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Washington, D.C. -- March 2013: HA Design Group continues its multiyear technical collaboration with the National Public Radio engineering organizations towards completion of the new broadcast production and origination facilities. The NPR organization's transition into its new headquarters building begins in late March. For additional information and facility details please use the Links below:

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Alexandria, Va. -- January 2013:  HA Design begins the build of the PBS DDMS site with off-site integration efforts at the HA Design Facility in Springfield, Virginia.  When the new network operations center (NOC) system is fully integrated and tested in May 2013, the systems and racks (22) will be transported to Lincoln, Nebraska and commissioned on site at the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET) location. For additional information please use the Links below:
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  • Washington, DC -- April 2013: HA Design Group has completed its collaboration with the NPR PRSS (Public Radio Satellite System) Engineering Team in the design/build/transition of its new Network Operations Center (NOC). The new NOC is part of the PRSS technical facilities located at NPR's new HQ building. For additional details please connect to the following linked article.

  • Springfield, VA -- January 2013:  HA Design Group is pleased to welcome Linda DiLorenzo as Senior Software Engineer to its professional staff. Ms. DiLorenzo brings extensive broadcast scheduling, workflow, and coding expertise to assist the BBG (Broadcasting Board of Governors) broadcast operation to organize facility-wide automated procedures that will establish more efficient and automated use of BBG resources, staff, and broadcast facilities.

  • Detroit, MI. -- November 2012: HA Design collaborated with the Civic Center TV team to deploy a new Cinegy-based system solution consisting of a MAM (Media Asset Management database), two play out channels, editing, and ingest.  The system is part of a facility upgrade from a former SD traditional system.

  • Memphis, TN. -- November 2012: HA Design Group LLC has completed a system for Memphis Schools that encompasses 6 play out Channels, which include logo insertion, branding, animation insertion, as well as live pass through for live shows with branding. As part of the system is a complete traffic and scheduling system, all housed in one rack made up of software running on commodity IT hardware.

  • Springfield, VA. -- October 2012: HA Design Group is pleased to welcome Joseph Hickey as a Senior Design Engineer and a member of the HA Design Group engineer team. Mr. Hickey brings a wealth of design experience with sophisticated solution expertise for broadcast stations, networks (CNN), government (DoD), and related multimedia clients.

  • Washington, D.C. -- September 2012: HA Design Group is re-awarded the Media Logger contract at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) location in Washington DC.  The HA Design Media Resource team (MRT) is responsible for preparing metadata of its daily news programming content within the massive DaletPlus media asset system that powers the 24/7 BBG news operation broadcasting multi-lingual programming worldwide.

  • Boston, MA. --  July 2012:  HA Design Completes the Media Asset Management System (MAM) solution for American Public Television Network with ingest and editing functions that will provide local and wide area access to the APTN content archive.

  • Washington, D.C. -- May 2012:  HA Design has presented VOA with a Master Control - TV Report on the extensive headquarters technical/network system and workflow challenges. The VOA senior management is seeking to identify/clarify the problem areas with the current system that can be addressed as the system use expands within the BBG staff and community

  • Alexandria, VA. -- May 2012 HA Design completes the testing and analysis phase of the MPEG-4 technology assessment project for Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which the PBS network will then select and deploy to better maximize its satellite content delivery resources.

  • Washington, D.C. -- February 2012: HA Design was awarded the BBG Integrated Digital Audio System Upgrade (IDAPS2) for implementation of the new DaletPlus Radio Suite for the entire Broadcasting Board of Governors radio enterprise, which encompasses over 45 language services broadcasting 24/7 multi-lingual programming worldwide.

HA Design Group's  engineering staff has designed innovative digital broadcast solutions since 1994 to develop and design equipment, software and integrated systems that provide technically advanced functionality that are both reliable and versatile. There have been a number of firsts for the engineers at HA Design Group:

ALL Digital Television and Radio Facility

Digital HDTV System (DTV Express*)

HDTV Master Control on the Air (WRAL)

HDTV Television Facility (WTVI) 

Facility Dolby E Implementation (WTVI)

IT Server Based Video Broadcast System (MBN)

HA Design Group LLC is a Leading Edge Technology Engineering Design Group.

* DTV Express is a registered trademark of Harris Corporation

 
 

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