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Eric D. Evans – Biography
Dr. Eric D. Evans was appointed Director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory in July 2006. Prior to selection as the Laboratory’s Director, he was Head of the Air and Missile Defense Technology Division. In this position, he was responsible for the Laboratory’s programs in air and missile defense, including the activities with discrimination, radar open systems, sensor technology, and measurements at the Reagan Test Site in the Marshall Islands.
Dr. Evans joined Lincoln Laboratory in 1988 as a member of the technical staff in the Radar Systems Group. He has served as Leader of the Air Defense Techniques Group at the Laboratory. In this capacity, he was responsible for Navy programs related to area air defense, ship self-defense, and overland cruise missile defense. As a part of these programs, he led Laboratory efforts in E-2C radar modernization, including new antenna and digital receiver development and adaptive signal processing techniques. He was also responsible for Laboratory efforts to improve the Aegis AN/SPY-1 radar and Standard Missile with new processors and advanced signal processing. He was Associate Head of the Air Defense Technology Division, where he was responsible for the Laboratory’s programs in theater ballistic missile and cruise missile defense for the Navy, working to develop improved Navy theater defense in near-land or littoral environments.
Dr. Evans has worked as a radar design engineer as a part of the Navy’s Radar Surveillance Technology Experimental Radar (RSTER) Program. For this program, his work included microwave component development, antenna design, adaptive signal processing, and radar measurements for a new adaptive UHF radar for fleet defense. The radar system was deployed for testing in severe clutter and jamming environments at several sites around the country.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the AIAA. In 1996, he and his co-authors received the M. Barry Carlton Award from the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society for a paper on advanced radar signal processing. Dr. Evans holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University.
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