Speakers

Dr. William Phillips

Dr. William Phillips is the senior director of the Advanced Missions business unit at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems. His group leads the development of advanced radar, electronic warfare, and communication systems for the Emerging Capabilities Division with a focus on next generation mission system solutions that meet the demands of the most challenging military environments. Phillips has been a leader in the development of multispectral multifunction sensor systems across domains and has led the development of key enabling technologies, including digital active electronically scanned arrays (AESAs) and wideband technologies that rely on densely packaged advanced microelectronics. He was the leader of the Northrop Grumman solution for the DARPA Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT) program that developed custom CMOS and SiGe mixed signal devices and high-density heterogeneous multi-chip modules to demonstrate the first wideband digital AESAs using direct RF sampling technology. Phillips was previously senior director of Advanced Technology with responsibility for creating breakthrough microelectronics for next generation systems and his group successfully developed advanced 2.5D and 3D assemblies that integrated a variety of process technologies for DARPA and other S&T customers. He received his Ph.D. and B.S. from the University of Maryland and M.S. from Johns Hopkins University, all in Electrical Engineering.