Haydn Nelson

Haydn Nelson

Haydn Nelson is a U.S. Navy veteran with more than 17 years of experience in wireless and DSP technology applications. He has worked in several industries – from military and aerospace research to RF semiconductor test – and has broad experience in radar/EW and communications systems. Haydn currently serves as a business leader at NI for their wireless prototyping and deployment applications in military and aerospace markets.

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Radar/EW

Radar testing in an increasingly contested environment - Story

September 03, 2025

Haydn Nelson Emerson

Radar systems are critical for situational awareness, threat detection, and tracking, and their mission only becomes more challenging with time. In today’s congested and contested electromagnetic spectrum, systems must contend with dense signal environments, deliberate interference, and deceptive transmissions, all while evolving toward greater adaptivity, agility, and resilience. Keeping pace with these advancements requires equally sophisticated validation and test strategies.

Radar/EW

Open source SDR: a faster, better way to develop and deploy EW capabilities - Story

February 08, 2022

Chad Augustine - Product Manager, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solution, Curtiss-Wright Haydn Nelson Curtiss-Wright NI (National Instruments)

Maintaining dominance of the electromagnetic spectrum has never been more critical to mission success. The challenge facing system designers is how to accelerate the transition of new communications and electronic warfare (EW) capabilities from concept to the laboratory and then expedite the deployment of those new capabilities to the warfighter.

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