Professional Development Courses
Fundamental Principles of Electronic Warfare Course
Tuesday – Friday, September 28 – October 1
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. each day
Instructor: Mr. Dave Adamy
Fees on or before 9/17: AOC Member - $1,750 Non-Member - $2,000
After 9/17 – onsite: AOC Member - $1,800 Non-Member - $2,050
This course provides insight into the whole electronic warfare field at the systems and operational level. It uses little math beyond algebra, yet the sources of important propagation and jamming equations are made amply clear. All information needed to understand the material is explained and included in the text. Both the course and the text avoid deep mathematical coverage, explaining all concepts in practical, physical terms.
Tuesday – Friday, September 28 – October 1
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. each day
Instructor: Mr. John Minor
Fees on or before 9/17: AOC Member - $1,750 Non-Member - $2,000
After 9/17 – onsite: AOC Member - $1,800 Non-Member - $2,050
This course covers the basics of electro-optical and infrared system design, operation, and performance. The material includes remote sensing and military use of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared electromagnetic energy for applications such as target detection, acquisition, and tracking, weapons delivery, missile warning, and directed energy and countermeasure systems. New developments in laser-based closed-loop DIRCM systems and operational performance concepts are discussed and illustrated with multiple videos.
Cyber Warfare Course
Sunday, October 3
2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Instructors: GTRI Team
Fees on or before 9/17: AOC Member - $250 Non-Member - $350
After 9/17 – onsite: AOC Member - $300 Non-Member - $400
This unclassified Cyber Warfare Tutorial covers the basics of Cyber Warfare including:
• Definitions of cyber warfare and related issues and relationships to EW
• Roles of DoD and other organizations and evolving boundaries between functions
• Cyber attack methods, threats, impacts and risks
• Insider threats, mitigation strategies and penetration testing
• Security in mobile and wireless systems
• Emerging policy and ethics issues in cyber warfare
Introduction to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs), Their Missions and Systems
Saturday-Sunday, October 2-3
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Instructor: Mr. John Minor
Fees on or before 9/17: AOC Member - $750 Non-Member - $900
After 9/17 – onsite: AOC Member - $800 Non-Member - $950
This practical course includes the history and an industry survey of current and planned UAVs, UASs, their missions, and their systems to include multi-int sensor and EW payloads and data links.
Introduction to Microwave Systems Course
Saturday-Sunday, October 2-3
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. each day
Instructor: Antonio Dias de Macedo Filho, Ph.D.
Fees on or before 9/17: AOC Member - $750 Non-Member - $900
After 9/17 – onsite: AOC Member - $800 Non-Member - $950
EW systems usually apply several microwave modules each with many components. However, the study of microwave theory usually requires deep mathematic skills and a profound knowledge of electromagnetic concepts. This course aims to explain such topics without such formality in a more practical sense.
Refresher on Electronic Warfare Course
Saturday- Sunday, October 2-3
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m./9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. respectively
Instructor: Steve Barton and Phil West, GTRI
Fees on or before 9/17: AOC Member - $700 Non-Member - $850
After 9/17 – onsite: AOC Member - $750 Non-Member - $900
Engineers and managers that are involved in the procurement, design and operation of EW systems and those who desire a snapshot of current DOD plans and major systems should plan to attend this course. EW overview, Major Weapon Systems, Electromagnetic spectrum review, Radar fundamentals, Electronic Support measures, Mission-level EW analysis, Engineering-level analysis, test and development overviews will be covered.
Now Media: Engagement Based on Information Not Platforms Course
Sunday, October 3
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Instructor: Mr. Matt Armstrong with guest presenters
Fees on or before 9/17: AOC Member - $300 Non-Member - $400
After 9/17 – onsite: AOC Member - $350 Non-Member - $450
This one-day training event will prepare you and your organization for today’s environment. Now Media: engagement based on information not platforms course is a discussion designed to help you gain a better understanding of the capabilities, capacities, and authorities necessary to be effective in today’s global environment. While the emphasis is on actors and audiences relevant to national security, knowledge from the course will be readily applied in other areas. Attention will be paid to Wikileaks, the Rolling Stone article on General McChrystal, and other relevant and timely examples.
ELINT/EW Database Course
Tuesday, October 5
2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Instructor: Dr. Dick Wiley
Fees on or before 9/17: AOC Member - $200 Non-Member - $300
After 9/17 – onsite: AOC Member - $250 Non-Member - $350
During this half-day course, you will learn about technical and operational ELINT and EW database structure, documentation, usage and software. You will be able to identify the availability of the data and points of contact for the databases.
EW and the Brazilian Blue and the Green Amazons Course
Thursday – Friday, October 7-8
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 pm/9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. respectively
Instructor: Dr. Antonio Dias de Macedo Filho, Ph.D.
Fees on or before 9/17: AOC Member - $700 Non-Member - $850
After 9/17 – onsite: AOC Member - $750 Non-Member - $900
Brazil is one of the main emergent countries and seeks for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council. Its vast territory, in particular the rainforest area (the Green Amazon) and the maritime exclusive economic zone (Blue Amazon), needs to be surveilled and EW can play a very important role. However, Brazilians have a peculiar way of doing business: they make business with friends and not with businessmen, the irregular pace of the process, the Adm Braga’s equation of system efficacy, etc... Many of these aspects come from the way the country was formed, colonized and its people see themselves. Many business are made or lost because the lack of understanding of how these factors work. All of these will be commented by a former negotiator of many EW deals at the side of the Brazilian Navy.
Directed Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) Principles Course
Thursday – Friday, October 7-8
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. each day
Instructor: Mr. John Minor
Fees on or before 9/17: AOC Member - $750 Non-Member - $900
After 9/17 – onsite: AOC Member - $800 Non-Member - $950
This practical course includes the history of DIRCM development, legacy DIRCM systems, and industry survey of modern DIRCM systems to include missile warning receivers and missile defeat mechanisms. A large library of video clips illustrate DIRCM design, operational, and real world performance concepts.