Military Antennas
Optimize Antenna Design for Multifunctional Use
September 26-28, 2007 · Georgetown University, Conference Center, Washington, DC
Optimize Antenna Design for Multifunctional Use
September 26-28, 2007 · Georgetown University, Conference Center, Washington, DC
Conference Day Two: Friday 28th September 2007
7:30 Continental Breakfast & Registration
8:15 Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:30 Next Generation Smart Antennas For Radar
- Latest developments in Waveform Diversity
- Multi-Input, Multi-Output (MIMO) radar antennas
- Knowledge-aided adaptive antennas
Dr. Joseph R Guerci
Consultant and IEEE Warren D. White Award Recipient '07
9:15 Shipboard Antennas For Information Operations (IO) & Signal Intelligence (SI)
- Technical & platform goals / objectives
- Legacy & near future designs / requirements
- Future requirements & technologies for RF Products
William Kordela
Program Manager
SPAWAR
10:00 Morning Refreshment Break
10:45 New Strategies For Solving Very Large, Complex And Multiscale Antenna And Array Problems Involving Upward Of 10E+9 Degrees Of Freedom (DOFs)
- Identifying design limitations for small antennas
- Recent developments in wideband antennas
- Spectrum and platform antennas
Raj Mittra
Director, Electromagnetic Communication Lab
Penn State University
11:30 Challenges In The Design Of Small Wideband Antennas
- Identifying design limitations for small antennas
- Recent developments in wideband antennas
- Spectrum and platform antennas
Dr. Steven Best
Principal Sensor Systems Engineer
MITRE
12:15 Luncheon For Speakers And Attendees
1:30 Antennas And Communication Theory: Towards Information-Theoretic Characterization Of Multiconfiguration Antenna Systems
- Antennas as communication devices, electromagnetic fields as information-carrying physical quantities
- New interdisciplinary approach to antenna systems and their applications based on electromagnetics, antennas, wave-based signal processing
- Multiport and MIMO antennas
Edwin A. Marengo
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
2:15 Integrating RF Systems onto Airships (Aerostats)
Mr. J. Doss Halsey
Vice President
Information Systems Laboratories
3:00 Afternoon Refreshment & Networking Break
3:30 Space Time Adaptive Processing Incorporating Antenna Effects
- Combining the electromagnetic analysis with the signal processing methodology to generate accurate determination of low observables in real time
Dr. Tapan Sarkar
Professor
Syracuse University