In this highly structured four-day short course - specifically tailored to the needs of busy engineers, scientists, managers, and aerospace professionals - Logsdon will provide you with cogent instruction on the modern guidance, navigation, and control techniques now being perfected at key research centers around the world.The various topics are amply illustrated with powerful analogies, full-color sketches, block diagrams, simple one-page de...

The increasing level of combat system integration and communications requirements, coupled with shrinking defense budgets and shorter product life cycles, offers many challenges and opportunities in the design and acquisition of new combat systems. This three-day course teaches the systems engineering discipline that has built some of the modern military’s greatest combat and communications systems, using state-of-the-art systems enginee...

This introductory course has recently been expanded to three days by popular demand. It has been taught to thousands of industry professionals for more than two decades, to rave reviews. The course is intended primarily for non-technical people who must understand the entire field of commercial satellite communications, and who must understand and communicate with engineers and other technical personnel. The secondary audience is technical pe...

Introduction. Basic Descriptions, Terminology, and Concepts Related to Signals, Imaging, and Processing for science and engineering. Analog and Digital. Data acquisition concepts. Sampling and Quantization. Signal Processing. Basic operations, Frequency-domain filtering, Wavelet filtering, Wavelet Decomposition and Reconstruction, Signal Deconvolution, Joint Time-Frequency Processing, Curve Fitting. Signal Analysis. Signal Parameter Extractio...

This one-day course is designed for engineers, aviation experts and project managers who wish to enhance their understanding of UAS. The course provides the "big picture" for those who work outside of the discipline. Each topic addresses real systems (Predator, Shadow, Warrior and others) and real-world problems and issues concerning the use and expansion of their applications.

Why Attend PSTS-10 Maintaining superior military capabilities are essential both to the credibility of America’s commitments to allies and partners and our ability to deter threats. As DoD continues to pursue the core objectives laid out in the QDR, the precision strike community is focused on the large-scale, high priority security force assistance operations that are ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are providing needed support to o...

The Cyber Security Conference, held in collaboration with the National Cyber Security Alliance, will be a one-day conference and exposition on October 14, 2010 at the John Hopkins-APL Kossiakoff Conference and Education Center.This one day conference will bring together Government, Industry and Academia and the roles each play in the Cyber Security World. Session topics and the agenda will be available soon.Presenters and attendees will be com...

The Strike, Land Attack & Air Defense Division and the Missile Defense Division of NDIA will hold a new type of annual symposium that is focused on an increasingly critical area of national defense --- the state of Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD). This new effort will be a product of the combined efforts of NDIA’s Missile Defense and Strike, Land Attack, and Air Defense Divisions, and is intended to provide an audience of t...

The 2010 Submarine Technology Symposium (STS 2010) will be held at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) from 11 to 13 May 2010. Jointly sponsored by JHU/APL and the Naval Submarine League, this year’s Symposium will provide a classified forum for examining current, emerging, and future technologies that may aid the submarine warfighter and enhance the current and future operational performance of the Submari...