Menachem Levitas has earned BS (Maxima Cum Laude) in Physics from the University of Portland and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Virginia . He is the Chief Scientist of Technology Service Corporation Washington Operations and has thirty eight years of experience in science and engineering; thirty of which have consisted of direct radar and weapon systems analysis, design, and development. Throughout his tenure he has provided technical support for many airborne, shipboard and ground based radar programs in many different areas including system concept definition, ECCM, active arrays, signal and data processing requirement analyses, and radar phenomenology. He is a recipient of the AEGIS Excellence Award for the development of a novel radar cross-band calibration technique in support of wide-band operations for high range resolution. He has developed innovative techniques in the areas of active array self-calibration and failure-compensation, array multi-beam-forming, electronic protection, synthetic wide-band, knowledge-based adaptive processing, and high fidelity, real-time, littoral propagation modeling. He has been employed by Technology Service Corporation (TSC) between 1978 and 1981, and from 1986 to the present. Between 1981 – 1986, Dr. Levitas was the engineering manager of an airborne radar design and development program at ELTA Electronics, in charge of the radar system definition, radar avionics interfaces, radar signal processor, computer network, and radar tests and integration.

Research Interests:

Antennas, adaptive processing, waveform design, RF propagation, radar phenomenology, radar system design, signal processing, modeling and simulations.