Abstract: This presentation will address the following topics:
• What is Electromagnetic Interference?
• Why is EMI / EMC / E3 so Important to Air Worthiness?
• Flight Clearance / Air Worthiness for EMC
• Equipment EMI
• Aircraft EMC Safety-of-Flight Test (SoFT)
• Conclusions & Recommendations
Please join us for this informative LIVE webinar with industry expert John LaSalle! Time will be allotted for Q&A following the presentation.
Speaker Biography:
John La Salle is a Northrop Grumman Technical Fellow (NG2), Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3), Manned Aircraft Design Center of Excellence, with Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems.
He is the Aerospace Sector (AS) Lead for the Systems Engineering E3 Sub-CoP as well the Melbourne CoE Product Champion (PC). In this role, John has applied all aspects of E3 technologies to the design, integration, and test of corporate products including aircraft, electrical/electronic equipment, spacecraft, space launch vehicles, shipboard radars, and ground-based radar systems.
John is the POC for the Military Aircraft Division (MAD) and the AS. In this role, John brings more than 30 years of engineering excellence in electromagnetic design, integration, and test in the aerospace industry.
John grew up in Long Island, NY. He started his career at Grumman Aircraft Corporation in 1986. His Current Project/Program is E-2D Hawkeye. He holds a Master’s degree in Business (MBA) from Dowling College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Old Dominion University. John is an International Association for Radio, Telecommunications and Electromagnetics (iNARTE) certified Master Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Design Engineer, as well as a certified EMC Engineer.
John is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has been the Treasurer for the IEEE EMC Society since 2008 as well as a member of the IEEE EMC Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Advisory Committee, Special Committee (SC-6) Unmanned Aircraft Systems EMC, and EMC Management Committee (TC-1). He is a member of the G46 EMC sub-committee. John is also the founder of the IEEE EMC Team EMC bike club.
John has published and presented EMC material at various EMC venues, including Cal Tech. He has also lectured in the TC-1 sponsored EMC workshops and participated as an invited speaker in the “Ask-the-Experts” panels at the IEEE International Symposium of Electromagnetic Compatibility.
John’s current and past projects include:
- Aircraft: E-2/C-2, JSTARS, UCLASS, UCAS-D, LEMV, BAMS/Triton, Presidential Helicopter, F-14, EA-6B, A-6 E/F, EF-111, F-8II, A-10, B-2, AH-64, C-130/141, A-4, Others
- Space Vehicles: Space Shuttle, X-33/SSTO, EELV, Space Station
- Spacecraft: Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS); National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP); and Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)
- Ground Weapons: Grizzly tank, HUMRAAM, Patriot Missiles
- Ships & Shipboard: Aegis, DD21 Surface Attack Ship, DD(X), High Power Discrimination (HPD) Radar
