Chicago for the 2019 NIST PSCR Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting at the Westin Michigan Avenue Chicago from June 9th-11th.  Jeff Kunst, TRX’s VP of Product Development, will be speaking alongside Matt Herbert, Arlington County Virginia Fire Department, Battalion Chief, at the meeting about the progress on TRX’s NIST PSIAP grant.​​

• First Responder 3D Mapping and Location, 2:40PM-3:25PM, Room: Great Lakes AB

Last month, TRX’s NEON® Personnel Tracker​ Solution provided 3D tracking of law enforcement and first responders during a live training exercise at George Mason University’s EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, VA. ​

​The Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) is the premier conference for the SOF community to interact with industry and to collaborate on the challenges, initiatives, and way-ahead in delivering the most cutting-edge capabilities to SOF operators. TRX is excited to be at SOFIC in Tampa, FL again this year and we invite the SOF community to meet us at the Federal Resources booth (#2128) to learn about and test NEON, our industry-leading GPS-denied personnel tracking technology. 

​The Washingtonian Magazine announced today that TRX Systems is one of the 50 Great Places to Work in the Washington, D.C. area. TRX was selected after editors reviewed nearly 200 companies and more than 7,500 employee surveys in the Greater Washington D.C area; TRX and the other selected companies appear in the May issue of the magazine.

​TRX Systems and Intrepid Networks today announced a partnership that leverages TRX’s mission critical, 3D GPS-denied location service with Intrepid Networks’ Response platform to provide enhanced situational awareness. The TRX-Intrepid technology integration delivers a new solution that provides real-time location data for seamless personnel tracking and geo-location both indoors and out. The integration of NEON’s 3D location data will enhance the powerful Intrepid Response platform by extending tracking and geo-referencing capabilities indoors, underground and in other areas without reliable GPS.  

Today, we are pleased to announce the release of the industry’s first field solution that provides 3D indoor and outdoor coverage mapping for 5G New Radio (5G NR). The integration of Anritsu’s Field Master Pro™ MS2090A RF handheld spectrum analyzer with the MA8100A TRX NEON® Signal Mapper will be demonstrated at the International Wireless Communications Expo on March 6th and 7th in the Anritsu booth (#824​)

​Today, we are pleased to announce the release of the offline version of our Personnel Tracker solution that comes compatible with the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) and other secure mobile applications. NEON Personnel Tracker Offline supports integration with third-party applications, delivering safety and situational awareness for warfighters and security personnel operating over secure networks.

​TRX supported our partner Blueforce Development this past week at the second annual Operation Convergent Response (OCR) where Blueforce demonstrated how their Command Center solution improves situational awareness for first responders during incidents.  OCR2018 was held at the Guardian Centers in Perry, Georgia; the 830-acre disaster preparedness and state-of-the-art training campus offered a realistic metroplex for many disaster response exercises. These disaster and crisis scenarios included a helicopter crash, nuclear detonation, earthquake, and active shooter incidents. TRX supported Blueforce in a subway terror attack scenario where a terrorist led a simulated attack that included a bomb and chemical release in a subway tunnel. 

​TRX is now a Silver Partner in the Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program (SEAP) which will allow TRX access to more features on Samsung’s broad range of mobile devices. This new partnership connects TRX to Samsung technology and business teams so that we can tailor our NEON Indoor Location Solutions to better meet the needs of our end users. TRX now has access to a number of important Samsung tools including:

​TRX Systems announced today that its NEON® Personnel Tracker​ Solution was used to track personnel within challenging indoor, underground, and urban GPS-denied environments at the Thunderstorm 18-2 Dense Urban and Subterranean Technologies (DUST) Demonstration. Thunderstorm 18-2 took place August 6th-17th in New York City and featured technologies to bridge capability gaps facing military and first responders when operating in GPS-denied environments such as tunnels, buildings, and urban canyons. You can read the full press release on the demonstration here.

​TRX Systems and Federal Resources, a leading provider of mission-critical solutions to military and first responders, today announced a distribution partnership that enables Federal Resources to promote and resell NEON Personnel Tracker, TRX’s 3D mapping, location and tracking solution, to their customers worldwide. You can read the full press release on the distribution partnership here.

​The first half of 2018 has been a time of exciting growth, development, and outreach for TRX Systems. We invite you to read highlights of our achievements in this email or you can download the full newsletter​ by selecting the link below.  Please contact us for more information and sign up for our blog to stay current with TRX news and updates.

​Recently, TRX Systems attended the 2018 NIST Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting. TRX was awarded a grant from the Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program (PSIAP) in June of last year. During this meeting, TRX presented last year’s new capability developments and made TRX’s latest NEON Personnel Tracker application for attendee use and evaluation throughout the 2.6 million square foot venue.  The Stakeholders Meeting was an excellent forum to engage with a wide variety of public safety stakeholders – including early adopters within state, local, and federal departments responsible for safeguarding and securing the population. TRX also had a chance to catch up on the latest FirstNet news and research by other PSIAP grantees including research into next generation ranging, inertial silicon, and location constraint sources.  

​Next week, the TRX team will be in San Diego for the 2018 PSCR Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting from June 5-8. Carol Politi, TRX’s President and CEO, and Jeff Kunst, TRX’s VP of Product Development, will be speaking at the meeting about the progress on TRX’s NIST PSIAP grant that was announced at this same event last year. The grant to TRX is focused on research and development of technology that will deliver more robust and higher accuracy 3D location for first responders and enhanced 3D visualization tools for on-site and remote commanders. The project includes development of new mapping tools as well as use case validation, field testing and feedback with first responders in Harris County, TX and Arlington, VA.

​This week, TRX Systems will exhibit at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) with our partner Black Tree Group from May 22-24th in Tampa Florida.  We will be showcasing the latest updates to our NEON Personnel Tracker solution for the 10,000 defense industry professionals attending SOFIC.  We hope that you will visit us in the Black Tree booth #1349.