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Table of ContentsAcoustic & Sonar Engineering

Applied Physical Oceanography Modeling & AcousticsMay 24-26, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Fundamentals of Random Vibration & Shock TestingApr 19-21, 2011 • College Park, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5May 10-12, 2011 • Newark, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Fundamentals of Sonar Transducers DesignApr 12-14, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Mechanics of Underwater NoiseMay 3-5, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Sonar Signal Processing NEW!May 10-12, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Underwater Acoustics for Biologists & Conservation Managers NEW!Jun 14-16, 2011 • Silver Spring, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Underwater Acoustics, Modeling and SimulationApr 18-21, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Vibration & Noise ControlMay 2-5, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Space & Satellie Systems

Communications Payload Design - Satellite System Architecture NEW!Apr 5-7, 2011 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Earth Station Design NEW!Jun 6-9, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Fundamentals of Orbital & Launch Mechanics Jun 20-23, 2011 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Sep 12-15, 2011 • Manhattan Beach, California . . . . . . . . . . 14Ground Systems Design & OperationMay 17-19, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Sep 26-28, 2011 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . 15IP Networking over SatelliteJun 21-23, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Satellite Communications - An Essential IntroductionJun 7-9, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Sep 20-22, 2011 • Los Angeles, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Satellite Communication Systems EngineeringJun 14-16, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Sep 13-15, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Satellite RF Communications & Onboard ProcessingApr 12-14, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Space Mission Analysis & Design NEW!Jun 21-23, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Space Mission StructuresApr 19-22, 2011 • Littleton, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Space Systems FundamentalsMay 16-19, 2011 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . 22Jun 6-9, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Spacecraft Quality Assurance, Integration & TestingMar 23-24, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Jun 8-9, 2011 • Los Angeles, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Spacecraft Systems Integration & TestingApr 18-21, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Systems Engineering & Project Management

Cost Estimating NEW!Jun 8-9, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Modern Requirements VerificationJun 22-23, 2011 • Arlington, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Project Dominance NEW!May 24-25, 2011 • Chesapeake, Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Risk & Opportunities Management NEW!Apr 26-28, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Systems of SystemsApr 19-21, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Technical CONOPS & Concepts Master's Course NEW!Apr 12-14, 2011 • Chesapeake, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Jun 21-30, 2011 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Test Design & AnalysisMar 30 - Apr 1, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Defense, Missiles, & Radar

Advanced Developments in Radar Technology NEW!May 17-19, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Sep 27-29, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Aerospace Simulations in C++ NEW!May 10-11, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Combat Systems Engineering NEW!May 11-12, 2011 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Computational Electromagnetics NEW!May 17-19, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Fundamentals of Link 16/JTIDS/MIDSApr 4-5, 2011 • Chantilly, Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Apr 7-8, 2011 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Jul 18-19, 2011 • Chantilly, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Jul 21-22, 2011 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Fundamentals of Radar TechnologyMay 3-5, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Aug 1-4, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37GPS TechnologyJun 27-30, 2011 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Aug 1-4, 2011 • Dayton, Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Microwave & RF Circuit Design & Analysis NEW!May 16-19, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Military Standard 810G Testing NEW!May 6-9, 2011 • Newark, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Modern Missile AnalysisApr 4-7, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Jun 20-23, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Multi-Target Tracking & Multi-Sensor Data FusionMay 10-12, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Principles of Naval Weapons NEW!Jun 6-9, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Propagation Effects of Radar & Communication SystemsApr 5-7, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Radar 101Apr 18, 2011 • Laurel, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Radar 201Apr 19, 2011 • Laurel, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Radar Systems Analysis & Design Using MATLABMay 2-5, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Radar Systems Design & EngineeringJun 13-16, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Solid Rocket Motor Design & ApplicationsMay 3-5, 2011 • Cocoa Beach, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Synthetic Aperture Radar - AdvancedMay 4-5, 2011 • Chantilly, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Synthetic Aperture Radar - FundamentalsMay 2-3, 2011 • Chantilly, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Tactical Missile Design & System EngineeringMar 28-30 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Unmanned Aircraft Systems & Applications NEW!Jun 7, 2011 • Dayton, Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Jun 14, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Engineering & Communications

Digital Signal Processing System DesignMay 30 - Jun 2, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Digital Video SystemsMay 9-12, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Engineering Systems Modeling with Excel / VBA NEW!Jun 14-15, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Fiber Optics Systems EngineeringApr 12-14, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Fiber Optics Technology & Applications NEW!May 9-11, 2011 • Las Vegas, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Grounding & Shielding for EMCApr 26-28, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Practical Design of ExperimentsJun 7-9, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Practical EMI FixesJun 13-16, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Practical Statistical Signal Processing Using MATLABJun 20-23, 2011 • Middletown, Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Jul 25-28, 2011 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Signal & Image Processing & Analysis for Scientists & Engineers NEW!May 17-19, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Wavelets: A Conceptual, Practical ApproachJun 7-9, 2011 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Topics for On-site Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Popular “On-site” Topics & Ways to Register. . . . . . . . . . 64


InstructorsDr. David L. Porter is a Principal Senior Oceanographerat the Johns Hopkins University Applied PhysicsLaboratory (JHUAPL). Dr. Porter has been at JHUAPL fortwenty-two years and before that he was anoceanographer for ten years at the National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration. Dr. Porter's specialties areoceanographic remote sensing using space bornealtimeters and in situ observations. He has authoredscores of publications in the field of ocean remotesensing, tidal observations, and internal waves as well asa book on oceanography. Dr. Porter holds a BS inphysics from University of MD, a MS in physicaloceanography from MIT and a PhD in geophysical fluiddynamics from the Catholic University of America.Dr. Juan I. Arvelo is a Principal Senior Acoustician at

JHUAPL. He earned a PhD degree inphysics from the Catholic University ofAmerica. He served nine years at theNaval Surface Warfare Center and fiveyears at Alliant Techsystems, Inc. He has27 years of theoretical and practicalexperience in government, industry, andacademic institutions on acoustic sensor

design and sonar performance evaluation, experimentaldesign and conduct, acoustic signal processing, dataanalysis and interpretation. Dr. Arvelo is an active memberof the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) where he holdsvarious positions including associate editor of theProceedings On Meetings in Acoustics (POMA) andtechnical chair of the 159th joint ASA/INCE conference inBaltimore.

What You Will Learn• The physical structure of the ocean and its major

currents.• The controlling physics of waves, including internal

waves.• How space borne altimeters work and their

contribution to ocean modeling.• How ocean parameters influence acoustics.• Models and databases for predicting sonar

performance.

Course Outline1. Importance of Oceanography. Review

oceanography's history, naval applications, and impact onclimate.

2. Physics of The Ocean. Develop physicalunderstanding of the Navier-Stokes equations and theirapplication for understanding and measuring the ocean.

3. Energetics Of The Ocean and Climate Change. Thesource of all energy is the sun. We trace the incoming energythrough the atmosphere and ocean and discuss its effect onthe climate.

4. Wind patterns, El Niño and La Niña. The major windpatterns of earth define not only the vegetation on land, butdrive the major currents of the ocean. Perturbations to theirnormal circulation, such as an El Niño event, can have globalimpacts.

5. Satellite Observations, Altimetry, Earth's Geoid andOcean Modeling. The role of satellite observations arediscussed with a special emphasis on altimetricmeasurements.

6. Inertial Currents, Ekman Transport, WesternBoundaries. Observed ocean dynamics are explained.Analytical solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations arediscussed.

7. Ocean Currents, Modeling and Observation.Observations of the major ocean currents are compared tomodel results of those currents. The ocean models are drivenby satellite altimetric observations.

8. Mixing, Salt Fingers, Ocean Tracers and LangmuirCirculation. Small scale processes in the ocean have a largeeffect on the ocean's structure and the dispersal of importantchemicals, such as CO2.

9. Wind Generated Waves, Ocean Swell and TheirPrediction. Ocean waves, their physics and analysis bydirectional wave spectra are discussed along with presentmodeling of the global wave field employing Wave Watch III.

10. Tsunami Waves. The generation and propagation oftsunami waves are discussed with a description of the presentmonitoring system.

11. Internal Waves and Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) Sensing of Internal Waves. The density stratificationin the ocean allows the generation of internal waves. Thephysics of the waves and their manifestation at the surface bySAR is discussed.

12. Tides, Observations, Predictions and QualityControl. Tidal observations play a critical role in commerceand warfare. The history of tidal observations, their role incommerce, the physics of tides and their prediction arediscussed.

13. Bays, Estuaries and Inland Seas. The inland watersof the continents present dynamics that are controlled not onlyby the physics of the flow, but also by the bathymetry and theshape of the coastlines.

14. The Future of Oceanography. Applications to globalclimate assessment, new technologies and modeling arediscussed.

15. Underwater Acoustics. Review of ocean effects onsound propagation & scattering.

16. Naval Applications. Description of the latest sensor,transducer, array and sonar technologies for applications fromtarget detection, localization and classification to acousticcommunications and environmental surveys.

17. Models and Databases. Description of key worldwideenvironmental databases, sound propagation models, andsonar simulation tools.

May 24-26, 2011Beltsville, Maryland

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SummaryThis three-day course is designed for engineers,

physicists, acousticians, climate scientists, and managerswho wish to enhance their understanding of this disciplineor become familiar with how the ocean environment canaffect their individual applications. Examples of remotesensing of the ocean, in situ ocean observing systems andactual examples from recent oceanographic cruises aregiven.

Applied Physical Oceanography and Acoustics:Controlling Physics, Observations, Models and Naval Applications


April 19-21, 2011College Park, Maryland

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Course Outline1. Minimal math review of basics of vibration,

commencing with uniaxial and torsional SDoFsystems. Resonance. Vibration control.

2. Instrumentation. How to select and correctly usedisplacement, velocity and especially acceleration andforce sensors and microphones. Minimizing mechanicaland electrical errors. Sensor and system dynamiccalibration.

3. Extension of SDoF to understand multi-resonantcontinuous systems encountered in land, sea, air andspace vehicle structures and cargo, as well as inelectronic products.

4. Types of shakers. Tradeoffs between mechanical,electrohydraulic (servohydraulic), electrodynamic(electromagnetic) and piezoelectric shakers and systems.Limitations. Diagnostics.

5. Sinusoidal one-frequency-at-a-time vibrationtesting. Interpreting sine test standards. Conductingtests.

6. Random Vibration Testing. Broad-spectrum all-frequencies-at-once vibration testing. Interpretingrandom vibration test standards.

7. Simultaneous multi-axis testing graduallyreplacing practice of reorienting device under test (DUT)on single-axis shakers.

8. Environmental stress screening (ESS) ofelectronics production. Extensions to highly acceleratedstress screening (HASS) and to highly accelerated lifetesting (HALT).

9. Assisting designers to improve their designs by(a) substituting materials of greater damping or (b) addingdamping or (c) avoiding "stacking" of resonances.

10. Understanding automotive buzz, squeak andrattle (BSR). Assisting designers to solve BSR problems.Conducting BSR tests.

11. Intense noise (acoustic) testing of launch vehiclesand spacecraft.

12. Shock testing. Transportation testing. Pyroshocktesting. Misuse of classical shock pulses on shock testmachines and on shakers. More realistic oscillatory shocktesting on shakers.

13. Shock response spectrum (SRS) forunderstanding effects of shock on hardware. Use of SRSin evaluating shock test methods, in specifying and inconducting shock tests.

14. Attaching DUT via vibration and shock testfixtures. Large DUTs may require head expanders and/orslip plates.

15. Modal testing. Assisting designers.

SummaryThis three-day course is primarily designed for

test personnel who conduct, supervise or"contract out" vibration and shock tests. It alsobenefits design, quality and reliability specialistswho interface with vibration and shock testactivities.

Each student receives the instructor's,minimal-mathematics, minimal-theory hardboundtext Random Vibration & Shock Testing,Measurement, Analysis & Calibration. This 444page, 4-color book also includes a CD-ROM withvideo clips and animations.

Instructor Wayne Tustin is the President of an

engineering school andconsultancy. His BSEE degree isfrom the University of Washington,Seattle. He is a licensedProfessional Engineer - Quality inthe State of California. Wayne's first

encounter with vibration was at Boeing/Seattle,performing what later came to be called modaltests, on the XB-52 prototype of that highly reliableplatform. Subsequently he headed field serviceand technical training for a manufacturer ofelectrodynamic shakers, before establishinganother specialized school on which he left hisname. Wayne has written several books andhundreds of articles dealing with practical aspectsof vibration and shock measurement and testing.

What You Will Learn• How to plan, conduct and evaluate vibration

and shock tests and screens.• How to attack vibration and noise problems.• How to make vibration isolation, damping and

absorbers work for vibration and noise control.• How noise is generated and radiated, and how

it can be reduced.From this course you will gain the ability to

understand and communicate meaningfullywith test personnel, perform basicengineering calculations, and evaluatetradeoffs between test equipment andprocedures.

Fundamentals of Random Vibration & Shock Testingfor Land, Sea, Air, Space Vehicles & Electronics Manufacture


April 12-14, 2011Beltsville, Maryland



Fundamentals of Sonar Transducer Design

What You Will Learn• Acoustic parameters that affect transducer

designs:Aperture designRadiation impedanceBeam patterns and directivity

• Fundamentals of acoustic wave transmission insolids including the basics of piezoelectricityModeling concepts for transducer design.

• Transducer performance parameters that affectradiated power, frequency of operation, andbandwidth.

• Sonar projector design parameters Sonarhydrophone design parameters.

From this course you will obtain the knowledge andability to perform sonar transducer systemsengineering calculations, identify tradeoffs, interactmeaningfully with colleagues, evaluate systems,understand current literature, and how transducerdesign fits into greater sonar system design.

InstructorMr. John C. Cochran is a Sr. Engineering Fellow

with Raytheon Integrated DefenseSystems., a leading provider ofintegrated solutions for theDepartments of Defense andHomeland Security. Mr. Cochran has25 years of experience in the designof sonar transducer systems. His

experience includes high frequency mine huntingsonar systems, hull mounted search sonar systems,undersea targets and decoys, high powerprojectors, and surveillance sonar systems. Mr.Cochran holds a BS degree from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, a MS degree from PurdueUniversity, and a MS EE degree from University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara. He holds a certificate inAcoustics Engineering from Pennsylvania StateUniversity and Mr. Cochran has taught as a visitinglecturer for the University of Massachusetts,Dartmouth.

SummaryThis three-day course is designed for sonar

system design engineers, managers, and systemengineers who wish to enhance their understandingof sonar transducer design and how the sonartransducer fits into and dictates the greater sonarsystem design. Topics will be illustrated by workednumerical examples and practical case studies.

Course Outline1. Overview. Review of how transducer and

performance fits into overall sonar system design.2. Waves in Fluid Media. Background on how the

transducer creates sound energy and how this energypropagates in fluid media. The basics of soundpropagation in fluid media:• Plane Waves• Radiation from Spheres• Linear Apertures Beam Patterns• Planar Apertures Beam Patterns• Directivity and Directivity Index• Scattering and Diffraction• Radiation Impedance• Transmission Phenomena• Absorption and Attenuation of Sound3. Equivalent Circuits. Transducers equivalent

electrical circuits. The relationship between transducerparameters and performance. Analysis of transducerdesigns: • Mechanical Equivalent Circuits• Acoustical Equivalent Circuits• Combining Mechanical and Acoustical EquivalentCircuits

4. Waves in Solid Media: A transducer isconstructed of solid structural elements. Background inhow sound waves propagate through solid media. Thissection builds on the previous section and developsequivalent circuit models for various transducerelements. Piezoelectricity is introduced. • Waves in Homogeneous, Elastic Solid Media• Piezoelectricity• The electro-mechanical coupling coefficient• Waves in Piezoelectric, Elastic Solid Media.

5. Sonar Projectors. This section combines theconcepts of the previous sections and developes thebasic concepts of sonar projector design. Basicconcepts for modeling and analyzing sonar projectorperformance will be presented. Examples of sonarprojectors will be presented and will include sphericalprojectors, cylindrical projectors, half wave-lengthprojectors, tonpilz projectors, and flexural projectors.Limitation on performance of sonar projectors will bediscussed.

6. Sonar Hydrophones. The basic concepts ofsonar hydrophone design will be reviewed. Analysis ofhydrophone noise and extraneous circuit noise thatmay interfere with hydrophone performance. • Elements of Sonar Hydrophone Design• Analysis of Noise in Hydrophone and PreamplifierSystems• Specific Application in Sonar Hydronpone Design• Hydrostatic hydrophones• Spherical hydrophones• Cylindrical hydrophones• The affect of a fill fluid on hydrophone performance.


InstructorsDavid Feit retired from his position as Senior

Research Scientist for StructuralAcoustics at the Carderock Division,Naval Surface Warfare Center(NSWCCD) where he had worked since1973. At NSWCCD, he was responsiblefor conducting research into the complexproblems related to the reduction of ship

vulnerability to acoustic detection. These involvedtheoretical and applied research on the causes,mechanisms, and means of reduction of submarinehull vibration and radiation, and echo reduction. Beforethat he worked at Cambridge Acoustical Associateswhere he and Miguel Junger co-authored the standardreference book on theoretical structural acoustics,Sound, Structures, and their Interaction.

Paul Arveson served as a civilian employee of theNaval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC),Carderock Division. With a BS degree inPhysics, he led teams in ship acousticsignature measurement and analysis,facility calibration, and characterizationprojects. He designed and constructedspecialized analog and digital electronicmeasurement systems and their

sensors and interfaces, including the system used tocalibrate all the US Navy's ship noise measurementfacilities. He managed development of the TargetStrength Predictive Model for the Navy. He conductedexperimental and theoretical studies of acoustic andoceanographic phenomena for the Office of NavalResearch. He has published numerous technicalreports and papers in these fields. In 1999 Arvesonreceived a Master's degree in Computer SystemsManagement. He established the Balanced ScorecardInstitute, as an effort to promote the use of thismanagement concept among governmental andnonprofit organizations. He is active in varioustechnical organizations, and is a Fellow in theWashington Academy of Sciences.

SummaryThe course describes the essential mechanisms of

underwater noise as it relates to ship/submarinesilencing applications. The fundamental principles ofnoise sources, water-borne and structure-borne noisepropagation, and noise control methodologies areexplained. Illustrative examples will be presented. Thecourse will be geared to those desiring a basicunderstanding of underwater noise andship/submarine silencing with necessary mathematicspresented as gently as possible.

A full set of notes will be given to participants as wellas a copy of the text, Mechanics of Underwater Noise,by Donald Ross.

Course Outline1. Fundamentals. Definitions, units, sources,

spectral and temporal properties, wave equation,radiation and propagation, reflection, absorption andscattering, structure-borne noise, interaction of soundand structures.

2. Noise Sources in Marine Applications.Rotating and reciprocating machinery, pumps andfans, gears, piping systems.

3. Noise Models for Design and Prediction.Source-path-receiver models, source characterization,structural response and vibration transmission,deterministic (FE) and statistical (SEA) analyses.

4. Noise Control. Principles of machinery quieting,vibration isolation, structural damping, structuraltransmission loss, acoustic absorption, acousticmufflers.

5. Fluid Mechanics and Flow Induced Noise.Turbulent boundary layers, wakes, vortex shedding,cavity resonance, fluid-structure interactions, propellernoise mechanisms, cavitation noise.

6. Hull Vibration and Radiation. Flexural andmembrane modes of vibration, hull structureresonances, resonance avoidance, ribbed-plates, thinshells, anti-radiation coatings, bubble screens.

7. Sonar Self Noise and Reduction. On board andtowed arrays, noise models, noise control forhabitability, sonar domes.

8. Ship/Submarine Scattering. Rigid body andelastic scattering mechanisms, target strength ofstructural components, false targets, methods for echoreduction, anechoic coatings.




Mechanics of Underwater NoiseFundamentals and Advances in Acoustic Quieting


Sonar Signal Processing

InstructorsJames W. Jenkins joined the Johns Hopkins

University Applied PhysicsLaboratory in 1970 and has workedin ASW and sonar systems analysis.He has worked with system studiesand at-sea testing with passive andactive systems. He is currently asenior physicist investigating

improved signal processing systems, APB, own-ship monitoring, and SSBN sonar. He has taughtsonar and continuing education courses since1977 and is the Director of the AppliedTechnology Institute (ATI).G. Scott Peacock is the Assistant Group

Supervisor of the Systems Group atthe Johns Hopkins UniversityApplied Physics Lab (JHU/APL). Mr.Peacock received both his B.S. inMathematics and an M.S. inStatistics from the University ofUtah. He currently manages

several research and development projects thatfocus on automated passive sonar algorithms forboth organic and off-board sensors. Prior tojoining JHU/APL Mr. Peacock was lead engineeron several large-scale Navy development tasksincluding an active sonar adjunct processor forthe SQS-53C, a fast-time sonobuoy acousticprocessor and a full scale P-3 trainer.

SummaryThis intensive short course provides an

overview of sonar signal processing. Processingtechniques applicable to bottom-mounted, hull-mounted, towed and sonobuoy systems will bediscussed. Spectrum analysis, detection,classification, and tracking algorithms for passiveand active systems will be examined and relatedto design factors. Advanced techniques such ashigh-resolution array-processing and matchedfield array processing, advanced signalprocessing techniques, and sonar automation willbe covered.

The course is valuable for engineers andscientists engaged in the design, testing, orevaluation of sonars. Physical insight andrealistic performance expectations will bestressed. A comprehensive set of notes will besupplied to all attendees.

What You Will Learn• Fundamental algorithms for signal

processing.• Techniques for beam forming.• Trade-offs among active waveform designs.• Ocean medium effects.• Optimal and adaptive processing.

Course Outline1. Introduction to Sonar Signal

Processing. ntroduction to sonar detectionsystems and types of signal processingperformed in sonar. Correlation processing,Fournier analysis, windowing, and ambiguityfunctions. Evaluation of probability of detectionand false alarm rate for FFT and broadbandsignal processors.

2. Beamforming and Array Processing.Beam patterns for sonar arrays, shadingtechniques for sidelobe control, beamformerimplementation. Calculation of DI and arraygain in directional noise fields.

3. Passive Sonar Signal Processing.Review of signal characteristics, ambientnoise, and platform noise. Passive systemconfigurations and implementations. Spectralanalysis and integration.

4. Active Sonar Signal Processing.Waveform selection and ambiguity functions.Projector configurations. Reverberation andmultipath effects. Receiver design.

5. Passive and Active Designs andImplementations. Design specifications andtrade-off examples will be worked, and actualsonar system implementations will beexamined.

6. Advanced Signal ProcessingTechniques. Advanced techniques forbeamforming, detection, estimation, andclassification will be explored. Optimal arrayprocessing. Data adaptive methods, superresolution spectral techniques, time-frequencyrepresentations and active/passive automatedclassification are among the advancedtechniques that will be covered.

May 10-12, 2011 Beltsville, Maryland



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Underwater Acoustics for Biologists and Conservation ManagersA comprehensive tutorial designed for environmental professionals

InstructorsDr. William T. Ellison is president of Marine Acoustics,

Inc., Middletown, RI. Dr. Ellison has over45 years of field and laboratory experiencein underwater acoustics spanning sonardesign, ASW tactics, software models andbiological field studies. He is a graduate ofthe Naval Academy and holds the degreesof MSME and Ph.D. from MIT. He haspublished numerous papers in the field of

acoustics and is a co-author of the 2007 monographMarine Mammal Noise Exposure Criteria: Initial ScientificRecommendations, as well as a member of the ASATechnical Working Group on the impact of noise on Fishand Turtles. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society ofAmerica and a Fellow of the Explorers Club.

Dr. Adam S. Frankel is a senior scientist with MarineAcoustics, Inc., Arlington, VA and vice-president of theHawaii Marine Mammal Consortium. For the past 25

years, his primary research has focused onthe role of natural sounds in marinemammals and the effects of anthropogenicsounds on the marine environment,especially the impact on marine mammals.A graduate of the College of William andMary, Dr. Frankel received his M.S. andPh.D. degrees from the University of

Hawaii at Manoa, where he studied and recorded thesounds of humpback whales. Post-doctoral work was withCornell University’s Bioacoustics Research Program.

What You Will Learn• What are the key characteristics of man-made sound

sources and usage of correct metrics.• How to evaluate the resultant sound field from

impulsive, coherent and continuous sources.• How are system characteristics measured and

calibrated.• What animal characteristics are important for

assessing both impact and requirements formonitoring/and mitigation.

• Capabilities of passive and active monitoring andmitigation systems.

From this course you will obtain the knowledge toperform basic assessments of the impact ofanthropogenic sources on marine life in specific oceanenvironments, and to understand the uncertainties inyour assessments.

SummaryThis four-day course is designed for biologists, and

conservation managers, who wish to enhance theirunderstanding of the underlying principles ofunderwater and engineering acoustics needed toevaluate the impact of anthropogenic noise on marinelife. This course provides a framework for makingobjective assessments of the impact of various types ofsound sources. Critical topics are introduced throughclear and readily understandable heuristic models andgraphics.

Course Outline1. The Language of Physics and the Study of

Motion. This quick review of physics basics is designedto introduce acoustics to the neophyte.

2. What Is Sound And How To Measure Its Level.The properties of sound are described, including thechallenging task of properly measuring and reporting itslevel.

3. Digital Representation of Sound. Today, almostall sound is recorded and analyzed digitally. This sectionfocuses on the process by which analog sound isdigitized, stored and analyzed.

4. Spectral Analysis: A Qualitative Introduction.The fundamental process for analyzing sound is spectralanalysis. This section will introduce spectral analysisand illustrate its application in creating frequency spectraand spectrograms.

5. Basics of Underwater Propagation and Use ofAcoustic Propagation Models. The fundamentalprinciples of geometric spreading, refraction, boundaryeffects and absorption will be introduced and illustratedusing propagation models.

6. Review of the Ocean Anthropogenic NoiseIssue. Current state of knowledge and key referencessummarizing scientific findings to date.

7. Basic Characteristics of Anthropogenic SoundSources. Impulsive (airguns, pile drivers, explosives),Coherent (sonars, acoustic modems, depth sounder.profilers), Continuous (shipping, offshore industrialactivities).

8. Marine Wildlife of Interest & TheirCharacteristics. Marine mammals, turtles, fish andinvertebrates, Bioacoustics, hearing threshold,vocalization behavior. Supporting databases onseasonal density, distribution & movement.

9. Assessment of the Impact of AnthropogenicSound. Source-transmission-receiver approach. Levelof sound as received by the wildlife, injury, behavioralresponse, TTS, PTS, Masking. Modeling Techniques,Field Measurements Assessment Methods.

10. Monitoring and Mitigation Techniques.Passive Devices (fixed and towed systems), ActiveDevices, Matching Device Capabilities to EnvironmentalRequirements (examples of passive and activelocalization, long term monitoring, fish exposure testing).

11. Overview of Current Research Efforts.

June 14-16, 2011Silver Spring, Maryland



NEW!


Course Outline1. Introduction. Nature of acoustical measurements

and prediction. Modern developments in physical andmathematical modeling. Diagnostic versus prognosticapplications. Latest developments in acoustic sensing ofthe oceans.

2. The Ocean as an Acoustic Medium. Distributionof physical and chemical properties in the oceans.Sound-speed calculation, measurement and distribution.Surface and bottom boundary conditions. Effects ofcirculation patterns, fronts, eddies and fine-scalefeatures on acoustics. Biological effects.

3. Propagation. Observations and Physical Models.Basic concepts, boundary interactions, attenuation andabsorption. Shear-wave effects in the sea floor and icecover. Ducting phenomena including surface ducts,sound channels, convergence zones, shallow-waterducts and Arctic half-channels. Spatial and temporalcoherence. Mathematical Models. Theoretical basis forpropagation modeling. Frequency-domain waveequation formulations including ray theory, normalmode, multipath expansion, fast field and parabolicapproximation techniques. New developments inshallow-water and under-ice models. Domains ofapplicability. Model summary tables. Data supportrequirements. Specific examples (PE and RAYMODE).References. Demonstrations.

4. Noise. Observations and Physical Models. Noisesources and spectra. Depth dependence anddirectionality. Slope-conversion effects. MathematicalModels. Theoretical basis for noise modeling. Ambientnoise and beam-noise statistics models. Pathologicalfeatures arising from inappropriate assumptions. Modelsummary tables. Data support requirements. Specificexample (RANDI-III). References.

5. Reverberation. Observations and PhysicalModels. Volume and boundary scattering. Shallow-water and under-ice reverberation features.Mathematical Models. Theoretical basis forreverberation modeling. Cell scattering and pointscattering techniques. Bistatic reverberationformulations and operational restrictions. Datasupport requirements. Specific examples (REVMODand Bistatic Acoustic Model). References.

6. Sonar Performance Models. Sonar equations.Model operating systems. Model summary tables. Datasupport requirements. Sources of oceanographic andacoustic data. Specific examples (NISSM and GenericSonar Model). References.

7. Modeling and Simulation. Review of simulationtheory including advanced methodologies andinfrastructure tools. Overview of engineering,engagement, mission and theater level models.Discussion of applications in concept evaluation, trainingand resource allocation.

8. Modern Applications in Shallow Water andInverse Acoustic Sensing. Stochastic modeling,broadband and time-domain modeling techniques,matched field processing, acoustic tomography, coupledocean-acoustic modeling, 3D modeling, and chaoticmetrics.

9. Model Evaluation. Guidelines for modelevaluation and documentation. Analytical benchmarksolutions. Theoretical and operational limitations.Verification, validation and accreditation. Examples.

10. Demonstrations and Problem Sessions.Demonstration of PC-based propagation and activesonar models. Hands-on problem sessions anddiscussion of results.

Underwater Acoustic Modeling and Simulation

SummaryThe subject of underwater acoustic modeling deals with

the translation of our physical understanding of sound inthe sea into mathematical formulas solvable bycomputers.

This course provides a comprehensive treatment of alltypes of underwater acoustic models includingenvironmental, propagation, noise, reverberation andsonar performance models.Specific examples of eachtype of model are discussedto illustrate modelformulations, assumptionsand algorithm efficiency.Guidelines for selecting andusing available propagation,noise and reverberationmodels are highlighted.Problem sessions allowstudents to exercise PC-based propagation and activesonar models.

Each student will receivea copy of Underwater Acoustic Modeling and Simulationby Paul C. Etter (a $250 value) in addition to a completeset of lecture notes.

InstructorPaul C. Etter has worked in the fields of ocean-atmosphere physics and environmental acoustics for the

past thirty years supporting federal andstate agencies, academia and privateindustry. He received his BS degree inPhysics and his MS degree inOceanography at Texas A&M University.Mr. Etter served on active duty in the U.S.Navy as an Anti-Submarine Warfare

(ASW) Officer aboard frigates. He is the author or co-author of more than 140 technical reports and professionalpapers addressing environmental measurementtechnology, underwater acoustics and physicaloceanography. Mr. Etter is the author of the textbookUnderwater Acoustic Modeling and Simulation.

What You Will Learn• What models are available to support sonar

engineering and oceanographic research.• How to select the most appropriate models based on

user requirements.• Where to obtain the latest models and databases.• How to operate models and generate reliable

results.• How to evaluate model accuracy.• How to solve sonar equations and simulate sonar

performance.• Where the most promising international research is

being performed.

April 18-21, 2011 Beltsville, Maryland




What You Will Learn• How to attack vibration and noise problems.• What means are available for vibration and noise control.• How to make vibration isolation, damping, and absorbers

work.• How noise is generated and radiated, and how it can be

reduced.

InstructorsDr. Eric Ungar has specialized in research and

consulting in vibration and noise formore than 40 years, published over200 technical papers, and translatedand revised Structure-Borne Sound.He has led short courses at thePennsylvania State University for over25 years and has presented

numerous seminars worldwide. Dr. Ungar hasserved as President of the Acoustical Society ofAmerica, as President of the Institute of NoiseControl Engineering, and as Chairman of theDesign Engineering Division of the AmericanSociety of Mechanical Engineers. ASA honored himwith it’s Trent-Crede Medal in Shock and Vibration.ASME awarded him the Per Bruel Gold Medal forNoise Control and Acoustics for his work onvibrations of complex structures, structuraldamping, and isolation.Dr. James Moore has, for the past twenty years,

concentrated on the transmission ofnoise and vibration in complexstructures, on improvements of noiseand vibration control methods, and onthe enhancement of sound quality.He has developed Statistical EnergyAnalysis models for the investigation

of vibration and noise in complex structures such assubmarines, helicopters, and automobiles. He hasbeen instrumental in the acquisition ofcorresponding data bases. He has participated inthe development of active noise control systems,noise reduction coating and signal conditioningmeans, as well as in the presentation of numerousshort courses and industrial training programs.

SummaryThis course is intended for engineers and

scientists concerned with the vibration reductionand quieting of vehicles, devices, and equipment. Itwill emphasize understanding of the relevantphenomena and concepts in order to enable theparticipants to address a wide range of practicalproblems insightfully. The instructors will draw ontheir extensive experience to illustrate the subjectmatter with examples related to the participant’sspecific areas of interest. Although the course willbegin with a review and will include somedemonstrations, participants ideally should havesome prior acquaintance with vibration or noisefields. Each participant will receive a complete set ofcourse notes and the text Noise and VibrationControl Engineering, a $210 value.

Course Outline1. Review of Vibration Fundamentals from a

Practical Perspective. The roles of energy and forcebalances. When to add mass, stiffeners, and damping.General strategy for attacking practical problems.Comprehensive checklist of vibration control means.

2. Structural Damping Demystified. Wheredamping can and cannot help. How damping ismeasured. Overview of important dampingmechanisms. Application principles. Dynamic behaviorof plastic and elastomeric materials. Design oftreatments employing viscoelastic materials.

3. Expanded Understanding of VibrationIsolation. Where transmissibility is and is not useful.Some common misconceptions regarding inertiabases, damping, and machine speed. Accounting forsupport and machine frame flexibility, isolator massand wave effects, source reaction. Benefits and pitfallsof two-stage isolation. The role of active isolationsystems.

4. The Power of Vibration Absorbers. How tuneddampers work. Effects of tuning, mass, damping.Optimization. How waveguide energy absorbers work.

5. Structure-borne Sound and High FrequencyVibration. Where modal and finite-element analysescannot work. Simple response estimation. What isStatistical Energy Analysis and how does it work? Howwaves propagate along structures and radiate sound.

6. No-Nonsense Basics of Noise and its Control.Review of levels, decibels, sound pressure, power,intensity, directivity. Frequency bands, filters, andmeasures of noisiness. Radiation efficiency. Overviewof common noise sources. Noise control strategies andmeans.

7. Intelligent Measurement and Analysis.Diagnostic strategy. Selecting the right transducers;how and where to place them. The power of spectrumanalyzers. Identifying and characterizing sources andpaths.

8. Coping with Noise in Rooms. Where soundabsorption can and cannot help. Practical soundabsorbers and absorptive materials. Effects of full andpartial enclosures. Sound transmission to adjacentareas. Designing enclosures, wrappings, and barriers.

9. Ducts and Mufflers. Sound propagation inducts. Duct linings. Reactive mufflers and side-branchresonators. Introduction to current developments inactive attenuation.




Vibration and Noise ControlNew Insights and Developments


Communications Payload Design and Satellite System Architecture

InstructorBruce R. Elbert (MSEE, MBA) is an independent

consultant and Adjunct Prof of Engineering, Univ of Wisc,Madison.

He is a recognized satellitecommunications expert with 40 years ofexperience in satellite communicationspayload and systems design engineeringbeginning at COMSAT Laboratories andincluding 25 years with Hughes Electronics.He has contributed to the design andconstruction of major communications,

including Intelsat, Inmarsat, Galaxy, Thuraya, DIRECTVand Palapa A.

He has written eight books, including: The SatelliteCommunication Applications Handbook, Second Edition,The Satellite Communication Ground Segment and EarthStation Handbook, and Introduction to SatelliteCommunication, Third Edition.

April 5-7, 2011Alburquerque, New Mexico$1590 (8:30am - 4:00pm)

"Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 eachOff The Course Tuition."

SummaryThis three-day course provides communications and

satellite systems engineers and system architects with acomprehensive and accurate approach for thespecification and detailed design of the communicationspayload and its integration into a satellite system. Bothstandard bent pipe repeaters and digital processors (onboard and ground-based) are studied in depth, andoptimized from the standpoint of maximizing throughputand coverage (single footprint and multi-beam).Applications in Fixed Satellite Service (C, X, Ku and Kabands) and Mobile Satellite Service (L and S bands) areaddressed as are the requirements of the associatedground segment for satellite control and the provision ofservices to end users.

What You Will Learn• How to transform system and service requirements into

payload specifications and design elements.• What are the specific characteristics of payload

components, such as antennas, LNAs, microwave filters,channel and power amplifiers, and power combiners.

• What space and ground architecture to employ whenevaluating on-board processing and multiple beamantennas, and how these may be configured for optimumend-to-end performance.

• How to understand the overall system architecture and thecapabilities of ground segment elements - hubs and remoteterminals - to integrate with the payload, constellation andend-to-end system.

• From this course you will obtain the knowledge, skill andability to configure a communications payload based on itsservice requirements and technical features. You willunderstand the engineering processes and devicecharacteristics that determine how the payload is puttogether and operates in a state - of - the - arttelecommunications system to meet user needs.

Course Outline1. Communications Payloads and Service

Requirements. Bandwidth, coverage, services andapplications; RF link characteristics and appropriate use of linkbudgets; bent pipe payloads using passive and activecomponents; specific demands for broadband data, IP oversatellite, mobile communications and service availability;principles for using digital processing in system architecture,and on-board processor examples at L band (non-GEO andGEO) and Ka band.

2. Systems Engineering to Meet ServiceRequirements. Transmission engineering of the satellite linkand payload (modulation and FEC, standards such as DVB-S2and Adaptive Coding and Modulation, ATM and IP routing inspace); optimizing link and payload design throughconsideration of traffic distribution and dynamics, link margin,RF interference and frequency coordination requirements.

3. Bent-pipe Repeater Design. Example of a detailedblock and level diagram, design for low noise amplification,down-conversion design, IMUX and band-pass filtering, groupdelay and gain slope, AGC and linearizaton, poweramplification (SSPA and TWTA, linearization and parallelcombining), OMUX and design for high power/multipactor,redundancy switching and reliability assessment.

4. Spacecraft Antenna Design and Performance. Fixedreflector systems (offset parabola, Gregorian, Cassegrain)feeds and feed systems, movable and reconfigurableantennas; shaped reflectors; linear and circular polarization.

5. Communications Payload Performance Budgeting.Gain to Noise Temperature Ratio (G/T), Saturation FluxDensity (SFD), and Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP);repeater gain/loss budgeting; frequency stability and phasenoise; third-order intercept (3ICP), gain flatness, group delay;non-linear phase shift (AM/PM); out of band rejection andamplitude non-linearity (C3IM and NPR).

6. On-board Digital Processor Technology. A/D and D/Aconversion, digital signal processing for typical channels andformats (FDMA, TDMA, CDMA); demodulation andremodulation, multiplexing and packet switching; static anddynamic beam forming; design requirements and serviceimpacts.

7. Multi-beam Antennas. Fixed multi-beam antennasusing multiple feeds, feed layout and isloation; phased arrayapproaches using reflectors and direct radiating arrays; on-board versus ground-based beamforming.

8. RF Interference and Spectrum ManagementConsiderations. Unraveling the FCC and ITU internationalregulatory and coordination process; choosing frequencybands that address service needs; development of regulatoryand frequency coordination strategy based on successful casestudies.

9. Ground Segment Selection and Optimization.Overall architecture of the ground segment: satellite TT&C andcommunications services; earth station and user terminalcapabilities and specifications (fixed and mobile); modems andbaseband systems; selection of appropriate antenna based onlink requirements and end-user/platform considerations.

10. Earth station and User Terminal Tradeoffs: RFtradeoffs (RF power, EIRP, G/T); network design for provisionof service (star, mesh and hybrid networks); portability andmobility.

11. Performance and Capacity Assessment.Determining capacity requirements in terms of bandwidth,power and network operation; selection of the air interface(multiple access, modulation and coding); interfaces withsatellite and ground segment; relationship to availablestandards in current use and under development .

12. Satellite System Verification Methodology.Verification engineering for the payload and ground segment;where and how to review sources of available technology andsoftware to evaluate subsystem and system performance;guidelines for overseeing development and evaluatingalternate technologies and their sources; example of acomplete design of a communications payload and systemarchitecture.

NEW!


Earth Station Design, Implementation, Operation and Maintenancefor Satellite Communications

Course Outline1. Ground Segment and Earth Station Technical

Aspects.Evolution of satellite communication earth stations—

teleports and hubs • Earth station design philosophy forperformance and operational effectiveness • Engineeringprinciples • Propagation considerations • The isotropic source,line of sight, antenna principles • Atmospheric effects:troposphere (clear air and rain) and ionosphere (Faraday andscintillation) • Rain effects and rainfall regions • Use of theDAH and Crane rain models • Modulation systems (QPSK,OQPSK, MSK, GMSK, 8PSK, 16 QAM, and 32 APSK) •Forward error correction techniques (Viterbi, Reed-Solomon,Turbo, and LDPC codes) • Transmission equation and itsrelationship to the link budget • Radio frequency clearanceand interference consideration • RFI prediction techniques •Antenna sidelobes (ITU-R Rec 732) • Interference criteria andcoordination • Site selection • RFI problem identification andresolution.

2. Major Earth Station Engineering.RF terminal design and optimization. Antennas for major

earth stations (fixed and tracking, LP and CP) • Upconverterand HPA chain (SSPA, TWTA, and KPA) • LNA/LNB anddownconverter chain. Optimization of RF terminalconfiguration and performance (redundancy, powercombining, and safety) • Baseband equipment configurationand integration • Designing and verifying the terrestrialinterface • Station monitor and control • Facility design andimplementation • Prime power and UPS systems. Developingenvironmental requirements (HVAC) • Building design andconstruction • Grounding and lightening control.

3. Hub Requirements and Supply.Earth station uplink and downlink gain budgets • EIRP

budget • Uplink gain budget and equipment requirements •G/T budget • Downlink gain budget • Ground segment supplyprocess • Equipment and system specifications • Format of aRequest for Information • Format of a Request for Proposal •Proposal evaluations • Technical comparison criteria •Operational requirements • Cost-benefit and total cost ofownership.

4. Link Budget Analysis using SatMaster Tool .Standard ground rules for satellite link budgets • Frequency

band selection: L, S, C, X, Ku, and Ka. Satellite footprints(EIRP, G/T, and SFD) and transponder plans • Introduction tothe user interface of SatMaster • File formats: antennapointing, database, digital link budget, and regenerativerepeater link budget • Built-in reference data and calculators •Example of a digital one-way link budget (DVB-S) usingequations and SatMaster • Transponder loading and optimummulti-carrier backoff • Review of link budget optimizationtechniques using the program’s built-in features • Minimizerequired transponder resources • Maximize throughput •Minimize receive dish size • Minimize transmit power •Example: digital VSAT network with multi-carrier operation •Hub optimization using SatMaster.

5. Earth Terminal Maintenance Requirements andProcedures.

• Outdoor systems • Antennas, mounts and waveguide •Field of view • Shelter, power and safety • Indoor RF and IFsystems • Vendor requirements by subsystem • Failure modesand routine testing.

6. VSAT Basseband Hub Maintenance Requirementsand Procedures.

IF and modem equipment • Performance evaluation • Testprocedures • TDMA control equipment and software •Hardware and computers • Network management system •System software

7. Hub Procurement and Operation Case Study.General requirements and life-cycle • Block diagram •

Functional division into elements for design and procurement• System level specifications • Vendor options • Supplyspecifications and other requirements • RFP definition •Proposal evaluation • O&M planning

June 6-9, 2011Beltsville, Maryland



SummaryThis intensive four-day course is intended for satellite

communications engineers, earth station designprofessionals, and operations and maintenance managersand technical staff. The course provides a proven approach tothe design of modern earth stations, from the system leveldown to the critical elements that determine the performanceand reliability of the facility. We address the essentialtechnical properties in the baseband and RF, and delvedeeply into the block diagram, budgets and specification ofearth stations and hubs. Also addressed are practicalapproaches for the procurement and implementation of thefacility, as well as proper practices for O&M and testingthroughout the useful life. The overall methodology assuresthat the earth station meets its requirements in a cost effectiveand manageable manner. Each student will receive a copy ofBruce R. Elbert’s text The Satellite Communication GroundSegment and Earth Station Engineering Handbook, ArtechHouse, 2001.

InstructorBruce R. Elbert, MSc (EE), MBA, President,

Application Technology Strategy, Inc.,Thousand Oaks, California; andAdjunct Professor, College ofEngineering, University of Wisconsin,Madison. Mr. Elbert is a recognizedsatellite communications expert andhas been involved in the satellite and

telecommunications industries for over 30 years. Hefounded ATSI to assist major private and public sectororganizations that develop and operate cutting-edgenetworks using satellite technologies and services.During 25 years with Hughes Electronics, he directedthe design of several major satellite projects, includingPalapa A, Indonesia’s original satellite system; theGalaxy follow-on system (the largest and mostsuccessful satellite TV system in the world); and thedevelopment of the first GEO mobile satellite systemcapable of serving handheld user terminals. Mr. Elbertwas also ground segment manager for the Hughessystem, which included eight teleports and 3 VSAThubs. He served in the US Army Signal Corps as aradio communications officer and instructor.

By considering the technical, business, andoperational aspects of satellite systems, Mr. Elbert hascontributed to the operational and economic successof leading organizations in the field. He has writtenseven books on telecommunications and IT, includingIntroduction to Satellite Communication, Third Edition(Artech House, 2008). The Satellite CommunicationApplications Handbook, Second Edition (ArtechHouse, 2004); The Satellite Communication GroundSegment and Earth Station Handbook (Artech House,2001), the course text.

NEW!


Fundamentals of Orbital & Launch MechanicsMilitary, Civilian and Deep-Space Applications

InstructorFor more than 30 years, Thomas S. Logsdon, has

worked on the Navstar GPS and other relatedtechnologies at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory,McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed Martin, BoeingAerospace, and Rockwell International. His researchprojects and consulting assignments have included theTransit Navigation Satellites, The Tartar and Talos

shipboard missiles, and the NavstarGPS. In addition, he has helped putastronauts on the moon and guidedtheir colleagues on rendezvousmissions headed toward the Skylabcapsule, and helped fly space probes tothe nearby planets.

Some of his more challenging assignments haveincluded trajectory optimization, constellation design,booster rocket performance enhancement, spacecraftsurvivability, differential navigation and booster rocketguidance using the GPS signals.

Tom Logsdon has taught short courses and lecturedin 31 different countries. He has written and published40 technical papers and journal articles, a dozen ofwhich have dealt with military and civilianradionavigation techniques. He is also the author of 29technical books on a variety of mathematical,engineering and scientific subjects. These includeUnderstanding the Navstar, Orbital Mechanics: Theoryand Applications, Mobile Communication Satellites,and The Navstar Global Positioning System.

What You Will Learn• How do we launch a satellite into orbit and maneuver it to

a new location?• How do we design a performance-optimal constellation of

satellites?• Why do planetary swingby maneuvers provide such

profound gains in performance, and what do we pay forthese important performance gains?

• How can we design the best multistage rocket for aparticular mission?

• What are Lagrangian libration-point orbits? Which ones aredynamically stable? How can we place satellites into haloorbits circling around these moving points in space?

• What are JPL’s gravity tubes? How were they discovered?How are they revolutionizing the exploration of space?

Course Outline1. Concepts from Astrodynamics. Kepler’s Laws.

Newton’s clever generalizations. Evaluating the earth’sgravitational parameter. Launch azimuths and ground-trace geometry. Orbital perturbations.

2. Satellite Orbits. Isaac Newton’s vis viva equation.Orbital energy and angular momentum. Gravity wells. Thesix classical Keplerian orbital elements. Station-keepingmaneuvers.

3. Rocket Propulsion Fundamentals. Momentumcalculations. Specific impulse. The rocket equation.Building efficient liquid and solid rockets. Performancecalculations. Multi-stage rocket design.

4. Enhancing a Rocket’s Performance. Optimal fuelbiasing techniques. The programmed mixture ratioscheme. Optimal trajectory shaping. Iterative leastsquares hunting procedures. Trajectory reconstruction.Determining the best estimate of propellant mass.

5. Expendable Rockets and Reusable SpaceShuttles. Operational characteristics, performancecurves. Single-stage-to-orbit vehicles. The Falcon 9.

6. Powered Flight Maneuvers. The classicalHohmann transfer maneuver. Multi-impulse and low-thrustmaneuvers. Plane-change maneuvers. The bi-elliptictransfer. Relative motion plots. Military evasivemaneuvers. Deorbit techniques. Planetary swingbys andballistic capture maneuvers.

7. Optimal Orbit Selection. Polar and sun-synchronous orbits. Geostationary orbits and their majorperturbations. ACE-orbit constellations. Lagrangianlibration point orbits. Halo orbits. Interplanetarytrajectories. Mars-mission opportunities and deep-spacetrajectories.

8. Constellation Selection Trades. Existing civilianand military constellations. Constellation designtechniques. John Walker’s rosette configurations. CaptainDraim’s constellations. Repeating ground-trace orbits.Earth coverage simulation routines.

9. Cruising along JPL’s Invisible Rivers of Gravityin Space. Equipotential surfaces. 3-dimensionalmanifolds. Developing NASA’s clever Genesis mission.Capturing stardust in space. Simulating thick bundles ofchaotic trajectories. Experiencing tomorrow’s unpavedfreeways in the sky.

June 20-23, 2011Columbia, Maryland

September 12-15, 2011Manhattan Beach, California$1895 (8:30am - 4:00pm)


SummaryAward-winning rocket scientist Thomas S. Logsdon

has carefully tailored this comprehensive 4-day shortcourse to serve the needs of those military, aerospace,and defense-industry professionals who mustunderstand, design, and manage today’sincreasingly complicated and demandingaerospace missions.

Each topic is illustrated with one-pagemathematical derivations and numericalexamples that use actual publishedinputs from real-world rockets,satellites, and spacecraft missions.The lessons help you lay outperformance-optimal missions in concertwith your professional colleagues.

Each studentwill receive a free GPSNavigator!


Ground Systems Design and Operation

SummaryThis three-day course provides a practical

introduction to all aspects of ground system design andoperation. Starting with basic communicationsprinciples, an understanding is developed of groundsystem architectures and system design issues. Thefunction of major ground system elements is explained,leading to a discussion of day-to-day operations. Thecourse concludes with a discussion of current trends inGround System design and operations.

This course is intended for engineers, technicalmanagers, and scientists who are interested inacquiring a working understanding of ground systemsas an introduction to the field or to help broaden theiroverall understanding of space mission systems andmission operations. It is also ideal for technicalprofessionals who need to use, manage, operate, orpurchase a ground system.

InstructorSteve Gemeny is Principal Program Engineer.

Formerly Senior Member of theProfessional Staff at The Johns HopkinsUniversity Applied Physics Laboratorywhere he served as Ground Station Leadfor the TIMED mission to explore Earth’satmosphere and Lead Ground SystemEngineer on the New Horizons mission

to explore Pluto by 2020. Prior to joining the AppliedPhysics Laboratory, Mr. Gemeny held numerousengineering and technical sales positions with OrbitalSciences Corporation, Mobile TeleSystems Inc. andCOMSAT Corporation beginning in 1980. Mr. Gemenyis an experienced professional in the field of GroundStation and Ground System design in both thecommercial world and on NASA Science missions witha wealth of practical knowledge spanning nearly threedecades. Mr. Gemeny delivers his experiences andknowledge to his students with an informative andentertaining presentation style.

What You Will Learn• The fundamentals of ground system design,

architecture and technology.• Cost and performance tradeoffs in the spacecraft-to-

ground communications link.• Cost and performance tradeoffs in the design and

implementation of a ground system.• The capabilities and limitations of the various

modulation types (FM, PSK, QPSK).• The fundamentals of ranging and orbit determination

for orbit maintenance.• Basic day-to-day operations practices and

procedures for typical ground systems.• Current trends and recent experiences in cost and

schedule constrained operations.


September 26-28, 2011Albuquerque, New Mexico$1590 (8:30am - 4:00pm)


Course Outline1. The Link Budget. An introduction to

basic communications system principles andtheory; system losses, propagation effects,Ground Station performance, and frequencyselection.

2. Ground System Architecture andSystem Design. An overview of groundsystem topology providing an introduction toground system elements and technologies.

3. Ground System Elements. An elementby element review of the major ground stationsubsystems, explaining roles, parameters,limitations, tradeoffs, and current technology.

4. Figure of Merit (G/T). An introduction tothe key parameter used to characterizesatellite ground station performance, bringingall ground station elements together to form acomplete system.

5. Modulation Basics. An introduction tomodulation types, signal sets, analog anddigital modulation schemes, and modulator -demodulator performance characteristics.

6. Ranging and Tracking. A discussion ofranging and tracking for orbit determination.

7. Ground System Networks andStandards. A survey of several groundsystem networks and standards with adiscussion of applicability, advantages,disadvantages, and alternatives.

8. Ground System Operations. Adiscussion of day-to-day operations in a typicalground system including planning and staffing,spacecraft commanding, health and statusmonitoring, data recovery, orbit determination,and orbit maintenance.

9. Trends in Ground System Design. Adiscussion of the impact of the current cost andschedule constrained approach on GroundSystem design and operation, including COTShardware and software systems, autonomy,and unattended “lights out” operations.


IP Networking Over SatelliteFor Government, Military & Commercial Enterprises

What You Will Learn• How packet switching works and how it enables voice and

data networking.• The rules and protocols for packet switching in the Internet.• How to use satellites as essential elements in mission

critical data networks.• How to understand and overcome the impact of

propagation delay and bit errors on throughput andresponse time in satellite-based IP networks.

• How to link satellite and terrestrial circuits to create hybridIP networks.

• How to select the appropriate system architectures forInternet access, enterprise and content delivery networks.How to improve the efficiency of your satellite links.

• How to design satellite-based networks to meet userthroughput and response time requirements in demandingmilitary and commercial environments.

• The impact on cost and performance of new technology,such as LEOs, Ka band, on-board processing, inter-satellite links.After taking this course you will understand how the

Internet works and how to implement satellite-basednetworks that provide Internet access, multicast contentdelivery services, and mission-critical Intranet services tousers around the world.

SummaryThis three-day course is designed for satellite

engineers and managers in military, government andindustry who need to increase their understanding of theInternet and how Internet Protocols (IP) can be used totransmit data and voice over satellites. IP has become theworldwide standard for data communications in militaryand commercial applications. Satellites extend the reachof the Internet and mission critical Intranets. Satellitesdeliver multicast content efficiently anywhere in the world.With these benefits come challenges. Satellite delay andbit errors can impact performance. Satellite links must beintegrated with terrestrial networks. Space segment isexpensive; there are routing and security issues. Thiscourse explains the techniques and architectures used tomitigate these challenges. Quantitative techniques forunderstanding throughput and response time arepresented. System diagrams describe thesatellite/terrestrial interface. The course notes provide anup-to-date reference. An extensive bibliography issupplied.

Course Outline1. Introduction. 2. Fundamentals of Data Networking. Packet

switching, circuit switching, seven Layer Model (ISO).Wide Area Networks including, ATM, Aloha, DVB. LocalArea Networks, Ethernet. Physical communications layer.

3. The Internet and its Protocols. The InternetProtocol (IP). Addressing, Routing, Multicasting.Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Impact of bit errorsand propagation delay on TCP-based applications. UserDatagram Protocol (UDP). Introduction to higher levelservices. NAT and tunneling. Impact of IP Version 6.

4. Quality of Service Issues in the Internet. QoSfactors for streams and files. Performance of voice andvideo over IP. Response time for web object retrievalsusing HTTP. Methods for improving QoS: ATM, MPLS,Differentiated services, RSVP. Priority processing andpacket discard in routers. Caching and performanceenhancement. Network Management and Security issuesincluding the impact of encryption in a satellite network.

5. Satellite Data Networking Architectures.Geosynchronous satellites. The link budget, modulationand coding techniques. Methods for improving satellitelink efficiency – more bits per second per hertz. Groundstation architectures for data networking: Point to Point,Point to Multipoint. Shared outbound carriersincorporating DVB. Return channels for shared outboundsystems: TDMA, CDMA, Aloha, DVB/RCS. Meshednetworks. Suppliers of DAMA systems. Military,commercial standards for DAMA systems.

6. System Design Issues. Mission critical Intranetissues including asymmetric routing, reliable multicast,impact of user mobility. Military and commercial contentdelivery case histories.

7. A TDMA/DAMA Design Example. Integrating voiceand data requirements in a mission-critical Intranet. Costand bandwidth efficiency comparison of SCPC,standards-based TDMA/DAMA and proprietaryTDMA/DAMA approaches. Tradeoffs associated withVOIP approach and use of encryption.

8. Predicting Performance in Mission CriticalNetworks. Queuing theory helps predict response time.Single server and priority queues. A design case history,using queuing theory to determine how much bandwidth isneeded to meet response time goals in a mission criticalvoice and data network. Use of simulation to predictperformance.

9. A View of the Future. Impact of Ka-band and spotbeam satellites. Benefits and issues associated withOnboard Processing. LEO, MEO, GEOs. Descriptions ofcurrent and proposed commercial and military satellitesystems including MUOS, GBS and the new generation ofcommercial internet satellites. Low-cost ground stationtechnology.




InstructorBurt H. Liebowitz is Principal Network Engineer at the

MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia,specializing in the analysis of wirelessservices. He has more than 30 yearsexperience in computer networking, thelast ten of which have focused on Internet-over-satellite services in demandingmilitary and commercial applications. Hewas President of NetSat Express Inc., a

leading provider of such services. Before that he wasChief Technical Officer for Loral Orion, responsible forInternet-over-satellite access products. Mr. Liebowitz hasauthored two books on distributed processing andnumerous articles on computing and communicationssystems. He has lectured extensively on computernetworking. He holds three patents for a satellite-baseddata networking system. Mr. Liebowitz has B.E.E. andM.S. in Mathematics degrees from RensselaerPolytechnic Institute, and an M.S.E.E. from PolytechnicInstitute of Brooklyn.


What You Will Learn• How do commercial satellites fit into the telecommunications

industry?• How are satellites planned, built, launched, and operated?• How do earth stations function?• What is a link budget and why is it important?• What legal and regulatory restrictions affect the industry? • What are the issues and trends driving the industry?

SummaryThis three-day introductory course has been taught to

thousands of industry professionals for more than twodecades, to rave reviews. The course is intended primarily fornon-technical people who must understand the entire field ofcommercial satellite communications, and who mustunderstand and communicate with engineers and othertechnical personnel. The secondary audience is technicalpersonnel moving into the industry who need a quick andthorough overview of what is going on in the industry, and whoneed an example of how to communicate with less technicalindividuals. The material is frequently updated and the courseis a primer to the concepts, jargon, buzzwords, and acronymsof the industry, plus an overview of commercial satellitecommunications hardware, operations, and businessenvironment.

Concepts are explained at a basic level, minimizing theuse of math, and providing real-world examples. Severalcalculations of important concepts such as link budgets arepresented for illustrative purposes, but the details need not beunderstood in depth to gain an understanding of the conceptsillustrated. The first section provides non-technical peoplewith the technical background necessary to understand thespace and earth segments of the industry, culminating withthe importance of the link budget. The concluding section ofthe course provides an overview of the business issues,including major operators, regulation and legal issues, andissues and trends affecting the industry. Attendees receive acopy of the instructor's new textbook, SatelliteCommunications for the Non-Specialist, and will have time todiscuss issues pertinent to their interests.


September 20-22, 2011Los Angeles, California



InstructorDr. Mark R. Chartrand is a consultant and lecturer in satellite

telecommunications and the space sciences.For a more than twenty-five years he haspresented professional seminars on satellitetechnology and on telecommunications tosatisfied individuals and businessesthroughout the United States, Canada, LatinAmerica, Europe and Asia.

Dr. Chartrand has served as a technicaland/or business consultant to NASA, Arianespace, GTESpacenet, Intelsat, Antares Satellite Corp., Moffett-Larson-Johnson, Arianespace, Delmarva Power, Hewlett-Packard,and the International Communications Satellite Society ofJapan, among others. He has appeared as an invited expertwitness before Congressional subcommittees and was aninvited witness before the National Commission on Space. Hewas the founding editor and the Editor-in-Chief of the annualThe World Satellite Systems Guide, and later the publicationStrategic Directions in Satellite Communication. He is authorof six books and hundreds of articles in the space sciences.He has been chairman of several international satelliteconferences, and a speaker at many others.

Course Outline1. Satellites and Telecommunication. Introduction

and historical background. Legal and regulatoryenvironment of satellite telecommunications: industryissues; standards and protocols; regulatory bodies;satellite services and applications; steps to licensing asystem. Telecommunications users, applications, andmarkets: fixed services, broadcast services, mobileservices, navigation services.

2. Communications Fundamentals. Basic definitionsand measurements: decibels. The spectrum and its uses:properties of waves; frequency bands; bandwidth. Analogand digital signals. Carrying information on waves: coding,modulation, multiplexing, networks and protocols. Signalquality, quantity, and noise: measures of signal quality;noise; limits to capacity; advantages of digital.

3. The Space Segment. The space environment:gravity, radiation, solid material. Orbits: types of orbits;geostationary orbits; non-geostationary orbits. Orbitalslots, frequencies, footprints, and coverage: slots; satellitespacing; eclipses; sun interference. Out to launch:launcher’s job; launch vehicles; the launch campaign;launch bases. Satellite systems and construction:structure and busses; antennas; power; thermal control;stationkeeping and orientation; telemetry and command.Satellite operations: housekeeping and communications.

4. The Ground Segment. Earth stations: types,hardware, and pointing. Antenna properties: gain;directionality; limits on sidelobe gain. Space loss,electronics, EIRP, and G/T: LNA-B-C’s; signal flow throughan earth station.

5. The Satellite Earth Link. Atmospheric effects onsignals: rain; rain climate models; rain fade margins. Linkbudgets: C/N and Eb/No. Multiple access: SDMA, FDMA,TDMA, CDMA; demand assignment; on-boardmultiplexing.

6. Satellite Communications Systems. Satellitecommunications providers: satellite competitiveness;competitors; basic economics; satellite systems andoperators; using satellite systems. Issues, trends, and thefuture.

Testimonial: …I truly enjoyedyour course andhearing of youradventures in theSatellite business.

You have a definitegift in teaching styleand explanations.”

Satellite CommunicationsAn Essential Introduction


Course Outline1. Mission Analysis. Kepler’s laws. Circular and

elliptical satellite orbits. Altitude regimes. Period ofrevolution. Geostationary Orbit. Orbital elements. Groundtrace.

2. Earth-Satellite Geometry. Azimuth and elevation.Slant range. Coverage area.

3. Signals and Spectra. Properties of a sinusoidalwave. Synthesis and analysis of an arbitrary waveform.Fourier Principle. Harmonics. Fourier series and Fouriertransform. Frequency spectrum.

4. Methods of Modulation. Overview of modulation.Carrier. Sidebands. Analog and digital modulation. Needfor RF frequencies.

5. Analog Modulation. Amplitude Modulation (AM).Frequency Modulation (FM).

6. Digital Modulation. Analog to digital conversion.BPSK, QPSK, 8PSK FSK, QAM. Coherent detection andcarrier recovery. NRZ and RZ pulse shapes. Power spectraldensity. ISI. Nyquist pulse shaping. Raised cosine filtering.

7. Bit Error Rate. Performance objectives. Eb/No.Relationship between BER and Eb/No. Constellationdiagrams. Why do BPSK and QPSK require the samepower?

8. Coding. Shannon’s theorem. Code rate. Coding gain.Methods of FEC coding. Hamming, BCH, and Reed-Solomon block codes. Convolutional codes. Viterbi andsequential decoding. Hard and soft decisions.Concatenated coding. Turbo coding. Trellis coding.

9. Bandwidth. Equivalent (noise) bandwidth. Occupiedbandwidth. Allocated bandwidth. Relationship betweenbandwidth and data rate. Dependence of bandwidth onmethods of modulation and coding. Tradeoff betweenbandwidth and power. Emerging trends for bandwidthefficient modulation.

10. The Electromagnetic Spectrum. Frequency bandsused for satellite communication. ITU regulations. FixedSatellite Service. Direct Broadcast Service. Digital AudioRadio Service. Mobile Satellite Service.

11. Earth Stations. Facility layout. RF components.Network Operations Center. Data displays.

12. Antennas. Antenna patterns. Gain. Half powerbeamwidth. Efficiency. Sidelobes.

13. System Temperature. Antenna temperature. LNA.Noise figure. Total system noise temperature.

14. Satellite Transponders. Satellite communicationspayload architecture. Frequency plan. Transponder gain.TWTA and SSPA. Amplifier characteristics. Nonlinearity.Intermodulation products. SFD. Backoff.

15. Multiple Access Techniques. Frequency divisionmultiple access (FDMA). Time division multiple access(TDMA). Code division multiple access (CDMA) or spreadspectrum. Capacity estimates.

16. Polarization. Linear and circular polarization.Misalignment angle.

17. Rain Loss. Rain attenuation. Crane rain model.Effect on G/T.

18. The RF Link. Decibel (dB) notation. Equivalentisotropic radiated power (EIRP). Figure of Merit (G/T). Freespace loss. Power flux density. Carrier to noise ratio. TheRF link equation.

19. Link Budgets. Communications link calculations.Uplink, downlink, and composite performance. Linkbudgets for single carrier and multiple carrier operation.Detailed worked examples.

20. Performance Measurements. Satellite modem.Use of a spectrum analyzer to measure bandwidth, C/N,and Eb/No. Comparison of actual measurements withtheory using a mobile antenna and a geostationary satellite.

InstructorDr. Robert A. Nelson is president of Satellite

Engineering Research Corporation, aconsulting firm in Bethesda, Maryland,with clients in both commercial industryand government. Dr. Nelson holds thedegree of Ph.D. in physics from theUniversity of Maryland and is a licensedProfessional Engineer. He is coauthor ofthe textbook Satellite Communication

Systems Engineering, 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall, 1993).He is a member of IEEE, AIAA, APS, AAPT, AAS, IAU,and ION.


September 13-15, 2011Beltsville, Maryland



Testimonials“Instructor truly knows material. Theone-hour sessions are brilliant.”

“Exceptional knowledge. Very effectivepresentation.”

“Great handouts. Great presentation. Greatreal-life course note examples and cd. Theinstructor made good use of student’sexperiences.”

“Very well prepared and presented. Theinstructor has an excellent grasp ofmaterial and articulates it well”

“Outstanding at explaining and definingquantifiably the theory underlying theconcepts.”

“Very well organized. Excellent referenceequations and theory. Good examples.”

“Good broad general coverage of acomplex subject.”

Additional MaterialsIn addition to the course notes, each participant willreceive a book of collected tutorial articles written bythe instructor and soft copies of the link budgetsdiscussed in the course.

Satellite Communication Systems EngineeringA comprehensive, quantitative tutorial designed for satellite professionals


What You Will Learn• The important systems engineering principles and latest

technologies for spacecraft communications and onboardcomputing.

• The design drivers for today’s command, telemetry,communications, and processor systems.

• How to design an RF link.• How to deal with noise, radiation, bit errors, and spoofing.• Keys to developing hi-rel, realtime, embedded software.• How spacecraft are tracked.• Working with government and commercial ground stations.• Command and control for satellite constellations.

InstructorsEric J. Hoffman has degrees in electrical engineering and

over 40 years of spacecraft experience. Hehas designed spaceborne communicationsand navigation equipment and performedsystems engineering on many APL satellitesand communications systems. He hasauthored over 60 papers and holds 8 patentsin these fields and served as APL’s Space

Dept Chief Engineer.Robert C. Moore worked in the Electronic Systems Group at

the APL Space Department from 1965 untilhis retirement in 2007. He designedembedded microprocessor systems for spaceapplications. Mr. Moore holds four U.S.patents. He teaches the command-telemetry-data processing segment of "Space Systems"at the Johns Hopkins University WhitingSchool of Engineering.

Satellite RF Communications & Onboard Processingwill give you a thorough understanding of the importantprinciples and modern technologies behind today'ssatellite communications and onboard computingsystems.

SummarySuccessful systems engineering requires a broad

understanding of the important principles of modernsatellite communications and onboard data processing.This course covers both theory and practice, withemphasis on the important system engineering principles,tradeoffs, and rules of thumb. The latest technologies arecovered, including those needed for constellations ofsatellites.

This course is recommended for engineers andscientists interested in acquiring an understanding ofsatellite communications, command and telemetry,onboard computing, and tracking. Each participant willreceive a complete set of notes.

Course Outline1. RF Signal Transmission. Propagation of radio

waves, antenna properties and types, one-way radarrange equation. Peculiarities of the space channel.Special communications orbits. Modulation of RFcarriers.

2. Noise and Link Budgets. Sources of noise,effects of noise on communications, system noisetemperature. Signal-to-noise ratio, bit error rate, linkmargin. Communications link design example.

3. Special Topics. Optical communications, errorcorrecting codes, encryption and authentication. Low-probability-of-intercept communications. Spread-spectrum and anti-jam techniques.

4. Command Systems. Command receivers,decoders, and processors. Synchronization words,error detection and correction. Command types,command validation and authentication, delayedcommands. Uploading software.

5. Telemetry Systems. Sensors and signalconditioning, signal selection and data sampling,analog-to-digital conversion. Frame formatting,commutation, data storage, data compression.Packetizing. Implementing spacecraft autonomy.

6. Data Processor Systems. Central processingunits, memory types, mass storage, input/outputtechniques. Fault tolerance and redundancy,radiation hardness, single event upsets, CMOS latch-up. Memory error detection and correction. Reliabilityand cross-strapping. Very large scale integration.Choosing between RISC and CISC.

7. Reliable Software Design. Specifying therequirements. Levels of criticality. Design reviews andcode walkthroughs. Fault protection and autonomy.Testing and IV&V. When is testing finished?Configuration management, documentation. Rules ofthumb for schedule and manpower.

8. Spacecraft Tracking. Orbital elements.Tracking by ranging, laser tracking. Tracking by rangerate, tracking by line-of-site observation. Autonomoussatellite navigation.

9. Typical Ground Network Operations. Centraland remote tracking sites, equipment complements,command data flow, telemetry data flow. NASA DeepSpace Network, NASA Tracking and Data RelaySatellite System (TDRSS), and commercialoperations.

10. Constellations of Satellites. Optical and RFcrosslinks. Command and control issues. Timing andtracking. Iridium and other system examples.




Satellite RF Communications and Onboard ProcessingEffective Design for Today’s Spacecraft Systems


SummaryThis three-day class is intended for both

students and professionals in astronautics andspace science. It is appropriate for engineers,scientists, and managers trying to obtain the bestmission possible within a limited budget and forstudents working on advanced design projects orjust beginning in space systems engineering. It isthe indispensable traveling companion forseasoned veterans or those just beginning toexplore the highways and by-ways of spacemission engineering. Each student will beprovided with a copy of Space Mission Analysisand Design [Third Edition], for his or her ownprofessional reference library.

InstructorEdward L. Keith is a multi-discipline Launch

Vehicle System Engineer, specializingin the integration of launch vehicletechnology, design, and businessstrategies. He is currently conductingbusiness case strategic analysis, riskreduction and modeling for the BoeingSpace Launch Initiative Reusable

Launch Vehicle team. For the past five years, Edhas supported the technical and business caseefforts at Boeing to advance the state-of-the-art forreusable launch vehicles. Mr. Keith has designedcomplete rocket engines, rocket vehicles, smallpropulsion systems, and composite propellant tanksystems, especially designed for low cost, as apropulsion and launch vehicle engineer. His travelshave taken him to Russia, China, Australia andmany other launch operation centers throughout theworld. Mr. Keith has worked as a Systems Engineerfor Rockwell International, on the Brillant EyesSatellite Program and on the Space ShuttleAdvanced Solid Rocket Motor project. Mr. Keithserved for five years with Aerojet in Australia,evaluating all space mission operations thatoriginated in the Eastern Hemisphere. Mr. Keith alsoserved for five years on Launch Operations atVandenberg AFB, California. Mr. Keith has written18 papers on various aspects of Low Cost SpaceTransportation over the last decade.




Course Outline1. The Space Missions Analysis and Design

Process 2. Mission Characterization 3. Mission Evaluation 4. Requirements Definition 5. Space Mission Geometry 6. Introduction to Astro-dynamics 7. Orbit and Constellation Design 8. The Space Environment and Survivability 9. Space Payload Design and Sizing

10. Spacecraft Design and Sizing 11. Spacecraft Subsystems 12. Space Manufacture and Test 13. Communications Architecture 14. Mission Operations 15. Ground System Design and Sizing 16. Spacecraft Computer Systems 17. Space Propulsion Systems 18. Launch Systems 19. Space Manufacturing and Reliability 20. Cost Modeling 21. Limits on Mission Design 22. Design of Low-Cost Spacecraft 23. Applying Space Mission Analysis and

Design

What You Will Learn• Conceptual mission design.• Defining top-level mission requirements.• Mission operational concepts.• Mission operations analysis and design.• Estimating space system costs.• Spacecraft design development, verification

and validation.• System design review .

Space Mission Analysis and Design


SummaryThis four-day short course presents a systems

perspective of structural engineering in the space industry.If you are an engineer involved in any aspect of

spacecraft or launch–vehicle structures, regardless ofyour level of experience, you will benefit from this course.Subjects include functions, requirements development,environments, structural mechanics, loads analysis,stress analysis, fracture mechanics, finite–elementmodeling, configuration, producibility, verificationplanning, quality assurance, testing, and risk assessment.The objectives are to give the big picture of space-missionstructures and improve your understanding of

• Structural functions, requirements, and environments• How structures behave and how they fail• How to develop structures that are cost–effective and

dependable for space missionsDespite its breadth, the course goes into great depth in

key areas, with emphasis on the things that are commonlymisunderstood and the types of things that go wrong in thedevelopment of flight hardware. The instructor sharesnumerous case histories and experiences to drive themain points home. Calculators are required to work classproblems.

Each participant will receive a copy of the instructors’850-page reference book, Spacecraft Structures andMechanisms: From Concept to Launch.

Instructors Tom Sarafin has worked full time in the space industry

since 1979, at Martin Marietta and InstarEngineering. Since founding Instar in1993, he has consulted for DigitalGlobe,AeroAstro, AFRL, and Design_NetEngineering. He has helped the U. S. AirForce Academy design, develop, and testa series of small satellites and has been an

advisor to DARPA. He is the editor and principal author ofSpacecraft Structures and Mechanisms: From Concept toLaunch and is a contributing author to all three editions ofSpace Mission Analysis and Design. Since 1995, he hastaught over 150 short courses to more than 3000engineers and managers in the space industry.

Poti Doukas worked at Lockheed Martin SpaceSystems Company (formerly MartinMarietta) from 1978 to 2006. He served asEngineering Manager for the Phoenix MarsLander program, Mechanical EngineeringLead for the Genesis mission, Structuresand Mechanisms Subsystem Lead for theStardust program, and Structural Analysis

Lead for the Mars Global Surveyor. He’s a contributingauthor to Space Mission Analysis and Design (1st and 2ndeditions) and to Spacecraft Structures and Mechanisms:From Concept to Launch. He joined Instar Engineering inJuly 2006.

Testimonial"Excellent presentation—a reminder ofhow much fun engineering can be."

Space Mission Structures: From Concept to Launch

Course Outline1. Introduction to Space-Mission Structures.

Structural functions and requirements, effects of thespace environment, categories of structures, howlaunch affects things structurally, understandingverification, distinguishing between requirements andverification.

2. Review of Statics and Dynamics. Staticequilibrium, the equation of motion, modes of vibration.

3. Launch Environments and How StructuresRespond. Quasi-static loads, transient loads, coupledloads analysis, sinusoidal vibration, random vibration,acoustics, pyrotechnic shock.

4. Mechanics of Materials. Stress and strain,understanding material variation, interaction ofstresses and failure theories, bending and torsion,thermoelastic effects, mechanics of compositematerials, recognizing and avoiding weak spots instructures.

5. Strength Analysis: The margin of safety,verifying structural integrity is never based on analysisalone, an effective process for strength analysis,common pitfalls, recognizing potential failure modes,bolted joints, buckling.

6. Structural Life Analysis. Fatigue, fracturemechanics, fracture control.

7. Overview of Finite Element Analysis.Idealizing structures, introduction to FEA, limitations,strategies, quality assurance.

8. Preliminary Design. A process for preliminarydesign, example of configuring a spacecraft, types ofstructures, materials, methods of attachment,preliminary sizing, using analysis to design efficientstructures.

9. Designing for Producibility. Guidelines forproducibility, minimizing parts, designing an adaptablestructure, designing to simplify fabrication,dimensioning and tolerancing, designing for assemblyand vehicle integration.

10. Verification and Quality Assurance. Thebuilding-blocks approach to verification, verificationmethods and logic, approaches to product inspection,protoflight vs. qualification testing, types of structuraltests and when they apply, designing an effective test.

11. A Case Study: Structural design, analysis,and test of The FalconSAT-2 Small Satellite.

12 Final Verification and Risk Assessment.Overview of final verification, addressing lateproblems, using estimated reliability to assess risks(example: negative margin of safety), making thelaunch decision.

April 19-22, 2011Littleton, Colorado




Space Systems Fundamentals

SummaryThis four-day course provides an overview of the

fundamentals of concepts and technologies of modernspacecraft systems design. Satellite system andmission design is an essentially interdisciplinary sportthat combines engineering, science, and externalphenomena. We will concentrate on scientific andengineering foundations of spacecraft systems andinteractions among various subsystems. Examplesshow how to quantitatively estimate various missionelements (such as velocity increments) and conditions(equilibrium temperature) and how to size majorspacecraft subsystems (propellant, antennas,transmitters, solar arrays, batteries). Real examplesare used to permit an understanding of the systemsselection and trade-off issues in the design process.The fundamentals of subsystem technologies providean indispensable basis for system engineering. Thebasic nomenclature, vocabulary, and concepts willmake it possible to converse with understanding withsubsystem specialists.

The course is designed for engineers and managerswho are involved in planning, designing, building,launching, and operating space systems andspacecraft subsystems and components. Theextensive set of course notes provide a concisereference for understanding, designing, and operatingmodern spacecraft. The course will appeal toengineers and managers of diverse background andvarying levels of experience.

InstructorDr. Mike Gruntman is Professor of Astronautics at

the University of Southern California.He is a specialist in astronautics, spacetechnology, sensors, and spacephysics. Gruntman participates inseveral theoretical and experimentalprograms in space science and spacetechnology, including space missions.

He authored and co-authored more 200 publications invarious areas of astronautics, space physics, andinstrumentation.

What You Will Learn• Common space mission and spacecraft bus

configurations, requirements, and constraints.• Common orbits.• Fundamentals of spacecraft subsystems and their

interactions.• How to calculate velocity increments for typical

orbital maneuvers.• How to calculate required amount of propellant.• How to design communications link..• How to size solar arrays and batteries.• How to determine spacecraft temperature.

May 16-19, 2011Albuquerque, New Mexico




Course Outline1. Space Missions And Applications. Science,

exploration, commercial, national security. Customers.2. Space Environment And Spacecraft

Interaction. Universe, galaxy, solar system.Coordinate systems. Time. Solar cycle. Plasma.Geomagnetic field. Atmosphere, ionosphere,magnetosphere. Atmospheric drag. Atomic oxygen.Radiation belts and shielding.

3. Orbital Mechanics And Mission Design.Motion in gravitational field. Elliptic orbit. Classical orbitelements. Two-line element format. Hohmann transfer.Delta-V requirements. Launch sites. Launch togeostationary orbit. Orbit perturbations. Key orbits:geostationary, sun-synchronous, Molniya.

4. Space Mission Geometry. Satellite horizon,ground track, swath. Repeating orbits.

5. Spacecraft And Mission Design Overview.Mission design basics. Life cycle of the mission.Reviews. Requirements. Technology readiness levels.Systems engineering.

6. Mission Support. Ground stations. DeepSpace Network (DSN). STDN. SGLS. Space LaserRanging (SLR). TDRSS.

7. Attitude Determination And Control.Spacecraft attitude. Angular momentum.Environmental disturbance torques. Attitude sensors.Attitude control techniques (configurations). Spin axisprecession. Reaction wheel analysis.

8. Spacecraft Propulsion. Propulsionrequirements. Fundamentals of propulsion: thrust,specific impulse, total impulse. Rocket dynamics:rocket equation. Staging. Nozzles. Liquid propulsionsystems. Solid propulsion systems. Thrust vectorcontrol. Electric propulsion.

9. Launch Systems. Launch issues. Atlas andDelta launch families. Acoustic environment. Launchsystem example: Delta II.

10. Space Communications. Communicationsbasics. Electromagnetic waves. Decibel language.Antennas. Antenna gain. TWTA and SSA. Noise. Bitrate. Communication link design. Modulationtechniques. Bit error rate.

11. Spacecraft Power Systems. Spacecraft powersystem elements. Orbital effects. Photovoltaic systems(solar cells and arrays). Radioisotope thermalgenerators (RTG). Batteries. Sizing power systems.

12. Thermal Control. Environmental loads.Blackbody concept. Planck and Stefan-Boltzmannlaws. Passive thermal control. Coatings. Active thermalcontrol. Heat pipes.


Spacecraft Quality Assurance, Integration & Testing

SummaryQuality assurance, reliability, and testing are critical

elements in low-cost space missions. The selection oflower cost parts and the most effective use ofredundancy require careful tradeoff analysis whendesigning new space missions. Designing for low costand allowing some risk are new ways of doingbusiness in today's cost-conscious environment. Thiscourse uses case studies and examples from recentspace missions to pinpoint the key issues and tradeoffsin design, reviews, quality assurance, and testing ofspacecraft. Lessons learned from past successes andfailures are discussed and trends for future missionsare highlighted.

What You Will Learn• Why reliable design is so important and techniques for

achieving it.• Dealing with today's issues of parts availability,

radiation hardness, software reliability, process control,and human error.

• Best practices for design reviews and configurationmanagement.

• Modern, efficient integration and test practices.

InstructorEric Hoffman has 40 years of space experience,

including 19 years as the ChiefEngineer of the Johns Hopkins AppliedPhysics Laboratory Space Department,which has designed and built 64spacecraft and nearly 200 instruments.His experience includes systemsengineering, design integrity,

performance assurance, and test standards. He hasled many of APL's system and spacecraft conceptualdesigns and coauthored APL's quality assuranceplans. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA andcoauthor of Fundamentals of Space Systems.

Recent attendee comments ...“Instructor demonstrated excellent knowledge of topics.”

“Material was presented clearly and thoroughly. An incredible depth of expertise forour questions.”

Course Outline1. Spacecraft Systems Reliability and

Assessment. Quality, reliability, and confidence levels.Reliability block diagrams and proper use of reliabilitypredictions. Redundancy pro's and con's.Environmental stresses and derating.

2. Quality Assurance and Component Selection.Screening and qualification testing. Acceleratedtesting. Using plastic parts (PEMs) reliably.

3. Radiation and Survivability. The spaceradiation environment. Total dose. Stopping power.MOS response. Annealing and super-recovery.Displacement damage.

4. Single Event Effects. Transient upset, latch-up,and burn-out. Critical charge. Testing for single eventeffects. Upset rates. Shielding and other mitigationtechniques.

5. ISO 9000. Process control through ISO 9001 andAS9100.

6. Software Quality Assurance and Testing. Themagnitude of the software QA problem. Characteristicsof good software process. Software testing and whenis it finished?

7. The Role of the I&T Engineer. Why I&Tplanning must be started early.

8. Integrating I&T into electrical, thermal, andmechanical designs. Coupling I&T to missionoperations.

9. Ground Support Systems. Electrical andmechanical ground support equipment (GSE). I&Tfacilities. Clean rooms. Environmental test facilities.

10. Test Planning and Test Flow. Which tests areworthwhile? Which ones aren't? What is the right orderto perform tests? Test Plans and other importantdocuments.

11. Spacecraft Level Testing. Ground stationcompatibility testing and other special tests.

12. Launch Site Operations. Launch vehicleoperations. Safety. Dress rehearsals. The LaunchReadiness Review.

13. Human Error. What we can learn from theairline industry.

14. Case Studies. NEAR, Ariane 5, Mid-courseSpace Experiment (MSX).

March 23-24, 2011Beltsville, MarylandJune 8-9, 2011

Los Angeles, California$990 (8:30am - 4:00pm)



Spacecraft Systems Integration and TestingA Complete Systems Engineering Approach to System Test

InstructorMr. Robert K. Vernot has over twenty years of

experience in the space industry, serving as I&TManager, Systems and Electrical Systems engineer fora wide variety of space missions. These missionsinclude the UARS, EOS Terra, EO-1, AIM (Earthatmospheric and land resource), GGS (Earth/Sunmagnetics), DSCS (military communications), FUSE(space based UV telescope), MESSENGER(interplanetary probe).

What You Will Learn• How are systems engineering principals applied to

system test?• How can a comprehensive, realistic & achievable

schedule be developed?• What facilities are available and how is planning

accomplished?• What are the critical system level tests and how do

their verification goals drive scheduling?• What are the characteristics of a strong, competent

I&T team/program?• What are the viable trades and options when I&T

doesn’t go as planned?

This course provides the participant withknowledge and systems engineering perspectiveto plan and conduct successful space system I&Tand launch campaigns. All engineers andmanagers will attain an understanding of theverification and validation factors critical to thedesign of hardware, software and test procedures.

Course Outline1. System Level I&T Overview. Comparison of system,

subsystem and component test. Introduction to the various stagesof I&T and overview of the course subject matter.

2. Main Technical Disciplines Influencing I&T. Mechanical,Electrical and Thermal systems. Optical, Magnetics, Robotics,Propulsion, Flight Software and others. Safety, EMC andContamination Control. Resultant requirements pertaining to I&Tand how to use them in planning an effective campaign.

3. Lunar/Mars Initiative and Manned Space Flight. Safetyfirst. Telerobotics, rendezvous & capture and control systemtesting (data latency, range sensors, object recognition, gravitycompensation, etc.). Verification of multi-fault-tolerant systems.Testing ergonomic systems and support infrastructure. Futuretrends.

4. Staffing the Job. Building a strong team and establishingleadership roles. Human factors in team building and schedulingof this critical resource.

5. Test and Processing Facilities. Budgeting and schedulingtests. Ambient, environmental (T/V, Vibe, Shock, EMC/RF, etc.)and launch site (VAFB, CCAFB, KSC) test and processingfacilities. Special considerations for hazardous processingfacilities.

6. Ground Support Systems. Electrical ground supportequipment (GSE) including SAS, RF, Umbilical, Front End, etc.and Mechanical GSE, such as stands, fixtures and 1-G negationfor deployments and robotics. I&T ground test systems andsoftware. Ground Segment elements (MOCC, SOCC, SDPF,FDF, CTV, network & flight resources).

7. Preparation and Planning for I&T. Planning tools.Effective use of block diagrams, exploded views, systemschematics. Storyboard and schedule development. Configurationmanagement of I&T, development of C&T database to leverageand empower ground software. Understanding verification andvalidation requirements.

8. System Test Procedures. Engineering efficient, effectivetest procedures to meet your goals. Installation and integrationprocedures. Critical system tests; their roles and goals (Aliveness,Functional, Performance, Mission Simulations). Environmentaland Launch Site test procedures, including hazardous andcontingency operations.

9. Data Products for Verification and Tracking. Criterion fordata trending. Tracking operational constraints, limited life items,expendables, trouble free hours. Producing comprehensive,useful test reports.

10. Tracking and Resolving Problems. Troubleshooting andrecovery strategies. Methods for accurately documenting,categorizing and tracking problems and converging towardsolutions. How to handle problems when you cannot reachclosure.

11. Milestone Progress Reviews. Preparing the I&Tpresentation for major program reviews (PDR, CDR, L-12, Pre-Environmental, Pre-ship, MRR).

12. Subsystem and Instrument Level Testing. Distinctionsfrom system test. Expectations and preparations prior to deliveryto higher level of assembly.

13. The Integration Phase. Integration strategies to get thecore of the bus up and running. Standard Operating Procedures.Pitfalls, precautions and other considerations.

14. The System Test Phase. Building a successful testprogram. Technical vs. schedule risk and risk management.Establishing baselines for performance, flight software, alignmentand more. Environmental Testing, launch rehearsals, MissionSims, Special tests.

15. The Launch Campaign. Scheduling the Launch campaign.Transportation and set-up. Test scenarios for arrival and check-out, hazardous processing, On-stand and Launch day.Contingency planning and scrub turn-arounds.

16. Post Launch Support. Launch day, T+. L+30 day support.Staffing logistics.

17. I&T Contingencies and Work-arounds. Using yourschedule as a tool to ensure success. Contingency and recoverystrategies. Trading off risks.

18. Summary. Wrap up of ideas and concepts. Final Q & Asession.




SummaryThis four-day course is designed for engineers

and managers interested in a systems engineeringapproach to space systems integration, test andlaunch site processing. It provides critical insight tothe design drivers that inevitably arise from the needto verify and validate complex space systems. Eachtopic is covered in significant detail, includinginteractive team exercises, with an emphasis on asystems engineering approach to getting the jobdone. Actual test and processingfacilities/capabilities at GSFC, VAFB, CCAFB andKSC are introduced, providing familiarity with thesecritical space industry resources.


Cost Estimating

SummaryThis two-day course covers the primary methods for

cost estimation needed in systems development, includingparametric estimation, activity-based costing, life cycleestimation, and probabilistic modeling. The estimationmethods are placed in context of a Work BreakdownStructure and program schedules, while explaining theentire estimation process.

Emphasis is also placed on using cost models toperform trade studies and calibrating cost models toimprove their accuracy. Participants will learn how to usecost models through real-life case studies. Commonpitfalls in cost estimation will be discussed includingbehavioral influences that can impact the quality of costestimates. We conclude with a review of the state-of-the-art in cost estimation.




Course Outline1. Introduction. Cost estimation in context of

system life cycles. Importance of cost estimation inproject planning. How estimation fits into theproposal cycle. The link between cost estimationand scope control. History of parametric modeling.

2. Scope Definition. Creation of a technical workscope. Definition and format of the Work BreakdownStructure (WBS) as a basis for accurate costestimation. Pitfalls in WBS creation and how toavoid them. Task-level work definition. Classexercise in creating a WBS.

3. Cost Estimation Methods. Different ways toestablish a cost basis, with explanation of each:parametric estimation, activity-based costing,analogy, case based reasoning, expert judgment,etc. Benefits and detriments of each. Industry-validated applications. Schedule estimationcoupled with cost estimation. Comprehensivereview of cost estimation tools.

4. Economic Principles. Concepts such aseconomies/diseconomies of scale, productivity,reuse, earned value, learning curves and predictionmarkets are used to illustrate additional methodsthat can improve cost estimates.

5. System Cost Estimation. Estimation insoftware, electronics, and mechanical engineering.Systems engineering estimation, including designtasks, test & evaluation, and technical management.Percentage-loaded level-of-effort tasks: projectmanagement, quality assurance, configurationmanagement. Class exercise in creating costestimates using a simple spreadsheet model andcomparing against the WBS.

6. Risk Estimation. Handling uncertainties in thecost estimation process. Cost estimation and riskmanagement. Probabilistic cost estimation andeffective portrayal of the results. Cost estimation,risk levels, and pricing. Class exercise inprobabilistic estimation.

7. Decision Making. Organizational adoption ofcost models. Understanding the purpose of theestimate (proposal vs. rebaselining; ballpark vs.detailed breakdown). Human side of cost estimation(optimism, anchoring, customer expectations, etc.).Class exercise on calibrating decision makers.

8. Course Summary. Course summary andrefresher on key points. Additional cost estimationresources. Principles for effective cost estimation.

InstructorRicardo Valerdi, is a Research Associate at MIT and

the developer of the COSYSMO model forestimating systems engineering effort. Dr.Valerdi’s work has been used by BAESystems, Boeing, General Dynamics, L-3Communications, Lockheed Martin,Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and SAIC.Dr. Valerdi is a Visiting Associate of theCenter for Systems and Software

Engineering at the University of Southern California wherehe earned his Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering.Previously, he worked at The Aerospace Corporation,Motorola and General Instrument. He served on theBoard of Directors of INCOSE, is an Editorial Advisor ofthe Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics, and is theauthor of the book The Constructive Systems EngineeringCost Model (COSYSMO): Quantifying the Costs ofSystems Engineering Effort in Complex Systems (VDMVerlag, 2008).

What You Will Learn• What are the most important cost estimation methods?• How is a WBS used to define project scope?• What are the appropriate cost estimation methods for

my situation?• How are cost models used to support decisions?• How accurate are cost models? How accurate do they

need to be? • How are cost models calibrated?• How can cost models be integrated to develop

estimates of the total system?• How can cost models be used for risk assessment?• What are the principles for effective cost estimation?From this course you will obtain the knowledge andability to perform basic cost estimates, identify tradeoffs,use cost model results to support decisions, evaluate thegoodness of an estimate, evaluate the goodness of acost model, and understand the latest trends in costestimation.

NEW!


Modern Requirements VerificationComprehensive ways to improve confidence per dollar in Requirements proofs

InstructorMr. William "Bill" Fournier is Senior Software

Systems Engineering with 30 yearsexperience for a Major DefenseContractor. Mr. Fournier was theRequirements Verification lead forover eight years on Ground-BasedMid-Course Missile Defense Programand is currently involved in verificationactivities supporting the Navy. He

served as the team Chief for System Assessmentand Verification. He lead the web based IV&Vcourse development, Verification course materiallead, company’s Verification plan process andlesson learned article. Mr. Fournier has taughtSystems Engineering at least part time for the last20 years including ten years as a full time Professorof Engineering Management at DSMC/ DAU. Mr.Fournier holds a MBA and BS Industrial Engineering/ Operations Research and is DOORS trained. He isa certified CSEP, CSEP DoD Acquisition, and PMP.He is a contributor to DAU/DSMC, Major DefenseContractor internal Systems Engineering Coursesand Process, and INCOSE publications.

SummaryThis 2-day comprehensive course is designed for

Verification Engineers, Test Engineers,Performance Analyst, Inspectors, SystemsEngineers, Project Management, and TechnicalManagers. They will enhance their understanding ofRequirements Verification and its overlap andsynergy with Software Independent Verification &Validation, Models & Simulation Verification,Validation & Accreditation, Systems Engineers, andProject Management. The class will includelecture/discussion with real life DoD Space,Aviation, Communication, Signal Processing andRadar examples and have students apply theseskills to Verification of Requirements.

What You Will Learn• How to target verification efforts for a specific

system.• How do you plan a lead-time for verification.• How to optimize tradeoff of Verification methods• What should be included in each level of Verification

planning. • How to decide the best process for Verification.• How to optimize the interface to Verification events.• How to balance the Verification closure process for

rigor, risk, and completeness.From this course you will obtain the knowledge and

ability to perform requirements verification and takeadvantage of the related areas to maximizeconfidence per dollar.

June 22-23, 2011Arlington, Virginia



Course Outline1. Overview. This module includes a pre-

assessment, and definitions of Verification terms suchas, significance, processes, tools, approaches,tailoring, traces, rollups, and Requirements influence.Also the module includes references, lessons learnedon overall Verification. It concludes with an explorationof the relationships of Requirements Verification to SWIV&V, M&S VV&A, Systems Engineering, and ProjectManagement.

2. Requirements Verification Methods. Thismodule answers the question of why we useVerification Methods. It explores the tradeoff betweenTest, Analysis, Demonstration, and Inspection. Themodule also covers certification, lessons learned. Itconcludes with a practical exercise/case study onVerification methods selection.

3. Requirements Verification Planning. Thismodule discusses topics of the three levels,Verification Cross Reference Matrix / Requirements,Traceability Verification Matrix, and Verification EventMatrix. Also it includes detail planning, ConfigurationManagement, Regression, Assessment, and lessonslearned. The module contains a practical exercise onVerification planning.

4. Requirements Verification Processes. Thismodule includes process selection tradeoff factors. Itcovers Verification Logic Networks, VerificationSummary Sheets, Test Information sheets, VerificationObjectives, Certification Objectives, and otherVerification processes. The practical exercise appliesVerification process selection factors.

5. Verification Events. This module includesevent Types, risk, observer, data capture, and eventplanning. The practical exercise applies event-planning approaches to improve confidence per dollar.

6. Verification Closure. This module includesselection of Processes, and use of forms, and data.The practical exercise applies verification closurelessons learned. The module concludes with a coursepost-Assessment.


May 24-25, 2011Chesapeake, Virginia

$1190 (8:30am - 4:30pm) "Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each


Project Dominance

What You Will Learn• Your own personality type and where (and if) you fit

on a project team.• Increasing the Transition Rate by getting projects out

of the lab and into the user’s hands.• Effective ways to handle difficult people on the project

team, without losing them. • Latest techniques for innovation and creative

problem solving on projects • Lessons Learned from our defense-wide, ongoing

survey of engineers, scientists, end users andmanagers: what really motivates each group andhow you can get the most from them on a project .

• After this course you will be able to lead a complexproject, design and implement a solid project plan,recruit and retain world-class staff and keep themmotivated, maintain your sanity as Project Managerand get promoted at the end of the job.

InstructorMack McKinney, president and founder of a consulting

company, has worked in the defenseindustry since 1975, first as an Air Forceofficer for 8 years, then with WestinghouseDefense and Northrop Grumman for 16years, then with a SIGINT company in NYfor 6 years. He now teaches, consults andwrites Concepts of Operations for Boeing,Sikorsky, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works,Raytheon Missile Systems, Joint Forces

Command, all the uniformed services and the IC. He hasUS patents in radar processing and hyperspectralsensing.

John Venable, Col., USAF, ret is a former Thunderbirdslead, wrote concepts for the Air Staff and is a certifiedCONOPS instructor.

SummaryThis two-day course is designed for engineers, scientists

and managers who work in the projects domain on complexsystems. Students will learn how to build a cancellation-resistant project, how to form and lead a world-class projectteam and how to lead the entire effort to a successfulconclusion. Cross-discipline and inter-generationaltechniques are taught and key topics are reinforced withsmall-team exercises. Attendees are given the Meyers-Briggs© assessment - many discover mismatches intemperament and assignment. All learn how to be muchmore effective on Project Teams.

Course Outline1. Advanced Course. for Project and Program Managers

ready for the next challenge.2. Techniques for building a cancellation-proof project:

Beginning with the end in mind; getting the right start with anOperating Concept for the Project Team.

3. Then going beyond standard PM techniques. Why justknowing and applying the correct techniques won’t make yourproject successful: The three key attributes of successfulprojects at major defense primes. Using a CONOPS along witha contract.

4. Working with those pesky people: Hard-hitting,science/data-based techniques that work with human natureinstead of fighting against it. Weeding-out people completelyunsuited for Project work, before they kill yours, using theMyers-Briggs© Type Indicator (MBTI assessment completed byeach attendee & assessed during the course). Matchingpersonality types to projects (and matching the right PM to eachproject phase) using the MBTI. Working with the Gen-X andGen Y (aka Millennials) people on your team: tips and ).techniques. Spotting someone lying with statistics (inadvertentlyor not).

5. Making the PM’s Life Livable: Proven techniques intraining people to treat you like you want to be treated; Pushingback without blowing up; Making your boss(es) BS diodes!

6. Dominating the Project Domain: Communicating as theProject Manager. Writing and briefing for clarity andconciseness; recognizing and dealing with flawed arguments.

7. The all-important contract. Getting it right is crucial (butnot THE determinant of success). Professional standards andethics. Going beyond the law.

8. Working with offshore (foreign partners). Lessons inpatience, cultural differences and stereotypes. Do’s and don’tsfor hiring and managing foreign representatives.

9. Techniques the grey-beard PMs didn’t learn at ProjectManagement school! The three key attributes of successfulprojects at a major defense prime. Techniques for Building aCancellation-Proof Project (beginning with the end in mind andgetting the right start with an Operating Concept for the ProjectTeam)

10. Ethics. In Program Management (no-nonsense, one hourlook at ITAR and business ethics for PMs - meets mostcorporate standards for quarterly ethics training for employees).

11. Techniques for working with other scientists andengineers: What drives them, how they think, how they seethemselves, results from interviews, proven techniques forworking with them. Scientific methods and principles for non-technical people working in science and technology. Provenproblem-solving processes; achieving team consensus ontypes of R&D needed (effects-driven, blue sky, capability-driven, new spectra, observed phenomenon, product/processimprovement, basic science).

12. Increasing the Transition Rate (getting R&D projectsfrom the lab to adopted, fielded systems). Pitfalls and benefitsof Agile Development; Rapid Prototyping do’s and don’ts.Disruptive technologies and how to avoid the paralyzing “Catch22” killer of new systems. Pitfalls of almost replacing an existingsystem or component with a better one.

13. Why just knowing and applying the correcttechniques won’t make you successful. Solid Thinking iscomposed of critical thinking, creative thinking, empathicthinking, counterintuitive thinking. When to use (and NOT use)each type in managing projects. Learning to interpret data –spotting people who lie with statistics (inadvertently or not).

14. Case Histories of Failed Projects. What went wrong &key lessons learned: (Software for automated imagery analysis;low cost, lightweight, hyperspectral sensor; non-traditional ISR;innovative ATC aircraft tracking system; full motion video forbandwidth-disadvantaged users in combat: How to do it right!)

15. Principled Development and Acquisitions: Simplesolutions and processes to address complex problems.Stereotypes of each profession (origins, dangers, techniquesfor countering) from ongoing defense-wide survey ofprofessionals in engineering, science, PM, requirementsmanagement plus end users. Eye-opening data.

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SummaryThis workshop presents standard and

advanced risk management processes: how toidentify risks, risk analysis using both intuitive andquantitative methods, risk mitigation methods,and risk monitoring and control.

Projects frequently involve great technicaluncertainty, made more challenging by anenvironment with dozens to hundreds of peoplefrom conflicting disciplines. Yet uncertainty hastwo sides: with great risk comes greatopportunity. Risks and opportunities can behandled together to seek the best balance foreach project. Uncertainty issues can bequantified to better understand the expectedimpact on your project. Technical, cost andschedule issues can be balanced against eachother. This course provides detailed, usefultechniques to evaluate and manage the manyuncertainties that accompany complex systemprojects.

Instructor Eric Honour, CSEP, international consultant

and lecturer, has a 40-year careerof complex systems development &operation. Founder and formerPresident of INCOSE. He has ledthe development of 18 majorsystems, including the Air CombatManeuvering Instrumentation

systems and the Battle Group Passive HorizonExtension System. BSSE (Systems Engineering),US Naval Academy, MSEE, Naval PostgraduateSchool, and PhD candidate, University of SouthAustralia.

Course Outline1. Managing Uncertainty. Concepts of uncertainty,

both risk and opportunity. Uncertainty as a centralfeature of system development. The important conceptof risk efficiency. Expectations for what to achieve withrisk management. Terms and definitions. Roles of aproject leader in relation to uncertainty.

2. Subjective Probabilities. Review of essentialmathematical concepts related to uncertainty, includingthe psychological aspects of probability.

3. Risk Identification. Methods to find the risk andopportunity issues. Potential sources and how toexploit them. Guiding a team through the mire ofuncertainty. Possible sources of risk. Identifyingpossible responses and secondary risk sources.Identifying issue ownership. Class exercise inidentifying risks

4. Risk Analysis. How to determine the size of riskrelative to other risks and relative to the project.Qualitative vs. quantitative analysis.

5. Qualitative Analysis: Understanding the issuesand their subjective relationships using simplemethods and more comprehensive graphical methods.The 5x5 matrix. Structuring risk issues to examinelinks. Source-response diagrams, fault trees, influencediagrams. Class exercise in doing simple risk analysis.

6. Quantitative Analysis: What to do when thelevel of risk is not yet clear. Mathematical methods toquantify uncertainty in a world of subjectivity. Sizing theuncertainty, merging subjective and objective data.Using probability math to diagnose the implications.Portraying the effect with probability charts,probabilistic PERT and Gantt diagrams. Class exercisein quantified risk analysis.

7. Risk Response & Planning. Possibleresponses to risk, and how to select an effectiveresponse using the risk efficiency concept. Trackingthe risks over time, while taking effective action. How tomonitor the risks. Balancing analysis and its results toprevent “paralysis by analysis” and still get thebenefits. A minimalist approach that makes riskmanagement simply, easy, inexpensive, and effective.Class exercise in designing a risk mitigation.

What You Will Learn• Four major sources of risk.• The risk of efficiency concept, balancing cost of

action against cost of risk.• The structure of a risk issue.• Five effective ways to identify risks.• The basic 5x5 risk matrix.• Three diagrams for structuring risks.• How to quantify risks.• 29 possible risk responses.• Efficient risk management that can apply to

even the smallest project.

Risk & Opportunity ManagementA Workshop in Identifying and Managing Risk




Practice the skills on a realistic “Submarine Ex-plorer” case study. Identify, analyze, and quantifythe uncertainties, then create effective risk mitiga-tion plans.

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Systems of SystemsSound Collaborative Engineering to Ensure Architectural Integrity

SummaryThis three day workshop presents detailed,

useful techniques to develop effective systems ofsystems and to manage the engineering activitiesassociated with them. The course is designed forprogram managers, project managers, systemsengineers, technical team leaders, logisticsupport leaders, and others who take part indeveloping today’s complex systems.

Modify a legacyrobotic system ofsystems as a classexercise, using thecourse principles.

Instructors Eric Honour, CSEP, international consultant and

lecturer, has a 40-year career ofcomplex systems development &operation. Founder and formerPresident of INCOSE. He has led thedevelopment of 18 major systems,including the Air Combat ManeuveringInstrumentation systems and the BattleGroup Passive Horizon Extension

System. BSSE (Systems Engineering), US NavalAcademy, MSEE, Naval Postgraduate School, andPhD candidate, University of South Australia.

Dr. Scott Workinger has led projects inManufacturing, Eng. & Construction, andInfo. Tech. for 30 years. His projectshave made contributions ranging fromincreasing optical fiber bandwidth tocreating new CAD technology. Hecurrently teaches courses onmanagement and engineering and

consults on strategic issues in management andtechnology. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering fromStanford.

Course Outline1. Systems of Systems (SoS) Concepts. What

SoS can achieve. Capabilities engineering vs.requirements engineering. Operational issues:geographic distribution, concurrent operations.Development issues: evolutionary, large scale,distributed. Roles of a project leader in relation tointegration and scope control.

2. Complexity Concepts. Complexity and chaos;scale-free networks; complex adaptive systems; smallworlds; synchronization; strange attraction; emergentbehaviors. Introduction to the theories and how to workwith them in a practical world.

3. Architecture. Design strategies for large scalearchitectures. Architectural Frameworks including theDOD Architectural Framework (DODAF), TOGAF,Zachman Framework, and FEAF. How to use designpatterns, constitutions, synergy. Re-Architecting in anevolutionary environment. Working with legacysystems. Robustness and graceful degradation at thedesign limits. Optimization and measurement ofquality.

4. Integration. Integration strategies for SoS withsystems that originated outside the immediate controlof the project staff, the difficulty of shifting SoSpriorities over the operating life of the systems. Loosecoupling integration strategies, the design of opensystems, integration planning and implementation,interface design, use of legacy systems and COTS.

5. Collaboration. The SoS environment and itsspecial demands on systems engineering.Collaborative efforts that extend over long periods oftime and require effort across organizations.Collaboration occurring explicitly or implicitly, at thesame time or at disjoint times, even over decades.Responsibilities from the SoS side and from thecomponent systems side, strategies for managingcollaboration, concurrent and disjoint systemsengineering; building on the past to meet the future.Strategies for maintaining integrity of systemsengineering efforts over long periods of time whenworking in independent organizations.

6. Testing and Evaluation. Testing and evaluationin the SoS environment with unique challenges in theevolutionary development. Multiple levels of T&E, whythe usual success criteria no longer suffice. Whyinterface testing is necessary but isn’t enough.Operational definitions for evaluation. Testing forchaotic behavior and emergent behavior. Testingresponsibilities in the SoS environment.

What You Will Learn• Capabilities engineering methods.• Architecture frameworks.• Practical uses of complexity theory.• Integration strategies to achieve higher-level

capabilities. • Effective collaboration methods.• T&E for large-scale architectures.





Technical CONOPS & Concepts Master's CourseA hands on, how-to course in building Concepts of Operations, Operating Concepts,

Concepts of Employment and Operational Concept Documents

What You Will Learn• What are CONOPS and how do they differ from

CONEMPS, OPCONS and OCDs? How are theyrelated to the DODAF and JCIDS in the US DOD?

• What makes a “good” CONOPS?• What are the two types and five levels of CONOPS

and when is each used? • How do you get to meet end users of your products?

How do you get their active, vocal support in yourCONOPS?

• What are the top 5 pitfalls in building a CONOPS andhow can you avoid them?

• What are the 8 main things to remember whenvisiting deployed operational units for CONOPSresearch?After this course you will be able to build and

update OpCons and CONOPS using a robustCONOPS team, determine the appropriate type andlevel for a CONOPS effort, work closely with endusers of your products and systems and elicitsolid, actionable, user-driven requirements.

InstructorsMack McKinney, president and founder of a consulting

company, has worked in the defense industrysince 1975, first as an Air Force officer for 8years, then with Westinghouse Defense andNorthrop Grumman for 16 years, then with aSIGINT company in NY for 6 years. He nowteaches, consults and writes Concepts ofOperations for Boeing, Sikorsky, LockheedMartin Skunk Works, Raytheon MissileSystems, Joint Forces Command, all the

uniformed services and the IC. He has US patents in radarprocessing and hyperspectral sensing.

John Venable, Col., USAF, ret is a former Thunderbirdslead, wrote concepts for the Air Staff and is a certifiedCONOPS instructor.

SummaryThis three-day course is de signed for engineers, scientists,

project managers and other professionals who design, build,test or sell complex systems. Each topic is illustrat ed by real-world case studies discussed by experienced CONOPS andrequirements professionals. Key topics are reinforced withsmall-team exercises. Over 200 pages of sample CONOPS(six) and templates are provided. Students outline CONOPSand build OpCons in class. Each student gets instructor’sslides; college-level textbook; ~250 pages of case studies,templates, checklists, technical writing tips, good and badCONOPS; Hi-Resolution personalized Certificate ofCONOPS Competency and class photo, opportunity to joinUS/Coalition CONOPS Community of Interest.

Course Outline1. How to build CONOPS. Operating Concepts (OpCons)

and Concepts of Employment (ConEmps). Five levels ofCONOPS & two CONOPS templates, when to use each.

2. The elegantly simple Operating Concept and themathematics behind it (X2-X)/2

3. What Scientists, Engineers and Project Managersneed to know when working with operational end users.Proven, time-tested techniques for understanding the enduser’s perspective – a primer for non-users. Rules for visitingan operational unit/site and working with difficult users andoperators.

4. Modeling and Simulation. Detailed cross-walk forCONOPS and Modeling and Simulation (determining thescenarios, deciding on the level of fidelity needed, modelingoperational utility, etc.)

5. Clear technical writing in English. (1 hour crashcourse). Getting non-technical people to embrace scientificmethods and principles for requirements to drive solidCONOPS.

6. Survey of major weapons and sensor systems in troubleand lessons learned. Getting better collaboration amongengineers, scientists, managers and users to build moreeffective systems and powerful CONOPS. Special challengeswhen updating existing CONOPS.

7. Forming the CONOPS team. Collaborating with peoplefrom other professions. Working With Non-Technical People:Forces that drive Program Managers, Requirements Writers,Acquisition/Contracts Professionals. What motivates them,how work with them.

8. Concepts, CONOPS, JCIDS and DODAF. How does itall tie together?

9. All users are not operators. (Where to find the goodones and how to gain access to them). Getting actionableinformation from operational users without getting thrown out ofthe office. The two questions you must ALWAYS ask, one ofwhich may get you bounced.

10. Relationship of CONOPS to requirements &contracts. Legal minefields in CONOPS.

11. OpCons, ConEmps & CONOPS for systems.Reorganizations & exercises – how to build them. OpCons andCONOPS for IT-intensive systems (benefits and special risks).

12. R&D and CONOPS. Using CONOPS to increase theTransition Rate (getting R&D projects from the lab to adopted,fielded systems). People Mover and Robotic Medic teamexercises reinforce lecture points, provide skills practice.Checklist to achieve team consensus on types of R&D neededfor CONOPS (effects-driven, blue sky, capability-driven, newspectra, observed phenomenon, product/process improvement,basic science). Unclassified R&D Case Histories: $$$ millionsinvested - - - what went wrong & key lessons learned: (Softwarefor automated imagery analysis; low cost, lightweight,hyperspectral sensor; non-traditional ISR; innovative ATCaircraft tracking system; full motion video for bandwidth-disadvantaged users in combat - - - Getting it Right!).

13. Critical thinking, creative thinking, empathic thinking,counterintuitive thinking and when engineers and scientists useeach type in developing concepts and CONOPS.

14. Operations Researchers. and Operations Analystswhen quantification is needed.

15. Lessons Learned From No/Poor CONOPS. Real worldproblems with fighters, attack helicopters, C3I systems, DHSborder security project, humanitarian relief effort, DIVAD, airdefense radar, E/O imager, civil aircraft ATC tracking systemsand more.

16. Beyond the CONOPS: Configuring a program forsuccess and the critical attributes and crucial considerationsthat can be program-killers; case histories and lessons-learned.

April 12-14, 2011Chesapeake, VirginiaJune 21-30, 2011

Laurel, Maryland$1490 (8:30am - 4:30pm)


NEW!


InstructorDr. Scott Workinger has led projects in

Manufacturing, Eng. & Construction, and Info.Tech. for 30 years. His projects havemade contributions ranging fromincreasing optical fiber bandwidth tocreating new CAD technology.

He currently teaches courses onmanagement and engineering andconsults on strategic issues in

management and technology. He holds a Ph.D. inEngineering from Stanford.

Systems are growing more complex and aredeveloped at high stakes. With unprecedentedcomplexity, effective test engineering plays anessential role in development. Student groupsparticipate in a detailed practical exercisedesigned to demonstrate the application oftesting tools and methods for system evaluation

SummaryThis three-day course is designed for military and

commercial program managers, systems engineers,test project managers, test engineers, and testanalysts. The focus of the course is givingindividuals practical insights into how to acquire anduse data to make sound management and technicaldecisions in support of a development program.Numerous examples of test design or analysis “trapsor pitfalls” are highlighted in class. Many designmethods and analytic tools are introduced.

Test Design and AnalysisGetting the Right Results from a Test Requires Effective Test Design

March 30 - April 1, 2011Beltsville, Maryland



Course Outline1. Testing and Evaluation. Basic concepts for

testing and evaluation. Verification and validationconcepts. Common T&E objectives. Types ofTest. Context and relationships between T&E andsystems engineering. T&E support to acquisitionprograms. The Test and Evaluation Master Plan(TEMP).

2. Testability. What is testability? How is itachieved? What is Built in Test? What are thetypes of BIT and how are they applied?

3. A Well Structured Testing and EvaluationProgram. - What are the elements of a wellstructured testing and evaluation program? Howdo the pieces fit together? How does testing andevaluation fit into the lifecycle? What are thelevels of testing?

4. Needs and Requirements. Identifying theneed for a test. The requirements envelope andhow the edge of the envelope defines testing.Understanding the design structure.Stakeholders, system, boundaries, motivation fora test. Design structure and how it affects the test.

5. Issues, Criteria and Measures. Identifyingthe issues for a test. Evaluation planningtechniques. Other sources of data. TheRequirements Verification Matrix. Developingevaluation criteria: Measures of Effectiveness(MOE), Measures of Performance (MOP). Testplanning analysis: Operational analysis,engineering analysis, Matrix analysis, Dendriticanalysis. Modeling and simulation for testplanning.

6. Designing Evaluations & Tests. Specificmethods to design a test. Relationships ofdifferent units. input/output analysis - where testvariable come from, choosing what to measure,types of distributions. Statistical design of tests –basic types of statistical techniques, choosing thetechniques, variability, assumptions and pitfalls.Sequencing test events - the low level tactics ofplanning the test procedure.

7. Conducting Tests. Preparation for a test.Writing the report first to get the analysis methodsin place. How to work with failure. Testpreparation. Forms of the test report. Evaluatingthe test design. Determining when failure occurs.

8. Evaluation. Analyzing test results.Comparing results to the criteria. Test results andtheir indications of performance. Types of testproblems and how to solve them. Test failureanalysis - analytic techniques to find fault. Testprogram documents. Pressed Funnels CaseStudy - How evaluation shows the path ahead.

9. Testing and Evaluation Environments. 12common testing and evaluation environments in asystem lifecycle, what evaluation questions areanswered in each environment and how the testequipment and processes differ from environmentto environment.

10. Special Types and Best Practices ofT&E. Survey of special techniques and bestpractices. Special types: Software testing, Designfor testability, Combined testing, Evolutionarydevelopment, Human factors, Reliability testing,Environmental issues, Safety, Live fire testing,Interoperability. The Nine Best Practices of T&E.

11. Emerging Opportunities and Issueswith Testing and Evaluation. The use ofprognosis and sense and respond logistics.Integration between testing and simulation. Largescale systems. Complexity in tested systems.Systems of Systems.


SummaryThis three-day course provides students who already

have a basic understanding of radar a valuable extensioninto the newer capabilities being continuously pursued inour fast-moving field. While the course begins with a quickreview of fundamentals - this to establish a common basefor the instruction to follow - it is best suited for the studentwho has taken one of the several basic radar coursesavailable.

In each topic, the method of instruction is first toestablish firmly the underlying principle and only then arethe current achievements and challenges addressed.Treated are such topics as pulse compression in whichmatched filter theory, resolution and broadband pulsemodulation are briefly reviewed, and then the latest codeoptimality searches and hybrid coding and code-variablepulse bursts are explored. Similarly, radar polarimetry isreviewed in principle, then the application to imageprocessing (as in Synthetic Aperture Radar work) iscovered. Doppler processing and its application to SARimaging itself, then 3D SAR, the moving target problemand other target signature work are also treated this way.Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) is introduced;the resurgent interest in bistatic radar is discussed.

The most ample current literature (conferences andjournals) is used in this course, directing the student tovaluable material for further study. Instruction follows thestudent notebook provided.

InstructorBob Hill received his BS degree from Iowa State

University and the MS from the University of Maryland,both in electrical engineering. Afterspending a year in microwave work withan electronics firm in Virginia, he was thena ground electronics officer in the U.S. AirForce and began his civil service careerwith the U.S. Navy . He managed thedevelopment of the phased array radar of

the Navy’s AEGIS system through its introduction to thefleet. Later in his career he directed the development,acquisition and support of all surveillance radars of thesurface navy.

Mr. Hill is a Fellow of the IEEE, an IEEE “distinguishedlecturer”, a member of its Radar Systems Panel andpreviously a member of its Aerospace and ElectronicSystems Society Board of Governors for many years. Heestablished and chaired through 1990 the IEEE’s series ofinternational radar conferences and remains on theorganizing committee of these, and works with the severalother nations cooperating in that series. He has publishednumerous conference papers, magazine articles andchapters of books, and is the author of the radar,monopulse radar, airborne radar and synthetic apertureradar articles in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Scienceand Technology and contributor for radar-related entries oftheir technical dictionary.





Course Outline1. Introduction and Background.• The nature of radar and the physics involved.• Concepts and tools required, briefly reviewed.• Directions taken in radar development and the

technological advances permitting them.• Further concepts and tools, more elaborate.2. Advanced Signal Processing.• Review of developments in pulse compression (matched

filter theory, modulation techniques, the search foroptimality) and in Doppler processing (principles,"coherent" radar, vector processing, digital techniques);establishing resolution in time (range) and in frequency(Doppler).

• Recent considerations in hybrid coding, shaping theambiguity function.

• Target inference. Use of high range and high Dopplerresolution: example and experimental results.

3. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).• Fundamentals reviewed, 2-D and 3-D SAR, example

image. • Developments in image enhancement. The dangerous

point-scatterer assumption. Autofocusing methods inSAR, ISAR imaging. The ground moving target problem.

• Polarimetry and its application in SAR. Review ofpolarimetry theory. Polarimetric filtering: the whiteningfilter, the matched filter. Polarimetric-dependent phaseunwrapping in 3D IFSAR.

• Image interpretation: target recognition processesreviewed.

4. A "Radar Revolution" - the Phased Array.• The all-important antenna. General antenna theory,

quickly reviewed. Sidelobe concerns, suppressiontechniques. Ultra-low sidelobe design.

• The phased array. Electronic scanning, methods, typicalcomponentry. Behavior with scanning, the impedanceproblem and matching methods. The problem ofbandwidth; time-delay steering. Adaptive patterns,adaptivity theory and practice. Digital beam forming. The"active" array.

• Phased array radar, system considerations.5. Advanced Data Processing. • Detection in clutter, threshold control schemes, CFAR.• Background analysis: clutter statistics, parameter

estimation, clutter as a compound process.• Association, contacts to tracks.• Track estimation, filtering, adaptivity, multiple hypothesis

testing.• Integration: multi-radar, multi-sensor data fusion, in both

detection and tracking, greater use of supplementaldata, augmenting the radar processing.

6. Other Topics. • Bistatics, the resurgent interest. Review of the basics of

bistatic radar, challenges, early experiences. Newopportunities: space; terrestrial. Achievementsreported.

• Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP), airborneradar emphasis.

• Ultra-wideband short pulse radar, various claims (well-founded and not); an example UWB SAR system forgood purpose.

• Concluding discussion, course review.

Advanced Developments in Radar Technology

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Aerospace Simulations in C++Apply the Power of C++ to Simulate Multi-Object Aerospace Vehicles

Course Outline1. What you need to know about the C++

language.Hands-on: Set up, run, and plot complete

simulation.2. Classes and hierarchical structure of a

typical aerospace simulation.Hands-on: Run satellite simulation. 3. Modules and Matrix programming made

easy with pointers. Hands-on: Run target simulation. 4. Table look-up with derived classes. Hands-on: Run UAV simulation with

aerodynamics and propulsion.5. Event scheduling via input file.Hands-on: Control the UAV with autopilot. 6. Polymorphism populates the sky with

vehicles. Hands-on: Navigate multiple UAVs through

waypoints.7.Communication bus enables vehicles to

talk to each other. Hands-on: Home on targets with UAVs.

InstructorDr. Peter Zipfel is an Adjunct Associated Professor

at the University of Florida. He hastaught courses in M&S, G&C and FlightDynamics for 25 year, and C++aerospace applications during the pastfive years. His 45 years of M&Sexperience was acquired at the GermanHelicopter Institute, the U.S. Army and

Air Force. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow, and adistinguished international lecturer. His most recentpublications are all related to C++ aerospaceapplications: “Building Aerospace Simulations in C++”,2008; “Fundamentals of 6 DoF Aerospace VehicleSimulation and Analysis in FORTRAN and C++”, 2004;and “Advanced 6 DoF Aerospace Vehicle Simulationand Analysis in C++”, 2006, all published by AIAA.

What You Will LearnExploiting the rich features of C++ for aerospacesimulations.

• How to use classes and inheritance to build flightvehicle models.

• How run-time polymorphism makes multi-objectsimulations possible.

• How to enable communication betweenencapsulated vehicle objects.

Understanding the CADAC++ Architecture.• Learning the modular structure of vehicle

subsystems.• Making changes to the code and the interfaces

between modules.• Experimenting with I/O.• Plotting with CADAC Studio.

Building UAV and satellite simulations.• Modeling aerodynamics, propulsion, guidance

and control of a UAV.




SummaryC++ has become the computer language of choice

for aerospace simulations. This two-day workshopequips engineers and programmers with objectoriented tools to model net centric simulations.Features like polymorphism, inheritance, andencapsulation enable building engagement-levelsimulations of diverse aerospace vehicles. To providehands-on experience, the course alternates betweenlectures and computer experiments. The instructorintroduces C++ features together with modeling ofaerodynamics, propulsion, and flight controls, while thetrainee executes and modifies the provided sourcecode. Participants should bring an IBM PC compatiblelap top computer with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 or2010 (free download from MS). As prerequisites,facility with C++ and familiarity with flight dynamics ishighly desirable. The instructor’s textbook “Modelingand Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics” isprovided for further studies. This course features theCADAC++ architecture, but also highlights otherarchitectures of aerospace simulations. It culminates ina net centric simulation of interacting UAVs, satellitesand targets, which may serve as the basis for furtherdevelopment.

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Combat Systems EngineeringMay 11-12, 2011Columbia, Maryland



SummaryThe increasing level of combat system integration

and communications requirements, coupled withshrinking defense budgets and shorter product lifecycles, offers many challenges and opportunities in thedesign and acquisition of new combat systems. Thisthree-day course teaches the systems engineeringdiscipline that has built some of the modern military’sgreatest combat and communications systems, usingstate-of-the-art systems engineering techniques. Itdetails the decomposition and mapping of war-fightingrequirements into combat system functional designs. Astep-by-step description of the combat system designprocess is presented emphasizing the trades madenecessary because of growing performance,operational, cost, constraints and ever increasingsystem complexities.

Topics include the fire control loop and its closure bythe combat system, human-system interfaces,command and communication systems architectures,autonomous and net-centric operation, inducedinformation exchange requirements, role ofcommunications systems, and multi-missioncapabilities.

Engineers, scientists, program managers, andgraduate students will find the lessons learned in thiscourse valuable for architecting, integration, andmodeling of combat system. Emphasis is given tosound system engineering principles realized throughthe application of strict processes and controls, therebyavoiding common mistakes. Each attendee will receivea complete set of detailed notes for the class.

InstructorRobert Fry worked from 1979 to 2007 at The Johns

Hopkins University Applied PhysicsLaboratory where he was a member ofthe Principal Professional Staff. He isnow working at System EngineeringGroup (SEG) where he is CorporateSenior Staff and also serves as thecompany-wide technical advisor.

Throughout his career he has been involved in thedevelopment of new combat weapon system concepts,development of system requirements, and balancingallocations within the fire control loop between sensingand weapon kinematic capabilities. He has worked onmany aspects of the AEGIS combat system includingAAW, BMD, AN/SPY-1, and multi-missionrequirements development. Missile systemdevelopment experience includes SM-2, SM-3, SM-6,Patriot, THAAD, HARPOON, AMRAAM, TOMAHAWK,and other missile systems.

What You Will Learn• The trade-offs and issues for modern combat

system design.• The role of subsystem in combat system operation.• How automation and technology impact combat

system design.• Understanding requirements for joint warfare, net-

centric warfare, and open architectures.• Lessons learned from AEGIS development.

Course Outline1. Combat System Overview. Combat

system characteristics. Functional description forthe combat system in terms of the sensor andweapons control, communications, andcommand and control. Anti-air Warfare. Anti-surface Warfare. Anti-submarine Warfare.

2. Combat System FunctionalOrganization. Combat system layers andoperation.

3. Sensors. Review of the variety of multi-warfare sensor systems, their capability,operation, management, and limitations.

4. Weaponry. Weapon system suitesemployed by the AEGIS combat system and theircapability, operation, management, andlimitations. Basics of missile design andoperation.

5. Fire Control Loops. What the fire controlloop is and how it works, its vulnerabilities,limitations, and system battlespace.

6. Engagement Control. Weapon control,planning, and coordination.

7. Tactical Command and Contro. Human-in-the-loop, system latencies, and coordinatedplanning and response.

8. Communications. Current and futurecommunications systems employed with combatsystems and their relationship to combat systemfunctions and interoperability.

9. Combat System Development. Overviewof the combat system engineering and acquisitionprocesses.

10. Current AEGIS Missions and Directions.Performance in low-intensity conflicts. ChangingNavy missions, threat trends, shifts in thedefense budget, and technology growth.

11. Network-Centric Operation and Warfare.Net-centric gain in warfare, network layers andcoordination, and future directions.

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What You Will Learn• A review of electromagnetic, antenna and scattering

theory with modern application examples.• An overview of popular CEM methods with

commercial codes as examples.• Tutorials for numerical algorithms.• Hands-on experience with FEKO Lite to demonstrate

wire antennas, modeling guidelines and commonuser pitfalls.

• An understanding of the latest developments in CEM,hybrid methods and High Performance Computing.From this course you will obtain the knowledge

required to become a more expert user. You willgain exposure to popular CEM codes and learnhow to choose the best tool for specificapplications. You will be better prepared tointeract meaningfully with colleagues, evaluateCEM accuracy for practical applications, andunderstand the literature.

Course Outline1. Review of Electromagnetic Theory.

Maxwell’s Equations, wave equation, Duality,Surface Equivalence Principle, boundaryconditions, dielectrics and lossy media.

2. Basic Concepts in Antenna Theory.Gain/Directivity, apertures, reciprocity and phasors.

3. Basic Concepts in Scattering Theory.Reflection and transmission, Brewster and criticalangles, RCS, scattering mechanisms and canonicalshapes, frequency dependence.

4. Antenna Systems. Various antenna types,feed systems, array antennas and beam steering,periodic structures, electromagnetic symmetry,system integration and performance analysis.

5. Overview of Computational Methods inElectromagnetics. Introduction to frequency andtime domain methods. Compare and contrastdifferential/volume and integral/surface methodswith popular commercial codes as examples(adjusted to class interests).

6. Finite Element Method Tutorial.Mathematical basis and algorithms with applicationto electromagnetics. Time domain and hybridmethods (adjusted to class background).

7. Method of Moments Tutorial. Mathematicalbasis and algorithms (adjusted to classmathematical background). Implementation for wireantennas and examples using FEKO Lite.

8. Finite Difference Time Domain Tutorial.Mathematical basis and numerical algorithms,parallel implementations (adjusted to classmathematical background).

9. Transmission Line Matrix Method. Overviewand numerical algorithms.

10. Finite Integration Technique. Overview.11. Asymptotic Methods. Scattering

mechanisms and high frequency approximations.12. Hybrid and Advanced Methods. Overview,

FMM, ACA and FEKO examples.13. High Performance Computing. Overview of

parallel methods and examples.14. Summary. With emphasis on practical

applications and intelligent decision making.15. Questions and FEKO examples. Adjusted

to class problems of interest.

Computational Electromagnetics

SummaryThis 3-day course teaches the basics of CEM with

electromagnetics review and application examples.Fundamental concepts in the solution of EM radiationand scattering problems are presented. Emphasis ison applying computational methods to practicalapplications. You will develop a working knowledge ofpopular methods such as the FEM, MOM, FDTD, FIT,and TLM including asymptotic and hybrid methods.Students will then be able to identify the most relevantCEM method for various applications, avoid commonuser pitfalls, understand model validation and correctlyinterpret results. Students are encouraged to bringtheir laptop to work examples using the provided FEKOLite code. You will learn the importance of modeldevelopment and meshing, post-processing forscientific visualization and presentation of results.Participants will receive a complete set of notes, a copyof FEKO and textbook, CEM for RF and MicrowaveEngineering.

InstructorDr. Keefe Coburn is a senior design engineer with

the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. He has aBachelor's degree in Physics from the VA PolytechnicInstitute with Masters and Doctoral Degrees from theGeorge Washington University. In his job at the ArmyResearch Lab, he applies CEM tools for antennadesign, system integration and system performanceanalysis. He teaches graduate courses at the CatholicUniversity of America in antenna theory and remotesensing. He is a member of the IEEE, the AppliedComputational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), theUnion of Radio Scientists and Sigma Xi. He serves onthe Configuration Control Board for the Armydeveloped GEMACS CEM code and the ACES Boardof Directors.

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InstructorsPatrick Pierson is president of a training,

consulting, and software development company withoffices in the U.S. and U.K. Patrick has more than 23years of operational experience, and is internationallyrecognized as a Tactical Data Link subject matterexpert. Patrick has designed more than 30 TacticalData Link training courses and personally trainshundreds of students around the globe every year.

Steve Upton, a retired USAF Joint Interface ControlOfficer (JICO) and former JICO Instructor, is theDirector of U.S. Training Operations for NCS, theworld’s leading provider of Tactical Data Link Training(TDL). Steve has more than 25 years of operationalexperience, and is a recognized Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDSsubject matter expert. Steve’s vast operationalexperience includes over 5500 hours of flying time onAWACS and JSTARS and scenario developer fordozens of Joint and Coalition exercises at the USAFDistributed Mission Operation Center (DMOC).

What You Will Learn• The course is designed to enable the student to be

able to speak confidently and with authority about allof the subject matter on the right.

The course is suitable for:• Operators• Engineers• Consultants• Sales staff• Software Developers• Business Development Managers• Project / Program Managers

SummaryThe Fundamentals of Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS is a

comprehensive two-day course designed to give thestudent a thorough understanding of every aspect ofLink 16 both technical and tactical. The course isdesigned to support both military and industry anddoes not require any previous experience or exposureto the subject matter. The course comes with one-yearfollow-on support, which entitles the student to contactthe instructor with course related questions for oneyear after course completion.

Course Outline1. Introduction to Link 16. 2. Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS Documentation3. Link 16 Enhancements4. System Characteristics5. Time Division Multiple Access6. Network Participation Groups7. J-Series Messages8. JTIDS / MIDS Pulse Development9. Time Slot Components

10. Message Packing and Pulses11. JTIDS / MIDS Nets and Networks12. Access Modes13. JTIDS / MIDS Terminal Synchronization14. JTIDS / MIDS Network Time15. Network Roles16. JTIDS / MIDS Terminal Navigation17. JTIDS / MIDS Relays18. Communications Security19. JTIDS / MIDS Pulse Deconfliction20. JTIDS / MIDS Terminal Restrictions21. Time Slot Duty Factor22. JTIDS / MIDS Terminals

April 4-5, 2011Chantilly, VirginiaApril 7-8, 2011

Albuquerque, New MexicoJuly 18-19, 2011

Chantilly, VirginiaJuly 21-22, 2011

Albuquerque, New Mexico$1500 (8:00am - 4:00pm)


(U.S. Air Force photo by Tom Reynolds)

Fundamentals of Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS


Fundamentals of Radar Technology

SummaryA three-day course covering the basics of radar,

taught in a manner for true understanding of thefundamentals, even for the complete newcomer.Covered are electromagnetic waves, frequency bands,the natural phenomena of scattering and propagation,radar performance calculations and other tools used inradar work, and a “walk through” of the four principalsubsystems – the transmitter, the antenna, the receiverand signal processor, and the control and interfaceapparatus – covering in each the underlying principleand componentry. A few simple exercises reinforce thestudent’s understanding. Both surface-based andairborne radars are addressed.

Instructor Bob Hill received his BS degree from Iowa State

University and the MS from the Universityof Maryland, both in electricalengineering. After spending a year inmicrowave work with an electronics firmin Virginia, he was then a groundelectronics officer in the U.S. Air Forceand began his civil service career with the

U.S. Navy . He managed the development of the phasedarray radar of the Navy’s AEGIS system through itsintroduction to the fleet. Later in his career he directedthe development, acquisition and support of allsurveillance radars of the surface navy.

Mr. Hill is a Fellow of the IEEE, an IEEE “distinguishedlecturer”, a member of its Radar Systems Panel andpreviously a member of its Aerospace and ElectronicSystems Society Board of Governors for many years. Heestablished and chaired through 1990 the IEEE’s seriesof international radar conferences and remains on theorganizing committee of these, and works with theseveral other nations cooperating in that series. He haspublished numerous conference papers, magazinearticles and chapters of books, and is the author of theradar, monopulse radar, airborne radar and syntheticaperture radar articles in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopediaof Science and Technology and contributor for radar-related entries of their technical dictionary.

Course OutlineFirst Morning – Introduction The basic nature of radar and its applications, militaryand civil Radiative physics (an exercise); the radarrange equation; the statistical nature of detectionElectromagnetic waves, constituent fields and vectorrepresentation Radar “timing”, general nature, blockdiagrams, typical characteristics,First Afternoon – Natural Phenomena: Scattering and Propagation. Scattering: Rayleigh pointscattering; target fluctuation models; the nature ofclutter. Propagation: Earth surface multipath;atmospheric refraction and “ducting”; atmosphericattenuation. Other tools: the decibel, etc. (a dBexercise).Second Morning – WorkshopAn example radar and performance calculations, withvariations.Second Afternoon – Introduction to theSubsystems. Overview: the role, general nature and challenges ofeach. The Transmitter, basics of power conversion:power supplies, modulators, rf devices (tubes, solidstate). The Antenna: basic principle; microwave opticsand pattern formation, weighting, sidelobe concerns,sum and difference patterns; introduction to phasedarrays.Third Morning – Subsytems Continued:The Receiver and Signal Processor. Receiver: preamplification, conversion, heterodyneoperation “image” frequencies and double conversion.Signal processing: pulse compression. Signalprocessing: Doppler-sensitive processing Airborneradar – the absolute necessity of Doppler processing.Third Afternoon – Subsystems: Control andInterface Apparatus.Automatic detection and constant-false-alarm-rate(CFAR) techniques of threshold control. Automatictracking: exponential track filters. Multi-radar fusion,briefly Course review, discussion, current topics andcommunity activity.

The course is taught from the student notebooksupplied, based heavily on the open literature andwith adequate references to the most popular ofthe many textbooks now available. The student’sown note-taking and participation in the exerciseswill enhance understanding as well.






GPS TechnologyGPS Solutions for Military, Civilian & Aerospace Applications

"The presenter was very energetic and trulypassionate about the material"

" Tom Logsdon is the best teacher I have everhad. His knowledge is excellent. He is a 10!"

"The instructor displayed awesome knowl-edge of the GPS and space technology…veryknowledgeable instructor. Spokeclearly…Good teaching style. Encouragedquestions and discussion."

"Mr. Logsdon did a bang-up job explainingand deriving the theories of special/generalrelativity–and how they are associated withthe GPS navigation solutions."

"I loved his one-page mathematical deriva-tions and the important points they illus-trate."

"Instructor was very knowledgeable and re-lated to his students very well–and withsparkling good humor!"

"The lecturer was truly an expert in his fieldand delivered an entertaining and technicallywell-balanced presentation."

"Excellent instructor! Wonderful teachingskills! This was honestly, the best class Ihave had since leaving the university."

SummaryIn this popular four-day short course,

GPS expert Tom Logsdon willdescribe in detail how preciseradionavigation systems work andreview the many practical benefits theyprovide to military and civilian users in space andaround the globe.

Through practical demonstration you will learn howa GPS receiver works, how to operate it in varioussituations, and how to interpret the positioningsolutions it provides.

Each topic includes practical derivations and real-world examples using published inputs from theliterature and from the instructors personal andprofessional experiences.

Each studentwill receive a free GPSNavigator!

June 27-30, 2011Columbia, MarylandAugust 1-4, 2011

Dayton, Ohio$1895 (8:30am - 4:00pm)


Course Outline1. Radionavigation Principles. Active and passive

radionavigation systems. Spherical and hyperbolic lines ofposition. Position and velocity solutions. Spaceborneatomic clocks. Websites and other sources of information.Building a $143 billion business in space.

2. The Three Major Segments of the GPS. Signalstructure and pseudorandom codes. Modulationtechniques. Military performance enhancements.Relativistic time dilations. Inverted navigation solutions.

3. Navigation Solutions and Kalman FilteringTechniques. Taylor series expansions. Numericaliteration. Doppler shift solutions. Kalman filteringalgorithms.

4. Designing an Effective GPS Receiver. Annotatedblock diagrams. Antenna design. Code tracking andcarrier tracking loops. Software modules. Commercialchipsets. Military receivers. Space station receivers.Shuttle and space station receivers.

5. Military Applications. The worldwide common grid.Military test-range applications.Tactical and strategicapplications. Autonomy and survivability enhancements.Precision guided munitions. Smart bombs and artilleryprojectiles.

6. Integrated Navigation Systems. Mechanical andStrapdown implementations. Ring lasers and fiber-opticgyros. Integrated navigation. Military applications. Keyfeatures of the C-MIGITS integrated nav system.

7. Differential Navigation and Pseudosatellites.Special committee 104’s data exchange protocols. Globaldata distribution. Wide-area differential navigation.Psuedosatellites. International Geosyncronous OverlaySatellite Systems.

8. Carrier-Aided Solutions. The interferometryconcept. Double differencing techniques. Attitudedetermination receivers. Navigation of the Topex andNASA’s twin Grace satellites. Dynamic and Kinematicorbit determination. Motorola’s Spaceborne Monarchreceiver. Relativistic time dilation derivations.

9. The Navstar Satellites. Subsystem descriptions.On-orbit test results. The Block I, II, IIR, and IIF satellites,Block III concepts. Orbital Perturbations and modelingtechniques. Stationkeeping maneuvers. Earth shadowingcharacteristic. The European Galileo, the ChineseBiedou/Compass, the Indian IRNSS, and the JapaneseQZSS.

10. Russia’s Glonass Constellation. Performancecomparisons between the GPS and Glonass. Orbitalmechanics considerations. Spacecraft subsystems.Russia’s SL-12 Proton booster. Building dual-capabilityGPS/Glonass receivers.


SummaryThis four-day course is designed for engineers,

technicians, and managers who are involved indeveloping hardware for the Microwave and RFindustry. The material presented in this course is usefulfor both discrete circuit and chip level technologies.Techniques and designs will be presented for active,passive and mixed mode applications. Receiver andtransmitters characteristics will also be presented.Most sections of the course are supported withsimulations that verify the technical presentation. Manytechnical references are provided in each section ofthe course. Simulation files can be provided uponrequest.

InstructorSteven E. Hamilton is a consultant and lecturer in

RF and Microwave active and passivecircuit design, covering frequenciesfrom 10 MHz to 94GHz. Mr. Hamiltonhas over 30 years of design experienceincluding product research anddevelopment of military and commercial

circuits and systems, first RF coaxial connector to workto 19 GHz, HARM missile corporate feed system, Firstsolid-state transmitter for the Phoenix Missile system,AMRAM, fly off, transmitter, AEGIS link for thestandard missile system, and a receiver for the PatriotMissile. Commercial products include TVRO and DBSreceivers, low noise and power amplifiers.




Course Outline1. Review of Basic Principles. Useful Equations

and Tips.

2. Transmission line concepts and techniques.Reflection Coefficient, VSWR, Return Loss, MismatchLoss. Electrical Length. Lossless and Lossy Lines.Physical realization — microstrip, Stripline, coax,Waveguide, CPW. Smith Chart. Impedance Matching.S-Parameters.

3. Circuit Realization Considerations. MicrowaveR, L, C components. Interconnects. Active Devices.Package Parasitics.

4. CAD/CAE Tools. Microwave Office (AppliedWave Research). Linear Simulator. Harmonic BalanceNon-linear simulation. Volterra mildly non-linearsimulation. Electromagnetic Simulator. Layout Tools.

5. Passive Networks. Couplers — Branchline,edge-coupled, Lange. Splitters — symmetrical andnon-symmetrical Wilkinson. Phase Shifter-Schiffmanand Branchline coupler. Filters LPF prototype, HPF,Bandpass, Bandstop, Notch. Circulator. Baluns. Mixers— balanced, double balanced, image reject.Attenuators — Pi, Tee, balanced series and shunt.

6. Active Linear Amplifier Design. MicrowaveTransistor Issues. Silicon vs. GaAs. Noise sources. S-Parameters, noise figure parameters. Test fixture andmodel development. Small Signal Design. Low NoiseAmplifier Design for maximum gain and low noise. Biasnetwork considerations. Noise Figure and/or linearpower tradeoffs. Intercept point (IP3) tradeoffs.

7. Active Large Signal Amplifier Design. Devicetradeoffs - Silicon vs. GaAs. Single ended vs. push-pull. Non-linear device characterization. Differencesbetween push-pull and single-ended characterization.Load-pull and source-pull methods. Circuit DesignIssues including CW vs. pulsed operation,Peak/Average Ratio and design considerations,Optimal matching networks, Bias considerations,Stability considerations, Balanced vs. push-pull vs.inphase combining, Amplitude and Insertion phasetracking.

8. Oscillator Design Considerations. Oscillators.Device Selection. Phase Noise. VCO Design Example.

9. System Issues. Receiver Design Issues.Cascaded noise figure (Friis Formula). Cascaded IP3.Transmitter Design Issues. Up/down Converter Issues.

10. Circuits Realization and Fabrication.Substrate materials and selection tradeoffs.Component selection and mounting issues. Design forManufacture Issues. Housing Design and potentialWaveguide issues.

Microwave & RF Circuit Design & Analysis

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What You Will Learn• Describe RF circuit parameters and terminology.• State the effects of parasitics on circuit performance

at RF.• Use graphical design techniques and the Smith

Chart.• Match impedances and perform transformations.• Predict RF circuit stability and stabilize circuits.• Design small signal and low noise RF amplifiers.• Design power amplifiers.• Understand manufacturing issues that affect RF

performance.• Design circuits that work the first time.


InstructorSteve Brenner has worked in environmental

simulation and reliability testing for over 30 years,always involved with the latesttechniques for verifying equipmentintegrity through testing. He hasindependently consulted in reliabilitytesting since 1996. His client baseincludes American and Europeancompanies with mechanical and

electronic products in almost every industry. Steve'sexperience includes the entire range of climatic anddynamic testing, including ESS, HALT, HASS and longterm reliability testing.

May 6-9, 2011Newark, California



SummaryThis four-day class provides understanding of

the purpose of each test, the equipment requiredto perform each test, and the methodology tocorrectly apply the specified test environments.Vibration and Shock methods will be coveredtogether with instrumentation, equipment, controlsystems and fixture design. Climatic tests will bediscussed individually: requirements, origination,equipment required, test methodology,understanding of results.

The course emphasizes topics you will useimmediately. Suppliers to the military servicesprotectively install commercial-off-the-shelf(COTS) equipment in our flight and land vehiclesand in shipboard locations where vibration andshock can be severe. We laboratory test theprotected equipment (1) to assure twenty yearsequipment survival and possible combat, also (2)to meet commercial test standards, IECdocuments, military standards such as STANAGor MIL-STD-810G, etc. Few, if any, engineeringschools cover the essentials about suchprotection or such testing.

What You Will LearnWhen you visit an environmental test laboratory,

perhaps to witness a test, or plan or review a testprogram, you will have a good understanding of therequirements and execution of the 810G dynamics andclimatics tests. You will be able to ask meaningfulquestions and understand the responses of testlaboratory personnel.

Course Outline1. Introduction to Military Standard testing -

Dynamics.• Introduction to classical sinusoidal vibration. • Resonance effects • Acceleration and force measurement • Electrohydraulic shaker systems• Electrodynamic shaker systems • Sine vibration testing • Random vibration testing • Attaching test articles to shakers (fixture

design, fabrication and usage) • Shock testing 2. Climatics.• Temperature testing • Temperature shock • Humidity • Altitude • Rapid decompression/explosives • Combined environments • Solar radiation • Salt fog • Sand & Dust • Rain • Immersion • Explosive atmosphere • Icing • Fungus • Acceleration • Freeze/thaw (new in 810G) 3. Climatics and Dynamics Labs

demonstrations.4. Reporting On And Certifying Test Results.

Military Standard 810G TestingUnderstanding, Planning and Performing Climatic and Dynamic Tests

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April 4-7, 2011Beltsville, MarylandJune 20-23, 2011Beltsville, Maryland



InstructorDr. Walter R. Dyer is a graduate of UCLA, with a Ph.D.degree in Control Systems Engineering and Applied

Mathematics. He has over thirty years ofindustry, government and academicexperience in the analysis and design oftactical and strategic missiles. His experienceincludes Standard Missile, Stinger, AMRAAM,HARM, MX, Small ICBM, and ballistic missiledefense. He is currently a Senior StaffMember at the Johns Hopkins University

Applied Physics Laboratory and was formerly the ChiefTechnologist at the Missile Defense Agency in Washington,DC. He has authored numerous industry and governmentreports and published prominent papers on missiletechnology. He has also taught university courses inengineering at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

What You Will LearnYou will gain an understanding of the design and analysis

of homing missiles and the integrated performance of theirsubsystems.• Missile propulsion and control in the atmosphere and in

space.• Clear explanation of homing guidance.• Types of missile seekers and how they work.• Missile testing and simulation.• Latest developments and future trends.

SummaryThis 4-day course presents a broad introduction to major

missile subsystems and their integrated performance,explained in practical terms, but including relevant analyticalmethods. While emphasis is on today’s homing missiles andfuture trends, the course includes a historical perspective ofrelevant older missiles. Both endoatmospheric andexoatmospheric missiles (missiles that operate in theatmosphere and in space) are addressed. Missile propulsion,guidance, control, and seekers are covered, and their rolesand interactions in integrated missile operation are explained.The types and applications of missile simulation and testing

are presented. Comparisons of autopilot designs, guidanceapproaches, seeker alternatives, and instrumentation forvarious purposes are presented. The course is recommendedfor analysts, engineers, and technical managers who want tobroaden their understanding of modern missiles and missilesystems. The analytical descriptions require some technicalbackground, but practical explanations can be appreciated byall students.

Course Outline1. Introduction. Brief history of missiles. Types of

guided missiles. Introduction to ballistic missile defense.Endoatmospheric and exoatmospheric missile operation.Missile basing. Missile subsystems overview. Warheads,lethality and hit-to-kill. Power and power conditioning.

2. Missile Propulsion. The rocket equation. Solid andliquid propulsion. Single stage and multistage boosters.Ramjets and scramjets. Axial propulsion. Divert andattitude control systems. Effects of gravity andatmospheric drag.

3. Missile Airframes, Autopilots and Control.Phases of missile flight. Purpose and functions ofautopilots. Missile control configurations. Autopilotdesign. Open-loop autopilots. Inertial instruments andfeedback. Autopilot response, stability, and agility. Bodymodes and rate saturation. Roll control and induced roll inhigh performance missiles. Radomes and their effects onmissile control. Adaptive autopilots. Rolling airframemissiles.

4. Exoatmospheric Missiles for Ballistic MissileDefense. Exoatmospheric missile autopilots, propulsionand attitude control. Pulse width modulation. Exo-atmospheric missile autopilots. Limit cycles.

5. Missile Guidance. Seeker types and operation forendo- and exo-atmospheric missiles. Passive, active andsemi active missile guidance. Radar basics and radarseekers. Passive sensing basics and passive seekers.Scanning seekers and focal plane arrays. Seekercomparisons and tradeoffs for different missions. Signalprocessing and noise reduction

6. Missile Seekers. Boost and midcourse guidance.Zero effort miss. Proportional navigation and augmentedproportional navigation. Biased proportional navigation.Predictive guidance. Optimum homing guidance.Guidance filters. Homing guidance examples andsimulation results. Miss distance comparisons withdifferent homing guidance laws. Sources of miss andmiss reduction. Beam rider, pure pursuit, and deviatedpursuit guidance.

7. Simulation and its applications. Currentsimulation capabilities and future trends. Hardware in theloop. Types of missile testing and their uses, advantagesand disadvantages of testing alternatives.

Modern Missile AnalysisPropulsion, Guidance, Control, Seekers, and Technology


InstructorStan Silberman is a member of the Senior

Technical Staff at the Johns Hopkins UniveristyApplied Physics Laboratory. He has over 30years of experience in tracking, sensor fusion,and radar systems analysis and design for theNavy,Marine Corps, Air Force, and FAA.Recent work has included the integration of anew radar into an existing multisensor systemand in the integration, using a multiplehypothesis approach, of shipboard radar andESM sensors. Previous experience hasincluded analysis and design of multiradarfusion systems, integration of shipboardsensors including radar, IR and ESM,integration of radar, IFF, and time-difference-of-arrival sensors with GPS data sources.

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SummaryThe objective of this course is to introduce

engineers, scientists, managers and militaryoperations personnel to the fields of targettracking and data fusion, and to the keytechnologies which are available today forapplication to this field. The course is designedto be rigorous where appropriate, whileremaining accessible to students without aspecific scientific background in this field. Thecourse will start from the fundamentals andmove to more advanced concepts. This coursewill identify and characterize the principlecomponents of typical tracking systems. Avariety of techniques for addressing differentaspects of the data fusion problem will bedescribed. Real world examples will be usedto emphasize the applicability of some of thealgorithms. Specific illustrative examples willbe used to show the tradeoffs and systemsissues between the application of differenttechniques.

Course Outline1. Introduction. 2. The Kalman Filter.3. Other Linear Filters. 4. Non-Linear Filters. 5. Angle-Only Tracking. 6. Maneuvering Targets: Adaptive Techniques. 7. Maneuvering Targets: Multiple Model

Approaches.8. Single Target Correlation & Association. 9. Track Initiation, Confirmation & Deletion.

10. Using Measured Range Rate (Doppler). 11. Multitarget Correlation & Association.12. Probabilistic Data Association.13. Multiple Hypothesis Approaches.14. Coordinate Conversions.15. Multiple Sensors.16. Data Fusion Architectures.17. Fusion of Data From Multiple Radars.18. Fusion of Data From Multiple Angle-Only

Sensors.19. Fusion of Data From Radar and Angle-Only

Sensor.20. Sensor Alignment.21. Fusion of Target Type and Attribute Data.22. Performance Metrics.

What You Will Learn• State Estimation Techniques – Kalman Filter,

constant-gain filters.• Non-linear filtering – When is it needed? Extended

Kalman Filter.• Techniques for angle-only tracking.• Tracking algorithms, their advantages and

limitations, including:- Nearest Neighbor- Probabilistic Data Association- Multiple Hypothesis Tracking- Interactive Multiple Model (IMM)

• How to handle maneuvering targets.• Track initiation – recursive and batch approaches.• Architectures for sensor fusion.• Sensor alignment – Why do we need it and how do

we do it?• Attribute Fusion, including Bayesian methods,

Dempster-Shafer, Fuzzy Logic.

Multi-Target Tracking and Multi-Sensor Data FusionMay 10-12, 2011Beltsville, Maryland




Principles of Naval Weapons:Underlying Physics of Today’s Sensors and Weapons

Course Outline1. Electromagnetic Propagation. Traveling waves,

Antennas, Modes of Propagation in the Atmosphere, RadarLine of Sight.

2. Basic Radar. Square Pulse Transmission, RangeDetermination, Components of a Basic Radar, ContinuousWave Radar.

3. Radar Range Equation. Performance factors toinclude Pulse Shape and Width, Pulse Repetition Frequency,Power and Gain, Beamwidth, Radar Cross Section, MinimumSignal for Detection, 4th root dependence.

4. Advanced Radars. Frequency Modulated ContinuousWave, Moving Target Indicator, Doppler, electronic scanning,Phase Arrays, Inverse Synthetic Aperture, Synthetic Aperture.

5. Tracking, Guidance and Control Systems. ServoSystems, Track-While-Scan concepts, Phases of Guidance,Homing Logic, Classification of Guidance Systems Gyros toinclude Ring Laser Gyros.

6. Electronic Combat. Superhydrodine Receiver,Electronic Surveillance, Electronic Protection Methods,Electronic Attack Methods.

7. Electro-optical theory. Radiometric Quantities,Stephan Botzman Law, Wein's Law.

8. Electro-Optical Targets, Background andAttenuation. Lasers, Selective Radiation, Thermal RadiationSpreading, Divergence, Absorption Bands, Beers Law, NightVision Devices.

9. Infrared Range Equation. Detector Response andSensitivity, Derivation of Simplified IR Range Equation,Example problems.

10. Sound Propagation in Oceans. Thermal Structure ofOcean, Sound Velocity Profiles, Propagation Paths,Transmission Losses.

11. SONAR Figure of Merit. Target Strength, Noise,Reverberation, Scattering, Detection Threshold, DirectivityIndex, Passive and Active Sonar Equations.

12. Underwater Detection Systems. Transducers andHydrophones, Arrays, Variable Depth Sonar, Sonobuoys,Bistatic Sonar, Non-Acoustic Detection Systems to include ,Magnetic Anomaly Detection.

13. Weapon Ballistics and Propulsion. Relative Motion,Interior and Exterior Ballistics, Reference Frames andCoordinate Systems, Weapons Systems Alignment.

14. Fuzing Principles. Fuze System Classifications,Proximity Fuzes, Non-proximity Fuzes.

15. Chemical Explosives. Characteristics of MilitaryExplosives, Measurement of Chemical Explosive Reactions,Power Index Approximation.

16. Warhead Damage Predictions. Quantifying Damage,Circular Error Probable, Blast Warheads, Diffraction and Dragloading on targets, Fragmentation Warheads, ShapedCharges, Special Purpose Warheads.

17. Underwater Warheads. Underwater ExplosionDamage Mechanisms, Torpedoes, Naval Mine Classification.

18. Nuclear Warhead Damage Predictions.Characteristics of Nuclear Explosions, Nuclear WeaponDamage Prediction to include Blast, Thermal and Radiation.

InstructorsCraig Payne is currently a principal investigator at the

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. His expertisein the “detect to engage” process with emphasis in sensorsystems, (sonar, radar and electro-optics), development offire control solutions for systems, guidance methods,fuzing techniques, and weapon effects on targets. He is aretired U.S. Naval Officer from the Surface Warfarecommunity and has extensive experience navaloperations. As a Master Instructor at the U. S. NavalAcademy he designed, taught and literally wrote the bookfor the course called Principles of Naval Weapons. Thiscourse is provided to all U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen,62 colleges and Universities that offer the NROTCprogram and taught abroad at various national serviceschools.

Allison Webster-Giddings is currently a SeniorLecturer in the Weapons and Systems EngineeringDepartment at the US Naval Academy where shares herextensive expertise in Advanced Weapons, LinearControl, and Aviation Systems through a diverse set ofcourses in the Weapons and Systems, AeronauticalEngineering, Ethics and Economics Departments. She isa contributing author to the Principles of Naval Weapons,writing the Electro-Optics chapters and holds a Bachelor’sDegree in Naval Architecture and Master’s Degree inAviation Systems. She is a retired U.S. Naval Officer andUnrestricted Naval Aviator with 23 years of experience inflight test and systems engineering. A graduate of the USNaval Test Pilot School, and former Commanding Officer,she has flown over 30 different aircraft, both fixed wingand helicopter, powered and unpowered flight fromseveral countries. She is Level 3 DAWIA qualified inProgram Management, Systems Engineering, Test andEvaluation and Production, Quality and Manufacturing.

What You Will LearnScientific and engineering principles behind systems suchas radar, sonar, electro-optics, guidance systems,explosives and ballistics. Specifically:

• Analyze weapon systems in their environment,examining elements of the “detect to engagesequence” from sensing to target damagemechanisms.

• Apply the concept of energy propagation andinteraction from source to distant objects via variousmedia for detection or destruction.

• Evaluate the factors that affect a weapon system’ssensor resolution and signal-to-noise ratio.Including the characteristics of a multiple elementsystem and/or array.

• Knowledge to make reasonable assumptions andformulate first-order approximations of weaponssystems’ performance.

From this course you will obtain the knowledge andability to perform basic sensor and weaponcalculations, identify tradeoffs, interact meaningfullywith colleagues, evaluate systems, and understandthe literature.




SummaryThis four-day course is designed for students that

have a college level knowledge of mathematics andbasic physics to gain the “big picture” as related tobasic sensor and weapons theory. As in all disciplinesknowing the vocabulary is fundamental for furtherexploration, this course strives to provide the physicalexplanation behind the vocabulary such that studentshave a working vernacular of naval weapons.

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April 5-7 2011Beltsville, Maryland



SummaryThis three-day course examines the atmospheric

effects that influence the propagation characteristics ofradar and communication signals at microwave andmillimeter frequencies for both earth and earth-satellitescenarios. These include propagation in standard,ducting, and subrefractive atmospheres, attenuationdue to the gaseous atmosphere, precipitation, andionospheric effects. Propagation estimation techniquesare given such as the Tropospheric ElectromagneticParabolic Equation Routine (TEMPER) and RadioPhysical Optics (RPO). Formulations for calculatingattenuation due to the gaseous atmosphere andprecipitation for terrestrial and earth-satellite scenariosemploying International Tele-communication Union(ITU) models are reviewed. Case studies arepresented from experimental line-of-sight, over-the-horizon, and earth-satellite communication systems.Example problems, calculation methods, andformulations are presented throughout the course forpurpose of providing practical estimation tools.

InstructorG. Daniel Dockery received the B.S. degree in

physics and the M.S. degree inelectrical engineering from VirginiaPolytechnic Institute and StateUniversity. Since joining The JohnsHopkins University Applied PhysicsLaboratory (JHU/APL) in 1983, he hasbeen active in the areas of modeling EMpropagation in the troposphere as well

as predicting the impact of the environment on radarand communications systems. Mr. Dockery is aprincipal-author of the propagation and surface cluttermodels currently used by the Navy for high-fidelitysystem performance analyses at frequencies from HFto Ka-Band.

Course Outline1. Fundamental Propagation Phenomena.

Introduction to basic propagation concepts includingreflection, refraction, diffraction and absorption.

2. Propagation in a Standard Atmosphere.Introduction to the troposphere and its constituents.Discussion of ray propagation in simple atmosphericconditions and explanation of effective-earth radiusconcept.

3. Non-Standard (Anomalous) Propagation.Definition of subrefraction, supperrefraction andvarious types of ducting conditions. Discussion ofmeteorological processes giving rise to these differentrefractive conditions.

4. Atmospheric Measurement / SensingTechniques. Discussion of methods used to determineatmospheric refractivity with descriptions of differenttypes of sensors such as balloonsondes,rocketsondes, instrumented aircraft and remotesensors.

5. Quantitative Prediction of Propagation Factoror Propagation Loss. Various methods, current andhistorical for calculating propagation are described.Several models such as EREPS, RPO, TPEM,TEMPER and APM are examined and contrasted.

6. Propagation Impacts on SystemPerformance. General discussions of enhancementsand degradations for communications, radar andweapon systems are presented. Effects coveredinclude radar detection, track continuity, monopulsetracking accuracy, radar clutter, and communicationinterference and connectivity.

7. Degradation of Propagation in theTroposphere. An overview of the contributors toattenuation in the troposphere for terrestrial and earth-satellite communication scenarios.

8. Attenuation Due to the Gaseous Atmosphere.Methods for determining attenuation coefficient andpath attenuation using ITU-R models.

9. Attenuation Due to Precipitation. Attenuationcoefficients and path attenuation and their dependenceon rain rate. Earth-satellite rain attenuation statisticsfrom which system fade-margins may be designed.ITU-R estimation methods for determining rainattenuation statistics at variable frequencies.

10. Ionospheric Effects at MicrowaveFrequencies. Description and formulation for Faradayrotation, time delay, range error effects, absorption,dispersion and scintillation.

11. Scattering from Distributed Targets.Received power and propagation factor for bistatic andmonostatic scenarios from atmosphere containing rainor turbulent refractivity.

12. Line-of-Sight Propagation Effects. Signalcharacteristics caused by ducting and extremesubrefraction. Concurrent meteorological and radarmeasurements and multi-year fading statistics.

13. Over-Horizon Propagation Effects. Signalcharacteristics caused by tropsocatter and ducting andrelation to concurrent meteorology. Propagation factorstatistics.

14. Errors in Propagation Assessment.Assessment of errors obtained by assuming lateralhomogeneity of the refractivity environment.

Propagation Effects of Radar & Communication Systems


RADAR 201Advances in Modern Radar

April 19, 2011 Laurel, Maryland



RADAR 101Fundamentals of Radar

April 18, 2011Laurel, Maryland



SummaryThis concise one-day course is intended for those with

only modest or no radar experience. It provides anoverview with understanding of the physics behind radar,tools used in describing radar, the technology of radar atthe subsystem level and concludes with a brief survey ofrecent accomplish-ments in various applications.

ATTEND EITHER OR BOTH RADAR COURSES! SummaryThis one-day course is a supplement to the basic

course Radar 101, and probes deliberately deeper intoselected topics, notably in signal processing to achieve(generally) finer and finer resolution (in severaldimensions, imaging included) and in antennas whereinthe versatility of the phased array has made such animpact. Finally, advances in radar's own data processing- auto-detection, more refined association processes,and improved auto-tracking - and system wide fusionprocesses are briefly discussed.

Radar

Course Outline1. Introduction. The general nature of radar:

composition, block diagrams, photos. Types and functionsof radar, typical characteristics..

2. The physics of radar. Electromagnetic waves andtheir vector representation. The spectrum, bands used inradar. Scattering: target and clutter behavior,representations. Propagation: the effects of Earth'spresence.

3. Radar theory, useful concepts and tools.Describing a radiated signal, "reasoning out" the radarrange equation. The statistical theory of detection, theprobabilities involved. The decibel, other basic butnecessary tools used in radar work.

4. The subsystems of radar. The transmitter. Types,technology (power supplies, modulators and rf devicessurveyed; today's use of solid state devices). Theantenna. Basic theory, how patterns are formed, gain,sidelobe concerns, weighting functions, "sum" and"difference" patterns; the phased array: theory and quicksurvey of types, components and challenges. The receiverand signal processor. The "front end": preamplificationand conversion; signal processing (noncoherent andcoherent processes - pulse compression and Dopplerprocessing explained; the absolute necessity of Dopplerprocessing in airborne radar). The control and interfaceapparatus. Radar automation reviewed, auto detect andtrack.

5. Today's accomplishments and concludingdiscussion.

Course Outline1. Introduction and underlying theory. Radar's

development, the metamorphosis of the last few decades,the "change in direction" of radar's continuing evolution.Information content of signals, resolution theory, theautocorrelation function; matched filter theory. and itsmultiple applications in modern radar The role in radarplayed by the antenna, the phased array impact.

2. Modern signal processing. Pulse compressionand the achievement of range resolution, techniques,phase codes, selection of "good" codes. Dopplerprocessing and the achievement of radial velocityresolution; the extraordinary extension into target imaging.Polarimetric radars and related processing.

3. Modern antenna development. The advent of thephased array, truly a "radar revolution". Array techniquessurveyed, componentry, design choices. Array behaviorwith scan, the input impedance problem. The "active"array. The "adaptive" array, from CSLC work through "full"adaptivity.

4. Modern data processing in radar. Modern radaras a system element and the importance of the properlycomposed output report. Recent advances in thetroublesome "association" process. The challenge ofdefining a target, and tracking it, in radars of extremelyfine resolution. Modern "system level" considerations,data fusion, radar's role.

5. Concluding discussion. Today's concern ofmission uncertainties, variability, adaptability. Today'sarchitectural considerations, shared apertures, systemsphysical integration and the like; associated challenges.

InstructorBob Hill received his BS degree (Iowa StateUniversity) and the MS in 1967 (University ofMaryland), in electrical engineering. Hemanaged the development of the phasedarray radar of the Navy's AEGIS system fromthe early 1960s through its introduction to thefleet in 1975. Later in his career he directedthe development, acquisition and support of

all surveillance radars of the surface navy. Mr. Hill is a Fellowof the IEEE, an IEEE "distinguished lecturer", a member of its

Radar Systems Panel and previously a member of itsAerospace and Electronic Systems Society Board ofGovernors for many years. He established in 1975 and chairedthrough 1990 the IEEE's series of international radarconferences and remains on the organizing committee ofthese. He has published numerous conference papers,magazine articles and chapters of books, and is the author ofthe radar, monopulse radar, airborne radar and syntheticaperture radar articles in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia ofScience and Technology and contributor for radar-relatedentries of their technical dictionary.


Radar Systems Analysis & Design Using MATLAB

SummaryThis 4-day course provides a comprehensive

description of radar systems analyses and design. Adesign case study is introduced and as the materialcoverage progresses throughout the course, and newtheory is presented, requirements for this design casestudy are changed and / or updated, and of course thedesign level of complexity is also increased. This designprocess is supported with a comprehensive set ofMATLAB-7 code developed for this purpose. This willserve as a valuable tool to radar engineers in helping themunderstand radar systems design process.

Each student will receive Dr. Bassem Mahafza’stextbook MATLAB Simulations for Radar Systems Designas well as course notes.

InstructorDr. Andy Harrison is a technical fellow at decibel

Research, Inc. He has extensive experience in the testing,simulation and analysis of radar systems and subsystems.Dr. Harrison also has experience in the development andtesting of advanced radar algorithms, including trackcorrelation and SAR imaging. Dr. Harrison led theutilization and anchoring of open source radar models andsimulations for integration into end-to-end simulations.Responsibilities included development of tools for radarsimulation and visualization of radar operationalscenarios. Dr. Harrison has also developed geneticalgorithm and particle swarm algorithms for the adaptivenulling and pattern correction of phased array antennas,and serves as an associate editor for the AppliedComputational Electromagnetics Society.

What You Will Learn• How to select different radar parameters to meet

specific design requirements.• Perform detailed trade-off analysis in the context of

radar sizing, modes of operations, frequency selection,waveforms and signal processing.

• Establish and develop loss and error budgetsassociated with the design.

• Generate an in-depth understanding of radar operationsand design philosophy.

• Several mini design case studies pertinent to differentradar topics will enhance understanding of radar designin the context of the material presented.




Course Outline1. Radar Basics: Radar Classifications, Range,

Range Resolution, Doppler Frequency, Coherence, TheRadar Equation, Low PRF Radar Equation, High PRFRadar Equation, Surveillance Radar Equation, RadarEquation with Jamming, Self-Screening Jammers (SSJ),Stand-off Jammers (SOJ), Range Reduction Factor,Bistatic Radar Equation, Radar Losses, Noise Figure.Design Case Study.

2. Target Detection and Pulse Integration: Detectionin the Presence of Noise, Probability of False Alarm,Probability of Detection, Pulse Integration, CoherentIntegration, Noncoherent Integration, Improvement Factorand Integration Loss, Target Fluctuating, Probability ofFalse Alarm Formulation for a Square Law Detector,Square Law Detection, Probability of DetectionCalculation, Swerling Models, Computation of theFluctuation Loss, Cumulative Probability of Detection,Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR), Cell-Averaging CFAR(Single Pulse), Cell-Averaging CFAR with NoncoherentIntegration.

3. Radar Clutter: Clutter Cross Section Density,Surface Clutter, Radar Equation for Area Clutter, VolumeClutter, Radar Equation for Volume Clutter, Clutter RCS,Single Pulse - Low PRF Case, High PRF Case, ClutterSpectrum, Clutter Statistical Models, Clutter Components,Clutter Power Spectrum Density, Moving Target Indicator(MTI), Single Delay Line Canceller, Double Delay LineCanceller, Delay Lines with Feedback (Recursive Filters),PRF Staggering, MTI Improvement Factor.

4. Radar Cross Section (RCS): RCS Definition; RCSPrediction Methods; Dependency on Aspect Angle andFrequency; RCS Dependency on Polarization; RCS ofSimple Objects; Sphere; Ellipsoid; Circular Flat Plate;Truncated Cone (Frustum); Cylinder; Rectangular FlatPlate; Triangular Flat Plate.

5. Radar Signals: Bandpass Signals, The AnalyticSignal (Pre-envelope), Spectra of Common RadarSignals, Continuous Wave Signal, Finite Duration PulseSignal, Periodic Pulse Signal, Finite Duration Pulse TrainSignal, Linear Frequency Modulation (LFM) Signal, SignalBandwidth and Duration, Effective Bandwidth andDuration Calculation.

6. The Matched Filter: The Matched Filter SNR, TheReplica, General Formula for the Output of the MatchedFilter, Range Resolution, Doppler Resolution, CombinedRange and Doppler Resolution, Range and DopplerUncertainty, Range Uncertainty, Doppler Uncertainty,Range-Doppler Coupling. The Ambiguity Function:Examples of Analog signals, Examples of Coded Signals,Barker Code, PRN Code.

7. Pulse Compression: Time-Bandwidth Product,Basic Principal of Pulse Compression, CorrelationProcessor, Stretch Processor, Single LFM Pulse, SteppedFrequency Waveforms, Effect of Target Velocity.

8. Phased Arrays: Directivity, Power Gain, andEffective Aperture; Near and Far Fields; General Arrays;Linear Arrays; Array Tapering; Computation of theRadiation Pattern via the DFT; Planar Arrays; Array ScanLoss.

9. Radar Wave Propagation: (time allowing): EarthAtmosphere; Refraction; Stratified Atmospheric RefractionModel; Four-Thirds Earth Model; Ground Reflection;Smooth Surface Reflection Coefficient; Rough SurfaceReflection; Total Reflection Coefficient; The PatternPropagation Factor; Flat Earth; Spherical Earth.This course will serve as a valuable source to radarsystem engineers and will provide a foundation forthose working in the field and need to investigate thebasic fundamentals in a specific topic. It provides acomprehensive day-to-day radar systems deignreference.

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Radar Systems Design & EngineeringRadar Performance Calculations

What You Will Learn• What are radar subsystems.• How to calculate radar performance.• Key functions, issues, and requirements.• How different requirements make radars different.• Operating in different modes & environments.• Issues unique to multifunction, phased array, radars.• How airborne radars differ from surface radars.• Today's requirements, technologies & designs.

InstructorsDr. Menachem Levitas is the Chief Scientist of

Technology Service Corporation (TSC) /Washington. He has thirty-eight years ofexperience, thirty of which include radarsystems analysis and design for the Navy,Air Force, Marine Corps, and FAA. Heholds the degree of Ph.D. in physics fromthe University of Virginia, and a B.S.

degree from the University of Portland.Stan Silberman is a member of the Senior Technical

Staff of Johns Hopkins University Applied PhysicsLaboratory. He has over thirtyyears of experience in radarsystems analysis and design for the Navy, Air Force, andFAA. His areas of specialization include automaticdetection and tracking systems, sensor data fusion,simulation, and system evaluation.

SummaryThis four-day course covers the fundamental principles

of radar functionality, architecture, and performance.Diverse issues such as transmitter stability, antennapattern, clutter, jamming, propagation, target crosssection, dynamic range, receiver noise, receiverarchitecture, waveforms, processing, and target detection,are treated in detail within the unifying context of the radarrange equation, and examined within the contexts ofsurface and airborne radar platforms. The fundamentals ofradar multi-target tracking principles are covered, anddetailed examples of surface and airborne radars arepresented. This course is designed for engineers andengineering managers who wish to understand howsurface and airborne radar systems work, and tofamiliarize themselves with pertinent design issues andwith the current technological frontiers.

Course Outline1. Radar Range Equation. Radar ranging principles,

frequencies, architecture, measurements, displays, andparameters. Radar range equation; radar waveforms;antenna patterns types, and parameters.

2. Noise in Receiving Systems and DetectionPrinciples. Noise sources; statistical properties; noise in areceiving chain; noise figure and noise temperature; falsealarm and detection probability; pulse integration; targetmodels; detection of steady and fluctuating targets.

3. Propagation of Radio Waves in the Troposphere.Propagation of Radio Waves in the Troposphere. The patternpropagation factor; interference (multipath) and diffraction;refraction; standard and anomalous refractivity; littoralpropagation; propagation modeling; low altitude propagation;atmospheric attenuation.

4. CW Radar, Doppler, and Receiver Architecture.Basic properties; CW and high PRF relationships; the Dopplerprinciple; dynamic range, stability; isolation requirements;homodynes and superheterodyne receivers; in-phase andquadrature; signal spectrum; matched filtering; CW ranging;and measurement accuracy.

5. Radar Clutter and Clutter Filtering Principles.Surface and volumetric clutter; reflectivity; stochasticproperties; sea, land, rain, chaff, birds, and urban clutter;Pulse Doppler and MTI; transmitter stability; blind speeds andranges,; Staggered PRFs; filter weighting; performancemeasures.

6. Airborne Radar. Platform motion; iso-ranges and iso-Dopplers; mainbeam and sidelobe clutter; the three PRFregimes; ambiguities; real beam Doppler sharpening;synthetic aperture ground mapping modes; GMTI.

7. High Range Resolution Principles: PulseCompression. The Time-bandwidth product; the pulsecompression process; discrete and continuous pulsecompression codes; performance measures; mismatchedfiltering.

8. High Range Resolution Principles: SyntheticWideband. Motivation; alternative techniques; cross-bandcalibration.

9. Electronically Scanned Radar Systems. Beamformation; beam steering techniques; grating lobes; phaseshifters; multiple beams; array bandwidth; true time delays;ultralow sidelobes and array errors; beam scheduling.

10. Active Phased Array Radar Systems. Active vs.passive arrays; architectural and technological properties; theT/R module; dynamic range; average power; stability;pertinent issues; cost; frequency dependence.

11. Auto-Calibration and Auto-CompensationTechniques in Active Phased. Arrays. Motivation; calibrationapproaches; description of the mutual coupling approach; anauto-compensation approach.

12. Sidelobe Blanking. Motivation; principle; implementationissues.

13. Adaptive Cancellation. The adaptive spacecancellation principle; broad pattern cancellers; high gaincancellers; tap delay lines; the effects of clutter; number ofjammers, jammer geometries, and bandwidths on cancellerperformance; channel matching requirements; sample matrixinverse method.

14. Multiple Target Tracking. Definition of Basic terms.Track Initiation, State Estimation & Filtering, Adaptive andMultiple Model Processing, Data Correlation & Association,Tracker Performance Evaluation.





Solid Rocket Motor Design and Applications

What You Will Learn• Solid rocket motor principles and key requirements.• Motor design drivers and sensitivity on the design,

reliability, and cost.• Detailed propellant and component design features

and characteristics. • Propellant and component manufacturing processes. • SRM/Vehicle interfaces, transportation, and handling

considerations. • Development approach for qualifying new SRMs.

InstructorRichard Lee Lee has more than 43 years in the

space and missile industry. He was a Senior ProgramMgr. at Thiokol, instrumental in the development of theCastor 120 SRM. His experience includes managingthe development and qualification of DoD SRMsubsystems and components for the Small ICBM,Peacekeeper and other R&D programs. Mr. Lee hasextensive experience in SRM performance andinterface requirements at all levels in the space andmissile industry. He has been very active incoordinating functional and physical interfaces with thecommercial spaceports in Florida, California, andAlaska. He has participated in developing safetycriteria with academia, private industry andgovernment agencies (USAF SMC, 45th Space Wingand Research Laboratory; FAA/AST; NASAHeadquarters and NASA centers; and the Army Spaceand Strategic Defense Command. He has alsoconsulted with launch vehicle contractors in the design,material selection, and testing of SRM propellants andcomponents. Mr. Lee has a MS in EngineeringAdministration and a BS in EE from the University ofUtah.

SummaryThis three-day course provides an overall look - with

increasing levels of details-at solid rocket motors (SRMs)including a general understanding of solid propellant motorand component technologies, design drivers; motor internalballistic parameters and combustion phenomena; sensitivityof system performance requirements on SRM design,reliability, and cost; insight into the physical limitations;comparisons to liquid and hybrid propulsion systems; adetailed review of component design and analysis; criticalmanufacturing process parameters; transportation andhandling, and integration of motors into launch vehicles andmissiles. General approaches used in the development ofnew motors. Also discussed is the importance of employingformal systems engineering practices, for the definition ofrequirements, design and cost trade studies, developmentof technologies and associated analyses and codes used tobalance customer and manufacturer requirements,

All types of SRMs are included, with emphasis on currentand recently developed motors for commercial andDoD/NASA launch vehicles such as Lockheed Martin'sAthena series, Orbital Sciences' Pegasus and Taurusseries, the strap-on motors for the Delta series (III and IV),Titan V, and the propulsion systems for Ares / Constellationvehicle. The course summarizes the use of surplus militarymotors (including Minuteman, Peacekeeper, etc.) for DoDtarget and sensor development and university researchprograms.

For onsite presentations, course can be tailoredto specific SRM applications and technologies.

Course Outline1. Introduction to Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs). SRM

terminology and nomenclature, survey of types andapplications of SRMs, and SRM component description andcharacteristics.

2. SRM Design and Applications. Fundamental principlesof SRMs, key performance and configuration parameterssuch as total impulse, specific impulse, thrust vs. motoroperating time, size constraints; basic performanceequations, internal ballistic principles, preliminary approachfor designing SRMs; propellant combustion characteristics(instability, burning rate), limitations of SRMs based on thelaws of physics, and comparison of solid to liquid propellantand hybrid rocket motors.

3. Definition of SRM Requirements. Impact ofcustomer/system imposed requirements on design, reliability,and cost; SRM manufacturer imposed requirements andconstraints based on computer optimization codes andgeneral engineering practices and management philosophy.

4. SRM Design Drivers and Technology Trade-Offs.Identification and sensitivity of design requirements that affectmotor design, reliability, and cost. Understanding of ,interrelationship of performance parameters, componentdesign trades versus cost and maturity of technology;exchange ratios and Rules of Thumb used in back-of-theenvelope preliminary design evaluations.

5. Key SRM Component Design Characteristics andMaterials. Detailed description and comparison ofperformance parameters and properties of solid propellantsincluding composite (i.e., HTPB, PBAN, and CTPB), nitro-plasticized composites, and double based or cross-linkedpropellants and why they are used for different motor and/orvehicle objectives and applications; motor cases, nozzles,thrust vector control & actuation systems; motor igniters, andother initiation and flight termination electrical and ordnancesystems..

6. SRM Manufacturing/Processing Parameters.Description of critical manufacturing operations for propellantmixing, propellant loading into the SRM, propellant inspectionand acceptance testing, and propellant facilities and tooling,and SRM components fabrication.

7. SRM Transportation and Handling Considerations.General understanding of requirements and solutions fortransporting, handling, and processing different motor sizesand DOT propellant explosive classifications and licensingand regulations.

8. Launch Vehicle Interfaces, Processing andIntegration. Key mechanical, functional, and electricalinterfaces between the SRM and launch vehicle and launchfacility. Comparison of interfaces for both strap-on and straightstack applications.

9. SRM Development Requirements and Processes.Approaches and timelines for developing new SRMs.Description of a demonstration and qualification program forboth commercial and government programs. Impact ofdecisions regarding design philosophy (state-of-the-art versusadvanced technology) and design safety factors. Motor sizingmethodology and studies (using computer aided designmodels). Customer oversight and quality program. Motor costreduction approaches through design, manufacturing, andacceptance. Castor 120 motor development example.

May 3-5, 2011Cocoa Beach, Florida




Synthetic Aperture Radar

**Includes single user RadarCalc license for Windows PC, for the design of airborne & space-basedSAR. Retail price $1000.

What You Will Learn• Basic concepts and principles of SAR.

• What are the key system parameters.

• Performance calculations using RadarCalc.

• Design and implementation tradeoffs.

• Current system performance. Emerging

systems.

What You Will Learn• How to process data from SAR systems for

high resolution, wide area coverage,interferometric and/or polarimetric applications.

• How to design and build high performanceSAR processors.

• Perform SAR data calibration.• Ground moving target indication (GMTI) in a

SAR context.• Current state-of-the-art.

FundamentalsMay 2-3, 2011Chantilly, Virginia

Instructors: Walt McCandless & Bart Huxtable

$1290** (8:30am - 4:00pm)$990 without RadarCalc software

AdvancedMay 4-5, 2011Chantilly, Virginia

Instructors: Bart Huxtable & Sham Chotoo$1290** (8:30am - 4:00pm)

$990 without RadarCalc software

Course Outline1. Applications Overview. A survey of important

applications and how they influence the SAR systemfrom sensor through processor. A wide number of SARdesigns and modes will be presented from thepioneering classic, single channel, strip mappingsystems to more advanced all-polarization, spotlight,and interferometric designs.

2. Applications and System Design Tradeoffsand Constraints. System design formulation will beginwith a class interactive design workshop using theRadarCalc model designed for the purpose ofdemonstrating the constraints imposed byrange/Doppler ambiguities, minimum antenna area,limitations and related radar physics and engineeringconstraints. Contemporary pacing technologies in thearea of antenna design, on-board data collection andprocessing and ground system processing andanalysis will also be presented along with a projectionof SAR technology advancements, in progress, andhow they will influence future applications.

3. Civil Applications. A review of the current NASAand foreign scientific applications of SAR.

4. Commercial Applications. The emerginginterest in commercial applications is international andis fueled by programs such as Canada’s RadarSat-2,the European ENVISAT and TerraSAR series, theNASA/JPL UAVSAR system, and commercial systemssuch as Intermap's Star-3i and Fugro's GeoSAR. Theapplications (surface mapping, change detection,resource exploration and development, etc.) drivingthis interest will be presented and analyzed in terms ofthe sensor and platform space/airborne and associatedground systems design.

Course Outline1. SAR Review Origins. Theory, Design,

Engineering, Modes, Applications, System.2. Processing Basics. Traditional strip map

processing steps, theoretical justification, processingsystems designs, typical processing systems.

3. Advanced SAR Processing. Processingcomplexities arising from uncompensated motion andlow frequency (e.g., foliage penetrating) SARprocessing.

4. Interferometric SAR. Description of the state-of-the-art IFSAR processing techniques: complex SARimage registration, interferogram and correlogramgeneration, phase unwrapping, and digital terrainelevation data (DTED) extraction.

5. Spotlight Mode SAR. Theory andimplementation of high resolution imaging. Differencesfrom strip map SAR imaging.

6. Polarimetric SAR. Description of the imageinformation provided by polarimetry and how this canbe exploited for terrain classification, soil moisture,ATR, etc.

7. High Performance Computing Hardware.Parallel implementations, supercomputers, compactDSP systems, hybrid opto-electronic system.

8. SAR Data Calibration. Internal (e.g., cal-tones)and external calibrations, Doppler centroid aliasing,geolocation, polarimetric calibration, ionosphericeffects.

9. Example Systems and Applications. Space-based: SIR-C, RADARSAT, ENVISAT, TerraSAR,Cosmo-Skymed, PalSAR. Airborne: AirSAR and othercurrent systems. Mapping, change detection,polarimetry, interferometry.


Who Should AttendThe course is oriented toward the needs of missile

engineers, analysts, marketing personnel, programmanagers, university professors, and others working in thearea of missile systems and technology development.Attendees will gain an understanding of missile design,missile technologies, launch platform integration, missilesystem measures of merit, and the missile systemdevelopment process.

What You Will Learn• Key drivers in the missile design and system engineering

process.• Critical tradeoffs, methods and technologies in subsystems,

aerodynamic, propulsion, and structure sizing.• Launch platform-missile integration.• Robustness, lethality, accuracy, observables, survivability,

reliability, and cost considerations.• Missile sizing examples.• Missile development process.

InstructorEugene L. Fleeman has more than 46 years of

government, industry, and academia experience in missilesystem and technology development.Formerly a manager of missile programsat Air Force Research Laboratory,Rockwell International, Boeing, andGeorgia Tech, he is an internationallecturer on missiles and the author of over100 publications, including the AIAA

textbook, Tactical Missile Design. 2nd Ed.

SummaryThis three-day short course covers the fundamentals of

tactical missile design, development, and system engineering.The course provides a system-level, integrated method formissile aerodynamic configuration/propulsion design andanalysis. It addresses the broad rangeof alternatives in meeting cost andperformance requirements. Themethods presented are generallysimple closed-form analyticalexpressions that are physics-based, toprovide insight into the primary drivingparameters. Configuration sizingexamples are presented for rocket-powered, ramjet-powered, and turbo-jetpowered baseline missiles. Typicalvalues of missile parameters and thecharacteristics of current operationalmissiles are discussed as well as the enabling subsystems andtechnologies for tactical missiles and the current/projectedstate-of-the-art. Videos illustrate missile development activitiesand missile performance. Daily roundtable discussion. Finally,each attendee will design, build, and fly a small air poweredrocket. Attendees will vote on the relative emphasis of thematerial to be presented. Attendees receive course notes aswell as the textbook, Tactical Missile Design, 2nd edition.

Course Outline1. Introduction/Key Drivers in the Design and System

Engineering Process: Overview of missile design process.Examples of system-of-systems integration. Uniquecharacteristics of tactical missiles. Key aerodynamic configurationsizing parameters. Missile conceptual design synthesis process.Examples of processes to establish mission requirements.Projected capability in command, control, communication,computers, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C4ISR).Example of Pareto analysis. Attendees vote on course emphasis.

2. Aerodynamic Considerations in Missile Design andSystem Engineering: Optimizing missile aerodynamics. Shapesfor low observables. Missile configuration layout (body, wing, tail)options. Selecting flight control alternatives. Wing and tail sizing.Predicting normal force, drag, pitching moment, stability, controleffectiveness, lift-to-drag ratio, and hinge moment. Maneuver lawalternatives.

3. Propulsion Considerations in Missile Design andSystem Engineering: Turbojet, ramjet, scramjet, ducted rocket,and rocket propulsion comparisons. Turbojet engine designconsiderations, prediction and sizing. Selecting ramjet engine,booster, and inlet alternatives. Ramjet performance prediction andsizing. High density fuels. Propellant grain cross section trade-offs. Effective thrust magnitude control. Reducing propellantobservables. Rocket motor performance prediction and sizing.Motor case and nozzle materials.

4. Weight Considerations in Missile Design and SystemEngineering: How to size subsystems to meet flight performancerequirements. Structural design criteria factor of safety. Structureconcepts and manufacturing processes. Selecting airframematerials. Loads prediction. Weight prediction. Airframe and motorcase design. Aerodynamic heating prediction and insulationtrades. Dome material alternatives and sizing. Power supply andactuator alternatives and sizing.

5. Flight Performance Considerations in Missile Designand System Engineering: Flight envelope limitations.Aerodynamic sizing-equations of motion. Accuracy of simplifiedequations of motion. Maximizing flight performance. Benefits offlight trajectory shaping. Flight performance prediction of boost,climb, cruise, coast, steady descent, ballistic, maneuvering, andhoming flight.

6. Measures of Merit and Launch Platform Integration /System Engineering: Achieving robustness in adverse weather.Seeker, navigation, data link, and sensor alternatives. Seekerrange prediction. Counter-countermeasures. Warhead/fuzingalternatives and lethality prediction. Approaches to minimizecollateral damage. Alternative guidance laws. Proportionalguidance accuracy prediction. Time constant contributors andprediction. Maneuverability design criteria. Radar cross sectionand infrared signature prediction. Survivability considerations.Insensitive munitions. Enhanced reliability. Cost drivers ofschedule, weight, learning curve, and parts count. EMD andproduction cost prediction. Designing within launch platformconstraints. Internal vs. external carriage. Shipping, storage,carriage, launch, and separation environment considerations.Launch platform interfaces. Cold and solar environmenttemperature prediction.

7. Sizing Examples and Sizing Tools: Trade-offs forextended range rocket. Sizing for enhanced maneuverability.Developing a harmonized missile. Lofted range prediction. Ramjetmissile sizing for range robustness. Ramjet fuel alternatives.Ramjet velocity control. Correction of turbojet thrust and specificimpulse. Turbojet missile sizing for maximum range. Turbojetengine rotational speed. Computer aided sizing tools forconceptual design. Soda straw rocket design-build-flycompetition. House of quality process. Design of experimentprocess.

8. Development Process: Design validation/technologydevelopment process. Developing a technology roadmap. Historyof transformational technologies. Funding emphasis. Alternativeproposal win strategies. New missile follow-on projections.Examples of development tests and facilities. Example oftechnology demonstration flight envelope. Examples oftechnology development. New technologies for tactical missiles.

9. Summary and Lessons Learned.

March 28-30, 2011Beltsville, Maryland



Tactical Missile Design and System Engineering


InstructorMr. Mark N. Lewellen has nearly 25 years of

experience with a wide variety of space, satellite andaviation related projects, including thePredator/Shadow/Warrior/Global HawkUAVs, Orbcomm, Iridium, Sky Station,and aeronautical mobile telemetrysystems. More recently he has beenworking in the exciting field of UAS. He iscurrently the Vice Chairman of a UASSub-group under Working Party 5B

which is leading the US preparations to find new radiospectrum for UAS operations for the next WorldRadiocommunication Conference in 2011 underAgenda Item 1.3. He is also a technical advisor to theUS State Department and a member of the NationalCommittee which reviews and comments on all USsubmissions to international telecommunicationgroups, including the International TelecommunicationUnion (ITU).

What You Will Learn• Categories of current UAS and their aeronautical

capabilities?• Major manufactures of UAS?• The latest developments and major components of

a UAS?• What type of sensor data can UAS provide?• Regulatory and spectrum issues associated with

UAS?• National Airspace System including the different

classes of airspace• How will UAS gain access to the National Airspace

System (NAS)?

Unmanned Aircraft Systems and ApplicationsEngineering, Spectrum, and Regulatory Issues Associated with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

SummaryThis one-day course is designed for engineers,

aviation experts and project managers who wish toenhance their understanding of UAS. The courseprovides the "big picture" for those who work outside ofthe discipline. Each topic addresses real systems(Predator, Shadow, Warrior and others) and real-worldproblems and issues concerning the use andexpansion of their applications.

Course Outline1. Historic Development of UAS Post 1960’s.2. Components and latest developments of a

UAS. Ground Control Station, Radio Links (LOSand BLOS), UAV, Payloads.

3. UAS Manufacturers. Domestic, International.4. Classes, Characteristics and Comparisons

of UAS.5. Operational Scenarios for UAS. Phases of

Flight, Federal Government Use of UAS, Stateand Local government use of UAS. Civil andcommercial use of UAS.

6. ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance andReconnaissance) of UAS. Optical, Infrared,Radar.

7. Comparative Study of the Safety of UAS.In the Air and On the ground.

8. UAS Access to the National AirspaceSystem (NAS). Overview of the NAS, Classes ofAirspace, Requirements for Access to the NAS,Issues Being Addressed, Issues Needing to beAddressed.

9. Bandwidth and Spectrum Issues. Band-width of single UAV, Aggregate bandwidth of UASpopulation.10. International UAS issues. WRC Process,Agenda Item 1.3 and Resolution 421.11. UAS Centers of Excellence. North Dakota,Las Cruses, NM, DoD.12. Worked Examples of Channeling Plansand Link/Interference Budgets. Shadow, Preda-tor/Warrior.13. UAS Interactive Deployment Scenarios.

June 7, 2011Dayton, Ohio

June 14, 2011Beltsville, Maryland

$650 (8:30am - 4:30pm)

NEW!


Digital Signal Processing System DesignWith MATLAB Code and Applications to Sonar and other areas of client interest

What You Will Learn• What are the key DSP concepts and how do they

relate to real applications?• How is the optimum real-time signal processing flow

determined?• What are the methods of time domain and

frequency domain implementation?• How is an optimum DSP system designed?• What are typical characteristics of real DSP

multirate systems? • How can you use MATLAB to analyze and design

DSP systems?

From this course you will obtain the knowledgeand ability to perform basic DSP systemsengineering calculations, identify tradeoffs,interact meaningfully with colleagues, evaluatesystems, and understand the literature. Studentswill receive a suite of MATLAB m-files for directuse or modification by the user. These codes areuseful to both MATLAB users and users of otherprogramming languages as working examples ofpractical signal processing algorithmimplementations.

Instructor Joseph G. Lucas has over 35 years of

experience in DSP techniques and applicationsincluding EW, sonar and radar applications,performance analysis, digital filtering, spectralanalysis, beamforming, detection and trackingtechniques, finite word length effects, and adaptiveprocessing. He has industry experience at IBM andGD-AIS with radar, sonar and EW applications andhas taught classes in DSP theory and applications.He is author of the textbook: Digital SignalProcessing: A System Design Approach (Wiley).

SummaryThis four-day course is intended for engineers and

scientists concerned with the design and performanceanalysis of signal processing applications. The coursewill provide the fundamentals required to developoptimum signal processing flows based uponprocessor throughput resource requirements analysis.Emphasis will be placed upon practical approachesbased on lessons learned that are thoroughlydeveloped using procedures with computer tools thatshow each step required in the design and analysis.MATLAB code will be used to demonstrate conceptsand show actual tools available for performing thedesign and analysis.

May 30 - June 2, 2011Beltsville, Maryland



Course Outline1. Discrete Time Linear Systems. A review of the

fundamentals of sampling, discrete time signals, andsequences. Develop fundamental representation of discretelinear time-invariant system output as the convolution of theinput signal with the system impulse response or in thefrequency domain as the product of the input frequencyresponse and the system frequency response. Define generaldifference equation representations, and frequency responseof the system. Show a typical detection system for detectingdiscrete frequency components in noise.

2. System Realizations & Analysis. Demonstrate theuse of z-transforms and inverse z-transforms in the analysisof discrete time systems. Show examples of the use of z-transform domain to represent difference equations andmanipulate DSP realizations. Present network diagrams fordirect form, cascade, and parallel implementations.

3. Digital Filters. Develop the fundamentals of digitalfilter design techniques for Infinite Impulse Response (IIR)and Develop Finite Impulse Response filter (FIR) types.MATLAB design examples will be presented. Comparisonsbetween FIR and IIR filters will be presented.

4. Discrete Fourier Transforms (DFT). Thefundamental properties of the DFT will be presented: linearity,circular shift, frequency response, scallo ping loss, andeffective noise bandwidth. The use of weighting andredundancy processing to obtain desired performanceimprovements will be presented. The use of MATLAB tocalculate performance gains for various weighting functionsand redundancies will be demonstrated. .

5. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). The FFT radix 2 andradix 4 algorithms will be developed. The use of FFTs toperform filtering in the frequency domain will be developedusing the overlap-save and overlap-add techniques.Performance calculations will be demonstrated usingMATLAB. Processing throughput requirements forimplementing the FFT will be presented.

6. Multirate Digital Signal Processing. Multirateprocessing fundamentals of decimation and interpolation willbe developed. Methods for optimizing processing throughputrequirements via multirate designs will be developed.Multirate techniques in filter banks and spectrum analyzersand synthesizers will be developed. Structures and Networktheory for multirate digital systems will be discussed.

7. Detection of Signals In Noise. Develop ReceiverOperating Charactieristic (ROC) data for detection ofnarrowband signals in noise. Discuss linear systemresponses to discrete random processes. Discuss powerspectrum estimation. Use realistic SONAR problem. MATLABto calculate performance of detection system.

8. Finite Arithmetic Error Analysis. Analog-to-Digitalconversion errors will be studied. Quantization effects of finitearithmetic for common digital signal processing algorithmsincluding digital filters and FFTs will be presented. Methods ofcalculating the noise at the digital system output due toarithmetic effects will be developed.

9. System Design. Digital Processing system designtechniques will be developed. Methodologies for signalanalysis, system design including algorithm selection,architecture selection, configuration analysis, andperformance analysis will be developed. Typical state-of-the-art COTS signal processing devices will be discussed.

10. Advanced Algorithms & Practical Applications.Several algorithms and associated applications will bediscussed based upon classical and recent papers/research:Recursive Least Squares Estimation, Kalman Filter Theory,Adaptive Algorithms: Joint Multichannel Least SquaresLattice, Spatial filtering of equally and unequally spacedarrays.


Digital Video Systems, Broadcast and Operations

What You Will Learn• How compressed digital video systems work

and how to use them effectively.• Where all the compressed digital video

systems fit together in history, application andimplementation.

• Where encryption and conditional access fit inand what systems are available today.

• How do tape-based broadcast facilities differfrom server-based facilities?

• What services are evolving to complementdigital video?

• What do you need to know to upgrade /purchase a digital video system?

• What are the various options for transmittingand distributing digital video?

InstructorSidney Skjei is president of Skjei Telecom,

Inc., an engineering andbroadcasting consulting firm. Hehas supported digital video systemsplanning, development andimplementation for a large numberof commercial organizations,including PBS, CBS, Boeing, and

XM Satellite Radio. He also works for smallertelevision stations and broadcast organizations.He is frequently asked to testify as an ExpertWitness in digital video system. Mr. Skjei holds anMSEE from the Naval Postgraduate School andis a licensed Professional Engineer in Virginia.

SummaryThis 4-day course is designed to make the

student aware of digital video systems in usetoday and planned for the near future, includinghow they are used, transmitted, and received.From this course you will obtain the ability tounderstand the various evolving digital videostandards and equipment, their use in currentbroadcast systems, and the concerns/issues thataccompany these advancements.




Course Outline1. Technical Background. Types of video.

Advantages and disadvantages. Digitizing video.Digital compression techniques.

2. Proprietary Digital Video Systems.Digicipher. DirecTV. Other systems.

3. Videoconferencing Systems Overview.4. MPEG1 Digital Video. Why it was developed.

Technical description. Operation and Transmission.5. MPEG2 Digital Video. Why it was developed.

Technical description. Operation and Transmission.4:2:0 vs 4:2:2 profile. MPEG profiles and levels.

6. DVB Enhancements to MPEG2. What DVBdoes and why it does it. DVB standards review. WhatDVB-S2 will accomplish and how.

7. DTV (or ATSC) use of MPEG2. How DTVuses MPEG2. DTV overview.

8. MPEG4 Advanced Simple Profile. Why itwas developed. Technical description. Operation andTransmission.

9. New Compression Systems. MPEG-4-10 orH.26L. Windows Media 9. How is different. Howimproved. Transcoding from MPEG 2 to MPEG 4.JPEG 2000.

10. Systems in use today: DBS systems (e.g.DirecTV, Echostar) and DARS systems (XM Radio,Sirius).

11. Encryption and Conditional AccessSystems. Types of conditional access / encryptionsystems. Relationship to subscriber managementsystems. Key distribution methods. Smart cards.

12. Digital Video Transmission. Over fiber opticcables or microwaves. Over the Internet – IP video.Over satellites. Private networks vs. public.

13. Delivery to the Home. Comparing andcontrasting terrestrial broadcasting, satellite (DBS),cable and others.

14. Production - Pre to Post. Productionformats. Digital editing. Graphics.ComputerAnimations. Character generation. Virtual sets, adsand actors. Video transitions and effects.

15. Origination Facilities. Playback control andautomation. Switching and routing and redundancy.System-wide timing and synchronization. Traffickingads and interstitials. Monitoring and control.

16. Storage Systems. Servers vs. physicalmedia. Caching vs. archival. Central vs. distributedstorage.

17. Digital Manipulation. Digital Insertion. BitStream Splicing. Statistical Multiplexing.

18. Asset Management. What is metadata.Digital rights management. EPGs.

19. Digital Copying. What the technology allows.What the law allows.

20. Video Associated Systems. Audio systemsand methods. Data encapsulation systems andmethods. Dolby digital audio systems handling in thebroadcast center.

21. Operational Considerations. Selecting theright systems. Encoders. Receivers / decoders.Selecting the right encoding rate. Source videoprocessing. System compatibility issues.


Engineering Systems ModelingWith Excel / VBA

InstructorMatthew E. Moran, PE is the owner of Isotherm

Technologies LLC, a Senior Engineerat NASA, and an instructor in thegraduate school at Walsh University.He has 27 years experiencedeveloping products and systems foraerospace, electronics, military, andpower generation applications. He

has created Excel / VBA engineering systemmodels for the Air Force, Office of Naval Research,Missile Defense Agency, NASA, and otherorganizations. Matt is a Professional Engineer(Ohio), with a B.S. & graduate work in MechanicalEngineering, and an MBA in SystemsManagement. He has published 39 papers, andhas 3 patents, in the areas of thermal systems,cryogenics, MEMS / microsystems, powergeneration systems, and electronics cooling.

SummaryThis two-day course is for engineers, scientists,

and others interested in developing customengineering system models. Principles andpractices are established for creating integratedmodels using Excel and its built - in programmingenvironment, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).Real-world techniques and tips not found in anyother course, book, or other resource are revealed.Step - by - step implementation, instructor - ledinteractive examples, and integrated participantexercises solidify the concepts introduced.Application examples are demonstrated from theinstructor’s experience in unmanned underwatervehicles, LEO spacecraft, cryogenic propulsionsystems, aerospace & military power systems,avionics thermal management, and other projects.

What You Will Learn• Exploit the full power of Excel for building engineering

system models.• Master the built-in VBA programming environment.• Implement advanced data I/O, manipulation,

analysis, and display.• Create full featured graphical interfaces and

interactive content.• Optimize performance for multi-parameter systems

and designs. • Integrate interdisciplinary and multi-physics

capabilities.

Recent attendee comments ..."Lots of useful information, and a good

combination of lecture and hands-on."

"Great detail…informative and responsiveto questions. Offered lots of useful info touse beyond the class."

Course Outline1. Excel/VBA Review. Excel capabilities. Visual Basic

for Applications (VBA). Input/output (I/O) basics.Integrating functions & subroutines.

2. Identifying Scope & Capabilities. Defining modelrequirements. Project scope. User inputs. Model outputs.

3. Quick Prototyping. Creating key functions.Testing I/O & calculations. Confirming overall approach.

4. Defining Model Structure. Refining modelarchitecture. Identifying input mechanisms. Definingoutput data & graphics.

5. Designing Graphical User Interfaces. UsingActiveX controls. Custom user-forms. Creating systemdiagrams & other graphics. Model navigation.

6. Building & Tuning the VBA Engine. Programmingtechniques. VBA integrated development environment.Best practices for performance.

7. Customizing Output Results. Data tables. Plots.Interactive output.

8. Exploiting Built-in Excel Functions. Advancedmath functions. Data handling.

9. Integrating External Data. Retrieving online data.Array handling. Curve fitting.

10. Adding Interdisciplinary Capabilities. Integratingother technical analyses. Financial/cost models.

11. Unleashing GoalSeek & Solver. Single variable,single target using GoalSeek. Multivariable optimizationusing Solver.

12. Incorporating Scenarios. Comparing multipledesigns. Tradeoff comparisons. Parameter sensitivities.Quick what-if evaluations.

13. Documentation, References, & Links.Documenting inputs, methodology, and results.Incorporating references. Adding links to files & onlinedata.

14. Formatting & Protection. Optimizing formatting forreporting. Protecting algorithms & proprietary data.Distribution tips.

15. Flexibility, Standardization, & ConfigurationControl. Building user flexibility and extensibility.Standardizing algorithms. Version & configuration control.

16. Other Useful Tips & Tricks. Practical hands-ontechniques & tips.

17. Application Topics. Tailored to participantinterests.

This course will provide the knowledge andmethods to create custom engineering systemmodels for analyzing conceptual designs,performing system trades, and optimizing systemperformance with Excel/VBA.




NEW!


Fiber Optic Systems Engineering

What You Will Learn• What are the basic elements in analog and digital fiber

optic communication systems including fiber-opticcomponents and basic coding schemes?

• How fiber properties such as loss, dispersion and non-linearity impact system performance.

• How systems are compensated for loss, dispersion andnon-linearity.

• How a fiber-optic amplifier works and it’s impact onsystem performance.

• How to maximize fiber bandwidth through wavelengthdivision multiplexing.

• How is the fiber-optic link budget calculated?• What are typical characteristics of real fiber-optic

systems including CATV, gigabit Ethernet, POF datalinks, RF-antenna remoting systems, long-haultelecommunication links.

• How to perform cost analysis and system design?




SummaryThis three-day course investigates the basic aspects of

digital and analog fiber-optic communication systems.Topics include sources and receivers, optical fibers andtheir propagation characteristics, and optical fibersystems. The principles of operation and properties ofoptoelectronic components, as well as signal guidingcharacteristics of glass fibers are discussed. Systemdesign issues include both analog and digital point-to-point optical links and fiber-optic networks.

From this course you will obtain the knowledge neededto perform basic fiber-optic communication systemsengineering calculations, identify system tradeoffs, andapply this knowledge to modern fiber optic systems. Thiswill enable you to evaluate real systems, communicateeffectively with colleagues, and understand the mostrecent literature in the field of fiber-optic communications.

InstructorDr. Raymond M. Sova is a section supervisor of the

Photonic Devices and Systems section and a member ofthe Principal Professional Staff of the Johns HopkinsUniversity Applied Physics Laboratory. He has aBachelors degree from Pennsylvania State University inElectrical Engineering, a Masters degree in AppliedPhysics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from JohnsHopkins University. With nearly 17 years of experience, hehas numerous patents and papers related to thedevelopment of high-speed photonic and fiber opticdevices and systems that are applied to communications,remote sensing and RF-photonics. His experience in fiberoptic communications systems include the design,development and testing of fiber communication systemsand components that include: Gigabit ethernet, highly-parallel optical data link using VCSEL arrays, high datarate (10 Gb/sec to 200 Gb/sec) fiber-optic transmitters andreceivers and free-space optical data links. He is anassistant research professor at Johns Hopkins Universityand has developed three graduate courses in Photonicsand Fiber-Optic Communication Systems that he teachesin the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School ofEngineering Part-Time Program.

Course OutlinePart I: FUNDAMENTALS OF FIBER OPTIC

COMPONENTS1. Fiber Optic Communication Systems. Introduction to

analog and digital fiber optic systems including terrestrial,undersea, CATV, gigabit Ethernet, RF antenna remoting, andplastic optical fiber data links.

2. Optics and Lightwave Fundamentals. Ray theory,numerical aperture, diffraction, electromagnetic waves,polarization, dispersion, Fresnel reflection, opticalwaveguides, birefringence, phase velocity, group velocity.

3. Optical Fibers. Step-index fibers, graded-index fibers,attenuation, optical modes, dispersion, non-linearity, fibertypes, bending loss.

4. Optical Cables and Connectors. Types, construction,fusion splicing, connector types, insertion loss, return loss,connector care.

5. Optical Transmitters. Introduction to semiconductorphysics, FP, VCSEL, DFB lasers, direct modulation, linearity,RIN noise, dynamic range, temperature dependence, biascontrol, drive circuitry, threshold current, slope efficiency, chirp.

6. Optical Modulators. Mach-Zehnder interferometer,Electro-optic modulator, electro-absorption modulator, linearity,bias control, insertion loss, polarization.

7. Optical Receivers. Quantum properties of light, PN,PIN, APD, design, thermal noise, shot noise, sensitivitycharacteristics, BER, front end electronics, bandwidthlimitations, linearity, quantum efficiency.

8. Optical Amplifiers. EDFA, Raman, semiconductor,gain, noise, dynamics, power amplifier, pre-amplifier, lineamplifier.

9. Passive Fiber Optic Components. Couplers,isolators, circulators, WDM filters, Add-Drop multiplexers,attenuators.

10. Component Specification Sheets. Interpreting opticalcomponent spec. sheets - what makes the best designcomponent for a given application.

Part II: FIBER OPTIC SYSTEMS11. Design of Fiber Optic Links. Systems design issues

that are addressed include: loss-limited and dispersion limitedsystems, power budget, rise-time budget and sources of powerpenalty.

12. Network Properties. Introduction to fiber optic networkproperties, specifying and characterizing optical analog anddigital networks.

13. Optical Impairments. Introduction to opticalimpairments for digital and analog links. Dispersion, loss, non-linearity, optical amplifier noise, laser clipping to SBS (alsodistortions), back reflection, return loss, CSO CTB, noise.

14. Compensation Techniques. As data rates of fiberoptical systems go beyond a few Gbits/sec, dispersionmanagement is essential for the design of long-haul systems.The following dispersion management schemes arediscussed: pre-compensation, post-compensation, dispersioncompensating fiber, optical filters and fiber Bragg gratings.

15. WDM Systems. The properties, components andissues involved with using a WDM system are discussed.Examples of modern WDM systems are provided.

16. Digital Fiber Optic Link Examples: Worked examplesare provided for modern systems and the methodology fordesigning a fiber communication system is explained.Terrestrial systems, undersea systems, Gigabit ethernet, andplastic optical fiber links.

17. Analog Fiber Optic Link Examples: Workedexamples are provided for modern systems and themethodology for designing a fiber communication system isexplained. Cable television, RF antenna remoting, RF phasedarray systems.

18. Test and Measurement. Power, wavelength, spectralanalysis, BERT jitter, OTDR, PMD, dispersion, SBS, Noise-Power-Ratio (NPR), intensity noise.


May 9-11, 2011Las Vegas, Nevada



NEW!

Course Outline1. Intro to FO, Fundamentals, Components,

Communications. Fiber Optic Communication Systems.Introduction to analog and digital fiber optic systemsincluding terrestrial, undersea, CATV, gigabit Ethernet, RFantenna remoting, and plastic optical fiber data links.

2. Types of Fibers, Properties of Fibers, FiberMaterial, Structure, etc. Optics and LightwaveFundamentals. Ray theory, numerical aperture, diffraction,electromagnetic waves, polarization, dispersion, Fresnelreflection, optical waveguides, birefringence, phasevelocity, group velocity.

3. Specialty Fibers, Cabling, Light Sources.Optical Fibers. Step-index fibers, graded-index fibers,attenuation, optical modes, dispersion, non-linearity, fibertypes, bending loss.

4. Transmitters, Receivers, Amplification,Regeneration & Wavelength. Optical Transmitters.Introduction to semiconductor physics, FP, VCSEL, DFBlasers, direct modulation, linearity, RIN noise, dynamicrange, temperature dependence, bias control, drivecircuitry, threshold current, slope efficiency, chirp. Lasers,LEDS, Fiber Amplifiers, wavelength and technologyoptions.

Optical Receivers. Quantum properties of light, PN,PIN, APD, design, thermal noise, shot noise, sensitivitycharacteristics, BER, front end electronics, bandwidthlimitations, linearity, quantum efficiency. Optical Amplifiers.EDFA, Raman, semiconductor, gain, noise, dynamics,power amplifier, pre-amplifier, line amplifier.

5. Connector, Couplers, WDM . Optical Cables andConnectors. Types, construction, fusion splicing,connector types, insertion loss, return loss, connectorcare. Passive Fiber Optic Components. Couplers,isolators, circulators, WDM filters, Add-Drop multiplexers,attenuators. Component Specification Sheets. Interpretingoptical component spec. sheets - what makes the bestdesign component for a given application.

6. Switches, Modulators, Measurements,Troubleshooting Optical Modulators. Mach-Zehnderinterferometer, Electro-optic modulator, electro-absorptionmodulator, linearity, bias control, insertion loss,polarization.

7. Networking, Standards, System Design.(Briefly).

8. Network design, Global Telecomm, Regionaland Metro. (Briefly).

9. Local Telephone/Access, Internet Networks,Video Transmission. (Briefly).

10. Mobile FO Comms, FO Sensors*, Imaging andIllumination. (Briefly).

11. Applications: Fiber-Optic Applications- Sensors(rotation “Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes”) Fiber-OpticApplications- Illumination & Material Processing (BeamPower through fibers) Fiber-Optic Applications- Bio-Medical.

SummaryThis three-day course is designed for technical

people with a wide variety of backgrounds who wish toenhance their understanding of Fiber-Optics orbecome familiar with the applications of FO. Thevarious properties of Fibers of a wide variety of typeswill be discussed along with applications for which theycan be used. Special emphasis will be put on usingfibers for Laser Power Delivery, a subject not found intextbooks.

What You Will Learn• What are the Emerging issues for the use of Fiber-Optic

system in both military and commercial applications.• Future Opportunities in Fiber-Optics applications, and

much more!).• Overcoming Challenges in Fiber-Optic Systems

(bandwidth expansion, real-time global connectivity,survivability & more).

• Measuring the Key Performance Tradeoffs (cost vs.size/weight vs. availability vs. power vs. transmissiondistance).

• Tools and Techniques for Meeting the Requirements ofData Rate, Availability, and transmitting high powerbeams without damage to the fiber or degradation of thelight transmitted.

From this course you will obtain the knowledgeand ability to perform basic FO systemsengineering calculations, identify tradeoffs,interact meaningfully with colleagues, evaluatesystems, and understand the literature.

Instructor Dr. James Pierre Hauck is a consultant to industry

and government defense labs. He is an expert in fiber-optics systems having used them for a variety ofsystems in which CW or Pulsed laser power isdelivered to targets.

Dr. Hauck’s work with lasers and optics began about40 years ago when he studied Quantum Electronics atthe University of CA Irvine. After completing the Ph.D.in Physics, he went to work for Rockwell’s ElectronicsResearch Center, working Lasers and Applications,and later on Fiber-Optics, and Optical CommsSystems.

Jim Hauck’s work on Fiber-Optics began in the1990’s when he developed systems for delivery of highpower laser beams for materials processing. Hecontinued that work with the use of FO for laser powerdelivery in optical dazzlers and imagers, and LaserInduced Breakdown Spectroscopy Systems.

Fiber Optics Technology and Applications:An intro for technical people to enter the field or use FO in their work


InstructorDr. William G. Duff (Bill) received a BEE degree

from George Washington Universityin 1959, a MSEE degree fromSyracuse University in 1969, and aDScEE degree from ClaytonUniversity in 1977.

Bill is an independent consultantspecializing in EMI/EMC. He worked

for SENTEL and Atlantic Research and taughtcourses on electromagnetic interference (EMI) andelectromagnetic compatibility (EMC). He isinternationally recognized as a leader in thedevelopment of engineering technology forachieving EMC in communication and electronicsystems. He has more than 40 years of experiencein EMI/EMC analysis, design, test and problemsolving for a wide variety of communication andelectronic systems. He has extensive experience inassessing EMI at the circuit, equipment and/or thesystem level and applying EMI mitigationtechniques to "fix" problems. Bill has written morethan 40 technical papers and four books on EMC.He is a NARTE Certified EMC Engineer.

Bill has been very active in the IEEE EMCSociety. He served on the Board of Directors, iscurrently Chairman of the Fellow EvaluationCommittee and is an Associate Editor for theNewsletter. He is a past president of the IEEE EMCSociety and a past Director of the Electromagneticsand Radiation Division of IEEE.

What You Will Learn• Examples Of Potential EMI Threats.• Safety Grounding Versus Noise Coupling.• Field Coupling Into Ground Loops.• Coupling Reduction Methods.• Victim Sensitivities.• Common Ground Impedance Coupling.• Ground Loop Coupling.• Shielding Theory.

SummaryThis three-day course is designed for

technicians, operators, and engineers who needan understanding of all facets of grounding andshielding at the circuit, PCB, box or equipmentlevel, cable-interconnected boxes (subsystem),system and building, facilities or vehicle levels.The course offers a discussion of the qualitativetechniques for EMI control through grounding andshielding at all levels. It provides for selection ofEMI suppression methods via math modeling andgraphics of grounding and shielding parameters.

Our instructor will use computer software toprovide real world examples and case histories.The computer software simulates anddemonstrates various concepts and helps bridgethe gap between theory and the real world. Thecomputer software will be made available to theattendees. One of the computer programs is usedto design interconnecting equipments. Thisprogram demonstrates the impact of variousgrounding schemes and different "fixes" that areapplied. Another computer program is used todesign a shielded enclosure. The programconsiders the box material; seams and gaskets;cooling and viewing apertures; and various"fixes" that may be used for aperture protection.

There are also hardware demonstrations of theeffect of various compromises and resulting"fixes" on the shielding effectiveness of anenclosure. The compromises that aredemonstrated are seam leakage, and aconductor penetrating the enclosure. Thehardware demonstrations also includeincorporating various "fixes" and illustrating theirimpact.

Grounding & Shielding for EMC





Practical Design of ExperimentsJune 7-9, 2011

Beltsville, Maryland$1040 (8:30am - 4:00pm)


SummaryThis two-day course will enable the participant to

plan the most efficient experiment or test which willresult in a statistically defensible conclusion of the testobjectives. It will show how properly designed tests areeasily analyzed and prepared for presentation in areport or paper. Examples and exercises related tovarious NASA satellite programs will be included.

Many companies are reporting significant savingsand increased productivity from their engineering,process control and R&D professionals. Thesecompanies apply statistical methods and statistically-designed experiments to their critical manufacturingprocesses, product designs, and laboratoryexperiments. Multifactor experimentation will be shownas increasing efficiencies, improving product quality,and decreasing costs. This first course in experimentaldesign will start you into statistical planning before youactually start taking data and will guide you to performhands-on analysis of your results immediately aftercompleting the last experimental run. You will learnhow to design practical full factorial and fractionalfactorial experiments. You will learn how tosystematically manipulate many variablessimultaneously to discover the few major factorsaffecting performance and to develop a mathematicalmodel of the actual instruments. You will performstatistical analysis using the modern statisticalsoftware called JMP from SAS Institute. At the end ofthis course, participants will be able to designexperiments and analyze them on their own desktopcomputers.

InstructorDr. Manny Uy is a member of the Principal

Professional Staff at The Johns Hopkins UniversityApplied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL).Previously, he was with General ElectricCompany, where he practiced Design ofExperiments on many manufacturingprocesses and product developmentprojects. He is currently working onspace environmental monitors, reliability

and failure analysis, and testing of modern instrumentsfor Homeland Security. He earned a Ph.D. in physicalchemistry from Case-Western Reserve University andwas a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University and theFree University of Brussels. He has published over 150papers and holds over 10 patents. At the JHU/APL, hehas continued to teach courses in the Design andAnalysis of Experiments and in Data Mining andExperimental Analysis using SAS/JMP.

What You Will Learn• How to design full and fractional factorial

experiments.• Gather data from hands-on experiments while

simultaneously manipulating many variables.• Analyze statistical significant testing from hands-on

exercises.• Acquire a working knowledge of the statistical

software JMP.

Testimonials ...“Would you like many times more

information, with much less resources used,and 100% valid and technically defensibleresults? If so, design your tests usingDesign of Experiments.”

Dr. Jackie Telford, Career Enhancement:Statistics, JHU/APL.

“We can no longer afford to experimentin a trial-and-error manner, changing onefactor at a time, the way Edison did indeveloping the light bulb. A far bettermethod is to apply a computer-enhanced,systematic approach to experimentation,one that considers all factorssimultaneously. That approach is called"Design of Experiments..”

Mark Anderson, The IndustrialPhysicist.

Course Outline1. Survey of Statistical Concepts. 2. Introduction to Design of Experiments.3. Designing Full and Fractional Factorials.4. Hands-on Exercise: Statapult Distance

Experiment using full factorial.5. Data preparation and analysis of

Experimental Data.6. Verification of Model: Collect data, analyze

mean and standard deviation.7. Hands-on Experiment: One-Half Fractional

Factorial, verify prediction.8. Hands-on Experiment: One-Fourth Fractional

Factorial, verify prediction.9. Screening Experiments (Trebuchet).

10. Advanced designs, Methods of SteepestAscent, Central Composite Design.

11. Some recent uses of DOE. 12. Summary.


Practical EMI Fixes

SummaryThis four-day course is designed for technician

and engineers who need an understanding ofEMI and EMI fix methodology. The course offersa basic working knowledge of the principles of theEMI measurements, EMI fix selection, and EMIfix theory. This course will provide the ability tounderstand and communicate withcommunications-electronics (C-E) engineers andproject personnel relating to EMI and EMI fixtrade-offs.

Instructor Dr. William G. Duff (Bill) is the President of

SEMTAS. Previously, he was theChief Technology Officer of theAdvanced Technology Group ofSENTEL. Prior to working forSENTEL, he worked for AtlanticResearch and taught courses onelectromagnetic interference (EMI)

and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). He isinternationally recognized as a leader in thedevelopment of engineering technology forachieving EMC in communication and electronicsystems. He has 42 years of experience inEMI/EMC analysis, design, test and problemsolving for a wide variety of communication andelectronic systems. He has extensive experiencein assessing EMI at the equipment and/or thesystem level and applying EMI suppression andcontrol techniques to "fix" problems.

Bill has written more than 40 technical papersand four books on EMC and he regularlyteaches seminar courses on EMC. Bill is a Fellowin the IEEE, served on the Board of Directorsand as President of the IEEE EMC Society,was Director of the Electromagnetics andRadiation Division of IEEE, is an Associate Editorof the IEEE EMC Newsletter,and was Chairmanof the IEEE-EMC Society Fellow EvaluationCommittee. He is a NARTE Certified EMCEngineer.




Course Outline1. EMI Basics and Units. Definitions. Time

And Frequency.2. EMI Measurements. Time Domain And

Frequency Domain Measurement Techniques,Antennas And Sensors, And Current Probes.

3. EMI Fix Theory. Sources And Victims, AndCoupling Paths For Conducted And RadiatedEMI, Field-To-Wire Transition And Ground Loops.

4. EMI Fix Selection Flowchart. TheMethodology For Victim Identification, AccessPoint Selection, And Coupling Path Identification.Worksheets For Frequency DomainMeasurements And Fix Selections. Discussion OfFix Installations And An Example Application.

5. The EMI Catalog. An Introduction To TheCatalog, Including Discussion Of Layout, FixClassification And Application Guidelines.

6. Conducted EMI Fixes. A Discussion OfSignal Filters For Conducted EMI Fixes, IncludingPower Line Filters, Ferrites, And Transformers.

7. Conducted Transient Fixes. Basic TypesOf Transient Fixes; Spark Gaps And Transorbs.Controlling Stray Inducted And CapacitiveCoupling. A Discussion On Motor Generators,Uninterruptible Power Supplies And DedicatedPower Supplies.

8. Ground Loop Fixes. Techniques ToCorrect Ground Loop Induced EMI.

9. Common Impedance Fixes. TechniquesTo Correct Common Impedance Induced EMI.

10. Field To Cable Fixes. Techniques ToCorrect Field To Cable Induced EMI.

11. Differential Mode Field To Cable Fixes.Techniques to correct Differential Mode Field toCable Induced EMI.

12. Cross Talk Fixes. Techniques to CorrectDifferential Cross Talk Induced EMI.

13. EMI Shielding Fixes. Techniques ToHarden Victims To EMI.

14. Source Modifications. Techniques ToModify Sources Of EMI.

15. Fix Installation Guidelines. TechniquesUsed In EMI Fix Installations, Including LocationDetermination, Mounting Requirements, CableRouting, Shield Termination Requirements,Shield Integrity And Ground Connections.

What You Will Learn• Basic EMI Technology • The Fundamentals Of EMI Measurements • Source And Victim Hardening • The Working Language Of The EMI Community • Source And Victim Coupling • The Major Tradeoffs In EMI Fix Performance


Practical Statistical Signal Processing Using MATLABwith Radar, Sonar, Communications, Speech & Imaging Applications

InstructorDr. Steven Kay is a Professor of Electrical

Engineering at the University ofRhode Island and the President ofSignal Processing Systems, aconsulting firm to industry and thegovernment. He has over 25 yearsof research and developmentexperience in designing optimalstatistical signal processing

algorithms for radar, sonar, speech, image,communications, vibration, and financial dataanalysis. Much of his work has been published inover 100 technical papers and the threetextbooks, Modern Spectral Estimation: Theoryand Application, Fundamentals of StatisticalSignal Processing: Estimation Theory, andFundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing:Detection Theory. Dr. Kay is a Fellow of theIEEE.

SummaryThis 4-day course covers signal processing systems

for radar, sonar, communications, speech, imaging andother applications based on state-of-the-art computeralgorithms. These algorithms include important taskssuch as data simulation, parameter estimation,filtering, interpolation, detection, spectral analysis,beamforming, classification, and tracking. Until nowthese algorithms could only be learned by reading thelatest technical journals. This course will take themystery out of these designs by introducing thealgorithms with a minimum of mathematics andillustrating the key ideas via numerous examples usingMATLAB.

Designed for engineers, scientists, and otherprofessionals who wish to study the practice ofstatistical signal processing without the headaches,this course will make extensive use of hands-onMATLAB implementations and demonstrations.Attendees will receive a suite of software source codeand are encouraged to bring their own laptops to followalong with the demonstrations.

Each participant will receive two booksFundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing: Vol. Iand Vol. 2 by instructor Dr. Kay. A complete set ofnotes and a suite of MATLAB m-files will be distributedin source format for direct use or modification by theuser.

What You Will Learn• To translate system requirements into algorithms that

work.• To simulate and assess performance of key

algorithms.• To tradeoff algorithm performance for computational

complexity.• The limitations to signal processing performance.• To recognize and avoid common pitfalls and traps in

algorithmic development.• To generalize and solve practical problems using the

provided suite of MATLAB code.

Course Outline1. MATLAB Basics. M-files, logical flow, graphing,

debugging, special characters, array manipulation,vectorizing computations, useful toolboxes.

2. Computer Data Generation. Signals, Gaussiannoise, nonGaussian noise, colored and white noise,AR/ARMA time series, real vs. complex data, linearmodels, complex envelopes and demodulation.

3. Parameter Estimation. Maximum likelihood, bestlinear unbiased, linear and nonlinear least squares,recursive and sequential least squares, minimum meansquare error, maximum a posteriori, general linear model,performance evaluation via Taylor series and computersimulation methods.

4. Filtering/Interpolation/Extrapolation. Wiener,linear Kalman approaches, time series methods.

5. Detection. Matched filters, generalized matchedfilters, estimator-correlators, energy detectors, detectionof abrupt changes, min probability of error receivers,communication receivers, nonGaussian approaches,likelihood and generalized likelihood detectors, receiveroperating characteristics, CFAR receivers, performanceevaluation by computer simulation.

6. Spectral Analysis. Periodogram, Blackman-Tukey,autoregressive and other high resolution methods,eigenanalysis methods for sinusoids in noise.

7. Array Processing. Beamforming, narrowband vs.wideband considerations, space-time processing,interference suppression.

8. Signal Processing Systems. Image processing,active sonar receiver, passive sonar receiver, adaptivenoise canceler, time difference of arrival localization,channel identification and tracking, adaptivebeamforming, data analysis.

9. Case Studies. Fault detection in bearings, acousticimaging, active sonar detection, passive sonar detection,infrared surveillance, radar Doppler estimation, speakerseparation, stock market data analysis.

June 20-23, 2011Middletown, Rhode Island

July 25-28, 2011Laurel, Maryland




Signal & Image Processing And Analysis For Scientists And Engineers




Course Outline1. Introduction. Basic Descriptions, Terminology,

and Concepts Related to Signals, Imaging, andProcessing for science and engineering. Analogand Digital. Data acquisition concepts. Samplingand Quantization.

2. Signal Analysis. Basic operations,Frequency-domain filtering, Wavelet filtering,Wavelet Decomposition and Reconstruction, SignalDeconvolution, Joint Time-Frequency Processing,Curve Fitting.

3. Signal Analysis. Signal Parameter Extraction,Peak Detection, Signal Statistics, Joint Time –Frequency Analysis, Acoustic Emission analysis,Curve Fitting Parameter Extraction.

4. Image Processing. Basic and AdvancedMethods, Spatial frequency Filtering, Waveletfiltering, lookup tables, Kernel convolution/filtering(e.g. Sobel, Gradient, Median), Directional Filtering,Image Deconvolution, Wavelet Decomposition andReconstruction, Thresholding, Colorization,Morphological Operations, Segmentation, B-scandisplay, Phased Array Display.

5. Image Analysis. Region-of-interest Analysis,Line profiles, Feature Selection and Measurement,Image Math, Logical Operators, Masks, Particleanalysis, Image Series Reduction including ImagesAveraging, Principal Component Analysis,Derivative Images, Multi-surface Rendering, B-scanAnalysis, Phased Array Analysis.

6. Integrated Signal and Image Processingand Analysis Software and algorithm strategies.The instructor will draw on his extensive experienceto demonstrate how these methods can becombined and utilized in a post-processing softwarepackage. Software strategies including code andinterface design concepts for versatile signal andimage processing and analysis softwaredevelopment will be provided. These strategies areapplicable for any language including LabVIEW,MATLAB, and IDL. Practical considerations andapproaches will be emphasized.

InstructorDr. Donald J. Roth is the Nondestructive

Evaluation (NDE) Team Lead at amajor NASA center, as well as asenior research engineer with 26years of experience in NDE,measurement and imagingsciences, and software design. Hisprimary areas of expertise over his

career include research and development inthe imaging modalities of ultrasound, infrared,x-ray, computed tomography, and terahertz. Hehas been heavily involved in the developmentof software for custom data and controlsystems, and for signal and image processingsoftware systems. Dr. Roth holds the degree ofPh.D. in Materials Science from the CaseWestern Reserve University and has publishedover 100 articles, presentations, bookchapters, and software products.

What You Will Learn• Terminology, definitions, and concepts related

to basic and advanced signal and imageprocessing.

• Conceptual examples.• Case histories where these methods have

proven applicable.• Methods are exhibited using live computerized

demonstrations.• All of this will allow a better understanding of

how and when to apply processing methods inpractice.

From this course you will obtain the knowledgeand ability to perform basic and advanced signaland image processing and analysis that can beapplied to many signal and image acquisitionscenarios in order to improve and analyze signaland image data

SummaryWhether working in the scientific, medical, or

security field, signal and image processing andanalysis play a critical role. This three-day course isdesigned is designed for engineers, scientists,technicians, implementers, and managers in thosefields who need to understand basic and advancedmethods of signal and image processing andanalysis techniques. The course provides a jumpstart for utilizing these methods in any application.

Recent attendee comments ..."This course provided insight and

explanations that saved me hours ofresearch time."

NEW!


Wavelets: A Conceptual, Practical Approach

Instructor D. Lee Fugal is the Founder and President of an

independent consulting firm. He has over 30 years ofindustry experience in Digital SignalProcessing (including Wavelets) andSatellite Communications. He has beena full-time consultant on numerousassignments since 1991. Recentprojects include Excision of ChirpJammer Signals using Wavelets, designof Space-Based Geolocation Systems

(GPS & Non-GPS), and Advanced Pulse Detectionusing Wavelet Technology. He has taught upper-division University courses in DSP and in Satellites aswell as Wavelet short courses and seminars forPracticing Engineers and Management. He holds aMasters in Applied Physics (DSP) from the Universityof Utah, is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a recipient ofthe IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

SummaryFast Fourier Transforms (FFT) are in wide use and

work very well if your signal stays at a constantfrequency (“stationary”). But if the signal could vary,have pulses, “blips” or any other kind of interestingbehavior then you need Wavelets. Wavelets areremarkable tools that can stretch and move like anamoeba to find the hidden “events” and thensimultaneously give you their location, frequency, andshape. Wavelet Transforms allow this and many othercapabilities not possible with conventional methods likethe FFT.

This course is vastly different from traditional math-oriented Wavelet courses or books in that we useexamples, figures, and computer demonstrations toshow how to understand and work with Wavelets. Thisis a comprehensive, in-depth. up-to-date treatment ofthe subject, but from an intuitive, conceptual point ofview.

We do look at some key equations but only AFTERthe concepts are demonstrated and understood so youcan see the wavelets and equations “in action”.

Each student will receive extensive course slides, aCD with MATLAB demonstrations, and a copy of theinstructor’s new book, Conceptual Wavelets.

“This course uses very little math, yet provides an in-depth understanding of the concepts and real-worldapplications of these powerful tools.”

Course Outline1. What is a Wavelet? Examples and Uses. “Waves” that

can start, stop, move and stretch. Real-world applications inmany fields: Signal and Image Processing, Internet Traffic,Airport Security, Medicine, JPEG, Finance, Pulse and TargetRecognition, Radar, Sonar, etc.

2. Comparison with traditional methods. The conceptof the FFT, the STFT, and Wavelets as all being various typesof comparisons (correlations) with the data. Strengths,weaknesses, optimal choices.

3. The Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT).Stretching and shifting the Wavelet for optimal correlation.Predefined vs. Constructed Wavelets.

4. The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Shrinkingthe signal by factors of 2 through downsampling.Understanding the DWT in terms of correlations with the data.Relating the DWT to the CWT. Demonstrations and uses.

5. The Redundant Discrete Wavelet Transform (RDWT).Stretching the Wavelet by factors of 2 without downsampling.Tradeoffs between the alias-free processing and the extrastorage and computational burdens. A hybrid process usingboth the DWT and the RDWT. Demonstrations and uses.

6. “Perfect Reconstruction Filters”. How to cancel theeffects of aliasing. How to recognize and avoid any traps. Abreakthrough method to see the filters as basic Wavelets.The “magic” of alias cancellation demonstrated in both thetime and frequency domains.

7. Highly useful properties of popular Wavelets. Howto choose the best Wavelet for your application. When tocreate your own and when to stay with proven favorites.

8. Compression and De-Noising using Wavelets. Howto remove unwanted or non-critical data without throwingaway the alias cancellation capability. A new, powerful methodto extract signals from large amounts of noise.Demonstrations.

9. Additional Methods and Applications. ImageProcessing. Detecting Discontinuities, Self-Similarities andTransitory Events. Speech Processing. Human Vision. Audioand Video. BPSK/QPSK Signals. Wavelet Packet Analysis.Matched Filtering. How to read and use the various WaveletDisplays. Demonstrations.

10. Further Resources. The very best of Waveletreferences.

"Your Wavelets course was very helpful in our Radarstudies. We often use wavelets now instead of theFourier Transform for precision denoising."

–Long To, NAWC WD, Point Wugu, CA

"I was looking forward to this course and it was very re-warding–Your clear explanations starting with the big pic-ture immediately contextualized the material allowing usto drill a little deeper with a fuller understanding"

–Steve Van Albert, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

"Good overview of key wavelet concepts and literature.The course provided a good physical understanding ofwavelet transforms and applications."

–Stanley Radzevicius, ENSCO, Inc.

What You Will Learn• How to use Wavelets as a “microscope” to analyze

data that changes over time or has hidden “events”that would not show up on an FFT.

• How to understand and efficiently use the 3 types ofWavelet Transforms to better analyze and processyour data. State-of-the-art methods andapplications.

• How to compress and de-noise data usingadvanced Wavelet techniques. How to avoidpotential pitfalls by understanding the concepts. A“safe” method if in doubt.

• How to increase productivity and reduce cost bychoosing (or building) a Wavelet that best matchesyour particular application.




Spacecraft & Aerospace EngineeringAdvanced Satellite Communications SystemsAttitude Determination & ControlComposite Materials for Aerospace ApplicationsDesign & Analysis of Bolted JointsEffective Design Reviews for Aerospace ProgramsFundamentals of Orbital & Launch MechanicsGIS, GPS & Remote Sensing (Geomatics)GPS TechnologyGround System Design & OperationHyperspectral & Multispectral ImagingIntroduction To SpaceIP Networking Over SatelliteLaunch Vehicle Selection, Performance & UseLaunch Vehicle Systems - ReusableNew Directions in Space Remote SensingOrbital & Launch MechanicsPayload Integration & ProcessingReducing Space Launch CostsRemote Sensing for Earth ApplicationsRisk Assessment for Space FlightSatellite Communication IntroductionSatellite Communication Systems EngineeringSatellite Design & TechnologySatellite Laser CommunicationsSatellite RF Comm & Onboard ProcessingSpace-Based Laser SystemsSpace Based RadarSpace EnvironmentSpace Hardware InstrumentationSpace Mission StructuresSpace Systems Intermediate DesignSpace Systems Subsystems DesignSpace Systems FundamentalsSpacecraft Power SystemsSpacecraft QA, Integration & TestingSpacecraft Structural DesignSpacecraft Systems Design & EngineeringSpacecraft Thermal Control

Engineering & Data Analysis Aerospace Simulations in C++Advanced Topics in Digital Signal ProcessingAntenna & Array FundamentalsApplied Measurement EngineeringDigital Processing Systems DesignExploring Data: VisualizationFiber Optics Systems EngineeringFundamentals of Statistics with Excel ExamplesGrounding & Shielding for EMCIntroduction To Control SystemsIntroduction to EMI/EMC Practical EMI FixesKalman Filtering with ApplicationsOptimization, Modeling & SimulationPractical Signal Processing Using MATLAB

Practical Design of ExperimentsSelf-Organizing Wireless NetworksWavelets: A Conceptual, Practical Approach

Sonar & Acoustic EngineeringAcoustics, Fundamentals, Measurements and ApplicationsAdvanced Undersea WarfareApplied Physical OceanographyAUV & ROV TechnologyDesign & Use of Sonar TransducersDevelopments In Mine WarfareFundamentals of Sonar TransducersMechanics of Underwater NoisePractical Sonar Systems Engi-neeringSonar Principles & ASW AnalysisSonar Signal ProcessingSubmarines & Combat SystemsUnderwater Acoustic Modeling Underwater Acoustic SystemsVibration & Noise ControlVibration & Shock Measurement & Testing

Radar/Missile/DefenseAdvanced Developments in RadarAdvanced Synthetic Aperture RadarCombat Systems EngineeringC4ISR Requirements & SystemsElectronic Warfare OverviewFundamentals of Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDSFundamentals of RadarFundamentals of Rockets & MissilesGPS TechnologyMicrowave & RF Circuit Design Missile AutopilotsModern Infrared Sensor TechnologyModern Missile AnalysisPropagation Effects for Radar & CommRadar Signal Processing.Radar System Design & EngineeringMulti-Target Tracking & Multi-Sensor Data FusionSpace-Based RadarSynthetic Aperture RadarTactical Missile Design & System Engineering

Systems Engineering and Project ManagementCertified Systems Engineer Professional Exam PreparationFundamentals of Systems EngineeringPrinciples Of Test & EvaluationProject Management FundamentalsProject Management SeriesSystems Of SystemsKalman Filtering with ApplicationsTest Design And AnalysisTotal Systems Engineering Development


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