Episode 16: Superior Signals Intelligence

Technology Today

Southwest Research Institute

Technology

4.8 • 19 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Antennas make modern communication possible from mobile phones to Wi-Fi. They also make our communities safer by supporting emergency, law enforcement and national security efforts. Even though they are vital to our way of life, we rarely hear about antenna advancements. In this episode, we’re talking to an SwRI electrical engineer who helped develop a sophisticated antenna technology taking signals intelligence to a new level. His team won a prestigious R&D 100 Award for the AF-369 VHF/UHF DF Antenna, recognized as a top 100 innovation of 2019. We’ll tell you what makes it a superior signals intelligence technology. In today’s Breakthroughs, artificial intelligence rescues a scientist buried in data. In Ask Us Anything, we’re untangling quantum entanglement. Listen and learn from the people shaping our world through science, engineering, research and technology.

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0:00.0	Coming up, superior signals.
0:02.5	We're discussing an antenna technology recognized as a top 100 innovation,
0:07.9	plus a breakthrough in detecting chemicals with some help from machine learning.
0:12.5	And ask us anything, we're tackling quantum entanglement.
0:17.1	What exactly is it?
0:19.0	Find out on this episode of Technology Today.
0:25.1	We live with technology, science, engineering, and the results of innovative research every day. Now, let's understand it better. You're listening to the Technology Today podcast presented by Southwest Research Institute.
0:39.4	Hello and welcome to technology today. I'm Lisa Benia. Breakthroughs and ask us anything ahead, but first.
0:45.2	Our guest is SWRI electrical engineer Brandon Nance from our SIGINT Solutions Department.
0:52.0	Here to talk about the AF 36369 direction-finding antenna.
0:56.2	This technology recently won a prestigious and highly competitive R&D 100 award, making it one of
1:03.6	the top 100 innovations of 2019.
1:07.2	Congratulations to your team, and thank you for being here, Brandon.
1:10.5	Thank you so much. It's good to be here.
1:12.3	So let's start with a broad question first.
1:14.8	What does the term SIGINT refer to?
1:17.6	Yeah, SIGANT is short for signals intelligence.
1:20.5	And signals intelligence is just the practice of passively, that means without transmitting anything back or actively communicating,
1:27.4	just passively picking up electronic signals thatitting anything back or actively communicating, just passively
1:27.9	picking up electronic signals that are being transmitted across the air already.
1:32.5	Okay, so I used the short name of the antenna, but it actually has a much longer name.
1:38.1	So the name is the AF-369, V-H-F,U-H-F-D-F antenna.
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