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Technical
Work Experience
Profile
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 1996
- Present: Blackhorse
Communications, Port
Orange, Florida
Mr.
Husbands is founder and
Principal Consultant at
Blackhorse Communications.
In this capacity he has
been providing consulting
services to a number of
corporations in the area of
fiber optic and communication
systems.
These services have
involved the design and
implementation of long haul
fiber optic and microwave
transmission systems, and
high-speed fiber optic
networks.
During 1997-1998 he
served as a Research Adjunct
Professor with the Center for
Electromagnetic Materials and
Optical Systems in the
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the
University of
Massachusetts-Lowell. This was
a Joint Industry/University
Venture to develop a new
Photonic Code Division
Multiple Access (CDMA)
technique capable of providing
an all-optical, bulk security
system for extremely high
optical data transmission
rates. In his consulting
position at Blackhorse
Communications Mr. Husbands
has lectured extensively in
Europe, Asia and the United States
on advanced research topics in
fiber optic technology.
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As a
consultant for the United
States Air Force and ACS
Defense Inc, he has been
involved in a number of fiber
optic, microwave and satellite
network designs.
These efforts included:
support in the development of
an extensive sensor
distribution system for the
Council of Ministers in the
Kingdom of Kuwait, a Coastal
Surveillance System for the
State of Qatar, a
proposed
Strategic Communications
Network for the Ministry of
Defense in Kuwait, a series of
long haul fiber optic
communications networks in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a
fiber optic ring network
designed to support
communication for a petroleum
distribution system in Qatar,
and the design of a private
satellite communications
network for the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs for the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Other consulting activities
involved research on optical
patents to establish the value
and insure the protection of
intellectual property.
1973
-1996: The MITRE Corporation,
Bedford,
Massachusetts
Mr.
Husband’s experience, at
MITRE, was in the area of
communications technology.
This work included technical
investigations into the fields
of avionics data busses, local
area networks, and low data
rate speech transmission. For
the last seventeen years of
his career at MITRE Mr.
Husbands specialized in fiber
optic communications.
The fiber optic tasking
included long haul
transmission networks, fiber
optic local area networks,
avionics data busses, antenna
remoting, tactical cable
replacement programs,
calibration and timing
distribution networks, and
participation in a number of
MITRE Sponsored Research
Programs. During his tenure
with MITRE he worked on
projects to support the US Air
Force, US Army, US Navy and US
Marines, and a number of
agencies of the US government
including NASA, DARPA, and
NSA. In addition he acted as a
consultant on the planning and
implementation of large scale
national fiber optic
networks for the
Government of Iceland and the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1969-1973:
Missile Systems Division,
Raytheon Company, Bedford,
MA
At Raytheon, Mr.
Husbands was responsible for the
hardware and software components
of a large hardware-in-the-loop
simulation facility for the
prototype Patriot Missile Program.
With this facility, Monte Carlo
simulations could be run with the
actual missile hardware and
guidance set from lift-off to
intercept. The
simulation facility allowed
intercept missions to be run
against fading targets, multiple
targets and jamming targets.
Mr. Husbands work
on this program involved the
development of equation level
models for the hybrid and digital
computers.
This task involved the
supervision of a number of
software engineers responsible for
implementing these simulation
models.
1964-1969:
AC Electronics
Division, General Motors
Corporation, Oak Creek,
WI
At AC Electronics,
Mr. Husbands was involved in the
integration of the inertial
guidance system hardware with
the optics and guidance
computers for both the Apollo
Command Module and Lunar
Excursion Module.
One of his assignments
involved the development of a
bit-by-bit simulation model of
the Apollo Guidance Computer,
which was subsequently
integrated with missile motion
and guidance simulations to
permit lift-off to splashdown
simulations of Apollo Missions.
Mr. Husbands was also
responsible for the concept and
implementation of a large-scale
simulation facility, which
permitted the actual Apollo
Guidance Computer and the flight
rope memory to be exercised in
an all-digital simulation
environment operating at near
real time speeds,
This simulation facility
was used to train Astronauts for
every Apollo Mission, the Sky
Lab Program and the Joint
US-Soviet Soyuz Rendezvous
Missions.
During 1967-1968 Mr. Husbands also
worked part-time as a researcher
in the Biomedical Laboratories at
Marquette University in Milwaukee,
WI. His task was to develop
a phased array microwave system to
enable non-evasive cranial
surgery, to selectively destroy
brain tissue, without opening up
the skull. This work was
performed in support of a proposal
for a NIH grant.
1960-1964: Bell
Telephone
Laboratories, Whippany,
New
Jersey
At
Bell Laboratories, Mr. Husbands
was assigned to the Phased Array
Radar Laboratory. His principle
assignment involved the
application of emerging array
steering techniques and
component evaluation for a large
ACBM phased array radar system
(Nike-Zeus).
One of his tasks involved
developing a technique for
measuring far field antenna beam
patterns on new phrased array
structures.
Another assignment
involved the specification of
digital hardware and the
development of computer programs
to verify the radar's transmit
and receive signal
characteristics in support of
preliminary close loop tracking
functions.
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