Chief Research Engineer

Affiliations:

• Center for the Study of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (CSETI)
• International Society for the Advancement of Science (SPIE)
• Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association (AFCEA)
• International Society of Certified Electronics Technicians (ISCET)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Electronics Technician Association (ETA)
• National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
• American Society of Inventors

He has three active Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licenses:

• GROL with Radar Enforcement PGGB068679
• GMDSS Maintainer DMGB068815
• GMDSS Operator DOGBO73602

Gideon has two bachelor’s degrees in Electronics Engineering Technology and Political Science. He served with the U.S. Army and participated in overseas deployments. After his military service, he proceeded to work for defense companies on numerous defense projects. His two major assignments were at the U.S. Army Kwajalein Missile Range in the Marshall Islands, and the Atlantic Undersea Testing and Evaluation Center (AUTEC)/Naval Underwater Warfare Center (NUWC), Andros Island in the Bahamas.

He was deployed in numerous occasions in South West Asia (Iraq and Afghanistan) for defense companies. Prior and after his deployments, he attended Electronic Warfare Overview course held at John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and took similar course on Advanced Electronic Warfare Principles at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

Courses attended at Georgia Tech:

• Advanced RF Electronic Warfare Principles
• Battlefield Acoustic Signal Processing
• Infrared Countermeasures
• Infrared Visible Signature Suppression
• Directed Infrared countermeasures: Technology, Modeling and Testing
• Chemical, Explosives and Biological Detection: Overview of Point and Standoff Sensing Technologies

In his field as Electronics Technician, he received numerous awards for cost savings in the maintenance of thermal weapons sights and other combat systems use by the U.S. forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany and NATO theatre of operations.

His experience includes:

• Electronic Warfare and Counter Measures
• Tactical and Land Mobile Communications
• Tactical Micro Air Vehicles
• Ground-to-air/air-to-ground communications system covering HF, VHF and UHF bands
• GMDSS, INMARSAT and marine communications
• Marine X-band and S-band
• Avionics
• Chemical, Radiological and Bacteriological Alarm Systems
• Medium Range and Long Range Acoustic Devices
• Explosive/Narcotics Detection Systems