Georgia Tech: Principles of Radar Electronic Protection

Principles of Radar Electronic Protection

Program ID: DEF 2505P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 2.0

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Program Administrator

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Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
(Georgia Tech Hotel)

Mr. Aram Partizian

October 12, 2010

October 14, 2010

$1,695.00

Section ID: 10160/220411105

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, October 12, 2010 (8:15 AM-4:30 PM)
•Wednesday, October 13, 2010 (8:15 AM-4:30 PM)
•Thursday, October 14, 2010 (8:15 AM-4:30 PM)

Course Description

Learn fundamentals of electronic protection concepts, or electronic counter-countermeasures, including basic electronic warfare concepts, noise jamming, range/velocity deception, and on-board and off-board angle deception, supported by laboratory demonstrations of noise and digital radio frequency memory generated electronic attack waveforms. Explore the methodology for prioritizing electronic attack threats and examples of current threat electronic attack capabilities, conceptual descriptions of more than 50 electronic protection techniques, and adaptive array processing and digital beamforming.

Who Should Attend

Engineers, scientists, and managers from industry, academia, and government

How You Will Benefit

Compute and plot the received power and jamming-to-signal ratio of noise jammers and coherent repeaters
Identify candidate electronic protection techniques to counter different types of noise and deceptive jamming
Assess potential strengths and limitations of different electronic protection techniques
Observe laboratory demonstrations of jammer hardware, including noise generators and digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) repeaters
Learn temporal and spectral characteristics of electronic attack waveforms such as barrage noise, spot noise, Doppler noise, velocity gate pull off, range-gate pull off, and multiple false targets
Recognize electronic attack in high resolution range-Doppler images

What You Will Cover

Electronic Attack
Electronic Protection - Top Level Descriptions
Electronic Protection - Detailed Descriptions

Course Materials

Participants receive a notebook and CD-ROM of lecture slides.

Prerequisites

Prior exposure to basic radar concepts and a familiarity with basic electronic warfare concepts and signal processing theory is helpful for understanding certain topics.

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

David D. Aalfs, senior research engineer in Georgia Tech Research Institute's Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, researches radar-signal processing algorithms and adaptive arrays. He has participated in adaptive digital beamforming design studies for numerous the Department of Defense phased-array antenna development programs. He is the author of a number of papers and reports on adaptive digital beamforming and array signal processing. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Clemson University.

Richard Maier, a Georgia Tech Research Institute project director, has more than 37 years of experience in the design, operation, and test of electronic warfare systems, fire control radar, reconnaissance radar, and various avionics. He provides technical leadership on EP programs for the Air Force and has been involved in flight tests of advanced coherent EA and EP techniques.

William Melvin, a GTRI principal research engineer and director of the Adaptive Sensor Technology Project Office, specializes in sensor signal and array processing, modeling and simulation, and aerospace radar systems engineering, as well as directing research efforts on next generation sensor systems and adaptive processing methods. He holds three U.S. patents on adaptive radar technology.

Aram Partizian, a GTRI/SEAL senior research scientist, has been actively involved in the design, development, and field testing of radar, electronic attack, and electronic protection technologies for more than 22 years. He specializes in the development of radar electronic protection to counter coherent deceptive and masking electronic attack.

Greg Showman, a Georgia Tech Research Institute senior research engineer and head of the Adaptive Signal Processing Program Office within the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, conducts research in advanced radar signal-processing algorithms. His research areas include spatial adaptive processing, two-dimensional image processing, and EP for airborne radar modes.

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