Air Vehicles in the Modern Electronic Battlefield, Effects and Defense

Name: Air Vehicles in the Modern Electronic Battlefield, Effects and Defense
Start: 2026-05-14
End: 2026-05-14

This webinar will explore the effects of the modern electronic battlefield on the performance or non-performance of manned and unmanned air vehicles, and the methods used to mitigate the effects of electromagnetics on their operation.

Mr. Harry R. (“Rick”) Luzetsky is currently a composites and aircraft survivability subject-matter expert at the SURVICE Engineering Company working in the Aberdeen Research Organization – Research and Analysis Group leading research and development activities that target survivability enhancements for military platforms and the national infrastructure. He has 45+ years of experience (28+ with the Boeing Company) in the development and assessment of survivability features for numerous aircraft and has been active in the application of composite materials in vehicle design to enhance vehicle performance and survivability. In addition, Mr. Luzetsky supports the U.S. Army Evaluation Center’s Survivability Directorate and Aviation Directorate customers in the areas of Army system ballistic survivability/lethality, live fire test and evaluation (LFT&E), and aviation system effectiveness.

From his research activities he has been instrumental in development of a multifunctional structural composite material with integrated electromagnetic shielding, a composite electronics enclosure box with equivalent EM shielding performance to an existing metallic configuration for ~30% the weight, an advanced fuel containment system, a lightweight highly survivable ballistic tolerant composite drive shaft, a prototype helicopter composite floor design, muzzle blast resistant composite panel for rotorcraft, and a low-cost helicopter fuselage structure with and without integrated EM shielding.

Mr. Luzetsky currently holds three patents, two autonomous self-sealing fuel bladder patents and one on a composite multifunctional material with integrated EM shielding. He has conducted several Webinars on the developed EM multifunctional material. In addition, he has numerous publications on composites materials and weapons effects as they pertain to aircraft survivability design. Publications related to this webinar topic include the following:

CEMA 3-4 Conference presentation, “Multifunctional Composite for Electromagnetic Shielding”
AHS Specialists Meeting, “Multi-Functional Structural Composite with Integrated Electromagnetic Shielding”.
Harry R. Luzetsky. “Multifunctional Structural Composite with Integrated Electromagnetic Shielding”. Aircraft Survivability Journal 19 Spring Issue 2019. Pages 9-17.
Harry R. Luzetsky. “Advanced Composite Solutions for Dynamic Structural Applications.” DSIAC Journal Volume 3 Number 3 Summer 2016. Pages 24-30.
Harry R. Luzetsky, Martha Klein, and Graham Ostrander. “Multifunctional Structural Composite with Integrated Electromagnetic Shielding.” May 08, 2017 (Presented at AHS Forum 73)
Robert A. Haynes, Harry R. Luzetsky and Ellen M. Phifer, “Shielding Multifunctional Composites for Aircraft Structures”, AIAA SCITECH Forum 6-10 January 2025.
Harry R. Luzetsky, “UASs in the Modern Electronic Battlefield”, Volume 9 Number 1,
Harry R. Luzetsky,” Advanced Composite Solutions for Dynamic Structural Applications” DSIAC Journal Volume 3 Number 3 Sumer 2016, pp23-30.

Event Topic

Defense, Military

Relevant Audiences

All Military, All Federal Government