ASSOCIATION OF OLD CROWS RADAR/ELECTRONIC WARFARE CONFERENCE POC AOC Convention Department (703) 549-1600. The AOC will conduct its second Radar/EW Conference on 22-23 February, 1995, at the Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA. Patterned after the highly successful conference of December, 1992, the conference will bring together key members of the radar and electronic warfare community for papers on and discussions of critical technologies in the newly emerging world military environment. The keynote speaker will be Mr. William P. Delaney, Associate Director of Lincoln Laboratory, who will discuss the new challenges, both technical and programmatic, faced by the U.S. radar and EW engineering communities since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The four technical sessions of the conference will concentrate on different aspects of these new challenges, as applied to anti-air warfare, land warfare, evolution of U.S. programs in radar and EW, and the always critical issues of SAM radar guidance and ECM used against it. Dr. Al Bernard of Lincoln Laboratory has organized a session on anti-air warfare, during which a review of world-wide SAM technology, some of the new experimental work in seeders and ground-bounce ECM used against them will be reviewed. Mr. Vito DeMonte of the Army Research Laboratory will conduct a session concerned with radar and EW in land warfare. The events of the Gulf war, in which new systems such as JSTARS were exploited for the first time to assist ground forces and their air support, have led to a new appreciation of radar and information technology in land warfare, and world-wide concern over this and the measures to reduce its effectiveness with ECM will change the electronic environment in any future campaigns of this type. Mr. Tony Grieco of OSD has assembled a session concerned with the U.S. response to the new world electronic environment. The need to adapt our forces and their equipment to evolving changes, under the constraints of reduced R&D and equipment budgets, imposes considerable challenges to system planners and their industrial support. Some of the programs aimed at meeting these challenges will be presented and discussed. Finally, Dr. Larry Corey of GTRI has organized a session devoted to SAM systems and their supporting phased array antenna technologies, including their potential vulnerabilities to such ECM approaches as cross-polarized jamming. Presentations are planned at the Secret/US only classification level, and unclassified summaries of the papers will be made available to attendees.

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