Overview:

This course will present the practicing engineer or scientist an overview of the techniques and methods used in the EW and ELINT communities. It will discuss hardware and processing methodologies for intercepting, detecting and analyzing both unintentional and intentional radiation.

Benefits of Attending and Goals of Course:

This course will help designers of signal interception systems develop a better understanding of modern techniques and hardware. It will also help designers of radar and communications systems develop better procedures for avoiding interception.

Prerequisites:

A general understand of electrical engineering, EM radiation, radar and communications systems.

Target audience:

Engineers and managers in RADAR and EW community

Class #1 (March 12)

• Introduction to EW and ELINT, basic concepts and definitions

• Basic mathematical concepts

• ELINT implications of the radar range equation

• Link equation, propagation losses, interference, doppler

• Antenna definitions, gain, polarization, antenna types and characteristics

• Phased array antennas, element spacing, array gain, electronic steering

• Receiver types, digital receivers, receiver systems

• Receiver sensitivity, noise figure, modulation

Class #2 (March 26)

• Antenna parameters and array design

• EW processing, tasks, threat identification, radar pulse/scan parameter analysis

• Operator interface, integrated aircraft EW suite, HUD, display formats, operator functions

• Search dimensions, probability of intercept (POI), direction finding, frequency search, jamming look-through

• LPI signals, frequency hoppers, chirp signals, spread-spectrum signals

Class #3 (April 9)

• Receiver design

• Emitter location, geometry, accuracy, amplitude-based systems (Watt-Watson), interferometer DF, mirror-image and long-baseline ambiguities

• Doppler direction finding, time-of-arrival (TOA) location, ambiguities

Class #4 (April 23)

• Jamming, decoys, jamming-to-signal ratio, burn-through range, look-through

• Deceptive jamming, range deceptive, inverse gain, AGC jamming

• Jamming monopulse radars

• Decoys, types, missions, RCS, passive vs active decoys

• Simulation, modeling, engagement scenarios

Class #5 (May 7)

• EW and ELINT systems

• Future of EW and ELINT

Textbooks Provided:

1. David Adamy, “EW 101: A First Course in Electronic Warfare,” Artech House, Norwood, 2001.

2. Richard G. Wiley, “ELINT: The Interception and Analysis of Radar Signals,” Artech House, Norwood, 2006.

Speaker Biography:

Dr. William H. Weedon is the President/CEO of Applied Radar, Inc., which he founded in 1996. Applied Radar is a DoD-funded R&D company that develops innovative phased-array radar and advanced antenna technology. Dr. Weedon has served as Principal Investigator on numerous research and development contracts, including over 25 SBIR contracts (Phase 1-3) in areas covering antenna design and modeling, conformal embedded antennas, high-performance radomes, RF transceiver development at X-band, Ku-band and W-band, GaAs MMIC development, high-speed real-time digital processing hardware, and radar and electronic system development. This has resulted in numerous publications, technical reports and 4 US patent applications. Dr. Weedon received his BSEE in 1989 and MSEE in 1990 from Northeastern University and a PhD in electromagnetics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Course Fee Schedule:

On-line Registration and Payment

On-line registration is closed for this course, but registration is still available on-site between 5:30PM-6:00PM March 12, 2008 at the Holiday Inn Select, 15 Middlesex Canal Park, Woburn or by contacting the office at 781-245-5405.

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