Adaptivity for Radar Signal Processing: When Research and Business Development Join in a Successful Story

The development of phased array radar systems is traced from its inception, through the evolution over the past 60 years of a leading company. Also, as a story within a story, the introduction of adaptivity in phased array radars is recalled. It is the relationship between understanding and doing that is the basis of successful industrial development. It took several decades and the enduring work of a group of engineers, technicians and the support structures typical of a high tech industry.