How IADS and SAMs Work: Metric Accuracy, Transition to Track, and Hand-Offs

This presentation will discuss the basic principles of an Integrated Air Defense System (IADS), and the basic characteristics of a radar-guided missile system. This will be an overview webinar, not a detailed discussion. You will leave the webinar with a basic understanding of how IADS and missile intercepts work from the short discussion of each of the following 8 topics:

Target detection, resolution, and countermeasures (noise jamming)
Variations of the radar range equation for various search volumes
Tracking radars (dedicated and track-while-scan)
Radar waveforms, matched filtering, and signal processing
Target state estimation, tracking, and association
Target classification, discrimination, and identification
Phased-Array radar concepts and fundamental radar design trade-offs
Missile guidance and intercep

Speaker and Presenter Information

Chuck Quintero Chuck is currently a senior RF systems staff member with the Johns Hopkins–Applied Physics Laboratory. During his 40-year career, he has worked on space-based, airborne and surface-based RF systems for remote sensing, electronic warfare, and communications at various companies: including Leidos, SRI International, Northrop Grumman, ITT Harris, and Lockheed Martin. He is currently pursuing a DEng from Johns Hopkins University and has an MSEE from the University of Pennsylvania and an SB from MIT. Chuck is an avid astronomer, STEM lecturer for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and EW Training and Education Chair for the Association of Old Crows. Chuck has published and presented papers on satellite constellation design, space surveillance, multi-channel high bandwidth RF Systems, and both airborne and surface-based radar. Chuck has been active in revitalizing the Chesapeake Bay Roost Chapter.