Professor Philippe Lacomme is a Senior Radar Designer with
THOMSON-CSF DETEXIS Company. He is the Technical Director of the Radar Unit which is in
charge of developing and producing Airborne Radars such as RBE2 for RAFALE aircraft, RDY
and Antilope for Mirage 2000, Maritime Patrol Ocean Master Radar, SAR airborne (SLAR 2000)
or spaceborne (Horus) Radars, and advanced Radar for the next generation of fighters
(AMSAR French-British-German active array radar).
His 29 years of experience encompasses design and development of missile seekers and fighters radars deployed on Mirage F1, Mirage 2000, Mirage 2000-5, Rafale aircraft which are deployed in many countries. He has been involved in radar architecture design, signal processing and flight trials, in particular, for LPRF, HPRF and MPRF Doppler modes. He has been for two years the French Administrator-Gérant of the trinational GTDAR EEIG (GEC-THOMSON-DASA Airborne Radar) which is developing the AMSAR radar.
Prof. Lacomme has taught radar theory within THOMSON-CSF and in many Universities and Engineering Schools (ESME, ENST, ENSTA, ESE, ENSAE). He has lectured on radar systems in many international conferences and has promoted THOMSON-CSF products all over the world. He is co-author of a book on Airborne and Spaceborne Radars which is published in French and which will be published in English.
This extensive experience with the user community, as well as the radar community and the industrial world provides him a global view of the airborne radar domain and a clear understanding of the future challenges in this field.