Tactical Electronic Warfare Applied Research
Abstract
This project designs, develops, and applies key electronic warfare (EW)/information operations technologies to enhance platform survivability (to include ground combat vehicles, aircraft, and the dismounted Soldier) and to intercept and locate current and emerging threat communications and non-communications emitters. This project applies recent advances in radio frequency (RF), infrared (IR), and electro-optical (EO) sensor and jamming sources to detect, locate, deceive, and jam threats (to include radar directed target acquisition systems, target-tracking sensors, surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), air-to-air missiles (AAMs), top attack weapons, and electronically fuzed munitions), This project also pursues the ability to neutralize booby traps. This project develops information systems to provide vital, quality combat information directly to users in a timely actionable manner in accordance with concepts for future force intelligence operations. This project investigates RF collection and mapping technologies to offer real time emitter detection, location, and identification. In addition, this project enables a remote capability to disrupt, deny, or destroy threat communication signals and enables fusion (automated assimilation and synthesis) of battlefield intelligence data to enable interpretation of current and future enemy activities. This allows commanders to develop operational courses of action in time to act decisively and in a pre-emptive manner. The cited work is consistent with the Director, Defense Research and Engineering Strategic Plan, the Army Modernization Strategy, and the Army Science and Technology Master Plan. Work in this project is performed by the Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command, Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), Ft. Monmouth, NJ and Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 906_0602270A_2_2040_PB_2012
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