Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide robust and affordable emergency communications and data solutions, employing best of breed technology, built on the experience gained from past disasters and input from the first responder’s community. We pledge to implement your creative solutions, no matter what your needs may be. We are dedicated to providing the vital everything over IP solutions desperately needed to protect the lives and property our first responders as well as our fellow citizens. The inability to communicate across disparate radio frequencies created a breakdown in communications on September 11, 2001 that resulted in unnecessary loss of life because responding agencies could not communicate with one another. In a collaborative effort with the National Guard, IPS developed the Incident Commander's Command, Control, and Communication Unit (IC4U) and its civilian counterpart, the Advanced Command, Control, and Communication System (AC3S) - the results of 40 years of satellite and related communications development.

IPS History
AC3S-G2: Our third generation Emergency Communication Interoperability Unit - January 2006:  The target application for the AC3S-G2 is to serve as an urban, mobile interoperability gateway (MIG) and rear-guard intelligence that is built into a 6' x 10' trailer with greater mobility, more workspace, improved ergonomics, and improved interoperability technology and communication management. The new AC3S-G2 also now features more options such as the mobile cellular telephone capability (compatible with GSM, CDMA, and GMSK) and high resolution, air-to-ground FLIR streaming video (out to 20+ miles).

AC3S/IC4U - Advanced Command Control Communications System - 2003: This technology was developed due to the lack of communications during the events of 9/11/2001. IC4U/AC3S is a rapidly deployable, fully self-contained communication/incident command platform. A key feature is the mast-mounted camera that provides streaming video almost instantly to any computer globally.  It is designed to lead and coordinate the response to acts of terrorism, natural disasters, or any other type of emergency.

NOAAPort - Data Ingest Capability - 1999: Developed a multi-channel ingest processor that supports all available NOAAPort data simultaneously.

Rugged 3-axis Distributed Processing SATCOM Trackers - 1997: Developed a product line of rugged antenna platforms featuring brute force direct drive performance for unstable, demanding shipboard transmit-and-receive applications.

DSP Receiver Technology - 1996: The Danish Meteorological Institute chose IPS to develop the tracking receiver to be used in the launch and control of Denmark’s first satellite. IPS developed a wideband frequency agile receiver with state-of-the-art noise rejection performance.

RDS Rapid Deployable Tracking Capability - 1995: Developed a fully integrated, transportable turn-key X-band 256-kilobit data channel SATCOM capability with a setup time of less than 2 hours.

Remote Diagnostics - 1994: Adding to the powerful utility of the acclaimed Galileo GUI software, IPS software engineers incorporated diagnostic capabilities enabling troubleshooting support to be provided from IPS’s California location to any site around the world.

Galileo - 1993: IPS introduced a revolutionary, state-of-the-art workstation which combines high-speed data ingest and sectorizing capability with the functionality of an image processing workstation into a single unit.

D-SAT/3 - 1992: In late 1992 IPS introduced the D-SAT/3, a direct readout ground-station capable of simultaneous ingest and display of image data from any of the weather satellites deployed worldwide, including GVAR, GOES, GMS, Meteosat, and TIROS.

Tracking Antenna Capability - 1992: IPS developed its own tracking antenna pedestal with X-Y drive mechanics and controllers that meet rigid specifications for durability, mechanical integrity, and reliability.

Multi-Satellite High Resolution Ground station - 1991: Developed low cost combined (single workstation) polar orbiting TIROS weather satellite, HRPT ground-station, and geostationary weather satellite (supports GOES, Meteosat, or GMS).

D-SAT/Polar - 1990: Developed low cost polar orbiting TIROS weather satellite HRPT ground-station.

Voyager Mission - 1987: Provided ground weather support for the historic first non-stop, non-refueled around-the-world flight.

D-SAT - 1986: Developed first commercial, low cost S-VISSR weather satellite ground station.

D-WIPS - 1983: Developed first commercial, low cost weather image animation capability based on Winchester hard disk drive storage technology.

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Imagery - 1977: Developed first commercial animation capability to process GOES weather satellite images for display on a television monitor.

Instant Replay - 1968: Clarence Boice invented and manufactured the NTSC Video Disc Recorder that was used in the first national broadcast of color “Instant Replay” for the 1968 Rose Bowl on NBC.