David Layer

David Layer
Director, Advanced Engineering
National Association of Broadcasters
1771 N Street, N.W.
Washington, DC  20036
dlayer@nab.org

David is willing to travel to Chapters  located in North America       

Lecture #1: "Digital Radio"

Lecture #2: "Digital TV"

Lecture #3: "Broadcast Regulatory and Legislative Issues"

David Layer is Senior Director, Advanced Engineering in the Science & Technology Department of the National Association of Broadcasters, located in Washington, DC. David has been with NAB since 1995, and is one of five fulltime engineers involved in the technical activities of the Association. He has been very active in the radio standards setting area, and is the primary NAB staff person on the National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC), a technical standards setting body co-sponsored by NAB and the Consumer Electronics Association. David’s duties within NAB are varied and broad. He provides technical expertise to NAB’s Government Relations and Legal departments on regulatory and legislative matters which pertain to the broadcasting industry. Currently, one of his most important regulatory-related activities is in the area of next-generation Emergency Alert System development currently being considered by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

David is also actively involved in NAB's technical conference planning and technical publication activities, and has been an author and contributing author for numerous technical publications, including IEEE Spectrum magazine (a leading journal of the Electrical Engineering profession), the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, and both the 9th and 10th editions of the NAB Engineering Handbook. David is the principal author of NAB’s weekly Radio TechCheck newsletter which is a member publication covering timely radio broadcasting-related technical topics, and a frequent author of the companion TV TechCheck newsletter for NAB’s TV members. David is a frequent presenter at broadcasting industry events around the world, having made presentations on broadcasting technology to numerous state broadcasting associations, trade associations and technical societies as well as at conferences in Switzerland, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay. In addition, David serves as the Vice Chairman and Secretary of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Specialist Group on RF Transmission (T3/S9), which is the technical group within the ATSC responsible for evaluating advanced modulation technologies and systems for use within the ATSC DTV system. David has also been active in the work of the International Telecommunication Union - Radio sector (ITU-R), and participates in Study Group 6 (Broadcasting service). Prior to joining NAB, David was the Associate Manager of the Transmission and Channel Processing department of COMSAT Laboratories. During his 10 years at COMSAT, he worked on the development of a number of QPSK and 8PSK modems for satellite communications, including the MSP-10, a "modem on a chip" which was usedin a number of digital satellite news gathering products based on the (new at the time) MPEG-2 video compression algorithm. David is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and served for six years on the Advisory Committee of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society, and is a past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. He was also the Chairman of the annual IEEE Broadcast Symposium from 2002-2004, held in Washington, D.C. He is an Associate Member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE) and is completing his fourth year as a member of the Association’s Board of Directors. David received a BSEE degree from the University of Maryland, and an MSEE degree from Purdue University, where he was also a teaching assistant. He has taught in the Washington, DC area, as well, at American University in Washington as an Adjunct Professor in the Audio Technology Program, and at Frederick Community College in Frederick, MD as an Adjunct Faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Technology department. He is also a lecturer for the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), a non-profit joint venture between US-based communications and IT corporations and the Federal government who together provide tuition-free management, policy and technical training for talented professionals from the developing world.