University of Dayton will help 'niche field' fill jobs

DAYTON — A University of Dayton center for development of laser sensing technology intended to improve on conventional radar also will spawn future employees for the corporations helping to fund the center, one of the corporate sponsors said Wednesday, March 5. Lockheed Martin Corp., one of the six defense contractors working with the Air Force to help fund the university's Ladar and Optical Communications Institute, looks forward to working with the program's post-graduate students, said Doug Pasquan, director of sensor programs in Lockheed's engineering and technology unit. Read More...

University of Dayton has home for laser radar

DAYTON — The University of Dayton finally has a home for research and teaching of laser radar, or ladar, a technology it hopes to advance for the Air Force and a regional center formed to get sensor systems to the market. Military officials are interested in ladar to track the movements of terrorists and other enemies.

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A new senior research engineer position is open

UD has recently established an Air Force Center of Excellence called the Ladar and Optical Communications Institute (LOCI). UD has an opening for a Senior Research Engineer to design and build a ladar testbed with distributed, sparse apertures. The position requires knowledge of and experience with electro-optics component technology,lasers and especially should have a background in ladar. The position has responsibility for hiring additional researchers with the required skills, creating and executing a management plan, interfacing with AFRL/RY, writing interim reports, and responding to funding opportunities. Read More...

Search to fill the Endowed LOCI Chair position

The University of Dayton invites nominations and applications for the Wright Brothers Institute Endowed Chair in Ladar and Free Space Optical Communications.
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