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- Communications: Line of Sight, Satellite, Digital (CDMA, etc.), Cryptography
- Command, Control & Intelligence: Gathering, Processing, and Displaying Information
- Surveillance: Radar, Sonar, IR
- Modeling & Simulation: Large Scale Battlefield Simulations, Many Others
- Stochastics Processes, Probability, Statistics, Numerical Methods, Algebra, Harmonic Analysis, Others.
- Not very high level, some Statistics (Decision Theory, Information Theory, Data Fusion), great need for clear, logical thought.
- Stochastic Processes, Statistics, Numerical Methods, Harmonic Analysis, Differential Equations, Probability, Stochastic Filtering.
- Usually not vey high level, some Physics & Based, high level Mathematical models.
Stephen Hobbs, Scientist (Mathematician)
at SPAWAR Systems Center, UCSD Alumnus of 1985
FOCUS TECHNOLOGIES
PERSONNEL
Numbers (guess):
800 BA/BS
500 MA/MS
200 PhD
1500 Total Engineers and Scientists
Degrees:
Electrical Engineering (many)
Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science (some)
Chemistry, Psychology, Biology (few)
TYPICAL WORKING GROUP
(1) Project Manager (MS , PhD, lots of experience)
(1-2) Lead Engineer or Scientist (MA , PhD, lots of experience)
(1-2) Support Engineer or Scientists (BA , PhD, little & some experience)
(2-4) Programmers & Computer Admin (BA, little & lots experience)
KEY MATHEMATICAL AREAS
WORKING AS AN APPLIED MATHEMATICIAN
What I do on a daily basis: (14 year average)
Study/pencil & paper analysis and problem solving 40%
Discussions & meetings with other scientists and engineers 20%
Programming 15%
Writing reports & papers 15%
Administrative junk 10%
Things I like about my job:
Frequently learn new things.
My applied work/problems motivate good "pure research" questions.
Diversity of work over the years.
There is a chance to create your own job to some extent.
Mathematicians play role of organizing and abstracting engineering technology.
There is rarely a need to put in more than 40 hours/week to be reasonably successful.
Things I dislike about my job:
I occasionally miss teaching.
I occasionally miss colleagues & research in "pure" mathematics.
I occasionally miss the academic yearly pace.
