ISR Systems and Technology
Dr. Curtis W. Davis III - Biography
Dr. Curtis W. Davis III is Assistant Head of the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Systems and Technology Division and was previously Assistant Head of the Tactical Systems Technology Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He shares responsibility for the military sensor and test activities in the tactical area, including studies and activities in the areas of air vehicle survivability, sensor networking, multisensor data fusion, decision support, and foliage penetration.
Previously, he was Leader of the Air Defense Systems Group, which is responsible for the analysis and evaluation of military sensor system performance and air vehicle survivability, including design, development, integration, flight test, data processing, and system analysis of operational military and instrumentation quality RF and IR sensors. He also defined specifications and served as project leader for the development of the Airborne Seeker Test Bed, a highly instrumented jet aircraft for investigating missile-seeker homing performance issues.
Dr. Davis joined the Laboratory in 1979, and his early projects involved the design and development of instrumentation systems for measuring radar and propagation phenomena, and the development of associated theoretical models. The hardware systems included a mobile X-band clutter measurement radar, a hook-in instrumentation system for selected military radars, and a helicopter-borne field strength measurement and recording system for profiling multipath interference (tunable from VHF to Ku-band). He holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University.
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