Kip Haggerty, Principal

Expert in control, communication, and sensor systems

Kip Haggerty, Ph.D., P.E. has over 21 years of experience in control, communication, and sensor systems engineering. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988.

Since August of 1994, he has been a consulting engineer with H&A Systems Engineering, where he leads the control, communication, and sensor systems engineering consulting portion of the business. He has provided requirements and analysis for a variety of RF sensors, including resolution of signal processing, tracking, and phenomenology issues. For a multiple-unit parallel solid-state power conversion system, he led the requirements and architecture model development including specification of digital signal processing and control algorithms for execution on multiple embedded processors. He also developed and taught a hands-on Kalman Filtering course for the Naval Weapons Center.

From 1980 to 1994, he was a member of the technical staff, systems engineer, and then senior staff engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA. His systems engineering experience at Hughes covers a broad range of sensor and communication technologies as well as control and signal processing algorithms. He developed, simulated, and analyzed avionic system concepts that included spread spectrum data communications, radar, and air traffic control communications. He also led the cooperative engagement system concept study for the AAAES program. For radar systems, he participated in a demonstration of the first high resolution radar range profiles from a new waveform and he designed, simulated, analyzed and verified radar signal processing, tracking, and calibration algorithms. He also developed and taught a Kalman Filtering course for Hughes.

Dr. Haggerty is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Tau Beta Pi. He is a licensed electrical and control systems engineer in the state of California. He has five published papers and has made numerous presentations.