Leopold Pellon

advisory board member

Mr. Pellon joined Otava after his retirement as a Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow, and is focused on developing new innovations in support of phased arrays for 5G and DoD applications. He is a leading developer and researcher in the field of RF sensor systems, advanced components, and subsystems with an emphasis on innovative mixed signal microsystems. He combines his knowledge of signal processing, RF design, antennas and electromagnetics to formulate novel solutions to difficult RF sensor problems for radar, EW, Communications, and multifunction systems. Mr. Pellon has been recognized for his technical achievements which include receiver/exciter developments, ultra-high dynamic range receivers, direct RF sampling low noise figure Sigma-delta ADC based receivers, low phase noise oscillator and synthesizers, advanced wideband antenna arrays, nonlinear and adaptive analog/RF signal processing, digital signal processing, analog/digital and hybrid beamforming architectures, and complex simultaneous transmit and receiver (STAR) devices and systems. He has captured and led 18 Contract Research and Development (CRAD) Programs totaling $85M based on his innovations at agencies such as DARPA, ONR, AFRL, and NRO. While at Lockheed Martin, he was named inventor of the year 4 times and received multiple excellence and 4 President’s awards. He was one of the first Senior Fellows at Lockheed Martin. He has been honored twice at DARPA office for his technical achievements. He has 38 years of experience in advanced research and development spanning semiconductors, optics, radar, EW and communications, and brings unique perspectives and discriminators to his innovations. He also has many years of experience as a leader and mentor and is known for effective capture and execution of new business in advanced microsystems. At Otava, he will be heading up development of new discriminating array technologies. He holds 16 US patents and has published 10 papers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.