ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 26, 2021 /CNW/ - Liberty Defense Holdings
Ltd. ("Liberty Defense" or the "Company") (TSXV:
SCAN) (OTCQB: LDDFF) (FRANKFURT: LD2), a leading technology
provider of concealed weapons and threat detection solutions, is
pleased to announce that it has attracted two recognized industry
leaders to its team: Ajay
Subramanian and Jeffrey S.
Gordon.
Subramanian and Gordon will be based in the Company's newly
designed headquarters in Wilmington,
MA, just north of Boston,
and will be working on the Company's High Definition Advanced
Imaging Technology (AIT) body scanner and airport shoe screener,
both of which are licensed exclusively to Liberty Defense, funded
by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and developed at
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Both technologies have the
potential to transform checkpoint screening at the airport to make
it safer and more efficient.
"As airports and event venues begin to welcome back larger
crowds, it will be imperative to ensure that these guests feel
safe," said Bill Frain, CEO of
Liberty Defense. "Easing people's apprehension that is driven by
the pandemic and high levels of social unrest can be achieved with
technologies that enable no-contact and high-throughput screening
to reduce lines and wait times. Further, if guests can be confident
that dangerous items are kept out of these places, we can
significantly improve their experience."
Subramanian and Gordon will also serve as key members of the
technology team that is responsible for driving the successful
development and deployment of HEXWAVE™, the Company's flagship
product. HEXWAVE offers physically distant screening that rapidly
scans individuals using low-power radar technology to create 3D
images that are readable by artificial intelligence, which analyzes
them to detect both metal and nonmetal weapons, as well as
explosives, or other items of interest.
Jeffrey Gordon, who will serve as
Liberty Defense's VP of Engineering, is an accomplished engineering
professional with over 35 years' experience leading the development
of ground breaking sensing products for the military, medical,
industrial, and commercial markets, including the ubiquitous
Personnel Body Scanner Systems (Provision™) that were developed by
L3-Harris (now Leidos) and can be seen deployed across most U.S.
and EU airport checkpoints. Gordon also spent five years at General
Electric Global Research developing roadmaps for imaging and sensor
technologies. He holds a BS from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an MS in
Experimental Physics from UC Los Angeles, and a PhD from UC
Berkeley. He has particular expertise in technology strategy for
advanced Radio-Frequency RF and infrared (IR) sensing and AI /
machine learning techniques.
Ajay Subramanian joins Liberty
Defense's as its principal RF Design Engineer. For the last 12
years, Subramanian served as a senior-level engineer at Raytheon, a
major U.S. defense contractor and with core manufacturing
concentrations in weapons and military, as well as commercial
electronics. Besides his focus on RF design, including MMIC's and
mixed signal/RFIC designs, he served as the company's liaison with
DARPA and authored several conference papers and patents in the
area of Wideband High Frequency. Ajay holds a BS in Electrical
Engineering from Florida State
University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Central Florida and is in
the process of completing his PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
"We are fortunate and excited that both Jeffrey and Ajay have
decided to join the Liberty team. They
are best-in-class talents who believe in our mission and want the
opportunity to develop our cutting-edge HD-AIT and HEXWAVE people
screening solutions," said Michael
Lanzaro, President and CTO of Liberty Defense. We look
forward to working with Jeff and Ajay to bring these new
technologies to market."
For more information about Liberty
and to subscribe to company updates, visit:
https://libertydefense.com
On Behalf of Liberty Defense
Bill Frain
CEO & Director
About Liberty Defense
Liberty Defense (TSXV: SCAN, OTCQB: LDDFF, FRANKFURT: LD2) provides multi-technology
security solutions for concealed weapons detection in high volume
foot traffic areas and locations requiring enhanced security such
as airports, stadiums, schools, and more. Liberty's HEXWAVE product, for which the company
has secured an exclusive license from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as a technology transfer agreement
for patents related to active 3D radar imaging technology, provides
discrete, modular, and scalable protection to provide layered,
stand-off detection capability of metallic and non-metallic
weapons. Liberty has also recently
licensed the millimeter wave-based, High Definition Advanced
Imaging Technology (HD-AIT) body scanner and shoe scanner
technologies as part of its technology portfolio. Liberty is committed to protecting communities and
preserving peace of mind through superior security detection
solutions. Learn more: LibertyDefense.com
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