Nicholas J Willis

N. J. Wilis--Mr. Willis spent his entire career in the U.S. military industrial complex, beginning with a NROTC scholarship to Stanford University and graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1956. He spent five years in the U.S. Navy serving on destroyer duty and testing naval radars at White Sands Missile Range. He then joined industry to work on radars and electronic warfare for sixteen years with Philco-Ford, SRI International and Systems Control, Inc., all in the now-called Silicon...See more

N. J. Wilis--Mr. Willis spent his entire career in the U.S. military industrial complex, beginning with a NROTC scholarship to Stanford University and graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1956. He spent five years in the U.S. Navy serving on destroyer duty and testing naval radars at White Sands Missile Range. He then joined industry to work on radars and electronic warfare for sixteen years with Philco-Ford, SRI International and Systems Control, Inc., all in the now-called Silicon Valley. In 1976 he was asked to rejoin the U.S. government for a five-year tour at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to work on stealth radars and vehicles. He rejoined industry for his final 17 years designing and evaluating radars at Technology Service Corp. and Westinghouse Electric Corp. Mr. Willis is now retired but occasionally consults for government and industry. Mr. Willis has published one book on bistatic radar and authored two book chapters, one on bistatic radar and one on electronic warfare, along with two award-winning radar papers in defense journals. See less