Colloquium:Dr. Megan Leahy-Hoppa & Dr.Joe Comer, JHU

ABSTRACT:

At the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, our goal is to create defining innovations that ensure our nation’s preeminence in the 21st century.  Through our position as a Department of Defense University Affiliate Research Center, we are able to collaborate with industry, government, and academia to make an impact in areas of national importance.  The Asymmetric Operations Sector strives to create disruptive capabilities that enable the U.S. to counter and prevail against the ever-evolving asymmetric threat, which is persistent and dispersed aiming to destabilize the U.S. from within, hold critical U.S. systems at risk, and use money and technology to influence.  We work to create these disruptive capabilities to enable the US to not only anticipate and detect a wide variety of threats but to also respond effectively and ensure resilience and continuity of the nation’s most critical capabilities.   Within the Electromagnetic Sensing Systems Branch, we aim to advance technology to establish a dominant intelligence advantage in noisy and complex signal environments.  Joseph Comer and Megan Leahy-Hoppa will speak about imaging techniques such as Hyperspectral Imaging and LIDAR and RF techniques including Software Defined Radios as enabling capabilities to achieve mission success.