The PTR Group today announced that six of the commercial satellites it helped develop, the ORBCOMM Coast Guard Demonstration satellite and five ORBCOMM Quick Launch satellites, were successfully launched on June 19 from the Kapustin Yar space center in Russia aboard a Cosmos 3M rocket. The PTR Group was a significant contributor to the communications payload flight software present on these satellites. The new communications payloads will enhance ORBCOMM's role as a leading global Machine-to-Machine communications provider. Including NASA's GLAST program, the PTR Group has now assisted in the development of a total seven satellites that have launched within the last month.

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The PTR Group Inc. today announced that one of the space-based science instruments it helped develop, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) was successfully launched today from NASA’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida onboard the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) spacecraft. The spacecraft was placed into orbit via a Delta II “Heavy” rocket. The PTR Group is a significant contributor to the LAT instrument, working with the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, and the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Menlo Park, CA.

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The PTR Group will be offering an instructional session at the Linuxworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, CA August 4-7, 2008. The tutorial will lead the attendee through the process of setting up for embedded Linux development and actually getting code running on an embedded Linux target -- the Linksys NSLU2 (a.k.a. the NSlug).

Attendees should bring their own laptops for use. The tutorial provide a "live" boot DVD for the work and each attendee with get their own NSlug to take home.

The tutorial will be part of the regular conference sessions held at the Moscone Convention Center. The session will be delivered by PTR Group Chief Scientist Mike Anderson.

The PTR Group will be offering five instructional sessions at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA April 15-17, 2008 . The courses will be part of the regular conference sessions held at the McEnery Convention Center. The courses will be delivered by PTR Group Chief Scientist Mike Anderson.






[ESC-310] Understanding and Using Multi-core SMP Processors, Part 1
[ESC-330] Understanding and Using Multi-core SMP Processors, Part 2
[ESC-432] Understanding Multi-Core Embedded O/S Issues
[ESC-450] Using JTAG in Linux Bring-up and Kernel Debugging, Part 1
[ESC-470] Using JTAG in Linux Bring-up and Kernel Debugging, Part 2

The PTR Group is pleased to announce that it is a team member on an NSA Set-Aside for Small Business (NSETS) II Tier 1 prime contract awarded to Signalscape Inc.. This contract is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract and has a base period of three years with a three year option period to provide support in five functional areas: Business and Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) Services, Engineering Services, Information Technology Services, Operations Support Services, and Training Services.

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Inc. Magazine has included The PTR Group, a leading real-time and embedded technology and engineering services provider, on its first-ever Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. The Inc. 5,000, an extension of Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 500 list, catches many businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to make the Inc. 500, as well as a host of smaller firms. The PTR Group was ranked number 2373 on the overall list with a three year growth of 148%.

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The PTR Group will be offering four instructional sessions at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, MA, Sept 18-21, 2007 . The courses will be part of the regular conference sessions held at the Hynes Convention Center. The courses will be delivered by PTR Group Chief Scientist Mike Anderson.

Getting the Most out of Multi-core Processors Part 1
Getting the Most out of Multi-core Processors Part 2
Using JTAG in Linux Bring-up and Kernel Debugging Part 1
Using JTAG in Linux Bring-up and Kernel Debugging Part 2

(HERNDON, VA - 16 December 2006) – The PTR Group Inc., a leading real-time and embedded technology and engineering services provider, today announced that one of the payloads it helped develop, the Target Indicator Experiment (TIE), was successfully launched today from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. TIE is a key payload on the AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory) TacSat-2 Micro Satellite. The satellite was placed in orbit via a Minotaur I space launch vehicle. The PTR Group is one of the principal contributors working with the Naval Research Lab (NRL) in Washington, DC, to develop the TIE payload.

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The PTR Group will be offering five instructional sessions at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, April 1-5, 2007 . The courses will be part of the regular conference sessions held at the McEnry Convention Center. The courses will be delivered by PTR Group Chief Scientist Mike Anderson.

[ESC-122] Designing Embedded Systems with Multi-core Processors

[ESC-373] Setting Linux Up for Cross Development

[ESC-407] Using JTAG in Linux Bring-up and Kernel Debugging

[ESC-427] Power Management Techniques and Strategies for Linux, Part 1

[ESC-447] Power Management Techniques and Strategies for Linux, Part 2

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The PTR Group and Ultrasonic Fluid Technologies (UFT) of Rockwall, TX have agreed to merge UFT's Defense Systems business unit into the PTR Group. The resultant organization will be the Defense Systems Division of The PTR Group and will be based in Rockwall, TX with T. Keith Buchanan as the Division Manager.

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