The world is becoming increasingly reliant on the finite resource of radio frequency spectrum. Transforming today’s communication networks with the aim of ensuring the future of wireless environments, Digital Global Systems is a company that combines a broad foundation of patented technologies with a holistic view of the wireless spectrum to deliver superior solutions to a diverse array of sectors. Following Digital Global Systems’ recent recognition in the Global Excellence Awards 2025, we took a closer look at the company’s transformative technologies.
Headquartered in northern Virginia, Digital Global Systems is a next-generation software platform for wireless deployments characterising the radio frequency environment across multiple dimensions. Blending broad experience and deep expertise in the fields of defence, transportation, utilities, public safety, and telecoms, Digital Global Systems offers off-the-shelf solutions that address needs across multiple verticals, as well as custom solutions tailored to solve specific challenges.
Since its establishment in 2013, Digital Global Systems has been awarded more than 600 issued and pending patents for the advancement of spectrum monitoring and radio frequency data management. Shaped by a holistic view of the wireless spectrum, this well-structured portfolio of patents has enabled the capture and analysis of wideband spectrum data at the point of intercept for applications designed to deliver real-time situational awareness. These technologies are highly applicable, defensible, and desirable to a broad range of licensees.
In the realm of spectrum management, the company’s patent portfolio is widely recognised across the wireless industry by a plethora of leading names, including Apple, Aerial, AT&T, Aurora, BAE Systems, Cisco, Comcast, Deutsche Telecom, Ericsson, HawkEye 360, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Lenovo, Motorola, Mobile Innovations, OneEvent, NEC, Qualcomm, Raytheon Technologies, Renesas, Samsung, and ZTE. This wide range demonstrates the importance of Digital Global Systems’ patents.
The company’s patented technologies are renowned for improving spectrum utilisation and enabling the world’s anticipated low-latency and high-reliability applications and services, including edge computing, SAS efficiency, end-to-end low latency, service prioritisation, the Internet of Things, and more. Digital Global Systems’ technology provides several competitive advantages, including radio frequency capture, radio frequency analysis at the Edge, actionable data extraction, and process optimisation.
The evolution of LTE and 5G has pushed the limits of radio frequency spectrum, a finite resource. Digital Global Systems’ Wireless Network Optimization is designed to support both today’s and tomorrow’s wireless infrastructure, where environmental utilisation statistics are critical and should be available on demand, integrated with the network. Its CLEARSITE™ technology and software analyse and optimize an array of RF spectrum applications and network operations, all in real-time.
DGS CLEARSITE™ offers a range of functions, including spectrum utilisation, allowing partners to truly understand the devices and services using their wireless spectrum by monitoring, frequency, time, and space, with signal characteristics; interference analysis, automatically detecting, characterising, and locating interfering signals through persistent network visibility and timely processing at the point of intercept, meaning that network reliability is increased, operational costs are reduced, and mission-critical applications are protected.
Alongside this, DGS CLEARSITE™ also facilitates competitive benchmarking, utilising RF data collected from an interconnected nodal network in combination with multiple external sources to provide a persistent, actionable view of relative network performance; dynamic spectrum sharing, coupling real-time environmental awareness and artificial intelligence to allow better resource allocation and more efficient spectrum sharing; and infrastructure maintenance, creating actionable intelligence for a breadth of infrastructure functions to automate network maintenance functions and reduce operating costs.
Such significant advancements in wireless and computer processing have enabled devices to become smaller and much more capable. Just as innovation has driven capability, however, radio frequency-enabled devices also significantly increase vulnerability and risk. In this evolving landscape, cyber and physical security strategies must now include components that directly address threats from radio frequency-enabled devices. In response, Digital Global Systems has developed DGS CLEARSKY™ – technology and software designed to alert stakeholders of emerging radio frequency threats.
DGS CLEARSKY™ has been expertly crafted to offer drone threat management functions, with the ability to detect drones quickly – anywhere from 70MHz to 6GHz – without relying on a drone signature library. Radio frequency threats extend beyond drones, however, and include anomalous signals such as wireless jammers and burst transmitters. DGS CLEARSKY™ detects, locates, and alerts on anomalous signals within the 70MHZ to 6GHz frequencies, further enhancing Digital Global Systems’ capabilities in physical and cyber security measures.
What’s more, CLEARSKY™ provides detailed knowledge of the radio frequency environment through the use of automated and autonomous systems that deliver easy-to-understand alerts of anomalous signals in near real-time. This provides an added layer of situational awareness, allowing Digital Global Systems to cater to troop deployments and their associated deployed operations centres, tactical operations centres, and maritime operations centres. The company automates frequency coordination among allied forces and generates alerts for RF threats by using an advanced semantic engine and inference reasoner tied to mission-specific goals.
Custom-designed computer hardware and software solutions can be developed to meet specific needs, enabling the company to generate actionable data and insights tailored to a broad spectrum of key markets in real-time. Embedded in hardware or as standalone sensors, Digital Global Systems’ intelligence supports private wireless networks, tower companies, mobile network operators, Open Radio Access Network manufacturers, and future 5G services. Efficient, quality-driven, and reliable, the company’s solutions promise to transform today’s communication networks whilst carving out space for tomorrow’s 5G services.
Beyond the telecommunications sector, Digital Global Systems’ services extend to the public safety sector, where the effective deployment and management of wireless networks is instrumental in saving lives. Through ongoing engagements within this sector, Digital Global Systems has developed solutions that make public safety networks and associated applications more reliable, implementing interference management, improved utilisation visibility, support for ultra-reliable low latency communications, and counter UAV solutions – each introduced to redefine first responder communications and operations.
Similarly, clear communication in contested and congested environments is critical for warfighting operations. Alongside this, a variety of radio frequency-enabled devices, such as drones, jammers, and other anomalous emitters, pose a threat to critical infrastructure. Digital Global Systems’ patented solution, CLEARSKY™, addresses both of these challenges, ensuring clear communications and alerting on RF threats to enhance operations within the defence and public sector.
Utility sites – such as electrical substations and oil and gas storage facilities – are often located in remote areas with no on-site security personnel, leaving them prime targets for vandalism and threat. Digital Global Systems has developed patented solutions that alert on anomalous wireless signals, including mobile devices loitering in proximity to a utility site. The company’s tip-and-cue architecture works in alignment with other devices, such as PTZ cameras, to ensure that the centralised security operations centre is aware of potential threats as they arise.
Of course, airports serve as one of the most complex wireless environments, with several radar types, Wi-Fi, and mobile communications contributing to the noise. Digital Global Systems’ patented machine learning engine is designed to find signals of interest within the chaos of such congested and confused environments. This capability enables the superior detection of drone and other anomalous signals, in addition to helping optimise spectrum allocation for deployed private networks.
With applications accessible for a wide range of sectoral needs, Digital Global Systems is effectively reshaping the future of wireless, with technology expertly designed to facilitate radio frequency infrastructure, monitoring, and analysis. With a unique vantage point on the future of wireless networks and an instrumental role in making this future possible, Digital Global Systems delivers the efficiency, quality, and reliability necessary for the prosperous future of wireless environments. It is for these reasons that Digital Global Systems has been rightfully celebrated in the Global Excellence Awards 2025, bestowed with the prestigious title of the USA’s Best Wireless Network Optimization Solutions Provider 2025.
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Contact: Pat Rudolph
Company: Digital Global Systems Inc
Web Address: www.digitalglobalsystems.com
