Ravenswood Solutions and GDM formalize collaboration

Ravenswood, a provider of turnkey military training and operational testing instrumentation systems, and GDM, an AS9100 registered contract manufacturing firm serving the high-tech industry, are both based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In a company press release, Ravenswood said the move is designed to “more directly relate the technology design, manufacture and fielding processes for state-of-the-art instrumentation systems hardware.” For 15 years, Ravenswood's product development and Mobile Ground Truth System (FlexTrain) have supported GDM's quality manufacturing of Ravenswood's signature product, the GPS and radio-based FREDI-2 tracking device. Among other beneficiaries of the union has been the National Guard's eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) program. The newly formalized agreement will allow Ravenswood and GDM to create customized products. Ravenswood CEO Dan Donoghue said, “Our relationship with GDM has been a long, tried and true association that has ultimately been of significant benefit to our Army National Guard customer. The formalizing of this partnership with closer engineering and strategic planning ties will be of even greater benefit to a wider range of clients for both of us.”