Annual Report 2007

development and engineering of rotary-wing aviation mission planning systems. The lab also conducts applied research in testing and evaluation of air and missile defense and aviation systems including hardware-in-the-loop, live field testing and system-of-systems interoperability. Other significant research areas include war gaming and large-scale force-on-force simulations, missile guidance and control, and safety critical tactical software development. In the field of electromagnetic environmental effects, SEAL researchers analyze, measure and control the electromagnetic interactions among elements of an electronic system and between the system and its environment. Additional research areas include sensor development for ballistic missile defense, physical security, meteorology, space-based surveillance and detection, transportation applications, and engineering data analysis and modeling for sustainment of complex electronic systems. SEAL also provides customer-tailored short courses in electronic defense. Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory (ITTL) Randolph M. Case, Director 50 1th Street, N.W. Atlanta, GA 01 0.0.5 randolph.case@gtri.gatech.edu ITTL conducts a broad range of research in areas of computer science and information technology and communications and networking, and develops commercial products from university research. ITTL conducts research that solves complex problems involving information processing, storage, representation and exchange; Internet and database technologies and applications; information security and assurance; privacy, knowledge management, data visualization, mapping/ geographical information, distributed simulation and enterprise information systems. Researchers work in broadband telecommunications, wireless access systems, network security, multimedia information systems, tactical communications, communications surveillance and disruption, information warfare and assurance, communications networks and network management, technology assessment, application integration and software radio systems. In commercial product realization, multi-disciplinary research teams drawn from across GTRI and Georgia Tech apply product research and development toward product commercialization. Other researchers provide policy monitoring and assessment to facilitate responsiveness to changes in the technological research environment. ITTL also provides CI capabilities and functional requirements analysis to various service components across the Department of Defense in northern and eastern Virginia. Signature Technology Laboratory (STL) John G. Meadors, Ph.D., Director 00 10th Street, N.W. Atlanta, GA 01-51 0..5 john.meadors@gtri.gatech.edu STL’s main focus is the development of technologies for the management and control of multi-spectral signatures of objects under observation by sophisticated sensor systems. STL conducts research and development over a broad range of topics, including electromagnetic materials and structures, electromagnetic apertures and scattering, optical and infrared physics and phenomenology, secure information systems, signal processing and geo-location of emitters, passive ranging, advanced waveforms for electronic attack and protection, terahertz sources, magnetic erasure of high-density data storage media and the integration of quantum information systems. The laboratory maintains world-class numerical modeling and measurement capabilities to cover EM phenomena from quasi-static to UV wavelengths. Extensive facilities are devoted to optical measurements specializing in laser and white-light scatterometry, electromagnetic materials characterization, radar cross-section measurements, antenna characterization and computational electromagnetics. These are applied to the design, fabrication and testing of thin, broadband antennas with tailored performance and controlled impedance surfaces for management and control of signature characteristics from the systems level to components. Numerical modeling has recently been extended to nano- and micro-magnetics phenomena. The lab’s secure information systems work is nationally recognized for the design, development and deployment of enterprise information systems requiring state-of-the-art database, platform and Internet security. Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL) William Melvin, Ph.D., Director 0 Richardson Road Smyrna, GA 000 0.0. bill.melvin@gtri.gatech.edu SEAL researchers investigate and develop RF sensor systems, with particular emphasis on radar systems, electromagnetic environmental effects, radar system performance modeling and simulations, signal and array processing, and antenna technology. Radar programs focus on the development, analysis and performance evaluation of radar systems; reflectivity and propagation measurement characterization; electronic attack and protection techniques; avionics integration; target identification; tracking and sensor fusion; vulnerability analysis; signal processing techniques; spacetime adaptive processing; ground and airborne moving target indication; synthetic aperture radar; and system sustainment tool development. Antenna-related research programs characterize antenna properties, develop phased-array antenna concepts, and develop various kinds of reflector-type and lens antennas. www.gtri.gatech.edu

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