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 systems around the world for  AESA and TWT based Radar systems.   

• Bob has taught the AESA Radar Seminar 17 times over the last 20 years to a mix of over 300 new hire and experienced engineers actively engaged in Radar development.

• 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.

• Internationally and under the auspices of a major defense contractor and the USAF, Bob taught fighter Radar principles to the Dutch, Norwegian, Belgium, Danish, Uinited Arab Emirates, Israeli, South Korean, Taiwanese, Singapore, British, Greek and Spanish Air forces. He led  "simulated invasion"  flight testing over the Taiwan mainland to demonstrate advanced tracking and false alarm reduction techniques and spent years working on their indigenous Fighter program.  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 competition. 

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

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 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, cruised the east coast from Maine to the Bahamas on their Bristol 388 ketch.  He is a member of the Alberg 30 sailing club and currently maintains and sails an Allied 40 ft 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.