The Association of Old Crows (AOC) is a professional organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of electronic countermeasures as part of our National Defense.  Local chapters of the AOC exist throughout the United States as well as Australia, Canada, England, Korea, and various NATO countries throughout Europe.

 

          The term “Crow” is a name derived from a call sign “Raven” used by aircraft assigned to jam enemy radar and navigation instruments in World War II.   Members of the AOC work in management, research, development, manufacturing, and operations of systems that are designed to ensure survivability of our land, sea, and air forces.  These systems operate in hostile environments by countering various forms of command and control systems (i.e., radars, infrared/electro-optical guided missiles, etc.).  These systems embrace all scientific disciplines in depth from mathematical analyses and simulation through chemistry, physics, and engineering to manufacturing, production and testing technology.  Electronic countermeasure effectiveness of these systems reduces the visibility of aircraft, ships, or ground targets to both radar and optically directed weapons systems.  This is accomplished by the use of decoys, noise jamming, electronic deception and other counter-measures; an alternative term often used for these countermeasures is Electronic Warfare.

 

          A key part of the AOC professional objectives is to foster development of young scientific and engineering students who will chart the course for future developments in Electronic Warfare.  The AOC Cochise Roost is proud to sponsor scholarships to need and worthy students who require financial aid to pursue a college education in scientific and related disciplines.  

 

The procedures for application are contained in enclosures to this letter.   Please distribute copies of the letter to interested students who will be pursuing undergraduate programs at accredited college or university and plan to major in an engineering, scientific, or other technical field.  Please note that applications must be received not later than June 15th in order for our panel of academic advisors to select the winner and make the award prior to students departing for the fall semester.            

 

          If you have any questions concerning our organization or our scholarship program, please feel free to contact the AOC, Cochise Chapter.

 

 

Sincerely 

 

 

Lee F. Ilse

                              Scholarship Chairman

                Cochise Chapter, AOC

 

 

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