Georgia Tech: Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) Technology

Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) Technology

Program ID: DEF 2507P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 2.15

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Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
(Georgia Tech Hotel)

Mr. T.L. Spangler

February 23, 2010

February 25, 2010

$1,495.00

Section ID: 10162/220410334

IMPORTANT: This course is classified and all attendees are required to fill out the Need-To-Know Certification and Clearance Form indicating they meet the attendance requirements.

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):
•Tuesday, February 23, 2010 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)
•Wednesday, February 24, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)
•Thursday, February 25, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)

Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
(Georgia Tech Hotel)

Mr. T.L. Spangler

September 21, 2010

September 23, 2010

$1,495.00

Section ID: 10161/220411039

IMPORTANT: This course is classified and all attendees are required to fill out the Need-To-Know Certification and Clearance Form indicating they meet the attendance requirements.

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

Meeting time(s):
•Tuesday, September 21, 2010 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)
•Wednesday, September 22, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)
•Thursday, September 23, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)

Course Description

Explore DRFM device technology, including its application to electronic attack, synthetic target generation, and radar jamming. Review fundamental radar concepts to learn why DRFMs make robust and powerful jamming devices. Get up-to-date information on DRFM building blocks, including all typical components such as, frequency converters, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) controllers, Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC), and Digital-to-Analog Converters (DAC). Review radar Electronic Protection (EP) techniques available to defend systems against DRFM jamming attacks.

Who Should Attend

Engineers, technologists, and managers involved in design, analysis, simulation, requirements definition, performance specification, procurement, and test & evaluation of electronic attack equipment utilizing DRFM devices

How You Will Benefit

Understand the theory of operation of digital radio frequency memory devices
Understand state-of-the-art in DRFM devices
Know the performance trade-offs of various DRFM architectures and component selections
Explain the operating modes of a DRFM
Program a DRFM to execute standard range-velocity deception techniques
Write a test procedure to evaluate the most important performance requirements of a DRFM
Select candidate electronic protection techniques to defeat a DRFM jammer

What You Will Cover

DRFM Overview
Radar Fundamentals
Range and Velocity Technique Primer
Architecture Trades
RF Design Techniques
Digital Kernel Design
DRFM System Test Considerations
International DRFM Market Review
Advanced DRFM Topics
Live Laboratory Demonstrations
Component Technology Summaries
- RF Devices
- ADC and DAC
- FPGA

Course Materials

Participants receive a notebook and CD-ROM with the class notes and slides.

Prerequisites

A working knowledge of radar systems and electronic warfare concepts or have taken Principles of Modern Radar, Basic Radar Concepts, or Basic RF Electronic Warfare Concepts courses.

Certificates

This course is an elective for the:

Security Requirements

Applicants must have SECRET-level clearance, need-to-know certification, and be U.S. citizens. Defense contractors may meet the need-to-know requirement by having the Need-to-Know Certification and Security Clearance form signed by a Department of Defense contracting officer or an official monitoring a classified program. Government personnel can meet the need-to-know requirement by having a supervisor sign the form.

The Instructors

Roger Dickerson, a Georgia Tech Research Institute research engineer with eight years of experience in FPGA and ASIC design, is researching radar controllers, radar signal processors, embedded systems, and electronic warfare. He has been the lead firmware design engineer for two DRFM-based ECM systems and is leading a GTRI internal research and development effort to build a medium bandwidth DRFM utilizing only commercial-off-the-shelf hardware.

Lamar Gostin, a Georgia Tech Research Institute senior research technologist, is a registered Georgia professional engineer with more than 22 years of experience in the design and testing of radar systems. His most recent work includes flight-qualified DRFM-based radar-target generators for Air-to-Air training and the development of ground-based microwave target generator systems for airborne and ship based radar systems

Aram Partizian, a GTRI/SEAL senior research engineer, has been actively involved in the design, development, and field testing of radar; advanced electronic attack; and electronic protection technologies for more than 20 years. He specializes in the EP of coherent radar against deceptive and masking EA techniques.

Mark H. Smith, a Georgia Tech Research Institute senior research engineer and a consultant, has more than 25 years of experience in engineering design, development and analysis, in a variety of fields including microwave components and subsystems, electromagnetics, RF systems, radar countermeasures, and radar signal processing. His work in the countermeasures area focuses on applications of coherent repeaters, including digital RF memory architectures and the development of dual-coherent-source systems.

Thomas "T.L." Spangler, a Georgia Tech Research Institute senior research engineer, has 22 years of experience in RF engineering disciplines, including radar system testing, surveillance receivers, radar warning receivers, frequency synthesizers, electronic-attack hardware development, and electronic attack system testing. His research focuses on development and field testing of coherent and multiple emitter electronic attack utilizing DRFM technology.