BALTIMORE, May 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Marshall Greenspan, a distinguished scientist
who recently retired from Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC),
has been selected by IEEE, the world's largest professional
organization advancing technology for humanity, as the 2015
recipient of the Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and
Applications.
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Greenspan, an IEEE Fellow, will receive the honor at the IEEE
Honors Ceremony Gala, to be held June
20 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. He was chosen by IEEE "for
contributions to the development of multiple phase-center airborne
surface surveillance and targeting radars."
Greenspan began his 50-year career developing modes for the
radars on the Navy's A6-E aircraft. Originally designed for
navigation, targeting and terrain avoidance, the A-6E radar was
upgraded to become the Radar Guided Weapon System (RGWS), a
groundbreaking system that generated high resolution images of the
beam area and pinpointed the location of moving targets. The
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) adopted the RGWS
technology into the Pave Mover program, which put side-looking
radar into the EF-111 aircraft to detect and track armored surface
vehicles at long range while simultaneously guiding precision
munitions to a target.
This technology was further developed for additional
applications, including the Multi-Mode Radar System, the next
generation of the A6, and finally the Army/Air Force Joint
Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). Operating
onboard the E-8 surveillance aircraft, the groundbreaking Joint
STARS was successfully deployed in the first Gulf War in 1991 and
was instrumental in subsequent conflicts in that
region.
Afterward, Greenspan worked on developing additional
sophisticated airborne radar concepts that use knowledge of the
radio frequency (RF) environment to optimally adapt its temporal,
spectral, and spatial RF transmission and reception properties.
These allow the radar to achieve its objectives with minimum
susceptibility to, and interference with, the dynamically-changing
ambient RF environment. His Joint STARS work has been instrumental
in demonstrating the feasibility of space-time-adaptive processing
(STAP) techniques, used in modern air-to-surface moving-target
radars.
Greenspan was previously honored with the George J. Mead Medal
for Engineering Achievement, IEEE's AESS Warren D. White Award for
Excellence in Radar Engineering and Northrop Grumman Electronic
Systems' Lifetime Achievement Award for "excellence in radar
technology for the development of multiple phase-center
interferometric radar signal processing for air- and space-borne
surveillance and tactical radars."
Greenspan graduated from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1962 with both bachelor's and
master's degrees in electrical engineering. He received his Ph.D.
in electrical engineering from the University
of Connecticut in 1969.
The Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and
Applications, sponsored by the Raytheon Company, is given for
outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields of radar
technologies and their applications.
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