RF Industry Icon: Fred Daum Principal Fellow at Raytheon and Radar Guru

Pat Hindle talks with Fred Daum, 2024 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications recipient, IEEE Fellow, Principal Fellow at Raytheon, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE and a graduate of Harvard University, about radar technology, his career path and outlook on future technology. Fred has developed, analyzed and tested the real time tracking, waveform scheduling, calibration and discrimination algorithms for essentially all the long range phased array radars built by the USA in the last four decades.