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Ted Kaplan is a satellite communications engineer with more than 25 years experience. Mr. Kaplan is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Systems Engineer for RKF Engineering. He joined RKF in November of 1998. In his current position Mr. Kaplan provides system engineering, analysis and regulatory support to numerous RKF clients. He is currently the technical pillar for wireless communications for the DARPA F6 program. Mr. Kaplan was one of the chief architects of sharing agreements reached in the ITU and FCC between non-GSO and GSO systems.
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In January 1997, he joined COMSAT where he was involved in system design, modeling and tradeoff studies of various commercial satellite systems including Cyberstar, Worldspace, Intelsat, Ellipso, and MTSAT. Previously, Mr. Kaplan was employed for 10 years by Stanford Telecom (STel) where he specialized in simulation and analysis of SATCOM systems for use with NASA's Communications Link Analysis and Simulation System (CLASS). He was the lead system engineer for CLASS, where he evaluated advanced coding and modulating techniques for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) and studied the performance of SATCOM systems in environments with RFI, mutual interference, and hardware distortions. Prior to STel he worked for IIT Research Institute where he specialized in Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) systems and vulnerability assessments of military communication systems. He recieved the B. S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and the M. S. degree from George Washington University, both in electrical engineering.
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