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Aerospace and Electronic

Editor-in-Chief-Maria S. Greco
Associate Editor-in-Chief-Peter K. Willett
Administrative Editor-William P. Walsh
Ass't. Admin. Editor-Susanne J. Walsh
Editor Emeritus-David B. Dobson
VP Publications-W. Dale Blair
AESS President-Teresa L. Pace
Executive Assistant, AESS
-Judy Scharmann

Contributing Editors
Awards-Erwin C. Gangl
Book Reviews Editor-Darin Dunham
Conferences-Mark Davis
Distinguished Lecturers &
Tutorials-Kathleen Kramer
Education-Kathleen Kramer
History-Hugh D. Griffiths
Student Research-Wenbo Dou,
John Glass
Technical Panels-Walter Downing
Tutorials Editor-W. Dale Blair
Website Updates-Judy Scharmann

Associate Editors and Areas of
Specialty
Scott Bawden-Energy Conversion
Systems
Erik Blasch, Roberto Sabatini-Avionics
Systems
Domenico Ciuonzo-Communications,
Signal Processing, and Data Fusion
David Crouse-Target Tracking
Mauro De Sanctis-Signal Processing and
Communication in Aerospace Systems
Michael Braasch-Navigation, Positioning
Giancarmine Fasano-UAS
Daniel O'Hagan-Radar Systems
Moriba Jah-Astronautic and Aeronautic
Systems
Haiying Liu-Control System Engineering
and Robotic Systems
Michael Cardinale-Electro-Optic and
Infrared Systems, Image Processing
Ruhai Wang-Systems Engineering
Peter Willett-Multi-Sensor Systems

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March 2017

ISSN 0885-8985

Volume 32 Number 3

COLUMNS
In This Issue - Technically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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From the Editor-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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ARTICLES
Refining Fault Trees Using Aviation Definitions for Consequence
Severity
Tszhim J. Leung, Jason Rife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Coltano: The Forgotten Story of Marconi's Early Powerful
Intercontinental Station
Filippo Giannetti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Design and Implementation of Closed-Loop Control System for Buck
Converter Using Different Techniques
Magdy Saoudi, Ahmed El-Sayed, Hamid Metwally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Complementary Pair Radar Waveforms-Evaluating and Mitigating
Some Drawbacks
Nadav Levanon, Itzik Cohen, Pavel Itkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Industry Insights: The Role of Chief Technology Office (CTO) in a
Modern Defense Company
A. Farina, A. Sarti, E. Barbi, Z. Burlo, R. Fulcoli, G. Perfetto, I.
Picciocchi, L. Timmoneri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Student Research Highlights: Autonomous Quadrotor for Accurate
Positioning
Lucas Moraes, Luiz C. Carmo Jr., Rafael F. Campos, Marco A. Jucá,
Lucas S. Moreira, João Pedro Carvalho, Alexandre M. Texeira, Daniel
D. Silveira, Thiago V. N. Coelho, André Luis M. Marcato, Alexandre B.
dos Santos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

NEWS AND INFORMATION
Call for Papers: 51st IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
IEEE Open Access Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
2017 Robert T. Hill Best Dissertation Award - Call for Nominations . . . . . . 57
2017 AESS Senior Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Call for Particpation: 36th DASC Digital Avionics Systems Conference
2017, St. Petersburg, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Meetings and Conferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . inside back cover



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