Georgia Tech: Test & Evaluation of Defense RF Electronic Systems

Test & Evaluation of Defense RF Electronic Systems

Program ID: DEF 5001P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 3.0

Location/
(Accommodations)

Program Administrator

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Status

Cost

Cobb County Research Facility, Smyrna, GA
(Cobb County Area Hotels)

Mr. Duane Tate

March 29, 2010

April 2, 2010

$1,595.00

Section ID: 10192/220410342

NOTES:
-- On the first day, check in at least 30 minutes before the class start time.
-- Discount available for companies that send 3 or more people to this course. Call 404-385-3501 to register your group.

-- Georgia Tech employees should call 404-385-3501 to register by phone, and have their PeopleSoft number ready.

Meeting time(s):
•Monday, March 29, 2010 (1:00 PM-5:00 PM)
•Tuesday, March 30, 2010 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)
•Wednesday, March 31, 2010 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)
•Thursday, April 1, 2010 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)
•Friday, April 2, 2010 (8:30 AM-12:00 PM)

Course Description

Review the requirements for testing defense-related radio frequency electronics systems (radar, electronic warfare, communications, and RF-surveillance systems), beginning with a detailed discussion of test & evaluation as it pertains to Department of Defense and U.S. government-systems acquisition processes. Explore laboratory and in-situ testing methods for components, subassemblies, subsystems, systems, and platform (ship, air, space, and ground)-level testing. Examine modeling & simulation on test & evaluation and special test considerations in EMC/EMI, electronic combat, and command and control testing.

Who Should Attend

Managers
Engineers
Scientists

How You Will Benefit

Examine policies and procedures for formal systems acquisition test & evaluation
Explore formal test & evaluation planning and procedures
Laboratory test equipment such as spectrum and network analyzers plus automated testing with LabView
Examine test & evaluation of radio frequency Subsystems - antennas, receivers, transmitters
Test & evaluation of radio frequency systems integrated onto ground, air, sea, and space platforms

What You Will Cover

Introduction to Test & Evaluation
- Testing Requirements
- Testing Motivation
- Test & Evaluation Case Studies
- DoD Test & Evaluation Organizations & Agencies
- Test Plans
- General Testing Procedures
- Layered Test Process
- Calibration & NIST Overview
Laboratory Test Equipment
- Basic test equipment - VOMs, DVMs, O-scopes
- Spectrum and Network Analyzers
- Automated, Computer Controlled Testing (GPIB, LabView, etc.)
Testing Components, Board-level, and Subassembly Testing (with labs)
- Active (transistors, tubes, Ics) and Passive (resistors, capacitors, etc.) Components
- Circulators, isolators, splitters
- Connectors and cabling
- Boards, chassis, and board-level assemblies
Subsystem Testing (with labs/demos)
- Receivers
- Transmitters
- Antennas
System Testing (with labs)
- Radar
- EW
- Communications
- RF surveillance systems
Platform Testing
- Sea
- Airborne
- Space
- Ground

Course Materials

Participants receive a notebook and CD-ROM with a complete set of lecture handouts, reference materials used in the course, and automated testing software.

Certificates

This course is an elective for the:

The Instructors

Jim Scheer, a principal research engineer in the Georgia Tech Research Institute's Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, has more than 30 years of experience in the design and development of radar systems. He is researching radar systems design and signal processing techniques and is the co-editor of Principles of Modern Radar (SciTech Publishing Inc., 2007).

Duane C. Tate, Georgia Tech Research Institute senior research engineer, has an extensive 42-year career as a systems engineer on major Department of Defense Systems Acquisitions programs providing design, development, test and evaluation, modeling and simulation, and planned program performance improvement throughout all phases of the acquisition program. His career began during the period of structured, mil-spec, acquisition policies and procedures and spans the waning of Defense Department's emphasis on systems engineering and formal policies and procedures in the 1990s, to the resurgence of the importance of these formal processes beginning in 1999-2000. Tate's interests include systems engineering, T&E, advanced distributed systems, and modeling & simulation technologies.

V. Locke Wilde, a general associate with a Washington, D.C.-based Department of Defense consulting firm, was a senior test and evaluation engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute. He holds a B.A. from California State University-Northridge. Wilde is a retired Naval officer with 28 years of experience in the test and evaluation of defense systems, followed by 12 years in industry, planning and supporting test and evaluation of Naval systems. At GTRI, he was involved in the land-based testing of the AN/SPY-3 radar system at Wallops Island, Va., and participated in the planning for the at-sea portion of that system.