Documents to be linked to in this website, which were not available on the internet, have been posted on this page so they can be (and have been) linked to.
The following images were excerpted from a 2003 SSPI PowerPoint presentation. They provide a concise overview of some of the technology that was developed by SSPI during the first 15 years of its 25-year history from 1986 to 2011. Also available herein on Page 6 is an in-depth survey of SSPI’s early work on application of cyclostationarity theory and method to the specialized field of signal interception. This survey was written 5 years after the 1987 publication of the enabling book [Bk2].
Compared with the Nation’s largest defense contractors, the creativity and productivity in development of theory, method, algorithms, and software of the tiny R&D firm, SSPI, in the field of signals intelligence is nothing short of phenomenal. The SSPI team was comprised of fewer than ten employees, most of whom were trained by Professor Gardner, SSPI’s president and chief scientist, as PhD students and post-doctoral researchers at the University of California, Davis. The entire budget of SSPI over its 25-year life time was less than $25M. The company’s huge store of intellectual property was sold (in essence, gifted) in 2011 to Lockheed Martin Corporation at the time of Gardner’s retirement for a small fraction of this sum and an agreement for placement of his senior engineers at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, California.
