This three-day indroductory course has been taught to thousands of industry professionals for more than two decades, to rave reviews. The material is frequently updated and the course is a primer to the concepts, jargon, buzzwords, and acronyms of the industry, plus an overview of commercial satellite communications hardware, operations, and business environment. The course is intended primarily for non-technical people who must understand the...

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Integrating Macs? Needing to manage iPhones and iPads? This technical, half-day event includes an introduction to approaches and solutions that will help you get control of Macs and iOS devices in your department or agency. Learn how you can leverage your Windows infrastructure to manage your Macs and iOS devices. The agenda is a series of focused 30 minute presentations delivered by technical experts on the following topics: 8:30-9 Introducti...

The objective of the DMSMS & Standardization 2011 Conference is to focus on significantly improved DMSMS and Standardization policies, procedures, guidance, and automated tools that optimize Warfighter materiel readiness, and includes activities required to attain this goal such as Value Engineering, Product Support and Total Life Cycle Management, Parts Management, and mitigating the Counterfeiting epidemic on parts, material, and materie...

The course covers methods to intercept radar and other non-communication signals and a then how to analyze the signals to determine their functions and capabilities. Practical exercises illustrate the principles involved. What You Will Learn: Special Characteristics of Receivers designed for ELINT Uses for Wideband receivers not generally used in radar and communications systems Application of Probability of Interception theory using several e...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is hosting this event on August 15-18th, 2011, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana being assisted by Halfaker and Associates LLC. The largest nationwide conference of its kind, the National Veteran Small Business Conference provides Veteran-Owned and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSBs and SDVOSBs) an opportunity to learn, network and market their businesses....

Inertial Navigation Systems. Fundamental Concepts. Schuller pendulum errors. Strapdown implementations. Ring laser gyros. The Sagnac effect. Monolithic ring laser gyros. Fiber optic gyros. Advanced strapdown implementations. Radionavigation’s Precise Position-Fixing Techniques. Active and passive radionavigation systems. Pseudoranging solutions. Nanosecond timing accuracies. The quantum-mechanical principles of cesium and rubidium atomi...

If present plans materialize, 128 radionavigation satellites will soon be installed along the space frontier. They will be owned and operated by six different countries hoping to capitalize on the financial success of the GPS constellation. In this popular four-day short course Tom Logsdon describes in detail how these various radionavigation systems work and reviews the many practical benefits they are slated to provide to military and civili...

This three-day course is designed for sonar system design engineers, managers, and system engineers who wish to enhance their understanding of sonar transducer design and how the sonar transducer fits into and dictates the greater sonar system design. Topics will be illustrated by worked numerical examples. What You Will Learn: Basic acoustic parameters that affect transducer designs including: Aperture design Radiation impedance Beam patterns...

MAST is the Global Maritime Security and Defence community’s dedicated conference and exhibition series. Uniting senior-level leaders from over 40 countries, MAST is the ultimate event at which to discuss future capabilities and concepts with the major maritime security and defence ‘shareholders’, and evaluate future and state-of-the-art technologies. MAST is organised by an unmatched international committee of renowned and r...