Dr. Francisco J. Collazo
Research
Data
Link Protocol
I
worked as a free lance consultant for three years before I got the first contract.
During this period, I worked for customers who were smart and demanding. As
a consultant-you are the subject matter expert and you must have answers to
questions in real time. Sometimes, the questions asked were bordering on my
field of data link protocol. Radar integration, communication bandwidth requirements,
threat evaluation and weapons assignment of a particular engagement envelope
for a weapons system were of paramount importance to the customer. To be a consultant
at RDEC you must be equipped with the right tools at the right time. I worked
very closely with distinguished scientists who were brilliant Mathematician
and radar experts. I have worked with several Scientists at RDEC who are exceptionally
smart and are experts in weapon system analysis. They were dynamic and always
asking the right questions at the wrong time of the day(around 4:00 pm). As
an example: What does it take to resurrect a message if you loose one byte of
data? What is the most effective modulation scheme to implement a protocol to
minimize message rate loss? What type of coding scheme to optimize the message
transmission rate? There are unending notes of his queries-to me, I was honored
to be his associate in problem solving. I recognized that the spectrum ranged
from radar applications to data link traffic analysis. Trade off analysis of
several techniques on how to perform threat evaluation and weapons assignment.
Therefore, in view of these challenges, I assembled several academic tools to
use them as the need arose to respond to the Scientists of the RDEC Laboratory.
Regretfully, my tool box was documented in a green book but it was lost during
our moves of the office of three locations in one year. Then, I had to resurrect
these tools via the Internet. I used these tools and was very successful in
providing the right solution to the customer's problem. The work that I did
as consultant lead to the first contract that I got as a small business launching
COLSA as a business entity. I have not noted the application to each of the
attachment asI just want to share these tools with you, hoping that they have
some value to you in your daily routine of system analysis of radar and weapons
systems applications.
Special acknowledgement to the following:
- Dr James Kelly, a distinguished scientist in RDEC. Dr. Kelly was an expert in radar applications.
- Dr. John P Leonard was a Senior Scientist heading the group that provided technical support to the Air Defense
Command and Control Systems (ADCCS) project office.
- Mr William Lynn was the Chief Engineer of the ADCCS project office.
- Henry Dhim, a dinstinguished scientist in Weapon System Analysis-that was the lead scientist in doing the analysis
of the data links protocol and radar netting.
