AESA Fighter Radar Seminar 

Work Experience

• Bob Phillips - Consulting Engineer, has over five decades of experience in the design, development, test, marketing, and in-country support of airborne fighter RADAR around the world for  AESA and TWT based Radar systems.   

• Bob has taught the AESA Radar Seminar 20 times over the last 20 years to a mix of over 320 new hire and experienced engineers actively engaged in Radar development.

• He holds several patents in Radar and won the George Westinghouse Award for Engineering Excellence.

National and International Radar Operational Experience

• Bob supported Radar operational testing at the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis AFB and spent years working with the test squadron at Edwards AFB, modifying and improving systems to meet performance specifications and educating test engineers and management on fighter Radar.  He taught AESA Radar techniques to several instructors from the Marine Fighter Weapons School, worked in the field with the Coast Guard and US Customs developing Radar for the "war on drugs, and with the Navy at Pensacola Florida for Radar Pilot training."

• Internationally and under the auspices of a major defense contractor and the USAF, Bob taught fighter Radar principles to the Dutch, Norwegian, Belgium, Danish, United Arab Emirates, Israeli, South Korean, Taiwanese, Singapore, British, Greek and Spanish Air forces. He led  "simulated invasion"  flight testing with eight fighter aircraft over the Taiwanese mainland to demonstrate advanced tracking and false alarm reduction techniques in a war time environment, and spent years in that country developing Radar for airforce training.   He provided in-country support of European operational flight testing with "rapid prototyping" software to address in real time, major Radar performance issues in that particularly harsh environment.  He presented the results of this unique program, at the Dutch Fighter Weapons Symposium to fighter pilots from around the world.  Bob was the in-country Radar technical interface to the Commander of the UAE Airforce where he instructed the Commander and his senior staff on AESA Radar and electronic counter-counter measures in one important international competition. 

Education

Bob holds a BS in Engineering Physics from Merrimack College and a Masters in Numerical Science (applied math) from the Johns Hopkins University.  He did extensive post-graduate work in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science,  Environmental and Ocean Engineering at JHU, UMD, Georgia Tech and MIT.

Outside interests 

• Bob lives in Annapolis Md, with his wife and spends the summers at his camp in the Adirondacks.  He has three daughters and nine grandchildren.

• He volunteers at the Annapolis hospital, where he brings Holy Communion to the sick, and is a member of the Knights of Columbus.

• He is a sailor and with his wife, lived aboard and cruised the east coast from Maine to the Bahamas on their Bristol 388 ketch for 10 years after retirement.  He is a member of the Alberg 30 sailing club and currently maintains and sails an Allied 40 yawl.  

• He was a US Masters swimmer who actively competed in meets, swam the Chesapeake Bay Bridge challenge, and taught long distance survival swimming with his wife to sailors in the Exuma's for many years.