Representatives from the NSA will discuss: desire for external innovation to integrate into operational spaces how businesses can engage through unclassified projects that focus on small cost, short-term contracts how NSA ensures that small, service-disabled eteran-owned, HUBZone, small disadvantaged and woman-owned small businesses have maximum opportunity to participate in NSA acquisitions how NSA can act as a technology accelerator for new...

LOCATION: W Hotel, Altitude Ballroom + Back Bar KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Lieutenant General Mike Flynn, US Army Retired ATTIRE: Black Tie / Cocktail / Military Equivalent SCHEDULE 6:00 VIP Reception, open bar 7:00 General Reception & hors d'oeuvres, cash bar 7:30 Keynote: LTG Michael Flynn, USA (ret.), Former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency 8:00 Presentation of TIC's Innovation 2015 Awards 8:30 Open Networking (the ballroom is reserved unti...

This three-day course is designed for satellite communications engineers, spacecraft engineers, and managers who want to obtain an understanding of the "big picture" of satellite communications. Each topic is illustrated by detailed worked numerical examples, using published data for actual satellite communications systems. The course is technically oriented and includes mathematical derivations of the fundamental equations. It will enable the...

A three-day course covering the basics of radar, taught in a manner for true understanding of the fundamentals, even for the complete newcomer. Covered are electromagnetic waves, frequency bands, the natural phenomena of scattering and propagation, radar performance calculations and other tools used in radar work, and a "walk through" the four principal subsystems - the transmitter, the antenna, the receiver and signal processor, and the contr...