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ACCM

AFRL/DELS “Aircraft Counter Measures” program

 This program originally started out as the “Have Stan” program.  On the 1st generation, ACCM1, Mr. Allison lead the electronics engineering efforts and worked with the DELS civil service electrical engineer and Boeing LTS technicians in the design and development of the laser controller subsystem that provided user controls of mode selection, and laser emissions.  On the 2nd generation, ACCM2, he lead the electrical engineering team that was responsible for the conceptual system design where in he defined the system level architecture and determined optimum partitioning for the various electrical/electronics subsystems identified.  Mr. Allison worked with the mechanical engineer in determining mechanical form factors and thermal management needs.  There were three major subsystems, a three channel TEC thermal control subsystem, 3.67volt 40amp pump laser diode driver, and the main system laser controls subsystem.  The control architecture is distributed that uses three micro-processors, MPU, in a distributed embedded controller design.  He worked with our software engineer as he developed the embedded code for the main system controller, TEC controller and he wrote the code for the diode driver controller.  As the electrical team lead, Mr. Allison supervised the technicians in assembly of the 1st article that has successfully completed all acceptance testing to include vibration testing at China Lake.  The 1st system is awaiting aircraft integration for flight testing in the near future.  Two additional units are currently in various stages of assembly.