Applied Wireless Local Area Network (AWLAN), a Rockville Innovation Center-based company focused on the research, design, installation and maintenance of wireless local area networks announced that it was awarded a $75,000 grant by The Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) under the Maryland Research Applied Science Consortium (MRASC). The funds were shared with Morgan State University and funded by The Applied Research Development Project (ARDP) through Fort Detrick in Maryland. AWLAN developed a prototype device that seamlessly tracks dismounted soldiers both indoors and outsides where Global Positioning Systems (GPS) systems fail due to signal sensitivity issues. Undergraduate students with Morgan State University School of Engineering performed the prototype testing. Likewise, AWLAN received a letter of support from the Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), the Army Tactical Wireless Division in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.
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