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Table of Contents
Agile, Scrum & SharePoint
Agile Boot Camp
Oct 8-10, 2014 • Washington, DC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Nov 3-5, 2014 • Linthicum Heights, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Agile Testing
For Dates See Page 5 & Online • Live Virtual Online . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Agile Project Management
For Dates See Page 5 & Online • Live Virtual Online . . . . . . . . . . 5
Agile in the Government Environment
Nov 20-21, 2014 • Washington, DC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Agile Collaborating & Communicating Agile Requirements
Nov 24-25, 2014 • Herndon, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Certified Scrum Master Workshop
Nov 3-5, 2014 • Linthicum Heights, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
SharePoint 2013 Boot Camp
Nov 10-13, 2014 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
SharePoint 2013 For Project Management
Dec 15-17, 2014 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Acoustics & Sonar Engineering
Acoustic Fundamentals, Measurements & Applications
Nov 18-20, 2014 • Newport, Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Feb 24-26, 2015 • Keyport, Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Mar 24-26, 2015 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Military Standard 810G Testing
Nov 4-6, 2014 • Detroit, Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Nov 10-13, 2014 • Plano, Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Random Vibration & Shock Testing - Fundamentals
Nov 4-6, 2014 • Huntsville, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Feb 18-20, 2015 • Santa Barbara, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Sonar Principles & ASW Analysis
Feb 24-26, 2015 • Newport, Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Mar 24-26, 2015 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Submarines & Submariners – An Introduction
Nov 17-19, 2014 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Thermal & Vibration Reliability for Advanced Rugged Electronics NEW!
Oct 7-9, 2014 • Santa Clarita, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Nov 4-6, 2014 • Detroit, Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Feb 10-12, 2015 • Cape Canaveral, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Defense, Cyber, Missiles & Radar
AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense
Feb 24-27, 2015 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Cyber Warfare - Global Trends
Examing Network Centric Warfare
Jan 21-22, 2015 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
GPS Technology
Nov 10-13, 2014 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Link 16 / JTIDS / JREAP-Advanced
Feb 3-5, 2015 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Missile System Design
Feb 9-12, 2015 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Modern Missile Analysis
Jan 19-22, 2015 • Huntsville, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Multi-Target Tracking & Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
Nov 18-20, 2014 • Dayton, Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Naval Weapons Principles
Radar Systems Design & Engineering
Software Defined Radio Engineering
Synthetic Aperture Radar - Fundamentals
Synthetic Aperture Radar - Advanced
Unmanned Air Vehicle Design
Nov 11-13, 2014 • Dayton, Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Unmanned Aircraft System Fundamentals
Unmanned Aircraft Systems - Sensing, Payloads & Products NEW!
Nov 3-6, 2014 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Jan 26-29, 2015 • Boston, Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Systems Engineering & Project Management
Architecting with DODAF
Oct 30-31, 2014 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Nov 6-7, 2014 • Newport, Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Jan 15-16, 2015 • Dayton, Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Building High Value Relationships NEW!
Nov 18, 2014 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Cost Estimating
Feb 24-25, 2015 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
CSEP Preparation
Oct 17-18, 2014 • Chantilly, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Jan 12-13, 2015 • Dayton, Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Model Based Systems Engineering with OMG SysML NEW!
Nov 18-20, 2014 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Systems Engineering - Requirements
Feb 23-26, 2015 • Live Virtual Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Systems Engineering (SE) Best Practices & Technical CONOPS
Oct 21-23, 2014 • Virginia Beach, Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Oct 28-30, 2014 • Newport, Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Feb 10-12, 2015 • Virginia Beach, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Engineering & Communications
Antenna and Array Fundamentals
Dec 10-11, 2014 San Antonio, Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Jan 21-22, 2015 Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Data Visualization
Dec 2-4, 2014 Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Digital Signal Processing – Essentials of Advanced Techniques NEW!
Electomagentic Compatibility & Signal Integrity Design NEW!
Oct 6-7, 2014 • Minneapolis, Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Feb 10-11, 2015 • San Diego, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Feb 17-18, 2015 • Orlando, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
EMI / EMC in Military Systems
Nov 18-20, 2014 • Newport, Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Fundamentals of Statistics with Excel Examples
Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
Wavelets: A Conceptual, Practical Approach
Feb 10-12, 2015 • San Diego, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Wireless & Spread Spectrum Design
Nov 18-20, 2014 • San Diego, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Space & Satellite Systems
Communications Payload Design & Satellite System Architecture
Mar 3-6, 2015 • Germantown, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Earth Station Design
Oct 28-31, 2014 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Jan 27-30, 2015 • Germantown, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Ground Systems Design & Operations
IP Networking over Satellite
Jan 27-28, 2015 • Germantown, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Optical Sensors - Introduction
Orbital & Launch Mechanics - Fundamentals
Nov 17-20, 2014 • Scottsdale, Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Satellite Communication Design & Engineering
Mar 3-5, 2015 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Satellite Communications - An Essential Introduction
Dec 2-4, 2014 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Feb 2-5, 2015 • Virtual Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Satellite Communications - State of Art
Mar 10-12, 2015 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Satellite Communications Systems - Advanced
Jan 20-22, 2015 • Cocoa Beach, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Satellite Laser Communications NEW!
Satellite Link Budget Training Using SatMaster Software
Feb 3-5, 2015 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Space Environment
Space Mission Structures
Nov 11-14, 2014 • Littleton, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Space Systems Fundamentals
Jan 19-22, 2015 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Space Systems & Space Subsystems
Topics for On-site Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Applied Technology Institute International . . . . 63
Popular “On-site” Topics & Ways to Register . . . . . 64
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Agile Boot Camp:
An Immersive Introduction Course # A111
There are many dates and locations as these are popular courses: See all at:
www.aticourses.com/Agile_Courses_Schedule.html
October 8-10, 2014 • Washington, DC
November 3-5, 2014 • Linthicum Heights, Maryland
Nov 12-14, 2014 • Live Virtual Online
December 10-12, 2014 • Columbia, Maryland
$1795 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
"Register 3 or More & Receive $20000 each
Off The Course Tuition."
Summary
While not a silver bullet, Agile Methodologies are quickly
becoming the most practical way to create outstanding
software. Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean, Dynamic
Systems Development Method, Feature Driven Development
and other methods each have their strengths. While there are
significant similarities that have brought them together under
the Agile umbrella, each method brings unique strengths that
can be utilized for your team success.
This 3-day classroom is set up in pods/teams. Each team
looks like a real-world development unit in Agile with Project
Manager/Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Tester and
Development. The teams will work through the Agile process
including Iteration planning, Product road mapping and
backlogging, estimating, user story development iteration
execution, and retrospectives by working off of real work
scenarios. Specifically, you will:
• Practice how to be and develop a self-organized team.
• Create and communicate a Product Vision.
• Understand your customer and develop customer roles and
personas.
• Initiate the requirements process by developing user stories
and your product backlog.
• Put together product themes from your user stories and
establish a desired product roadmap.
• Conduct story poin t estimating to determine effort needed
for user stories to ultimately determine iteration(s) length.
• Take into consideration assumed team velocity with story
point estimates and user story priorities to come up with you
release plan.
• Engage the planning and execution of your iteration(s).
• Conduct retrospectives after each iteration.
• Run a course retrospective to enable an individual plan of
execution on how to conduct Agile in your environment.
Who Should Attend
Because this is an immersion course and the intent is to
engage in the practices every Agile team will employ, this
course is recommended for all team members responsible for
delivering outstanding software. That includes, but is not
limited to, the following roles:
• Business Analyst
• Analyst
• Project Manager
• Software Engineer/Programmer
• Development Manager
• Product Manager
• Product Analyst
• Tester
• QA Engineer
• Documentation Specialist
The Agile Boot Camp is a perfect place for cross functional
"teams" to become familiar with Agile methods and learn the
basics together. It's also a wonderful springboard for team
building & learning. Bring your project detail to work on in
class.
Course Outline
1. Agile Introduction and Overview. • Why Agile
• Agile Methods • Agile Benefits • Agile Basics -
understanding the lingo
2. Forming the Agile Team. • Team Roles •
Process Expectations • Self organizing teams - where
flexibility exists • Communication - inside and out
3. Product Vision. • Five Levels of Planning in
Agile – Vision – Roadmap – Release – Iteration – Daily
• Importance of Product Vision • Creating and
communicating vision
4. Focus on the Customer. User Roles •
Customer Personas • Customer Participation
5. Creating a Product Backlog. • User Stories •
Acceptance Tests • What makes a good story (sizing
and substance) • Story Writing Workshop
6. Product Roadmap. • Product Themes •
Importance of Focus • Creating the Roadmap •
Communication • Maintaining the Roadmap
7. Prioritizing the Product Backlog. • Methods
for prioritizing • Building Trust • Expectations for
prioritizing stories
8. Estimating. • Actual vs Relative estimating •
Story Points • Planning Poker • Estimating Team
velocity
9. Release Planning. • Utilizing velocity •
Continuous Integration • Regular cadence
10. Story Review. • Getting to the details • Methods
• Keeping cadence
11. Iteration Planning. • Task breakdown • Time
estimates • Definition of "done" • Active participation
12. Iteration Execution. • Collaboration - value
individuals and interactions – Communication – Daily
Standup (Scrum) – Taskboards • Cadence
13. Measuring and Communicating Progress. •
Actual effort and remaining effort • Burndown charts •
Tools and Reporting • Your company specific measures
14. Iteration Review and Demo. • Iteration Review
• Demos - a change from the past
15. Retrospectives. • What we did well • What did
not go so well • What will we improve.
16. Bringing it All Together. • Process Overview •
Transparency • Cadence • Team Roadmap.
Course discussion: Instructor will lead a discussion
on the effectiveness of the measurements appropriate
for Your company. We need to have further discussion
regarding what measurement and communication tools
are needed/expected at your company.
Each section is followed by a Team Exercise.

Agile Testing
# A115
Agile Project Management
Certification Workshop (PMI-ACP) # A111
October 15 – 17, 2014
November 10-12, 2014
Live Virtual Online
$1395 (12:00pm - 4:30pm)
Summary
By using a step-by-step approach this 2-day program will
introduce you to high speed methods and technologies that can
be relied upon to deliver speed and optimum flexibility. Learning
the goals of Agile will help you transition, implement and monitor
testing in the High Speed Agile Testing environment so that you
can immediately step from the classroom into the office with new
found confidence.
What You Will Learn
• Understand the key differences between traditional and Agile testing
practices.
• Learn about the different quadrants of Agile testing and how they are
used to support the team and critique the product.
• Get exposed to the different levels of test automation and understand
what the right mix is to accelerate testing.
• Operate in a time constrained development cycle without losing
testable value.
• Capitalize on test development through use & reuse management.
Course Outline
1. Agile Testing. We will discuss the testing and it's role in software
quality.
2. Testing Practices. The benefits that various types of testing
provide to the team will be reviewed. Additional discussion will focus on
the how and what to automate to shorten feedback cycles.
3. Quality Practices. Understanding that getting feedback is as
important as testing. We will discuss techniques that provide feedback
on the quality of software and the effectiveness of the process.
4. Unit Testing & Test Driven Development (TDD). We will
introduce Unit Testing and Test Driven Development. The benefits and
process of TDD and how it can lead to better overall design and
simplicity and engage the Developer in the test processing will be
discussed.
5. Continuous Integration. The concept of Continuous Integration
and the CI Attitude will be discussed. Continuous Integration provides an
essential role in maintaining a continuous process for providing
feedback to the team.
6. Acceptance Testing. The discipline of Acceptance Testing can
lead to better collaboration with both the customer and the team.
Automating Acceptance Tests can provide an invaluable tool to support
the creation higher quality software and continue to support the team
from story to story and sprint to sprint.
7. Functional Testing Web Applications & Web Services. As we
develop a functioning application we can perform higher-level and
coarser grained functional tests. Functional testing software, web
applications and web services will be explored.
8. Hands-on Critiquing the Product. Everything can't be
automated, nor should it. We will discuss manual technique that will help
us critique the product and provide valuable feedback. We will discuss
when and how these testing techniques should be used effectively.
9. Using Tools to Test. Complexity and Critique the Product Tools
can be used to testing complex, critical attributes of the software. We will
discuss when and tools should be used to test the complex, critical
qualities of software.
10. High-Speed Testing Techniques. We'll introduce some
techniques that can speed the testing process and provide faster
feedback to the team and customer.
11. Iterating to Testing Agility. How do we ever get there? We will
discuss pragmatic techniques to iterate your team and organization to
Testing Agility. We will discuss and craft a roadmap for your team and
organization based off the practices and techniques discussed.
October 15-17, 2014 • Linthicum , Maryland
November 5-7, 2014 • Columbia, Maryland
December 3-5, 2014 • Herndon, Virginia
$1595 (12:00pm - 4:30pm)
Summary
Prepare for your Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification
while learning to lead Agile software projects that adapt to change,
drive innovation and deliver on-time business value in this 3-day live or
4-day VirtualAgile PM training course Agile has made its way into the
mainstream — it's no longer a grassroots movement to change
software development. Today, more organizations and companies are
adopting this approach over a more traditional waterfall methodology,
and more are working every day to make the transition. To stay
relevant in the competitive, changing world of project management, it's
increasingly important that project management professionals can
demonstrate true leadership ability on today's software projects. The
Project Management Institute's Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
certification clearly illustrates to colleagues, organizations or even
potential employers that you're ready and able to lead in this new age
of product development, management and delivery. This class not only
prepares you to lead your next Agile project effort, but ensures that
you're prepared to pass the PMI-ACP certification exam. Acquiring this
certification now will make you one of the first software professionals
to achieve this valuable industry designation from PMI.
Course Outline
1. Understanding Agile Project Management. Agile Project
Management methods focus on the customer, embraces the ever
changing nature of business environments and encourages human
interaction in delivering outstanding software.
2. The Project Schedule. Agile project managers must be able to
continually manage an ever changing scope against a well defined
project timeline.
3. The Project Scope. Utilizing an Agile Project Management
approach means a new technique for managing a dynamic scope with
the intended outcome being the best-delivered product possible.
4. The Project Budget. Our financial management obligations
must be expanded to also consider the ultimate return on investment
(ROI) our software will generate.
5. The Product Quality. Agile project teams recognize that
quality is not a universal, objective measure, but a subjective definition
provided by the customer and continually re-evaluated through the
course of the project.
6. The Project Team. Today's project managers must do more
than simply manage a project's details, they must coach the individuals
on their team. Studies have proven that when a team is happy, they
produce better products more efficiently.
7. Project Metrics. Agile project managers utilize metrics to
assist the team to improve their performance by providing a reflection
of results against the team's action.
8. Continuous Improvement. Agile's non-prescriptive approach
requires regular examination to ensure that every opportunity to
improve efficiency in its execution is recognized and implemented.
Without clear plans for continuous improvement, most Agile teams will
not make the transition to this approach a lasting one.
9. Project Leadership. The project manager's ability to
effectively lead their team is based on several sound principles that
provide the support that the team needs while also encouraging the
team to grow more self-sufficient in their improvement efforts over
time.
10. Successfully Transitioning to Agile Project Management.
How the course participants can successfully transition from their
current approach to an Agile approach with ease.
11. A Full Day of Preparation for the Agile Certified
Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Certification Exam. The final day of the class
will specifically address what each of the participants will need to do
and need to know in order to pass their exam and receive their PMI-ACP
certification. You will spend a full day in class dedicated to
application tips, tricks and test preparation.

Agile In The Government Environment
# A112
Agile Collaborating & Communicating
Agile Requirements # A124
Live Virtual
Washington, DC
$1395 (Live 8:00am - 6:00pm)
(Virtual, noon – 6:00 pm)
December 8-10, 2014
(Live virtual, noon – 5:30 pm)
Herndon, Virginia
$1395 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Summary
Software procurement and development efforts are
now required by the Federal Government to increase
their efficiency and effectiveness. For that reason
many government agencies and their contractors are
moving toward the Agile approach in the development
and delivery of their software and other services. In
order to transition to Agile methods within the
government’s already in place procedures you need to
know how to convert your procedures.
This 2-day (3-day virtual) class delivers the bridge
between what Agile is and how to effectively use it in
the government environment. This course begins to
map the changes in your existing processes to Agile.
Summary
Project failures are often due to poor requirements gathering,
analysis and planning. Traditional requirements documents may not
contain complete and accurate requirements due to rapidly changing
business environments. Agile requirements gathering, by moving
detailed requirements closer to implementation, allows for rapid
response to change. "Collaborating and Communicating Agile
Requirements" will show you how to gather and manage these
requirements. This two-day course will give you hands-on experience
with techniques for gathering Agile requirements. Explanatory lectures
with demonstrations, combined with practice exercises will provide you
with the experience needed to create requirements that meet business
needs.
Course Outline
1. Self-organized teams, even in a highly matrixed
agency or organization.
2. Simulate a project introduction, create a vision
and set of light requirements.
3. How to plan your product’s release within the
mandated 6 month timeframe.
4. How to communicate project status utilizing both
Agile and EVM indicators for progress.
5. How to satisfy the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) requirements (Circular A-11) while
applying an Agile execution approach.
6. Understanding customers and how to collaborate
with them to create User Stories.
7. Relative estimating – focus on becoming more
accurate rather than precise.
8. Defining the distinction between capabilities and
requirements and when to document each.
9. Identify Agile best practices as they relate to
challenges within the federal environment.
Course Outline
1. Agile Overview. More than simply a methodology or approach
to software development, Agile embraces a set of principles that drive
more effective software development. Agile focuses on the customer,
embraces the ever changing nature of business environments and
encourages human interaction in delivering outstanding software.
2. Project Initiation. Among the key contributing factors leading to
project failure is poor communication between the customer and
developer groups. It is critical, therefore, that each successful project
start out right.
3. Focus on the Customer. It is critical that the customer be the
focus of a product throughout the development lifecycle. Every
requirement should bring some value to the customer. Therefore, prior
to defining requirements, it is important to define the customer.
4. User Stories. User stories are a way to capture requirements
from a customer point of view. Stories do not capture all of the detailed
requirements, but require enough information to estimate and plan.
5. Product Backlog. The Product Backlog is the complete list of
desired elements, or requirements, for the product. It is NOT a
Requirements Specification, but a high level identification of what the
software may satisfy. In this section we will discuss effective means of
creating, prioritizing and maintaining the Product Backlog.
6. Estimating and Planning. Among the greatest challenges in
developing software and delivering against stakeholder expectations is
estimating accurately and subsequently planning how those
expectations can be met. Agile cannot make that challenge disappear,
but offers some very helpful tools that enable teams to set and meet
the appropriate expectations.
7. Release Plan. The release plan identifies a goal for the stories
that will be included for a release of the software. Through the prior
processes, the team will have prioritized the stories and estimated the
team velocity. These key elements will come together to give the team
a level of confidence that they can deliver the necessary requirements
for a product release in what is normally a fixed timeframe.
8. Use Cases. At the appropriate time, prior to entering into the
development of a story, requirements will need to be discussed in more
detail. A proven method for documenting the appropriate detail from a
user interaction point of view.
9. Iteration Plan and Execution. An iteration is a fixed amount of
time in which stories/requirements will be developed, tested and ready
for release. Because the requirements communication process takes
you into each iteration throughout the product release, we'll explore the
iteration planning and execution process.
10. Retrospective on Communicating Requirements. Using
Agile Methods – Retrospectives are a key practice in Agile. We will
take an opportunity to review our learning collectively and how we can
improve. Each participant will identify one or two things that they will
adapt in their working environment based on their learning. The
instructor will also identify any elements of the course that should be
adapted for a better learning experience, thus benefiting future course
participants.

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop
The Three Overarching Principles Behind Scrum Course # A132
October 6-7, 2014
Columbia, Maryland
Boston, Massachusetts
$1495 (8:30am - 5:00pm)
Summary
The Scrum Alliance is a nonprofit organization
committed to delivering articles, resources, courses,
and events that will help Scrum users be successful.
The Scrum Alliance (sm)’s mission is to promote
increased awareness and understanding of Scrum,
provide resources to individuals and organizations
using Scrum, and support the iterative improvement of
the software development profession.
This 2-day course is backed by our Exam Pass
Guarantee. Upon completion of our Scrum Master
Certification Course, if after two attempts within the 60-
day evaluation period you have not passed the exam
and obtained certification, ASPE will allow you to
attend another session of our Scrum Master
Certification Course free of charge and pay for you to
retake your certification exam. Specifically, you will:
• The "Art of the Possible": learn how small change can
have a large impact on productivity.
• Product integrity: review various options employees
use when faced with difficulty, learn the importance of
delivering high quality products in Scrum
• Customer Expectations: Using a changing schedule
and agile estimating and planning, assess the work to
properly set customer expectations and manage
customer satisfaction
• Running the Scrum Project: Run a full Scrum project
that lasts 59 minutes. You will walk through all steps
under the Scrum Framework
• Agile Estimating and Planning: Break into teams, and
through decomposition and estimating plan out a
project through delivery
• Team Dynamics: Since Scrum deals with change,
conflict will happen. Learn methods to resolve
problems in a self-managed environment
Course Outline
1. Agile Thinking. In order for us to understand the
benefits of Scrum and the nuances behind its framework, we
begin with the history of agile methods and how relatively new
thoughts in software development have brought us to Scrum.
How manufacturing has influenced software development.
The origins of agile thinking. The Agile Manifesto. The
complexity of projects. Theoretical Vs. Empirical processes
overview. The "Iron Triangle" of Project Management.
2. The Scrum Framework. The different Scrum roles.
Chickens and Pigs. Iterative Development vs. Waterfall. Self
Management concepts. Full disclosure and visibility. The
Scrum Framework Overview.
3. Implementation Considerations. Traditional vs. Agile
methods overview. Scrum: The Silver Bullet. The Agile
Skeleton. A Scrum launch checklist.
4. Scrum Roles. We'll review checklists of role
expectations in preparation for further detail later in our
session. The Team Member. The Product Owner. The Scrum
Master.
5. The Scrum Team Explored The Agile Heart. Bruce
Tuckman's team life cycle. Patrick Lencioni's Five
Dysfunctions of a Team. Team ground rules. Getting Human
Resources involved. The impact of project switching. The
MetaScrum. The Scrum of Scrums. The importance of
knowing when software is "done". Internal Outsourcing.
6. Agile Estimating and Planning. Although agile
estimating and planning is an art unto itself, the concepts
behind this method fit very well with the Scrum methodology.
Product Backlog Features. Relative Weighted Prioritization.
Prioritizing Our Time. User Stories. Relative Effort. Velocity.
Planning Poker and Story Points. Ideal Team Days. Team
Capacity. Projecting a Schedule. Why Plan in an Agile
Environment?
7. The Product Owner: Extracting Value. The driving
force behind implementing Scrum is to obtain results. How
can we help ensure that we allow for project work to provide
the best value for our customers and our organization? The
Priority Guide. Product Backlog Refactoring. Productivity
Drag Factors. Fixed Price/Date Contracts. Release
Management. Earned Value Management.
8. The ScrumMaster Explored. The difficulty comes in
the actual implementation. Being a ScrumMaster is a hard
job, and we'll talk about the characteristics of a good
ScrumMaster. The ScrumMaster Aura. Characteristics of a
ScrumMaster Candidate. The Difficulties of Being a
ScrumMaster. A Day in the Life of a ScrumMaster. The
Importance of Listening. Common Sense.
9. Meetings and Artifacts Reference Material. A Chart of
Scrum Meetings. The Product Backlog. Sprint Planning. The
Sprint Backlog. The Sprint. The Daily Scrum. The Sprint
Demo/Review. Why Plan? The Ideal Team Day. Scrum Tools.
10. Advanced Considerations and Reference Material.
Particular interests from the class may warrant discussion
during our class time together. Conflict Management. Different
Types of Sprints. The ScrumMaster of the Scrum-of-Scrums.
Metrics. Dispersed Teams. Scaling. Developing Architecture.
Stage Gate/Milestone Driven Development. Inter- and Intra-
Project Dependencies. Task Boards, Project Boards. Scrum
and CMM, "Traditional" XP.
Each section is followed by a Team Exercise.

SharePoint Boot Camp
# A133
SharePoint 2013
for Project Management) # A134
October 20-23, 2014
(Live virtual, 10:30am – 5:30 pm)
Columbia, Maryland
$2495 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Summary
In this four-day, hands-on Boot Camp you will learn the “big picture”
of the all new SharePoint 2013. Our comprehensive approach
provides you with all of the key learning objectives you need to plan,
customize, and manage your SharePoint 2013. Users that have basic
knowledge of navigating a SharePoint site will find this class the
perfect class for learning and building on advanced SharePoint topics
required by teams that want to get the full benefit of the powerful tools
available in SharePoint 2013. Students also leave class as a certified
SharePoint User.
No comprehensive SharePoint class would be complete without a
deep discussion about Planning, Governance, and Adoption. An
introduction into the ever-elusive Governance model will be covered as
the class delves into how to organize the Governance team by pulling
together key players from within the organization. This section includes
building the Governance checklist, asking the right questions to
guarantee a successful SharePoint deployment and discussing
Adoption best practices.
October 27-29, 2014
(Live virtual, 10:30am – 5:30 pm)
December 15-17, 2014
Columbia, Maryland
$1895 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Summary
This intense 3-day instructor led course will teach how to
use SharePoint 2013 as project management information
system. You'll learn everything from task management using
the new task features and integration with Microsoft Project,
to coordinating resources, communicating project updates to
stakeholders, and the most efficient ways to organize your
sites. No previous SharePoint expertise needed!
This class teaches project managers how to implement
Agile and SCRUM projects in SharePoint, as well as
traditional waterfall and highly structured project management
methodologies. In addition, students will learn about all new
features such as Site Mailboxes and project reporting
features. You will learn how to automate many project
functions using SharePoint workflows.
Course Outline
1. Introduction to SharePoint 2013. The Five Pillars of
SharePoint:.What SharePoint can do for you.
2. SharePoint Governance. Considerations for building the
Governance model. What needs to be on the Checklist. Assembling
the Governance Team. Principles and Policies to be addressed.
Maintaining and supporting your SharePoint Governance .
3. Deployment and Adoption. SharePoint Roles. Helping teams
realize the value of SharePoint. Starting Small and Growing. Best
practices to drive User Adoption. Tools to help you
4. What’s New in SharePoint 2013 to drive Team Collaboration
and facilitate information management. User Interface (UI). Social
Features. Communities. Sharing info and offline availability.
Interacting with Lists and Libraries.
5. Versions and Hosting Options. Foundation, Standard and
Enterprise. On Premises vs Cloud. Offered Feature Comparison Chart.
6. SharePoint Architecture for Users. Web Application. Site
Collection and Site Components.
7. Navigating SharePoint Sites. Tour of a Project Site. Site
Components.
8. Working with Sites Why do we create new Sites? Site
Components revisited. Site Templates explained. Site Settings and
Features. Creating Sites.
9. SharePoint Lists. Manage business processes with lists.
Creating Apps using List templates. Exploring the List toolbars.
Reporting functions: sort and filter. Working with the Tasks List App.
Working with Views. Architecting a “Class Roster”.
10. SharePoint Libraries. Manage document information lifecycle.
Creating apps using library templates. Exploring the Library toolbars.
Using Check In/Check Out. Basic functions: sort and filter. Using
Version Control. Access Control:
11. Permissions Management. Permission Levels. Roles-based
Management. Where Permissions are set. Using “Sharing” to share
information. Access Requests.
12. Enterprise Content Management. Importance of ECM.
Content Types. Managed Metadata. Document Sets.
13. Office Integration with SharePoint. Connecting and Syncing
Lists and Libraries to Outlook. Project Pro Integration. Exporting data
to Excel. Site Mailboxes.
14. Business Process Automation using Workflow. OOTB
Workflow. Workflow Settings. Workflow administration. Custom using
SharePoint Designer.
15. Tools to drive engagement. Surveys. Wiki. Blog. Newsfeed.
About Me. Communities.
16. Site to drive collaboration. Pages. Web parts. Page Design.
Course Outline
1. Introduction to SharePoint. What's New in SharePoint
2013.Hardware Requirements. Software Requirements. Licensing
Options. Hosting Options – On-Premise versus Office 365. What
is a Project Management Information System?
2. Organizing your Project Sites. Understanding the
SharePoint Hierarchy. Creating Site Collections, Sites, and Sub-
Sites. Managing Security in SharePoint. Customizing
Permissions. Information Architecture in SharePoint.
3. Managing Project Data with SharePoint Lists. Out-of-Box
List Templates. Tasks Lists & Timelines. Project Calendars. Links
& Promoted Links. Project Announcements. Discussion Boards.
Issue Tracking. Surveys. List Options – Versioning, Content
Approval, Ratings. Creating Views. Importing Data. Tracking
Project Milestones, Deliverables, and Risks with Custom Lists.
4. Managing Documents with SharePoint Libraries. Out-of-
Box Libraries. Organizing Project Documents with Metadata.
Using Document Sets. Collaborating on Project Documents.
5. SharePoint Communities and Social Features. My Sites
and SharePoint Profiles. Newsfeeds. Following People,
Documents, and Projects. Community Sites. Reputations,
Badges, and Social Features.
6. SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft Office Integration.
Integrating with Microsoft Project. Publishing Project Plans to
SharePoint. Integrating Project Calendars with Outlook.
Integrating Contact Lists with Outlook. Using Site Mailboxes.
7. Designing a Project Site. Working with Pages. Working
with Web Parts. Reusable Project Templates with Site Templates.
8. Project Dashboards and Reports with Excel & Visio
Services. Excel Services. Visio Services.
9. Automating Approval and Other Processes with
Workflows. Configuring Out of Box Workflows.
10. Agile / SCRUM Projects in SharePoint. Agile / SCRUM
Concepts. Product Backlogs. Task Boards. Daily Stand-up
Meetings. Burn charts and Reports.

Acoustic Fundamentals, Measurements, and Applications
Newport, Rhode Island
February 24-26, 2015
Keyport, Washington
March 24-26, 2015
Columbia, Maryland
$1790 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 Each
Off The Course Tuition.
Summary
This three-day course is intended for engineers and other
technical personnel and managers who have a work-related
need to understand basic acoustics concepts and how to
measure and analyze sound. This is an introductory course
and participants need not have any prior knowledge of sound
or vibration. Each topic is illustrated by appropriate
applications, in-class demonstrations, and worked-out
numerical examples. Since the practical uses of acoustics
principles are vast and diverse, participants are encouraged
to confer with the instructor (before, during, and after the
course) regarding any work-related concerns. Three
customized versions of this course are available that
emphasize respectively (1. Underwater Acoustics, 2. In-Air
Acoustics 3. A broad mix of all acoustic applications tailored
to the customer’s need or the majority of class attendees’
interests). Onsite courses are fully customized to the
customer’s applications.
Instructor
Course # S110
Dr. Alan D. Stuart, Associate Professor Emeritus of
Acoustics, Penn State, has over forty
years experience in the field of sound
and vibration. He has degrees in
mechanical engineering, electrical
engineering, and engineering acoustics.
For over thirty years he has taught
courses on the Fundamentals of
Acoustics, Structural Acoustics, Applied
Acoustics, Noise Control Engineering, and Sonar
Engineering on both the graduate and undergraduate
levels as well as at government and industrial
organizations throughout the country.
Recent attendee comments ...
“Great instructor made the course in-teresting
and informative. Helped
clear-up many misconceptions I had
about sound and its measurement.”
“Enjoyed the in-class demonstrations;
they help explain the concepts. In-structor
helped me with a problem I
was having at work, worth the price
of the course!”
Course Outline
1. Introductory Concepts. Sound in fluids and
solids. Sound as particle vibrations. Waveforms and
frequency. Sound energy and power consideration.
2. Acoustic Waves in Air and Water. Air-borne
sound. Plane and spherical acoustic waves. Sound
pressure, intensity, and power. Decibel (dB) log power
scale. Sound reflection and transmission at surfaces.
Sound absorption.
3. Acoustic and Vibration Sensors. Human ear
characteristics. Capacitor and piezoelectric
microphone and hydrophone designs and response
characteristics. Intensity probe design and operational
limitations. Accelerometers design and frequency
response.
4. Sound Measurements. Sound level meters.
Time weighting (fast, slow, linear). Decibel scales
(Linear and A-and C-weightings). Octave band
analyzers. Narrow band spectrum analyzers. Critical
bands of human hearing. Detecting tones in noise.
Microphone calibration techniques.
5. Sound Radiation. Human speech mechanism.
Loudspeaker design and response characteristics.
Directivity patterns of simple and multi-pole sources:
monopole, dipole and quadri-pole sources. Acoustic
arrays and beamforming. Sound radiation from
vibrating machines and structures. Radiation
efficiency.
6. Low Frequency Components and Systems.
Helmholtz resonator. Sound waves in ducts. Mufflers
and their design. Horns and loudspeaker enclosures.
7. Applications. Representative topics include:
Outdoor and underwater sound propagation (e.g.
refraction due to temperature and other effects).
Environmental acoustics (e.g. community noise
response and criteria). Auditorium and room acoustics
(e.g. reverberation criteria and sound absorption).
Structural acoustics (e.g. sound transmission loss
through panels). Noise andvibration control
(e.g.source-path-receiver model). Topics of interest to
the course participants.
What You Will Learn
• How to make proper sound level measurements.
• How to analyze and report acoustic data.
• The basis of decibels (dB) and the A-weighting
scale.
• How intensity probes work and allow near-field
sound measurements.
• How to measure radiated sound power and sound
transmission loss.
• How to use third-octave bands and narrow-band
spectrum analyzers.
• How the source-path-receiver approach is used in
noise control engineering.
• How sound builds up in enclosures like vehicle
interiors and rooms.

Military Standard 810G Testing
Understanding, Planning and Performing Climatic and Dynamic Tests Course # S130
Off The Course Tuition. Summary
This four-day class provides understanding of
the purpose of each test, the equipment required
to perform each test, and the methodology to
correctly apply the specified test environments.
Vibration and Shock methods will be covered
together with instrumentation, equipment, control
systems and fixture design. Climatic tests will be
discussed individually: requirements, origination,
equipment required, test methodology,
understanding of results.
The course emphasizes topics you will use
immediately. Suppliers to the military services
protectively install commercial-off-the-shelf
(COTS) equipment in our flight and land vehicles
and in shipboard locations where vibration and
shock can be severe. We laboratory test the
protected equipment (1) to assure twenty years
equipment survival and possible combat, also (2)
to meet commercial test standards, IEC
documents, military standards such as STANAG
or MIL-STD-810G, etc. Few, if any, engineering
schools cover the essentials about such
protection or such testing.
Instructor
Steve Brenner has worked in environmental
simulation and reliability testing for over
30 years, always involved with the latest
techniques for verifying equipment
integrity through testing. He has
independently consulted in reliability
testing since 1996. His client base
includes American and European
companies with mechanical and electronic products in
almost every industry. Steve's experience includes the
entire range of climatic and dynamic testing, including
ESS, HALT, HASS and long term reliability testing.
November 4-6, 2014
Detroit, Michigan
Plano, Texas
$4110 (8:00am - 4:00pm)
What You Will Learn
When you visit an environmental test laboratory,
perhaps to witness a test, or plan or review a test
program, you will have a good understanding of the
requirements and execution of the 810G dynamics and
climatics tests. You will be able to ask meaningful
questions and understand the responses of test
laboratory personnel.
Course Outline
1. Introduction to Military Standard testing -
Dynamics.
• Introduction to classical sinusoidal vibration.
• Resonance effects
• Acceleration and force measurement
• Electrohydraulic shaker systems
• Electrodynamic shaker systems
• Sine vibration testing
• Random vibration testing
• Attaching test articles to shakers (fixture
design, fabrication and usage)
• Shock testing
2. Climatics.
• Temperature testing
• Temperature shock
• Humidity
• Altitude
• Rapid decompression/explosives
• Combined environments
• Solar radiation
• Salt fog
• Sand & Dust
• Rain
• Immersion
• Explosive atmosphere
• Icing
• Fungus
• Acceleration
• Freeze/thaw (new in 810G)
3. Climatics and Dynamics Labs demonstrations.
4. Reporting On And Certifying Test Results.

Random Vibration & Shock Testing - Fundamentals
for Land, Sea, Air, Space Vehicles & Electronics Manufacture Course # S141
November 4-6, 2014
Huntsville, Alabama
Santa Barbara, California
$3595 (8:00am - 4:00pm)
“Also Available As A Distance Learning Course”
(Call for Info)
Summary
This three-day course is primarily designed for
test personnel who conduct, supervise or
"contract out" vibration and shock tests. It also
benefits design, quality and reliability specialists
who interface with vibration and shock test
activities.
Each student receives the instructor's,
minimal-mathematics, minimal-theory hardbound
text Random Vibration & Shock Testing,
Measurement, Analysis & Calibration. This 444
page, 4-color book also includes a CD-ROM with
video clips and animations.
Course Outline
1. Minimal math review of basics of vibration,
commencing with uniaxial and torsional SDoF
systems. Resonance. Vibration control.
2. Instrumentation. How to select and correctly use
displacement, velocity and especially acceleration and
force sensors and microphones. Minimizing mechanical
and electrical errors. Sensor and system dynamic
calibration.
3. Extension of SDoF. to understand multi-resonant
continuous systems encountered in land, sea, air and
space vehicle structures and cargo, as well as in
electronic products.
4. Types of shakers. Tradeoffs between mechanical,
electrohydraulic (servohydraulic), electrodynamic
(electromagnetic) and piezoelectric shakers and systems.
Limitations. Diagnostics.
5. Sinusoidal one-frequency-at-a-time vibration
testing. Interpreting sine test standards. Conducting
tests.
6. Random Vibration Testing. Broad-spectrum all-frequencies-
at-once vibration testing. Interpreting
random vibration test standards.
7. Simultaneous multi-axis testing. Gradually
replacing practice of reorienting device under test (DUT)
on single-axis shakers.
8. Environmental stress screening. (ESS) of
electronics production. Extensions to highly accelerated
stress screening (HASS) and to highly accelerated life
testing (HALT).
9. Assisting designers. To improve their designs by
(a) substituting materials of greater damping or (b) adding
damping or (c) avoiding "stacking" of resonances.
10. Understanding automotive. Buzz, squeak and
rattle (BSR). Assisting designers to solve BSR problems.
Conducting BSR tests.
11. Intense noise. (acoustic) testing of launch
vehicles and spacecraft.
12. Shock testing. Transportation testing. Pyroshock
testing. Misuse of classical shock pulses on shock test
machines and on shakers. More realistic oscillatory shock
testing on shakers.
13. Shock response spectrum. (SRS) for
understanding effects of shock on hardware. Use of SRS
in evaluating shock test methods, in specifying and in
conducting shock tests.
14. Attaching DUT via vibration and shock test
fixtures. Large DUTs may require head expanders and/or
slip plates.
15. Modal testing. Assisting designers.
Instructor
Wayne Tustin is the President of an
engineering school and consultancy.
His BSEE degree is from the
University of Washington, Seattle.
He is a licensed Professional
Engineer - Quality in the State of
California. Wayne's first encounter
with vibration was at Boeing/Seattle, performing
what later came to be called modal tests, on the
XB-52 prototype of that highly reliable platform.
Subsequently he headed field service and
technical training for a manufacturer of
electrodynamic shakers, before establishing
another specialized school on which he left his
name. Wayne has written several books and
hundreds of articles dealing with practical aspects
of vibration and shock measurement and testing.
What You Will Learn
• How to plan, conduct and evaluate vibration
and shock tests and screens.
• How to attack vibration and noise problems.
• How to make vibration isolation, damping and
absorbers work for vibration and noise control.
• How noise is generated and radiated, and how
it can be reduced.
From this course you will gain the ability to
understand and communicate meaningfully
with test personnel, perform basic engineering
calculations, and evaluate tradeoffs between
test equipment and procedures.

Sonar Principles & ASW Analysis
Newport, Rhode Island
March 24-26, 2015
Columbia, Maryland
$1845 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
Course # S151
Summary
This 3-day course provides an excellent
introduction to underwater sound and highlights
how sonar principles are employed in ASW
analyses. The course provides a solid
understanding of the sonar equation and
discusses in-depth propagation loss, target
strength, reverberation, arrays, array gain, and
detection of signals.
Physical insight and typical results are
provided to help understand each term of the
sonar equation. The instructors then show how
the sonar equation can be used to perform ASW
analysis and predict the performance of passive
and active sonar systems. The course also
reviews the rationale behind current weapons
and sensor systems and discusses directions for
research in response to the quieting of submarine
signatures.
The course is valuable to engineers and
scientists who are entering the field or as a
review for employees who want a system level
overview. The lectures provide the knowledge
and perspective needed to understand recent
developments in underwater acoustics and in
ASW. A comprehensive set of notes and the
textbook Principles of Underwater Sound will be
provided to all attendees.
Course Outline
1. Sonar Equation & Signal Detection.
Sonar concepts and units. The sonar equation.
Typical active and passive sonar parameters.
Signal detection, probability of detection/false
alarm. ROC curves and detection threshold.
2. Propagation of Sound in the Sea.
Oceanographic basis of propagation,
convergence zones, surface ducts, sound
channels, surface and bottom losses.
3. Target Strength and Reverberation.
Scattering phenomena and submarine strength.
Bottom, surface, and volume reverberation
mechanisms. Methods for modeling
reverberations.
4. Arrays and Beamforming. Directivity and
array gain; sidelobe control, array patterns and
beamforming for passive bottom, hull mounted,
and sonobuoy sensors; calculation of array gain
in directional noise.
5. Elements of ASW Analysis. Utility and
objectives of ASW analysis, basic formulation of
passive and active sonar performance
predictions, sonar platforms, limitations imposed
by signal fluctuations.
6. Modeling and Problem Solving. Criteria
for the evaluation of sonar models, a basic
sonobuoy model, in-class solution of a series o
Instructor sonar problems.
Dr. Nicholas C. Nicholas received a B. S.
degree from Carnegie-Mellon
University, an M. S. degree from
Drexel University, and a PhD degree
in physics from the Catholic
University of America. His
dissertation was on the propagation
of sound in the deep ocean. He has been
teaching underwater acoustics courses since
1977 and has been visiting lecturer at the U.S.
Naval War College and several universities. Dr.
Nicholas has more than 35 years experience in
underwater acoustics and submarine related
work. Dr. Nicholas is currently consulting for
several firms.
What You Will Learn
• Sonar parameters and their utility in ASW
Analysis.
• Sonar equation as it applies to active and
passive systems.
• Fundamentals of array configurations,
beamforming, and signal detectability.
• Rationale behind the design of passive and
active sonar systems.
• Theory and applications of current weapons
and sensors, plus future directions.
• The implications and counters to the quieting
of the target’s signature.

Submarines & Submariners – An Introduction
The Enemy Below – Submarines Sink Ships! Course # S154
Laurel, Maryland
$1790 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Instructor
Captain Raymond Wellborn, USN (retired) served
over 13 years of his 30-year Navy career
in submarines. He has a BSEE degree
from the US Naval Academy and a
MSEE degree from the Naval
Postgraduate School. He also has an
MA from the Naval War College. He had
two major commands at sea and one
ashore: USS MOUNT BAKER (AE 34), USS DETROIT
(AOE 4), and the Naval Electronics Systems
Engineering Center, Charleston. He was Program
Manager for Tactical Towed Array Sonar Systems and
Program Director for Surface Ship and Helicopter ASW
Systems for the Naval Sea Systems Command in
Washington, DC. After retirement in 1989, he was the
Director of Programs for ARGOTEC, overseeing the
manufacture of advanced R&D models for large
subsonic acoustic projectors. From 1992 to 1996, he
was a Senior Lecturer in the Marine Engineering
Department of Texas A&M, Galveston. Since 1996, he
has been an independent consultant for International
Maritime Affairs. He has been teaching this course
since 1991, and has many testimonials from attendees
sponsored by DOD, NUWC, and other agencies that all
attest to the merit of his presentation. He also is the
author of several technical articles on submarines
including two published in SEA TECH magazine: “The
Efficacy of Submarine Warfare,” and “USS VIRGINIA
(SSN 774)?A New Steel-Shark at Sea.”
Course Outline
1. Warfare from Beneath the Sea. From a glass-barrel in circa
300 BC, to SSN 774 in 2004.
2. Efficacy of Submarine Warfare--Submarines Sink Ship.
Benefits-to-Cost Analyses for WWI and WWII.
3. Submarine Tasking. What US nuclear-powered submarines
are tasked to do.
4. Submarine Organization - and, Submariners. What is the
psyche and disposition of those Qualified in Submarines, as so
aptly distinguished by a pair of Dolphins? And, how modern
submariners measure up to the legend of Steel Boats and Iron
Men.
5. Fundamentals of Submarine Design & Construction.
Classroom demo of Form, Fit, & Function.
6. The Essence of Warfare at Sea. “…to go in harm’s way.”
7. The Theory of Sound in the Sea and, Its Practice. A
rudimentary primer for the "Calculus of Acoustics.".
8. Combat System Suite - Components & Nomenclature. In
OHIO, LOS ANGELES, SEAWOLF, and VIRGINIA.
9. Order of Battle for Submarines of the World. To do what,
to whom? where, and when?
[Among 50 navies in the world there are 630 submarines.
Details of the top eight are delineated -- US, Russia, and China top
the list.].
10. Today’s U.S. Submarine Force. The role of submarines in
the anti access/ area denial scenarios in future naval operations.
Semper Procinctum.
Summary
This three-day course is designed for engineers
entering the field of submarine R&D, and/or
Operational Test and Evaluation, or as a review for
employees who want a system level overview. It is an
introductory course presenting the fundamental
philosophy of submarine design, submerged operation
and combat system employment as they are managed
by a battle-tested submarine organization that all-in-all
make a US submarine a very cost-effective warship at
sea and under it.
Today's US submarine tasking is discussed in
consonance with the strategy and policy of the US, and
the goals, objectives, mission, functions, tasks,
responsibilities, and roles of the US Navy as they are
so funded. Submarine warfare is analyzed referencing
some calculations for a Benefits-to-Cost analysis, in
that, Submarines Sink Ships!
Also, the principles of the Calculus of Acoustics will
be presented as a primer along with a description of
the acoustic devices that sense, and input, Sound in
the Sea for signal processing by this Hole in the
Ocean.
What You Will Learn
• Submarine organization and operations.
• Fundamentals of submarine systems and
sensors.
• Differences of submarine types (SSN/SSBN/
SSGN).
• Future operations with SEALSSum.
• Nuclear-powered submarines versus diesel
submarines.
• Submarine operations in shallow water
• Required improvements to maintain tactical
control.
• http://www.aticourses.com/sub_virginia.htm.
From this course you will gain a better
understanding of submarine warships being
stealth-oriented, cost-effective combat
systems at sea. Those who have worked with
specific submarine sub-systems will find that
this course will clarify the rationale and
essence of their interface with one another.
Further, because of its introductory nature,
this course will be enlightening to those just
entering the field. Attendees will receive
copies of the presentation along with some
relevant white papers.

Thermal & Vibration Reliability for Advanced Rugged Electronics
For aerospace, automotive, military, naval, medical & other Critical Applications Course # S156
NEW!
October 7-9, 2014
Santa Clarita, California
November 4-6, 2014
Detroit, Michigan
Cape Canaveral, Florida
$3595 (8:00am - 4:00pm)
Instructor
Tina Barcley has worked in Electronic Packaging,
Testing, and Analysis for Aerospace
companies (ITT, TRW, Perkin Elmer,
Goodrich and Aerojet), NASA (Marshall
Space Flight Center), Automotive (both
Ford and Chrysler), Military Black Boxes
(Singer Librascope, Army, Navy and Air
Force modules) as well as high end
commercial and testing components
(Spectracom, MKS, Kodak, etc.). She has run and
created testing labs, procedures, designs, fixes for
designs - developing 21 US Patents ? all in Electronics
Packaging, Materials, and Thermal. She is a frequent
speaker at industry-specific conferences like IMAPS
(International Microelectronics and Packaging Society)
and ASE (Automotive Society of Engineers) and is on
the IPC (IPC - Association Connecting Electronics
Industries) Specification Review Panel.
She has extensive experience with Military and
Aerospace Electronics and Optical Systems as well as
satellites from smaller communication units to large
optical benches. Additionally, she has R&D through
production experience with automotive under-hood
Engine and Transmission controllers. Her experience
has included all levels of parts reliability for systems
ranging from 6-month to 10-year reliabilities.
Course Outline
1. Overview for management and participants.
Quick evaluation of attendee prior knowledge.
Circuit board layout for maximizing thermal paths
and removing excess heat. Air cooling vs
conduction cooling of electronics. How variations
and combinations (including liquid cooling) help.
Final system design, heat sinking and heat
management. Processor, connector and
mounting concerns.
2. Typical analyses needed for high
reliability electronics. TVibration, thermal,
shock, fatigue; interrelations. Test interactions
and known issues; why perform analyses.
3. Testing needed to validate the vibration,
thermal, shock, fatigue analyses. Why we must
validate; how often? Best practices and problem
areas; why validate? Six sigma, DOE, Pareto
charts relative to data interpretation.
4. Lab visit - thermal chambers / thermal
shock / vibration. Evaluate chambers; some
make testing extremely difficult. Test set-up, good
mounting for circuit boards. Use of daisy chains
and dog-bone pads for test boards. Extra
personnel vs. extra equipment. Record what
during tests? Calibration and certifications.
5. Solders. Tin/lead solders, all tin solders, the
best joint/spacing for components. What are tin
whiskers? Effect on reliability. Relief. Avoidance.
Alternatives: silver solders, etc. Advantages and
disadvantages.
6. Electronics Packaging. Vibration resonance
of card structures. Thermal heatsinking of modules
and heat sink designs. Grounding of electronics
modules; how to RF block your module.
7. Solder Fatigue. What SMT packages hare
fewer problems? Life predictions: circuit boards,
component materials, etc. International Trade
and Arms Regulation (ITAR). Definition,
understanding; enforcement. Effect on
communications. Government contracting can
make Parts, Materials & Processes a nightmare.
"Scope creep" and how it affects testing.
Inspection won't find all the problems – what
testing is really needed.

AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense
Summary
Course # D118
The Aegis Weapon System (AWS) is a multifunction
radar and fire control system designed for the Navy’s
anti-air warfare (AAW) mission of fleet defense. The
system conducts AAW engagements, starting with
surveillance and tracking by the AN/SPY-1 radar;
application of engagement doctrine by the Command
and Control system; intercept calculation, weapon
selection, launch, and guidance of the Standard Missile
by the Weapon Control System, and terminal homing
by the Fire Control System. The Aegis system has
successfully demonstrated a ballistic missile defense
(BMD) capability. For this mission, the engagement
sequence has been modified to include new functions
such as; characterization and discrimination of tactical
ballistic missile complexes in the upper atmosphere,
guidance of an advanced standard missile (SM-3), and
designation of an RV to the SM-3.
The attendees will study the AWS weapon system
definition and design approach, including the weapon
system functional architecture, the element designs,
and performance drivers. Focus will be on engineering
of the Weapon System including SM-3 and Aegis
Combat System integration. Program and Project
Managers, Contract Administrators, Quality Managers,
and Engineers (all disciplines) can accelerate their
ability to understand AWS design competences.
Attendance limited to US citizens and NATO
government employees.
This four-day course is designed for engineers
entering the field or as a review for employees who
want a system level overview. It is introductory class
and is not designed AEGIS experts. Attendance limited
to US citizens and NATO government employees.
Instructor
John W. Parnell served as Chief Architect for Aegis
Missile Defense, Naval Air Defense, and Intelligence &
Instrumentation Radar System Synthesis and Analysis
for Lockheed Martin at their Moorestown, NJ facility.
He gained expertise in Aegis BMD Weapon System
Engineering as Technical Lead on both the Navy Area
Wide and the Aegis LEAP Intercept (ALI) Programs.
His 35+ years- experience with Lockheed Martin
includes: technical direction, system definition and
design of multi-platform, multi-function weapon
systems; system development of radar, missile fire
control, BMC3, ECCM, & CEC. Mr. Parnell served on
the MDA National Team from 2002-2007.
Columbia, Maryland
$1940 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Course Outline
Provides an engineering overview of Aegis Ballistic
Missile Defense (ABMD) design competencies:
• Understanding the ACS Mission
• Aegis Weapon System (AWS) design attributes for
BMD mission
Emphasis is made on the Aegis Weapon System
architectural design to support simultaneous regional
missile defense and strategic missile defense
capabilities. In addition, focus will be made on the AWS
design competencies, to include:
1. ABMD System Functional Architecture:
Including challenges for AWS elements such as;
Radar, Standard Missile, Vertical Launch System,
Command & Control, Weapon Control, etc.; exploited
weapon system characteristics to support a Plan,
Detect, Control and Engage engagement sequence
approach; ABMD engagement modes: Organic exo-atmospheric
& endo – atmospheric engagements,
Cued, Launch – on – Remote (LOR), Engage – On
Remote (EOR) engagements.
2. Unique ABMD Design Attributes:
Surveillance, tracking, Identification, Characterization,
Discrimination, Standard Missile (SM-3) Integration,
Pre- & Post Launch Fire Control, SM-3 Guidance,
Engagement Coordination, In-Flight Alignment.
3. System Performance Measures: Performance
drivers, Target modeling, Engagement Timeline,
resource utilization, engagement windows,
Engineering budgets, probability of engagement
success.
4. Multi – Ship Coordination: Including
coordination strategies to achieve total missile
defense, unique requirements for multi-Platform fire
control interoperability and coordination, Single ship
versus integrated multi – ship engagements, multi –
platform performance criteria.
What You Will Learn
The main focus will be on engineering of the
Weapon System, including Standard Missile and Aegis
Combat System integration. Attendees will develop an
understanding of the Aegis BMD mission, as well as
the system concept definition, design, and
implementation based on a mature AWS development
philosophy. Attendees will develop an understanding of
how Aegis Combat System was upgraded to include
the additional BMD mission while maintaining all
existing Aegis operational warfare capabilities.
Students will examine how the System Engineering
process ensures that systems are developed to meet
mission performance objectives which are affordable,
operationally effective, and timely.

Cyber Warfare – Global Trends
Columbia, Maryland
(8:30am - 4:00pm)
$1840
Course # D131
Summary
This three-day (four-day virtual) course is intended
for operational leaders and programmatic staff
involved in the planning, analysis, or testing of Cyber
Warfare and Network-Centric systems. The course will
provide perspective on emerging policy, doctrine,
strategy, and operational constraints affecting the
development of cyber warfare systems. This
knowledge will greatly enhance participants' ability to
develop operational systems and concepts that will
produce integrated, controlled, and effective cyber
effects at each warfare level.
This course is appropriate for both new and
experience people working in cyber security. The value
of this course is to help engineers & scientists
understand how their senior customers view cyber
security & enable them to speak broadly on the topic
with those customers and to understand different
conops. The course is not detailed in programming
techniques and tools. Those wanting that material
should take one of the Certified Ethical Hacker
classes. U.S. citizenship required for students
registered in this course.
Instructor
Albert Kinney is a retired Naval Officer
and holds a Masters Degree in electrical
engineering. His professional experience
includes more than 20 years of experience in
research and operational cyberspace
mission areas including the initial
development and first operational
employment of the Naval Cyber Attack
Team.
Course Outline
1. Global Internet Governance.
2. A Cyber Power Framework.
3. Global Supply Chain & Outsourcing Issues.
4. Critical Infrastructure Issues.
5. U.S. Cyberspace Doctrine and Strategy.
6. Cyberspace as a Warfare Domain.
7. Netcentricity.
8. U.S. Organizational Constructs in Cyber
9. Legal Considerations for Cyber Warfare.
10. Operational Theory of Cyber Warfare.
11. Operational and Tactical Maneuver in
Cyberspace - Stack Positioning.
12. Capability Development & Weaponization.
13. Cyber Warfare Training and Exercise
Requirements.
14. Command & Control for Cyber Warfare.
15. Cyber War Case Study .
16. Human Capital in Cybersecurity.
17. Survey of International Cyber Warfare
Doctrine & Capabilities.
18. Large-Scale Cybersecurity Mechanisms.
19. Social Considerations in Cybersecurity –
Culture & the Human Interface.
20. Cybersecurity, Civil Liberties, & Freedom
Around the World .
21. Non-State Actor Trends - Cyber Crime, Cyber
Terrorism, Hactivism.
22. Homeland Security Case Study / Industrial
Espionage Case Study.
What You Will Learn
Warfare.
• What are the relationships between cyber warfare,
information assurance, information operations,
and network-centric warfare?
• How can a cyber warfare capability enable
freedom of action in cyberspace?
• What are legal constraints on cyber warfare?
• How can cyber capabilities meet standards for
weaponization?
• How should cyber capabilities be integrated with
military exercises?
• How can military and civilian cyberspace
organizations prepare and maintain their workforce
to play effective roles in cyberspace?
• What is the Comprehensive National
Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI)?
From this course you will obtain in-depth
knowledge and awareness of the cyberspace
domain, its functional characteristics, and its
organizational inter-relationships enabling your
organization to make meaningful contributions in
the domain of cyber warfare through technical
consultation, systems development, and
operational test & evaluation.

Examining Network Centric Warfare (NCW)
January 21-22, 2015
Columbia, Maryland
$1200 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Course # D145
Summary
This two-day course offers an initial exposure to
network centricity in US military service systems and
programs from the warfighting edge vice enterprise.
Information is power. In the past 30 years, the most
significant renaissance in the art of war has transpired
in the implementation of collaborative networks for and
between military platforms and entities. In many cases
NCW replaces mass with understanding. This course
is a mark in time, and seeks to provide the student with
some level of currency and sensitivity to service
programs and also a candid perspective from industry.
It also suggests where and what future vulnerabilities
and opportunities exist within the scope of network
centricity. This course is restricted to US citizens only.
Instructor
Frank R. Prautzsch has worked in the field of
network centric systems and satellite
communications for 35 years supporting
the US Army, Industry and the Nation.
He received a Bachelor of Science in
Engineering from the United States
Military at West Point and an MS in
Systems Technology (C3I and Space)
from Naval Postgraduate School. He has numerous
awards, accolades, professional papers and patent
work. His expertise in communications, wireless
networks, cyber, satcom, navigation and renewable
energy remains nationally recognized.
What You Will Learn
• What are the foundations of network-centricity in
doctrine and practice across the Services.
• What are the Joint and Service interpretations of
NCW? What is the Joint Information Enterprise
(JIE)? the Joint Operational Access Concept
(JOAC).
• Examine Army LandWarNet/Land ISR net and its
components.
• Examine Navy NGEN and CANES Programs and
its components.
• Examine Air Force Aerial Layer Network (ALN).
• Examine -Some perspectives on NCW for SOF,
First Responder and Industry at large.
• Understanding the impact of Space and
Cyberspace on NCW.
• The impact of unmanned systems and intelligent
wireless at the network edge.
• The Future. What are the next network
transformational Legos® .
Course Outline
1. Introduction. The Nature and Doctrine that
support NCW. Why? More importantly why should we
care.
2. Current Governance. National, DoD, Joint and
Service Doctrine that shape NCW thinking and
investments.
3. Examining the JIE and JOAC. A motivation for
change by necessity, attitude and budgets. Adaptive,
Globally Networked Joint Operations.
4. The Army. Spelling out the basics of
LandWarNet and its parts to include WIN-T and JTRS.
Spelling out the basics of LandISRnet and its parts to
include Cloud, RITE, and ISCA.
5. The Navy. Understanding lessons from
ForceNet and NMCI and how NGEN and CANES will
shape the Navy and Marine Corps NCW future.
6. The Air Force. The basics of the Aerial Layer
Network (ALN), the Future Airborne Capability
Environment (FACE) Architecture, Universal
Networking Interface (UNI) / Airborne Networking GIG
Interface (ANGI) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS),
Multi-Functional Advanced Data Link (MADL) / Link-16
/ Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT).
7. SOF. The use of NCW for special
communications, remote sensing, TTL and integrated
support operations.
8. Industry and First Responders. The need for
standards. The evolution of AN/P-25. Novel concepts
in cloud applications and wireless virtual hypervisors.
(a surprise case study).
9. Space and Cyber-Space. The criticality of
MILSATCOM and C4ISR to future operations.
Command and Control on the Move. Machine-to-machine
(M2M) space concepts. Cyber in
NCW.worries beyond the virus. The integration of
space and cyberspace.
10. Unmanned Systems. NCW and C4ISR
enablers and liabilities. Successes and warnings.
11. The Future. Changes in the C4ISR Construct.
Emerging technologies to embrace. The need for
velocity.
Joint Operational Access Concept (JOAC) describes
how future joint forces will achieve operational access
in the face of such strategies. Its central thesis is
Cross-Domain Synergy-the complementary vice
merely additive employment of capabilities in different
domains such that each enhances the effectiveness
and compensates for the vulnerabilities of the others-to
establish superiority in some combination of domains
that will provide the freedom of action required by the
mission. The JOAC envisions a greater degree of
integration across domains and at lower echelons than
ever before.
Reference document
http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/JOAC_Jan%202012_Signed.pdf

GPS Technology
International Navigation Solutions for Military, Civilian, and Aerospace Applications Course # D162
Summary
If present plans materialize, 128 radionavigation
satellites will soon be installed along the space frontier.
They will be owned and operated by six different
countries hoping to capitalize on the financial success
of the GPS constellation.
In this popular four-day short course Tom Logsdon
describes in detail how these various radionavigation
systems work and reviews the many practical benefits
they are slated to provide to military and civilian users
around the globe. Logsdon will explain how each
radionavigation system works and how to use it in
various practical situations.
Instructor
Tom Logsdon has worked on the GPS
radionavigation satellites and their
constellation for more than 20 years. He
helped design the Transit Navigation
System and the GPS and he acted as a
consultant to the European Galileo
Spaceborne Navigation System. His key
assignment have included constellation
selection trades, military and civilian applications, force
multiplier effects, survivability enhancements and
spacecraft autonomy studies.
Over the past 30 years Logsdon has taught more
than 300 short courses. He has also made two dozen
television appearances, helped design an exhibit for
the Smithsonian Institution, and written and published
1.7 million words, including 29 non fiction books.
These include Understanding the Navstar, Orbital
Mechanics, and The Navstar Global Positioning
System.
"The presenter was very energetic and truly
passionate about the material"
" Tom Logsdon is the best teacher I have ever
had. His knowledge is excellent. He is a 10!"
"Mr. Logsdon did a bang-up job explaining
and deriving the theories of special/general
relativity–and how they are associated with
the GPS navigation solutions."
"I loved his one-page mathematical deriva-tions
and the important points they illus-trate."
Columbia, Maryland
January 12-15, 2015
Columbia, Maryland
$1990 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Video!
www.aticourses.com/gps_technology.htm
Course Outline
1. Radionavigation Concepts. Active and passive
radionavigation systems. Position and velocity solutions.
Nanosecond timing accuracies. Today’s spaceborne
atomic clocks. Websites and other sources of information.
Building a flourishing $200 billion radionavigation empire
in space.
2. The Three Major Segments of the GPS. Signal
structure and pseudorandom codes. Modulation
techniques. Practical performance-enhancements.
Relativistic time dilations. Inverted navigation solutions.
3. Navigation Solutions and Kalman Filtering
Techniques. Taylor series expansions. Numerical
iteration. Doppler shift solutions. Kalman filtering
algorithms.
4. Designing Effective GPS Receivers. The
functions of a modern receiver. Antenna design
techniques. Code tracking and carrier tracking loops.
Commercial chipsets. Military receivers. Navigation
solutions for orbiting satellites.
5. Military Applications. Military test ranges. Tactical
and strategic applications. Autonomy and survivability
enhancements. Smart bombs and artillery projectiles.
6. Integrated Navigation Systems. Mechanical and
strapdown implementations. Ring lasers and fiber-optic
gyros. Integrated navigation systems. Military
applications.
7. Differential Navigation and Pseudosatellites.
Special committee 104’s data exchange protocols. Global
data distribution. Wide-area differential navigation.
Pseudosatellites. International geosynchronous overlay
satellites. The American WAAS, the European EGNOS,
and the Japanese QZSS..
8. Carrier-Aided Solution Techniques. Attitude-determination
receivers. Spaceborne navigation for
NASA’s Twin Grace satellites. Dynamic and kinematic
orbit determination. Motorola’s spaceborne monarch
receiver. Relativistic time-dilation derivations. Relativistic
effects due to orbital eccentricity.
9. The Navstar Satellites. Subsystem descriptions.
On-orbit test results. Orbital perturbations and computer
modeling techniques. Station-keeping maneuvers. Earth-shadowing
characteristics. The European Galileo, the
Chinese Biedou/Compass, the Indian IRNSS, and the
Japanese QZSS.
10. Russia’s Glonass Constellation. Performance
comparisons. Orbital mechanics considerations. The
Glonass subsystems. Russia’s SL-12 Proton booster.
Building dual-capability GPS/Glonass receivers. Glonass
in the evening news.

Link 16 / JTIDS / JREAP
February 3-5, 2015
Columbia, Maryland
$1845 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Course # D153
Summary
The 3-day Link 16 / JTIDS / JREAP course teaches
31 instructional modules covering the most important
topics necessary to develop a thorough understanding
of Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS. The Advanced course
provides greater detail for many of the topics that are
covered in our Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS Course, as well
as offering nine advanced training modules. This
course is instructional in nature and does not involve
hands-on training.
Instructor
Patrick Pierson has more than 23 years of
operational experience, and is internationally
recognized as a Tactical Data Link subject matter
expert. Patrick has designed more than 30 Tactical
Data Link training courses and personally trains
hundreds of students around the globe every year.
Applicability
This course is suitable for personnel with little or no
experience and is designed to take the student to a
very high level of comprehension in a short period of
time:
• Testing Required: No.
• Hands On Training: No.
• Prerequisites: None.
Course Outline
1. Introduction to Link 16
2. Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS Documentation
3. Link 16 Enhancements
4. System Characteristics
5. Time Division Multiple Access
6. Network Participation Groups
7. J-Series Messages
8. Message Standard Interpretation
9. Transmit and Receive Rules / Message Prioritization
10. Message Implementation
11. JTIDS / MIDS Pulse Development
12. JTIDS / MIDS Time Slot Components
13. JTIDS / MIDS Message Packing and Pulses
14. JTIDS / MIDS Networks / Nets
15. Access Modes
16. JTIDS / MIDS Terminal Synchronization
17. JTIDS / MIDS Network Time
18. Precise Participant Location and Identification
19. JTIDS / MIDS Voice
20. Link 16 Air Control
21. NonC2 Air-to-NonC2 Air
22. JTIDS / MIDS Network Roles
23. JTIDS / MIDS Terminal Navigation
24. JTIDS / MIDS Relays
25. Communications Security
26. JTIDS / MIDS Pulse Deconfliction
27. JTIDS / MIDS Terminal Restrictions
28. Time Slot Duty Factor
29. JTIDS / MIDS Terminals
30. MIDS Terminal Configurations / Maintenance
31. Link 16 Platforms

Missile System Design
February 9-12, 2015
Columbia, Maryland
$2095 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
Course # D190
Summary
This four-day short course covers the fundamentals of
missile design, development, and system engineering. Missiles
provide the essential accuracy and standoff range capabilities
that are of paramount importance in modern warfare.
Technologies for missiles are rapidly emerging, resulting in the
frequent introduction of new missile systems. The capability to
meet the essential requirements for the performance, cost, and
risk of missile systems is driven by missile design and system
engineering. The course provides a system-level, integrated
method for missile aerodynamic configuration/propulsion
design and analysis. It addresses the broad range of
alternatives in meeting cost, performance, and risk
requirements. The methods presented are generally simple
closed-form analytical expressions that are physics-based, to
provide insight into the primary driving parameters. Typical
values of missile parameters and the characteristics of current
operational missiles are discussed as well as the enabling
subsystems and technologies for missiles and the
current/projected state-of-the-art. Daily roundtable discussion.
Design, build, and fly competition. Over seventy videos
illustrate missile development activities and missile
performance. Attendees will vote on the relative emphasis of
the material to be presented. Attendees receive course notes
as well as the textbook, Missile Design and System
Engineering.
Instructor
Eugene L. Fleeman has 50 years of government, industry,
academia, and consulting experience in
Missile Design and System Engineering.
Formerly a manager of missile programs at
Air Force Research Laboratory, Rockwell
International, Boeing, and Georgia Tech, he
is an international lecturer on missiles and
the author of over 100 publications, including
the AIAA textbook, Missile Design and
System Engineering.
What You Will Learn
• Key drivers in the missile design and system engineering
process.
• Critical tradeoffs, methods and technologies in subsystems,
aerodynamic, propulsion, and structure sizing.
• Launch platform-missile integration.
• Robustness, lethality, guidance navigation & control,
accuracy, observables, survivability, safty, reliability, and
cost considerations.
• Missile sizing examples.
• Development process for missile systems and missile
technologies.
• Design, build, and fly competition.
Who Should Attend
The course is oriented toward the needs of missile
engineers, systems engineers, analysts, marketing
personnel, program managers, university professors, and
others working in the area of missile systems and technology
development. Attendees will gain an understanding of missile
design, missile technologies, launch platform integration,
missile system measures of merit, and the missile system
development process.
Video!
www.aticourses.com/tactical_missile_design.htm
Course Outline
1. Introduction/Key Drivers in the Missile System Design
Process: Overview of missile design process. Examples of system-of-systems
integration. Unique characteristics of missiles. Key
aerodynamic configuration sizing parameters. Missile conceptual
design synthesis process. Examples of processes to establish mission
requirements. Projected capability in command, control,
communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance
(C4ISR). Example of Pareto analysis. Attendees vote on course
emphasis.
2. Aerodynamic Considerations in Missile System Design:
Optimizing missile aerodynamics. Shapes for low observables. Missile
configuration layout (body, wing, tail) options. Selecting flight control
alternatives. Wing and tail sizing. Predicting normal force, drag,
pitching moment, stability, control effectiveness, lift-to-drag ratio, and
hinge moment. Maneuver law alternatives.
3. Propulsion Considerations in Missile System Design:
Turbojet, ramjet, scramjet, ducted rocket, and rocket propulsion
comparisons. Turbojet engine design considerations, prediction and
sizing. Selecting ramjet engine, booster, and inlet alternatives. Ramjet
performance prediction and sizing. High density fuels. Solid propellant
alternatives. Propellant grain cross section trade-offs. Effective thrust
magnitude control. Reducing propellant observables. Rocket motor
performance prediction and sizing. Solid propellant rocket motor
combustion instability. Motor case and nozzle materials.
4. Weight Considerations in Missile System Design: How to
size subsystems to meet flight performance requirements. Structural
design criteria factor of safety. Structure concepts and manufacturing
processes. Selecting airframe materials. Loads prediction. Weight
prediction. Airframe and motor case design. Aerodynamic heating
prediction and insulation trades. Dome material alternatives and sizing.
Power supply and actuator alternatives and sizing.
5. Flight Performance Considerations in Missile System
Design: Flight envelope limitations. Aerodynamic sizing-equations of
motion. Accuracy of simplified equations of motion. Maximizing flight
performance. Benefits of flight trajectory shaping. Flight performance
prediction of boost, climb, cruise, coast, steady descent, ballistic,
maneuvering, divert, and homing flight.
6. Measures of Merit and Launch Platform Integration:
Achieving robustness in adverse weather. Seeker, navigation, data
link, and sensor alternatives. Seeker range prediction. Counter-countermeasures.
Warhead alternatives and lethality prediction.
Approaches to minimize collateral damage. Fuzing alternatives and
requirements for fuze angle and time delay. Alternative guidance laws.
Proportional guidance accuracy prediction. Time constant contributors
and prediction. Maneuverability design criteria. Radar cross section
and infrared signature prediction. Survivability considerations.
Insensitive munitions. Enhanced reliability. Cost drivers of schedule,
weight, learning curve, and parts count. EMD and production cost
prediction. Logistics considerations. Designing within launch platform
constraints. Standard launchers. Internal vs. external carriage.
Shipping, storage, carriage, launch, and separation environment
considerations. Launch platform interfaces. Cold and solar
environment temperature prediction.
7. Sizing Examples and Sizing Tools: Trade-offs for extended
range rocket. Sizing for enhanced maneuverability. Developing a
harmonized missile. Lofted range prediction. Ramjet missile sizing for
range robustness. Ramjet fuel alternatives. Ramjet velocity control.
Correction of turbojet thrust and specific impulse. Turbojet missile
sizing for maximum range. Turbojet engine rotational speed. Guided
bomb performance. Computer aided sizing tools for conceptual design.
Design, build, and fly competition. Pareto, house of quality, and design
of experiment analysis.
8. Missile Development Process: Design validation/technology
development process. Developing a technology roadmap. History of
transformational technologies. Funding emphasis. Cost, risk, and
performance tradeoffs. New missile follow-on projections. Examples of
development tests and facilities. Example of technology demonstration
flight envelope. Examples of technology development. New
technologies for missiles.
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