Design and performance improvement projects have been successfully completed by engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for a wide variety of radars ranging from low-power CW Doppler devices to MegaWatt pulsed "big sensor" systems such as the PARCS, Pave Paws, and Cobra Dane radars.

Other research projects involve radar-like ranging devices for wireless sensor networks and use of harmonic reflections for discrimination of active electronics.


AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane Radar Shemya, Alaska		AN/FPS-115 Pave Paws Radar Warrner Robins AFB, GA one of several locations

AN/FPS-85, Eglin Air Force Base, FL See SwRI article: Upgrading the Nation's Largest Space Surveillance Radar		AN/FPQ-16 PARCS Radar at Cavalier AFS

Cobra Dane Three-Bit Phase Shifter		AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) Modulator

Examples of Radar Engineering Projects

Consulting, Analysis,
and Specification
Development

Automated Instrumentation and Custom Test Systems

Reverse and Replacement Engineering

Custom Design
and Prototype Development

RF PIN Diode

Alignment and
Calibration
Procedures

Beam-Pointing
Simulation and
Optimization

Maintenance
Test Station

Active Array
Transmitter Upgrade

Radome Materials Evaluation

TWT Modulator Replacement

Active Array Phase
Shifter

Instantaneous Personal
Protection System

Sub-Centimeter Ranging
for Wireless Sensor
Nodes

For more information about our radar systems capabilities, or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Tom Untermeyer at tuntermeyer@swri.org or (210) 522-5040. We can offer you the best approach for solving your radar systems problem.

radar.swri.org

Contact Information

Tom Untermeyer

Communications and Embedded Systems

(210) 522-5040

tuntermeyer@swri.org

radar.swri.org

Related Terminology

communication devices

CW doppler devices

megawatt pulsed systems

PARCS radar

Pave Paws radar

Cobra Dane radar

wireless sensor networks

radar systems

communications engineering

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June 16, 2011