Dr. Joseph C. Hassab, Instructor

Summary

Widespread availability of top-line military technologies make the development of actually integrated combat systems a top priority. Existing system solutions have evolved separately with humans in the loop and manual interfaces in response to community driven, rather than joint operational, requirements. The shortened reaction times and ambiguities in operations require that such an integration be designed into the system to yield the capabilities needed beyond the sum of the parts. The course is recommended for managers, scientists, and engineers interested in the concept definition, design, and development of computer integrated combat systems that facilitate the execution of joint operations. The instructor’s text, Systems Management, will be supplied to each attendee along with a set of lecture notes.

Instructor

Dr. Joseph C. Hassab has over 25 years of experience in government and industry where he has been President and Director and has overseen the definition and development of large and complex systems. He has published over 100 journal papers in various aspects of systems analysis and synthesis, sonar/radar signal and data processing, wave propagation, electromagnetic scattering, ocean channel modeling, contact localization and motion analysis, weapon targeting, numerical analysis, and expert systems. Dr. Hassab is the author of two books, Underwater Signal and Data Processing, and Systems Management: People, Computers, Machines, Materials. He has been a referee for several technical journals and taught courses on radar, sonar, signal/data processing, and control systems at several universities and sponsored seminars in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Course Outline

1. The Need. Threat, environment, and implications to combat system design. Present stovepipe designs and present needs for the integrated combat suite. Impact of technology on future combat system design. Joint operation, interoperability and open systems technology. Expanded system integration of radar, sonar, imaging, electronic intercept, and weapons components.

2. Integrated Systems. Expanded capabilities beyond the sum of the parts. Exploitation of computers to deal with shortened reaction time, ambiguities. Integrated design of sensing components to increase self-defense, area defense or theater defense effectiveness. System real time control. Basic constituents and system configurations. Automated management of system functions, requirements, implementations approaches and management resources. Sample combat system architectures. Partitioning and allocation. Sizing and timing. Reliability and recovery.

3. Common Functions and Processing. Commonality of algorithms in varied sensing components (radar, sonar, imaging...). Spatial, spectral, and temporal processing. Basic signal processing, windowing, gating. Basic data processing, localization, tracking, fusion. Allocations to active sensing systems, passive sensing systems in simple channels and multi-path channels.

4. Integrated Radar Component. Block diagram. Geometry and physics of the problem. Radar types. Electromagnetic propagation. Frequency coverage. Range equation. Target cross-section. Detection, signal processing, tracking, accuracy. Fusion.

5. Integrated Sonar Component. Block diagram. Geometry and physics of the problem. Sonar types. Acoustic propagation. Frequency coverage. Range equation. Target cross-section. Detection, signal processing, tracking, accuracy. Fusion.

6. Integrated Imaging Component. Block diagram. Geometry and physics of the problem. Imaging types. Propagation frequency coverage. Constructing field of views, stabilization, cameras, focal plane arrays, spatial filtering, low light level imaging, tracking, fusion.

7. Integrated Electronic Intercept Component. Block diagram. Geometry and physics of the problem. Intercept types. Frequency coverage. High probability intercept. Signal parameters (frequency, width, amplitude) recognition of emitters. Emitter location. Tracking.

8. Integrated Weapons Component. Block diagram. Seeker types and characteristics. AAW missiles and mid course guidance, control, and engagement. Land attack cruise missile and search modes, terrain following satellite guidance- Torpedo setting and control. Mines. Counter measures and decoys.

Tuition

Tuition for this three-day course is $1390 per person at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email to ati@ATIcourses.com.

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