Radar Cost Estimation and Reduction - Industrial Engineering - Articles and Case Studies

Radar principles and technologies - Tutorials
https://www.radartutorial.eu/index.en.html


MMIC or MM IC is an important component used in large number in Radars. It is used in T/R modules.
MMIC Technology - Cost Estimation and Reduction - Industrial Engineering - Articles and Cases
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/11/mmic-technology-cost-estimation-and.html


Cost Issues in LRDR System

“The choice of S-Band for LRDR was a compromise: S-Band was assessed to provide acceptable performance for much lower cost than an X-Band (~10 GHz) system at the same sensitivity and field of view. Trade study analysis indicated that although discrimination performance at X-Band would be superior, it was not sufficiently better than the performance at S-Band to justify the cost differential."
https://mostlymissiledefense.com/2019/01/30/the-lrdr-not-the-best-discrimination-money-can-buy-january-30-2019/
https://mostlymissiledefense.com  Interesting site.

Radar Innovations - Raytheon - 24 April 2019
https://www.raytheon.com/news/feature/radar-renaissance-begins


Cost Reduction in the Department of Defense
Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1965
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=YOeXsyC5ueAC


Cost Reduction Journal - US DOD - 1967
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=mVNHAQAAIAAJ&rdid=book-mVNHAQAAIAAJ&rdot=1

Value engineering of diodes used SMA Radars
1968
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=uKgnv6lcs6EC&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q&f=false
Principles and Applications of Value Engineering: Course Book
United States. Army Management Engineering Training Agency, United States. Department of Defense
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 - Value analysis (Cost control) - 74 pages
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=uKgnv6lcs6EC

WEATHER RADAR TECHNOLOGY
BEYOND NEXRAD
Committee on Weather Radar Technology Beyond NEXRA
2002
https://www.nap.edu/read/10394/chapter/1#ii


MATERIAL SELECTION FOR CERAMIC T/R MODULE
PACKAGES
Reiichi Yamada, Andrew Piloto, Edward Graddy, Gerardo Aguirre, Mark Eblen, and
 Arne Knudsen
2004
Kyocera America, Inc.
San Diego, CA., 92123, USA.
https://americas.kyocera.com/assets_kii/001/5261.pdf



Total ownership cost reduction case study : AEGIS radar phase shifters
2006
https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/34231

MPARadar Cost Issues
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=jvxjAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q&f=false


TR Module Cost Issues - 2007
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a470873.pdf

MAKING SENSE OF BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE

An Assessment of Concepts and Systems
for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in
Comparison to Other Alternatives
2012
Chapter on cost estimation
https://www.nap.edu/read/13189/chapter/1

"Improvements made to the PATRIOT radar cooling pump this past fiscal year extended its service life by six times and resulted in $16 million in cost savings,"  Tom Reynolds, command value engineering and life cycle cost reduction manager at AMCOM.
The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM)
2013
https://www.army.mil/article/106068/amc_receives_four_value_engineering_awards

MMIC and TR Module Cost

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=jESPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA205#v=onepage&q&f=false
Transmit Receive Modules for Radar and Communication Systems
Front Cover
Rick Sturdivant, Mike Harris
Artech House, 2016 - Technology & Engineering - 268 pages
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=jESPCwAAQBAJ


NKE2632 Solid State S-Band Marine Radar User Manual Instruction Manual Reference Part 5 Japan Radio
https://fccid.io/CKENKE2632/User-Manual/Instruction-Manual-Reference-Part-5-2791094.html

Technology Trends for Future Radar
November 14, 2017 Johannes van Bezouwen and Dr. Michael Brandfass, HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH
https://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/29367-technology-trends-for-future-radar

Next-gen military radar system design innovations
http://mil-embedded.com/articles/next-gen-system-design-innovations/


Low-Cost Mini Radar: Design Prototyping and Tests
Journal of Sensors
Volume 2017, Article ID 8029364, 15 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/8029364
Research Article
Dario Tarchi,1 Michele Vespe,1 Ciro Gioia,1 Francesco Sermi,1 Vladimir Kyovtorov,1 and Giorgio Guglieri2
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/js/2017/8029364/



Breaking Through the Cost Barrier for Phased Arrays
November 14, 2018 Doug Carlson, MACOM
https://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/31325-breaking-through-the-cost-barrier-for-phased-arrays


Sensors (Basel). 2018 Aug; 18(8): 2569.
Published online 2018 Aug 6. doi: 10.3390/s18082569
An X-band Bi-Directional Transmit/Receive Module for a Phased Array System in 65-nm CMOS
Van-Viet Nguyen,1 Hyohyun Nam,1 Young Joe Choe,1 Bok-Hyung Lee,2 and Jung-Dong Park1,*
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6112044/

2019

Customer Problem:
A surveillance radar with outdated, proprietary computer hardware and software had limited performance and limited technical refresh capability, had also led to decreased reliability, maintainability, and availability, rendering the radar ineffective, and/or inoperable at critical times, resulting in valuable data losses during execution of costly flight and ground test activities.  A solution is being developed

What INTUITIVE did:
The Value Engineering (VE) Team used the VE methodology.  Efforts identified decommissioned government furnished equipment, which were inexpensively purchased from an alternate government agency and applied toward future builds of radars.

Impact:
The VE Program avoided major and costly redesign and accelerated the production and fielding of new radar units, as well as improved the availability of cost-effective radar components and assemblies resulting in a saving of over $116M.
https://www.irtc-hq.com/value-engineering/

Design Technology of Synthetic Aperture Radar

Jiaguo Lu
John Wiley & Sons, 26-Aug-2019 - Technology & Engineering - 336 pages
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=6tOdDwAAQBAJ




India


Radar developments in India
https://www.axiscades.com/the-advent-of-radar-age-in-india.html

Principles and Techniques of Modern Radar Systems
Swayam Course
https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc19_ee58/preview


ISRO Tender TR Module
https://istrac.eprocure.isro.gov.in/tnduploads/istrac/tndheader/IDT00094200000000000isro05401.pdf

Govt - of India Tender
https://www.isro.gov.in/sites/default/files/tenders/pt0504.pdf