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Oscar H. McKee

O-MC Signal Research, Inc. is a Vietnam era veteran-owned small business located in Bloomfield, New Jersey, just ten miles west of Manhattan. Our core business base is wireless in-building design, development, and installation. The company was founded in 1988. Initially, our business focus was the defense industry where we bid and won two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts in the area of Quantum Cryptography. We also had some of our key technologists teach technical short-courses in digital signal processing, optical signal processing, and other post-graduate scientific and engineering courses. Our work in quantum cryptography led to a U.S. patent titled Free-space quantum cryptography system (U.S. patent number 6,289,104). The patent was awarded in September 2001.

Our primary business base today is the design and development of in-building systems for enhanced wireless phone service using GSM, CDMA, or iDEN waveforms, and high-speed networks using IEEE 802.11 a,b,g,&n technologies. We also design and install wireless broadband networks to replace standard T-1 wired circuits. Our preferred equipment for T-1 circuit replacement is Motorola Canopy Wireless Broadband Access equipment.

In March of 2005 the company was awarded a three-year contract by the state of New Jersey Bureau of Purchase for Wireless Devices and Services. This contract has been extended to the end of 2008.

Prior contracts include SBIR contracts from the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Division, and a contract with the U.S. Army (contract DAB03-03-A-0007) for wireless services.

Other services provided include wireles telephone cell-site drive-testing using CW signal generators and companion receivers. Data is provided to cell-site designers to determine the viability of a potential new cell-site. We also provide skilled engineering talent for cell-site design and optimization.

In January 2005 the company was awarded a four-year contract by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority for As Needed Telecommunications Cosulting Services.

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Oscar H. McKee

Oscar McKee has over twenty-five years of experience in the research, design, and development of advanced communication systems. He began his career in the United States Air Force where he initially worked in the design and development of sophisticated spread spectrum intercept systems. One of the follow-on products of the work done on spread spectrum communications systems by the defense industry is the technology now employed in wireless mobile communications equipment.

After retiring from the Air Force Oscar worked in the defense industry in the Boston and New York City areas. He worked for Sanders Associates in Nashua, New Hampshire, and ITT Avionics Division in Nutley, New Jersey.

In 1996 Oscar joined Omnipoint Communications during the timeframe when the company was just initiating its design of the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) wireless mobile phone network for the New York Major Trading Area (NYMTA). He began as an RF Engineering consultant, but was asked to join the company fulltime as its Director of RF Engineering in October of that year.

In January 1999 Oscar was promoted to the position of Director of Operations and Optimization. He held that position until the company was bought out by Deutsche Telecom. Deutsche Telecom now operates the NYMTA GSM network that was initially designed by Oscar and his team of over 110 engineers and technicians as T-Mobile.

In January 2002 Oscar started O-MC Signal Research, Inc. as a small business concentrating on wireless design and development. The company bids on projects ranging from mobile cell site design to in-building wireless projects for mobile phone networks and WiFi hot spot systems using IEEE 802.11 a/b/g and n.