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Vol. 36, No. 2

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The Monitor 13
Army Defnes New EW Planning and
Management Tool Requirements.
Washington Report 18
AOC Focuses on EW Advocacy With Renewed
Government Affairs Initiative.
World Report 19
SIGINT-Equipped EuroHawk Logs First Flight,
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Features
SIGINT For Special
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John Haystead and John Knowles
The demand for airborne SIGINT collection has
been growing, and companies are leveraging
new technologies and creating new solutions to
meet the demand. Can SIGINT stay on top of
the emitters?
EW Careers: Riding Out
the Uncertainty 29
Elaine Richardson
With sequestration on the way, uncertainty
and confusion is driving much of the defense
marketplace. JED takes a look at what this
means for the employment prospects of current
and incoming EW professionals, and offers
some tips on how to keep yourself in the game
as the rules keep changing.
Departments
6 The View From Here
8 Conferences Calendar
10 Courses Calendar
12 From the President
32 Book Review
33 EW 101
36 AOC News
41 Index of Advertisers
42 JED Quick Look
February 2013 Volume 36, Issue 2
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s JED was going to press, some of the top EW leaders in the DOD were
scheduled to participate in an EW roundtable on the February 3 edi-
tion of This Week in Defense News. I am looking forward to watching
the event because it includes an excellent line up: COL Jim Ekvall (US
Army), Col James Pryor (US Air Force), CAPT Gregg Smith (US Navy)
and LtCol Jason Schuette (US Marine Corps).
I am always delighted when EW professionals have an opportunity to reach an
audience beyond the EW community, and I applaud Vago Muradian for arranging
an EW roundtable on his show. At the same time, however, this line-up of EW
leaders illustrates one of the biggest challenges facing the EW community: among
the Services, our most senior EW leaders are O-5s and O-6s. I should note that US
Strategic Command has recently stood up a new Joint EMS Operations Organiza-
tion with Brigadier General, Richard J. Evans, in command. This is a start, but
it does not penetrate into the Services. Without more general officers leading at
the top of its EW organizations, the US EW community will struggle to evolve at
a time when US fighting forces are becoming more dependent on access to and
control of the EM Domain.
Why does EW need senior advocacy today? Arent we coming off of two wars
in which EW was widely identified as a critical capability? Yes, we are, but those
lessons will soon be forgotten or ignored without senior EW leaders who can reach
into the DOD leadership on a daily basis. Today, EW leaders need to wait for an
invitation in order to engage with the top levels of DOD leadership. Those invita-
tions will become less frequent as NATO forces complete their withdrawal from
Afghanistan and the DOD leadership focuses on austere budgets and tough pro-
gram decisions over the next several years. Following the pattern of the 1990s,
EW programs could go from must have status to attractive bill payers in just
a few years.
This summer marks the five-year anniversary of the Joint EW Centers EW
Capabilities Based Assessment (CBA), which identified 34 critical gaps across the
DODs EW enterprise. The number one gap identified in this study: lack of senior
leadership. Without senior leaders, EW will never achieve the kind of advocacy
that its needs to address most of the other 33 gaps in the EW CBA.
It is time for EW to make a leap forward and improve its standing in the DOD
instead of languishing for another decade as it did in the 1990s. We need advoca-
cy, and that means we need general officers in our senior leadership. J. Knowles
FEBRUARY 2013 Vol. 36, No. 2
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FEBRUARY
Aero India 2013
February 6-10
Bengaluru, India
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AFA Air Warfare Symposium
February 20-22
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MARCH
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APRIL
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LAAD Defence & Security 2013
April 10-12
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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2013 Palmetto Roost Cyber Defense
Competition
April 13-14
Charleston, SC
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AOC Capitol Club: EW Symposium
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April 17
Washington, DC
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SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing
April 29-May 3
Baltimore, MD
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MAY
EW Symposium
May 21-24
NAS Whidbey Island, WA
AOC EW Europe 2013
May 28-30
Cologne, Germany
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JUNE
IEEE International Microwave
Symposium
June 2-7
Seattle, WA
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AOC Kittyhawk Week
June 3-6
Dayton, OH
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4th Annual EW, IO and Cyber
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June 4-6
Charleston, SC
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June 17-23
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June 26-27
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FEBRUARY
DRFM Executive Overview
February 6
Atlanta, GA
www.pe.gatech.edu
Introduction to Radar
and Electronic Warfare
February 12-15
Alexandria, VA
www.crows.org
EW and ISR Basics Short Course
February 26-27
Warner Robins, GA
MARCH
Radar Cross Section Reduction
March 11-13
Atlanta, GA
www.pe.gatech.edu
Aircraft Survivability
March 11-15
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, UK
www.www.craneld.ac.uk
Essentials of 21st Century
Electronic Warfare
March 12-15
Alexandria, VA
www.crows.org
Modeling & Simulation of RF Electronic
Warfare Systems
March 19-22
Atlanta, GA
www.pe.gatech.edu
APRIL
Fundamental Principles of
Electronic Warfare
April 9-12
Alexandria, VA
www.crows.org
Basic RF Electronic Warfare Concepts
April 16-18
Atlanta, GA
www.pe.gatech.edu
Digital Radio Frequency Memory
(DRFM) Technology
April 16-18
Aurora, CO
www.pe.gatech.edu
Directed Infrared Countermeasures:
Technology, Modeling and Testing
April 16-18
Atlanta, GA
www.pe.gatech.edu
Introduction to Intelligence,
Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR)
Concepts, Systems, and Test &
Evaluation
April 16-19
Atlanta, GA
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MAY
Infrared Countermeasures
May 7-10
Atlanta, GA
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Electronic Warfare Communications
May 14-16
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, UK
www.www.craneld.ac.uk
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May 21-23
Atlanta, GA
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Basic RF Electronic Warfare Concepts
June 18-20
Las Vegas, NV
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Electronic Warfare Europe is an unrivalled forum discussing the latest in EW across land, maritime, air/
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Future operations will be conducted in congested and contested environments across the spectrum of
conict in hot spots around the world in cyberspace, counter-piracy, and against terrorism everywhere.
The changes necessary to move from counter insurgency (COIN) to contingency operations will be a
challenge especially for EW and EMO. Successive defense spending cuts have also created new challenges,
yet the need for accurate and timely information has never been greater and the requirement to counter
potential adversaries systems through EW is growing.
EW Europe gives you the opportunity to...
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With the widest ranging attendance of any EW gathering in the world and an exhibition showcasing the
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WE WE L C OME Y OU T O C OME A ND ME E T T HE L E A DE RS
A ND OP E RAT ORS A C ROS S GOV E RNME NT, DE F E NS E A ND
I NDUS T RY T HAT A RE S HA P I NG T HE F UT URE OF E W.
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he AOC serves as the international advocate for electromagnetic spec-
trum operations and associated capabilities in all operational domains.
It is important that every member leverage opportunities to tell the elec-
tronic warfare and electromagnetic spectrum operations story, particu-
larly in todays budget environment.
While the formal AOC organization normally focuses on decision-makers in capi-
tal cities around the world, the AOCs most effective tools to inform, educate and
advocate in support of spectrum and information policy, plans and programs are
its members. Chapters can organize events that bring together government and
industry to collaborate on topics of mutual interest, and individual members can
facilitate similar discussions in their own workplace.
For maximum effectiveness, it is useful for AOCs messages to be coherent and
consistent, so facilitating their coordination is one of the most critical roles for the
international organization. These messages are highlighted in Journal of Electronic
Defense (JED) articles every month, and members can find these key messages
readily available for their use on the AOC website. The board recently approved five
overarching messages for AOC advocacy:
Electronic Warfare (EW) and Electromagnetic Spectrum Ops (EMSO) are an in-
creasingly important part of US and allied national security strategies.
EW and EMSO capabilities are key enablers for all military operations, from ir-
regular warfare to major combat campaigns.
Military operations are increasingly dependent upon advanced technologies;
but counter-capabilities are becoming available to a wide range of competitors.
Relatively permissive spectrum environments have led to complacency about
the need to resource EW.
Freedom of Action is lost without proper EMS control.
As spectrum and information professionals, these messages are obvious to us;
however, they are not widely understood outside the AOC community. Therefore, it
is important that every AOC member look for opportunities to inform, educate, and
(where appropriate) advocate the critical importance of spectrum and information
as a cornerstone of national security. Your own personal stories will carry more
weight than any generic narrative.
For example, you can explain how important spectrum control is to the counter-
IED effort. You can convey experiences where spectrum use by one military orga-
nization impeded anothers to the detriment of both. You can discuss competitor
capabilities to inject false information through spectrum into radar, navigation,
and communications systems, and highlight that most of these technologies can
be readily purchased over the Internet. Almost every member can vividly describe
the technology obsolescence on key electronic warfare platforms.
To conclude, virtually all of us have experienced degraded capabilities due to
loss of spectrum control. Tell your story, and ensure that your colleagues and repre-
sentatives in government understand the importance of electromagnetic spectrum
operations and the need to resource them properly! Lt Gen Bob Elder, USAF (Ret.)
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TELL THE
SPECTRUM-
INFORMATION
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ARMY DEFINES NEW EW PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT TOOL REQUIREMENTS
The Army has released the request
for proposals (RFP) for Increment 1 of
its Integrated Electronic Warfare System
(IEWS) Electronic Warfare Planning and
Management Tool (EWPMT).
Focused on the Brigade Combat Team
(BCT), IEWS is intended to provide com-
manders from corps to company with
an organic EW capability to control and
exploit the electromagnetic spectrum
(EMS). Specifically, the Increment 1, or
EWPMT, component of IEWS will give the
Armys EW officers (EWOs) a powerful
toolset to plan, coordinate, manage and
de-conflict unit EW activities in support
of maneuver operations.
The EWPMT software will run on a
laptop workstation within the Common
Operating Environment (COE) Command
Post Computing Environment (CPCE) and
on one or more presentation-layer wid-
gets running on client laptops linked
via a Local Area Network (LAN). The sys-
tem will use standardized infrastructure
software and common software compo-
nents. A government-supplied system in-
ternetworking specification will be used
to communicate between separate EW
control nodes and workstations as well as
for communications with EW assets.
The newly released specification fo-
cuses on Capability Drop (CD) 1 of the
EWPMT requirement, which will comprise
the systems initial operational capability
(IOC). CD1 provides software to integrate
data for friendly, enemy, and non-aligned
emitters; and for the planning and man-
agement of EW capabilities across the
range of military operations. It also re-
duces the risk of electromagnetic fratri-
cide by identifying potential frequency
conflicts between friendly systems.
The scope of the new capability en-
visioned for the EWPMT can be seen in
the detailed performance characteris-
tics and functions that must be met by
the CD1 increment in particular, the
amount and types of data to be col-
lected, managed and integrated by the
system. For example, the system must
be able to import data from a wide range
of government and DOD databases and in
various military specification formats.
These include digital terrain elevation
data (DTED), light detection and ranging
(LIDAR), terrain imagery and map data,
spectrum data, electromagnetic operat-
ing environment (EMOE) data, as well as
weather data from the Distributed Com-
mon Ground System (DCGS-A), including
temperature, precipitation and wind data
which are required inputs for operational
planning and/or propagation modeling.
The system must also have the ca-
pability to import air tasking orders
(ATO) published by the Air and Space
Operations Center including EW plat-
form information such as platform type,
mission location, time on station, and
asset(s) the EW platform is supporting.
It will also import EW request forms in-
cluding Joint Tactical Air Strike Request
(JTASR) and Electronic Attack Request
Forms (EARF) issued from lower and ad-
jacent echelons.
The EWPMT will also import friendly,
enemy and neutral EW asset information
including position/location, system ca-
pabilities, RF parameters, system avail-
ability information, and information on
EW techniques.
To aid EWOs in formulating electronic
attack (EA) plans, the system will be in-
teroperable with and able to import en-
emy target information, including target
tracking information, from systems that
publish to the data dissemination service
(DDS) including Force XXI Battle Command
Brigade and Below (FBCB2), Global Com-
mand and Control System Army (GCCS-
A), Command Post of the Future (CPOF),
Air and Missile Defense Workstation
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(AMDWS), Advanced Field Artillery Tacti-
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Specific emitter data parameters for
enemy emitters will be available to mis-
sion planners, including output power
as a function of frequency and trans-
mit mode; peak antenna gain values,
antenna pointing angle; peak effec-
tive radiated power (ERP); 3dB antenna
beamwidth values; antenna polariza-
tion; in-band and out-of-band emitter
spectrum characteristics; and modula-
tion type. The system will also include
all available enemy receiver parameters,
including sensitivity value; jammer-to-
signal (J/S) threshold; IF filter data; and
1 dB saturation level.
Included as part of its mission
planning capabilities, the EWPMT will
automatically identify threats (and the
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ARMY ISSUES RFI FOR NEW UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM EW CAPABILITIES
The US Army Communications-Electronic Research, De-
velopment and Engineering Center (CERDEC), Intelligence
and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) and Program
Manager Electronic Warfare (PM EW) have issued a request
for information (RFI) for unmanned aerial system (UAS)
electronic warfare (EW) capabilities. The RFI is aimed at
determining what systems, capabilities and techniques
currently exist, or could be modified, as well as longer term
concepts, that can help provide Army commanders with or-
ganic UAS-based EW capabilities including potential surgi-
cal/targeted EW techniques (with emphasis on successful
completion of an airborne electronic attack [AEA] mission).
The RFI requests information regarding the extent to
which systems have been integrated, flight tested and eval-
uated for performance; technology and integration readi-
ness levels; and descriptions of potential system CONOPS,
mission scenario vignettes, and effective operational al-
titude/ranges taking into account the available power of
Group 1 to 3 UAS platforms.
It also seeks information on the techniques and technol-
ogy to be utilized to mitigate out-of-band interference and
de-conflict with use of Blue Force communication and intel-
ligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) collection;
as well as descriptions of methods and software tools used
for command and control and monitoring of the payload via
graphical user interfaces (GUI), the knowledge and experi-
ence of UAS payload ground control station (GCS) opera-
tions and processing exploitation and dissemination (PED)
and how it relates to the EW officer.
The solicitation number is: W15P7T-13-R-A211. The point
of contact is William Taylor, e-mail: usarmy.APG.cerdec.
mbx.i2wd-co2-es-ea-rfi@mail.mil. The Army contracting
office point of contact is Yanina Iantorno, (443) 861-4639.
J. Haystead
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times and areas), where blue forces are
vulnerable to EA, including radio con-
trolled improvised electronic devices
(RCIEDs) during planned missions. It
will also compute alternative locations,
frequencies, techniques, coverage and
time requirements of organic EA as-
sets in synchronization with friendly
maneuver plans, as well as generate
an EA plan that prioritizes high value
targets.
An important element of the CD1
capability is the identification of EMS
conflicts and prevention of potential
system degradation, or fratricide, of
friendly forces using the Joint Restrict-
ed Frequency List (JFRL) when develop-
ing EW plans. The system will also be
able to display simulated effects us-
ing defined measures of effectiveness
(MOEs) and measures of performance
(MOPs) to help predict mission outcome
and conduct after-action reviews.
Training is another important as-
pect of the Armys EW mission, and
the EWPMT will incorporate a training
module to allow EW personnel to train
both at home station and during de-
ployments. It will allow EWOs to utilize
canned scenarios and to create train-
ing scenarios to provide realistic and
relevant training.
Future EWPMT capability drops (2-6)
will incorporate additional display ca-
pabilities, such as graphical display of
friendly emitter interference, disrup-
tion, and degradation; allow EW person-
nel to transfer control of the EW mission
resources to any echelon in order to pro-
vide backup support; provide the capa-
bility to conduct post mission analysis
that will aid in determining mission ac-
complishment; provide the capability to
rapidly reconfigure organic EW assets;
and provide reprogramming of organic
EW assets and the ability to provide im-
mediate targeting information to fires
and maneuver elements.
Several companies, including BAE
Systems, Exelis, Lockheed Martin,
Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon have
expressed interest in the EWPMT devel-
opment program, which is valued at $97
million for the initial phase. Proposals
for the EWPMT development contract are
due February 4. J. Haystead
GLOBAL HORIZONS STUDY SEEKS
REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGICAL
ADVANCEMENTS
US Air Force Materiel Command has
issued a request for information (RFI)
for near-, mid- and far-term science and
technology (S&T) research, operational
concepts and mission support innova-
tions for possible inclusion in its up-
coming Global Horizons Science and
Technology study. The Global Horizons
study is aimed at the creation of an
integrated, Air Force-wide, S&T vision
to advance revolutionary capabilities
to support core Air Force missions, in-
cluding nuclear deterrence operations,
air superiority, space superiority, cyber-
space superiority, command and control
(C2), global integrated intelligence, sur-
veillance and reconnaissance (GIISR),
global precision attack, Special Op-
erations, rapid global mobility, person-
nel recovery and agile combat support
(ACS). Revolutionary capabilities are
defined as those S&T areas that provide
10x to 100x, as opposed to incremental
(<10x) performance improvements over
the current state of the art.
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To meet its objective of assured
global advantage across the air, space
and cyberspace domains, the Air
Force has identified a number of spe-
cific technology areas that must be
advanced. For the air domain, these
include stealth, propulsion, air vehicle
design and subsystem integration, test
and evaluation in contested environ-
ments across the entire acquisition
lifecycle, software for guidance, navi-
gation and control as well as electronic
warfare, secure air-to-air and air-to-
ground communications and data links,
advanced communications and data-
links for network-enabled weapons, an-
ti-tamper technologies, self-protection
and warning, encryption, survivability
against high power microwave (HPM)
or directed energy threats, autonomous
operations, intelligent sensors, and the
entire logistics systems.
For space, they include space
launch, space born segments (including
space-to-surface ISR), satellite ground
control and data processing systems,
and end user receiving systems. And,
in the cyber domain, the Air Force is
interested in S&T and operational sup-
port innovations that can assure mis-
sions, dynamically map cyberspace
with critical mission functions and
provide integrated mission/cyber situ-
ation awareness, including timely in-
dications and warning. Analysis of
commercial off-the-shelf technologies
(COTS) to assess threats and vulnerabil-
ities is also of interest, as are linkages
between cyber and intelligence along
with capabilities for the command and
control of cyber assets.
The Air Force is also interested in in-
tegrated, full spectrum solutions to in-
clude cross-domain command, control,
communications, cyber, intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR)
and mission support/sustainment; with
special interest in S&T that can provide
game changers that will revolution-
ize multiple classes of USAF operations
or missions (e.g., autonomy promises
cost, speed, and accuracy improvements
across C2, ISR, and many operations in
air, space, and cyberspace.)
The solicitation number is: RFI-
RIK-13-01. The submission deadline
is February 15. The primary point of
contact is Lynn G. White, e-mail: Lynn.
White@rl.af.mil. Phone: (315) 330-4996.
ARMY PLANS UPGRADE TO TRAINING
CENTER SPECTRUM MONITORING
SYSTEM
The US Army Program Executive Of-
fice for Simulation, Training and In-
strumentation (PEO STRI) has issued
an RFI for market research aimed at
life-cycle replacement of the current
Spectrum Monitoring and Engineering
Control System (SMECS) located at the
National Training Center (NTC), Fort Ir-
win, CA. The SMECS monitors, measures
and records all relevant NTC electro-
magnetic emissions that may interfere
with the NTC or other signals in the
surrounding area.
The effort includes the procure-
ment and installation of hardware and
software components for continuous
monitoring of the electromagnetic spec-
trum (EMS) and direction finding (DF)
of basic electromagnetic radiation pa-
rameters, as well as initial spares, New
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... monitoring a connected world
www.go2signals.ch
Smart solutions for radio
monitoring and communi-
cation intelligence.

The product line for highly
mobile and remote controlled
approaches as well as for
the frst step into automatic
intelligence systems.
Equipment Training (NET) and integra-
tion/testing support.
The SMECS is comprised of two ele-
ments. The Real Time Monitoring Fre-
quency (RTMF) component consists of
two remote, fixed-site locations con-
trolled from a central Spectrum Man-
agement Facility via fiber-optic link
through the Range Monitoring and
Control Subsystem (RMCS). The RTMF
continuously monitors the electromag-
netic environment over the 20-MHz to
40-GHz frequency range. The second
DF component, covering the 20-MHz
to 3-GHz frequency range, is also com-
posed of two remote, fixed-site loca-
tions controlled via the RMCS together
with a mobile system installed in a
NTC G6 HMMWV (V-30B) communica-
tions shelter.
The project office is seeking contrac-
tors with existing fielded capabilities
currently in use in a military/govern-
ment operational/training environment
supporting the same or similar require-
ments, and able to show evidence of
being capable of meeting a 12-month-
after-contract-award delivery schedule,
with no development funding provided.
A draft set of technical documents
and draft acquisition strategy informa-
tion is expected to be released in Febru-
ary, followed by an RFP in March, and
contract award in June.
The solicitation number is: W900K-
K13RFISMECS. The point of contact
is Christopher Camp, (407) 208-3373,
e-mail: Christopher.Camp@us.army.
mil. The technical point of contact is
Frank Lumley, e-mail: Frank.Lumley@
us.army.mil. J. Haystead
IN BRIEF
Cobham (Lansdale, PA) has been
awarded a $31.7 million contract by Na-
val Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) for
additional AN/ALQ-99 low band trans-
mitters (LBTs) for US Navy and Marine
Corps EA-6B and EA-18G electronic at-
tack aircraft. The contract funds the
sixth full-rate production lot, and in-
cludes the first installment of a two-part
procurement for the Royal Australian
Air Force, which is buying 12 EA-18Gs.
The award brings the total number of
ALQ-99 LBTs ordered to 314, with 230
units delivered to date.

Raytheon-BBN (Cambridge, MA) is
being awarded an indefinite delivery-
indefinite quantity (IDIQ), sole-source
contract for the manufacturing, testing,
and delivery of an Acoustic Hostile Fire
Indicator (A-HFI) system by the US Spe-
cial Operations Command (USSOCOM),
Technology Applications Contracting
Office (TAKO). The A-HFI will be inte-
grated into existing SOAR(A) aircraft in-
cluding the ARSOA AASE suite and CAAS
mission computer system.

X-COM Systems (Reston, VA) has
been awarded a $3.5 million Firm Fixed
Price contract by the Army Contract-
ing Command Installation Division for
a mobile and transportable RF record-
ing/direction finding system and eight
fixed-site spectrum monitoring and
geo-locating system. The system will
be provided to the US Army Aberdeen
Test Center (ATC), at Aberdeen Prov-
ing Ground, MD. The eight fixed site
nodes will be capable of monitoring
the RF spectrum coverage envelope (10
MHz to 18 GHz), with a selectable RF
bandwidth of up to at least 20 MHz. The
mobile platform will be able to autono-
mously determine the direction to and
location of many types of conventional
emitters of interest operating within
the required coverage envelope (50
MHz to 18 GHz) using angle of arrival
(AOA) methodology.

Northrop Grumman (Rolling Mead-
ows, IL) has been awarded $7.2 million by
Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to
exercise an option on a previously award-
ed firm fixed price contract to procure
40 sensors, 20 upgrade processors and as-
sociated technical data in support of the
advanced threat missile warning (ATW)
system, a subsystem of the Department
of Navy Large Aircraft Infrared Counter-
measures (LAIRCM) system.

BAE Systems (Nashua, NH) has re-
ceived a $50.8 million firm fixed price
contract from Naval Air Systems Com-
mand (NAVAIR) for the procurement of
full rate production lots 2 through 6 for
the AN/ALE-55 Fiber Optic Towed Decoy
(FOTD) and electronic frequency con-
verter (EFC) systems for the Integrated
Defensive Electronic Countermeasures
(IDECM) Radio Frequency Countermea-
sure (RFCM) program. The contract will
consist of a base year with four options.
Base year quantities are 46 EFCs and 282
FOTDs. a
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AOC FOCUSES ON EW ADVOCACY WITH RENEWED
GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS INITIATIVE
The AOC has re-energized its government affairs program
to help the EW community successfully navigate anticipated
DOD budget cuts and introduce EW to a new freshman class of
Congressmen and staffers on Capitol Hill.
The US Government has demonstrated a strong focus on
EW over the past year. The Government Accountability Of-
fice released two EW reports (GAO-12-479 and GAO-12-175), US
Strategic Command has established the Joint Electromagnetic
Operations (JEMSO) office and the OSD has tasked the Defense
Science Board to address 21st Century Military Operations in
a Complex Electromagnetic Environment in its 2013 summer
study. The AOCs Government, Industry and Public Relation
(GIPR) Committee, led by AOC board members Paul Westcott
and Ron Fog Hahn, is engaging with several Government or-
ganizations and offices to help build a better understanding of
EW and EMS operations.
The main AOC messages in this effort are:
1) EW and EMSO are an increasingly important part of US and
allied national security strategies;
2) EW capabilities are key enablers for all military operations,
from irregular warfare to major combat campaigns;
3) Military operations are increasingly dependent upon ad-
vanced technologies; but counter-capabilities are becoming
available to a wide range of competitors; and
4) Relatively permissive electromagnetic operational environ-
ments have led to complacency about the need to resource EW.
The bottom line message is, Freedom of action is lost with-
out proper EMS control.
In 2013, the AOC will focus on supporting and strengthen-
ing ties with the Congressional EW Working Group (EWWG). The
AOC plans to encourage members of Congress with EW interests
to join the EWWG; facilitate engagements between EWWG mem-
bers and EW experts from DOD, think tanks and industry; and
re-start the Capitol Hill Round-Up. J. Knowles
DOD READIES STTR SOLICITATION
The DOD has issued a pre-solicitation list of tech-
nology study areas of interest to potentially receive
9-month Phase 1 Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR) contracts. The Department issues two STTR so-
licitations annually. Each contract award has a maxi-
mum value of $150,000. The formal solicitation release
date will be February 25, 2013 with proposals due Feb-
ruary 27.
Solicitation topics provided by the Air Force in-
clude: Decision Making under Uncertainty for Dy-
namic Spectrum Access. The objective of this project
is to research, develop, and evaluate
innovative algorithms and technologies to enhance perfor-
mance of Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) decision making in
conditions of uncertainty, such as non-existent spectrum us-
age data, unknown antenna side-lobe patterns, and incomplete
available satellite or earth station data set. The technical point
of contact is Robert Bonneau, Phone: (703) 696-9545, e-mail:
robert.bonneau@afosr.af.mil.
Topics provided by the Navy include Low-Cost-By-Design
Mid-Wave Infrared Semiconductor Surface Emitting (SE) La-
sers. The objective is to develop an innovative low-cost-by-
design, power-scalable, chip-based platform solution that
enables high-power surface emission from a single aperture
with outstanding beam quality from either a single SE quan-
tum cascade laser (QCL) or monolithic coherently, or spectrally
beam-combined, SE QCL array at approximately 4.5 m range.
The technical point of contact phone number is: (760) 939-0239.
Also: Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based High Efficiency Switch/
Transistor for L-Band RF Power Amplifier Applications. The
objective is to develop a Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based high ef-
ficiency switch/transistor and demonstrate a high efficiency
(>90% power added efficiency) solid state RF Power amplifier
for the replacement of L-band radar vacuum electronic (VE)
tube sources. The technical point of contact is: Paul Maki; e-
mail: Paul.Maki@Navy.mil.
Also: Wide Spectral Band Laser Threat Sensor. The objec-
tive is to develop a large dynamic range passive sensor capable
of identifying and localizing laser sources over a wide spectral
band from 500 nm to 11 m. The sensors should be capable of
sensing irradiance levels from 1 mW/cm2 to 2 kW/cm2 with
threat localization accuracy of one degree or better with a near
hemispherical field of regard. The technical point of contact is:
Lewis Desandre; e-mail: desandl@onr.navy.mil.
Army topics include: Solar-blind (Be, Mg) ZnO Photodetec-
tors (260-285 nm wavelengths). The objective is to develop
ZnO based UV photodetectors for the solar-blind detection
window of 265-280 nm for various military applications. Ab-
sorption data, contact resistance data, and p-doping should
be measured and included in reports. The technical point of
contact is: Michael Gerhold; Phone: 919-549-4357; e-mail:
michael.d.gerhold.civ@mail.mil.
Also: Advanced Spectrally Selective Materials for Obscur-
ant Applications. The objective is to develop a spectrally se-
lective obscurant that can effectively block one area of the
electromagnetic (EM) spectrum while allowing other areas to
pass through. Specific regions of interest are defined by Vis-
ible, 0.4 to 0.7 um; Near Infrared, 0.7 1.2 m; Short Wave
Infrared (SWIR), 1.5-2 m; Mid Infrared, 3.0 5.0 m; and
Far Infrared, 8.0-12 m. The technical point of contact is:
Jim Shomo; Phone: (410) 436-3047; e-mail: Jim.Shomo@
us.army.mil. JED Staff a
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IN BRIEF
Thales (Paris, France) has opened a
Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Radar
and Integrated Sensors in Singapore.
The center represents a cooperative
effort between the companys opera-
tions in the Netherlands and Singapore
and has a mission to increase the
amount and speed of innovation in
naval radar and integrated sensors by
performing research and technology
with Singapores research institutes,
industry and defense organizations.
The CoE also aims to accelerate solu-
tions development and strengthen
skill-sets in Singapore by developing
local engineers.
India, whose representatives were
in Paris last month as part of ongo-
ing contract negotiations for 126
French-made Rafale fighter jets to
fill its medium multi-role combat
aircraft (MMRCA) need, is consid-
ering an additional 63 jets for the
program, according to published
reports. The Rafale, made by Dassault
Aviation, has seen increased atten-
tion with Frances operations in Mali
last month. The aircraft was selected
by India in January 2012 as the pre-
ferred solution to fill Indias fighter
jet replacement requirement. The
original deal for 126 aircraft is worth
about $11 billion. This total would
increase by another $6 billion if the
additional 63 aircraft are bought. The
addition would offer a financial boost
to Frances defense industry, though
due to the terms of the contract,
much of it would be shared with
India, as only the first 18 aircraft
would be manufactured in France
and the next 108 would be assembled
by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL)
in Bangalore. The first aircraft are
scheduled for delivery three years
after the contract is signed, though
negotiations are still occurring. The
Rafale is also in the running for sev-
eral other fighter programs, includ-
ing those in Brazil, Canada, Malaysia
and the United Arab Emirates.
NIITEK (Dulles, VA) has won part
of a contract to supply its ground-
penetrating-radar-equipped Husky
Mounted Detection System to the
Spanish Army. The $20 million con-
tract was awarded to a consortium
that includes Critical Solutions
International (CSI), maker of the
Husky 2G, a two-seat variant of the
HUSKY, and Eleycon 21, a Spanish
based company representing NIITEK
and CSI in Spain. The Husky sys-
tem detects buried mines and other
objects, and is used extensively in
Afghanistan for route clearance.
Under the contract, NIITEK will
receive $4.8 million to deliver six
ground penetrating radar systems.
Saab (Jrflla, Sweden) has received
an order worth about SEK 100 mil-
lion from AugstaWestland for an
undisclosed number of its Integrated
Defensive Aids Suites (IDAS). The
deal also includes integrated elec-
tronic surveillance payloads (ESP) to
provide direction finding and emit-
ter location. IDAS combines radar
warning, laser warning and missile
approach warning sensors and cues
the BOP-L countermeasures dis-
penser. The ESP adds a lightweight
electronic intelligence system for
use in situational awareness, threat
geolocation and emitter identifica-
tion. Development and production
will take place at Saabs facilities
in Jrflla and at Saab Grintek in
Centurion, South Africa. Deliveries
are scheduled for 2013-2015. a
SIGINT-EQUIPPED EUROHAWK LOGS FIRST FLIGHT, ORDER FROM SOUTH KOREA
Last month, Northrop Grumman and Cassidian conducted
the first full system test flight of the EuroHawk unmanned air-
craft system (UAS), at Manching Air Base in Germany. The two
companies are developing the EuroHawk, which is equipped
with a Cassidian-developed SIGINT suite, for the Luftwaffe.
The flight test flight is a milestone for the RQ-4E EuroHawk
program, the international variant of Northrop Grummans RQ-
4B Global Hawk. The EuroHawks SIGINT suite, which is fitted
in the main fuselage and in six under-wing pods, performs
both ELINT and COMINT collection. The system also includes
a SIGINT ground station, also supplied by Cassidian, which re-
ceives the EuroHawks ELINT and COMINT data and performs
further processing, analysis and dissemination.
It is intended as a cost-effective replacement for Germanys
fleet of manned Breguet Atlantic SIGINT aircraft, which were re-
tired in 2010 after more than 30 years of service. But, no time-
frame for the Euro Hawk to begin operations has been announced.
This unmanned SIGINT capability is attractive to a num-
ber of nations with regional security concerns, including the
Republic of Korea. In late December, South Korea requested
the purchase of four RQ-4 Block 30 (I) Global Hawks from the
US via Foreign Military Sales channels, including equipment,
parts, training and logistical support with an estimated cost
of $1.2 billion.
Koreas Global Hawk request included Raytheons Enhanced
Integrated Sensor Suite (EISS) which includes an electro-op-
tic/infrared camera, cloud-penetrating synthetic aperture ra-
dar antenna with a ground moving target indicator, mission
control element, launch recovery element, SIGINT package and
imagery intelligence exploitation.
The request noted South Koreas specific need for the in-
telligence and surveillance capabilities to assume primary re-
sponsibility for intelligence gathering for the US-led Combined
Forces Command starting in 2015. E. Richardson
Back in 1996, the US Army began for-
mulating an acquisition plan to replace
its fleet of RC-12 Guardrail signals intel-
ligence (SIGINT) aircraft and its smaller
fleet of RC-7 Airborne Reconnaissance
Low (ARL) intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft. At
the time, the RC-12 was the corps com-
manders SIGINT workhorse, capable
of performing communications intelli-
gence (COMINT), direction finding (DF)
and electronic intelligence (ELINT).
The most advanced RC-7 the ARL-
Multifunction (ARL-M) had a limited
COMINT and DF capability that was used
to cue the EO/IR sensors and the syn-
thetic aperture radar (SAR). This multi-
INT sensor suite made these aircraft
extremely valuable to commanders, who
were becoming ever hungrier for tactical
visual imagery.
The Armys plan was to replace these
two aircraft types with a single multi-
INT model that combined the RC-12s
SIGINT capabilities with the RC-7s EO/
IR and SAR characteristics. The new
aircraft, known as the Aerial Common
Sensor (ACS), would feature new SIGINT,
electro-optic and infrared (EO/IR), syn-
thetic aperture radar (SAR) and moving
target indicator (MTI) sensors, with the
possible addition of a hyperspectral sen-
sor in a future spiral. The ACS was to
send intercept data, via a satellite com-
munications link, to US-based intelli-
gence organizations. Other SIGINT data,
such as emitter location and identifica-
tion information would be downlinked
to in-theater intelligence processing
stations for dissemination to ground
commanders. According to the Armys
plan at the time, all of the RC-7s and RC-
12s would eventually be retired as the
ACS fleet grew to full strength.
However, the original ACS program
hit a snag in 2001 when the aircrafts
COMINT payload, the Joint SIGINT Avi-
onics Family Low-Band Subsystem (JSAF
LBSS) ran into problems during develop-
ment. The JSAF LBSS was being devel-
oped by the Air Force as a joint service
solution for a number of SIGINT aircraft
programs, and the US Army had some of
the most demanding COMINT require-
ments that the LBSS would need to
meet. The cancelation of the LBSS pro-
gram forced ACS back to the drawing
board in 2002. The delay brought new
political pressure for a joint Army-Navy
ACS program and a subsequent compro-
mise to use a business jet platform that
could offer longer range and more on-
station time than the Army requirement
specified. By 2004, the Army and Navy
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had selected a Lockheed Martin team,
which had proposed an Embraer ERJ 145
jet to carry the various sensors and sev-
eral mission crew members that would
operate from on-board workstations, as
they do on the Navys EP-3E Aries air-
craft. This time around, however, the
contractor team could not fit the multi-
INT mission suite into the aircraft, and
the ACS procurement was cancelled in
early 2006. This drove the Army to pur-
sue a new round of RC-12 upgrades in
order to maintain its SIGINT capability,
part of which resulted in the RC-12X air-
craft the Army is using today.
However, the goal of fielding a new
multi-INT aircraft was not dead. In fact,
by the time the Army cancelled the ACS
in 2006, the fight against remote con-
trolled improvised explosive devices
(RCIEDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan was
at its peak and would show how criti-
cal the Armys multi-INT airborne ISR
requirement was. That year, the DOD
stood up Task Force ODIN (Observe, De-
tect, Identify, Neutralize) to take on
the challenge of finding, tracking and
killing the networks of insurgents who
were building, burying and detonating
the IEDs. The Army and Air Force rap-
idly modified a variety of manned and
unmanned aircraft and fitted them with
different combinations of SIGINT, EO/IR
and SAR payloads. Hawker Beechcraft
RC-12s were modified into ISR variants
such as the Aerial Reconnaissance
Multi-Sensor (ARMS) and Medium Alti-
tude Reconnaissance and Surveillance
System II (MARSS II). The Air Force also
fielded the Project Liberty MC-12W air-
craft, which was fitted with COMINT and
EO/IR sensors. These aircraft, along with
other ODIN assets that could track and
engage insurgents, helped prevent many
RCIED attacks that were being planned
and also helped to take the RCIED fight
into the insurgents networks.
Out of this experience, a new program
evolved known as the Enhanced Medium
Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveil-
lance System (EMARSS). EMARSS is an
airborne intelligence, surveillance, and
reconnaissance platform intended to
provide near-real-time, detailed battle-
field information to brigade-level tacti-
cal forces, day or night in all weather
conditions. EMARSS aircraft, designated
MC-12S, are modified Hawker Beechcraft
King Air 350ERs. Among its onboard
sensors, the EMARSS carries a Wescam
MX-15 EO/IR full-motion video system
and a signals intelligence SIGINT system
connected by satellite datalink to the
Armys ground-based intelligence da-
tabase, or Distributed Common Ground
System Army (DCGS-A). The EMARSS
platforms will also be equipped with an
aerial precision guidance system, tac-
tical communications suites, operator
workstations and a self-protection suite.
The original EMARSS requirement
was for 36 aircraft, and the EMD contract
was awarded to Boeing in December of
2010. The contract included the initial
four EMD aircraft as well as an option
for two additional EMD aircraft and two
further options for four and then two
additional LRIP aircraft, providing for a
potential total of 12 aircraft. That pro-
curement goal seemed to be cut down in
February 2012, when the Army released
its 2013 budget proposal that did not
ask for funding beyond the initial four
aircraft. The Army now hopes to buy ad-
ditional EMARSS aircraft, but its plans
are in limbo due to ongoing DOD budget
uncertainty and the possibility of se-
vere budget cuts over the next decade.
According to LTC Dean Hoffman,
EMARSS Product Manager within PEO
Intelligence EW & Sensors (IEW&S),
EMARSS is a funded Army program of
record, with funding provided in the
FY2013 Presidential budget to complete
four EMD models. A further $70.6 mil-
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Each year AOCs membership determines
the future of the association by electing
representatives to its Board of Directors.
Nominations for the 2013 election are being
accepted now. The deadline is March 1.
The election will begin on July 1, 2013 and will end on July 31, 2013.
The 2013 election slate will include the position of President-Elect, who
will serve as Vice President in 2014 and as President in 2015. The AOC
President appoints the Associations Secretary and Treasurer, presides over
the Board of Directors and Executive Committee and appoints committee
chairs. The President is also the AOCs primary spokesperson, visiting AOC
chapters across the world and meeting with leaders in the Electronic Warfare
community. This is a signicant but rewarding commitment.
The 2013 election slate will also include three At Large Director positions.
At Large directors serve a three-year term. In addition, Regional Directors will
be elected for three-year terms from the International I, International II and
Information Operations Regions. If you want to nominate for than one person,
please duplicate the form.
Nomination packets must be received at AOC headquarters by close-of-
business on March 1, 2013. Nomination Forms are also available on the AOC
website at www.crows.org or by contacting Glenda Reyes-Montanez at
reyes-montanez@crows.org.
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NOMINATIONS FOR THE
2013 AOC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
lion for the purchase of two additional
EMD aircraft is in the works, although it
depends on Congress passing a defense
budget for FY2013.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Hoff-
man, the current intent is to be ready
to execute a Milestone C review some-
time in mid FY2014. Weve already done
a lot of upfront risk reduction on the
platform and program, including testing
at our Joint Test and Integration Facil-
ity (JTIF) [at Aberdeen Proving Ground,
MD]. Weve been able to demonstrate our
ability to integrate our sensors into the
DCGS-A architecture, which is critical to
making sure that the platform will meet
the G-2s 2020 vision of maximizing ca-
pabilities by integrating multiple ISR
sensors into the intelligence architec-
ture to enhance awareness.
As far as the longer term prospects
for the program, though the FY2014
Presidential Budget has not yet been
released to Congress, LTC Hoffman ob-
serves that there is, based on analysis
of requirements, still a strong require-
ment for ISR support in the future, espe-
cially from the G-2, so we do believe that
once this budget is released, that there
will be a future for the program.
CHOICES AND TRADE-OFFS
The US Armys experience with the
ACS and EMARSS programs shows how
difficult it can be to advance airborne
ISR capability. However, it also serves
to highlight the complex choices and
trade-offs for any buyer even an expe-
rienced ISR customer like the US Army
that is trying to acquire an advanced
airborne SIGINT capability.
Todays airborne ISR market offers
a wide range of options, but the grow-
ing list of choices can seem daunting.
Manned or unmanned aircraft? Onboard
and/or off-board information process-
ing? Payload weight? Range, dash
speed and on-station time? Dedicated
SIGINT aircraft or multi-mission? Will
the SIGINT system be used to intercept,
collect and record radar and communi-
cations transmissions? Will it be used to
identify and geolocate emitters? If so,
will geolocation be done via multiple
aircraft in a networked constellation or
with a single aircraft?
For each of these choices, the menu of
options is growing because of technology
advances in several areas, including new
aircraft types, especially UAVs; the evo-
lution of open architectures in mission
systems; smaller SIGINT systems, EO/
IR sensors and radars; robust datalinks;
and multi-purpose operator consoles, to
name a few. The integration of SIGINT
systems onto all types of platforms has
actually become easier due to the fact
that the sensors that are available today
are smaller, lighter and use less power,
which all place less requirements on the
airborne platform, says Christo Pelster,
director of SIGINT Business Develop-
ment for Saabs Security and Defense So-
lutions Business Area. The availability
of broadband encrypted data links also
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Elisra's vastly proven
SIGINT solutions for
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successfully cope with
advanced communication and
non-communication signals
Comprehensive SIGINT solutions
enable the creation of a complete
Electronic Order of Battle (EOB);
handle the most sophisticated signals
across the entire frequency range
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Elisra's COMINT systems assure
smart, fast interception, identification
and detection of the most
sophisticated signals
Elisras advanced ELINT systems
provide automatic detection,
measurement, and identification of
all radars
Can be integrated with radar
Installed on fixed-wing and rotary-
wing aircraft as well as Unmanned
Aircraft Systems (UAS)
allows on-board operators and mission
consoles to be exchanged for extra fuel,
thereby extending mission durations for
smaller platforms.
The once expensive task of inte-
grating new ISR sensors into a mission
system also is becoming easier, as ex-
pensive and inflexible proprietary sys-
tem architectures are being replaced
by more flexible approaches. System
scalability is an import aspect of new
system designs, says John Payne, pres-
ident of Esterlines Eclipse Electronic
Systems, which makes COMINT receiv-
ers. Improvements in high-speed data
interconnections over 10- and 40-Gig
Ethernet now allow the front ends of
sensor systems to be decoupled from
high-performance sensor data process-
ing. Thus, for SIGINT, RF components
can be located wherever they need to
be for optimum performance, and pro-
cessing can be located wherever is best
for a given system, all connected by IP
LAN. Its easy to conceive of aircraft re-
configurable for SIGINT by installing
standard (size and footprint) pods with
antennas and RF gear and 19-in. roll-
aboard racks for onboard processing.
Also, wireless system interconnection
feasibility is being demonstrated on
most domestic airlines every day with
WiFi available to passengers. Open stan-
dards defining hardware and software
system components are vital to ensure
interoperability between various system
configurations targeted to a specific
class of aircraft. And, its important to
understand that many of these open
standards are driven more from the
commercial communications and enter-
tainment markets versus internally by
the defense market.
These trends are enabling some air-
borne ISR providers to create a diverse
range of solutions. Lockheed Martins
Dragon ISR family and Saabs AIRTRAC-
ER family are two such examples. The
Dragon ISR family includes six config-
urations that range from the top-end
Dragon Scout, which can be hosted on
a large business aircraft, to the roll-on/
roll-off Dragon Shield palette, to the
Dragon Star, which can be integrated
into a pod. The company even provides
Dragon ISR solutions as a contracted
service to governments with short-term
needs. In mid-2012, Italy opted for a
Dragon ISR service contract that pro-
vides Lockheed Martins Airborne Multi-
INT Laboratory (part of the DragonStar
variant) which affords more time for the
Italian Air Force to pursue a longer-term
SIGINT solution to replace its G.222 SI-
GINT aircraft. Rockwell Collins is sup-
plying a portion of the COMINT suite in
this program.
Saabs AIRTRACER family is a SIGINT
solution that provides COMINT across
the 2- to 3000-MHz range and ESM/
ELINT from 0.5 to 40 GHz, with the op-
tion to extend coverage up to 40 GHz.
AIRTRACER is hosted on a Saab 2000
aircraft (and can be adapted to other
aircraft types), providing six operator
stations. Another version, AIRTRACER
Flex, configures the mission suite in a
roll-in/roll-out crew cabin for tempo-
rary installation onboard a transport
aircraft. AIRTRACER Lite and AIRTRAC-
ER Compact are configured as SIGINT
add-ons to special mission aircraft that
have limited SIGINT capabilities.
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THE EVOLVING SIGNALS
ENVIRONMENT
While the menu of airborne SIGINT
solutions is growing, the ever evolving
signals environment is presenting its
own daunting set of challenges. As al-
ways, the SIGINT community absolutely
must keep pace with the commercial-
markets-driven explosion in both num-
ber and bandwidth in consumer mobile
communications, says Payne. That
market is expanding into higher fre-
quency bands as well as use of technolo-
gies such as higher level QAM and MIMO
to increase effective data bandwidth.
The good news is the component and
signal processing technologies support-
ing this commercial technology growth
are available for adaptation to SIGINT.
The challenge is programs must be
structured both technically and admin-
istratively for rapid and near continu-
ous capability upgrades to meet rapidly
evolving needs.
Others, like Christo Pelster, agree.
The technology used in SIGINT sensors
significantly benefits from commercial-
ly driven applications such as mobile te-
lephony and data services, he explains.
High performance Field Programmable
Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become read-
ily available in the last decade address-
ing the need to process large amounts
of intercepted signal data in real-time.
Very high rate analog-to-digital con-
verters that are available today have
moved the demodulation and process-
ing functions of receivers closer to the
antenna system to the extent that di-
rect sampling receivers or digital down
converters (DDCs) can be implemented.
Furthermore, the flexibility offered by
firmware updates that can be performed
with ease ensures that SIGINT sensor
systems are future proof against a con-
tinuously evolving signal environment.
SIGINT FOR MULTI-INT
The markets shift toward specifying
multi-INT suites for tactical ISR aircraft
is not a passing trend. Tactical systems
with SIGINT-cued EO/IR have proven
significantly superior to systems with
stand-alone capabilities, says Payne.
MULTI-INT systems will evolve toward
architectures which take advantage of
continuous Moores Law driven im-
provements, such as commodity, high
-performance, multi-core, commercial
processors, by decoupling high perfor-
mance processing from sensors that
generate large amounts of data.
EO/IR systems often include a vari-
ety of sensor capabilities, such as high-
resolution IR sensors, HD full-motion
video and daylight EO cameras that
can zoom from wide-angle views over
an entire city or neighborhood to high-
resolution close-up imagery that can
reveal the numbers of a license plate
on a car. Often, the challenge for EO/
IR sensor operators is to know where
to point these soda straw sensors. By
detecting and locating emitters, SIGINT
sensors can help cue EO/IR sensors to a
specific location. SIGINT is one of the
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broad-field-of-regard sensors, explains
Chris Michalski, ISR Technical Director
at Mercury Defense Systems (Chelms-
ford, MA). Its not looking through a
soda straw, like an EO sensor. SAR is a
little bit wider, but SAR has to be di-
rected, as well. Because of this, he said,
SIGINT gives you a great cueing ability
for all of the other sensors on board.
GAINING A BETTER SENSE
OF DIRECTION
Aside from its role in cueing other
sensors in a multi-INT suite, tacti-
cal SIGINT is gaining new appreciation
from ground units as a situational tool
for the soldier. SIGINT in the past has
been kind of an SCI-level problem. And
its only been done by the really big plat-
forms with really expensive systems,
explains Mercurys Michalski. One of
the areas that we have been looking
at is trying to extend the direction-
finding capabilities of the big systems
down to the smaller platforms that are
Shadow-sized and Tiger Shark-sized.
These smaller platforms fly much closer
to the emitters and can perform emitter
geolocation and identification from a
single aircraft in the traditional method
of taking multiple DF cuts of an emit-
ter as the aircraft travels along its flight
path and then mapping where those DF
cuts intersect. This isnt so much SIGINT
in its traditional sense of intercept-
ing, collecting and exploiting the mes-
sage content of signal traffic. This is
more akin to radar and communications
electronic support measures in which
the contextual metadata (i.e., emit-
ter geolocation and identification) can
sometimes be more valuable than the
message content.
For example, imagine a small detach-
ment from a US Army rifle platoon is
conducting a patrol in Afghanistan. The
patrol is approaching a small remote vil-
lage in the Arghandab valley north of
Kandahar. As they approach the village,
the soldiers can rely on imagery from
UAVs flying overhead. However, the
units commander on the scene would
have a better understanding of the situ-
ation if he knew about current and past
signals activity in and around the vil-
lage. What the unit commander needs
is a live direct SIGINT downlink from a
UAV that tells him if there are any emit-
ters in the area and if so what are they
and where are they. Are there communi-
cations signals from within the village,
or is an enemy spotter observing their
approach from a hill outside the village
and communicating to other insurgents
in the area to coordinate an ambush?
Knowing this information could change
the outcome of a potentially dangerous
situation.
Delivering such real-time tactical SI-
GINT directly to a small unit on patrol
has, until recently, been difficult. Most
of the tactical SIGINT data collected
today comes from manned ISR aircraft
and larger UAVs, such as the RQ-4 Global
Hawk and MQ-9 Reaper, which carry the
Airborne SIGINT Payload, and the MQ-1C
Gray Eagle, which will soon carry the
Tactical SIGINT Payload housed in a pod.
These aircraft are tasked on a variety of
missions for division commanders and
higher, and they typically are not able
to provide real-time SIGINT support di-
rectly to a small unit.
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Two factors are changing this situ-
ation, however. First, the US Army is
training a new cadre of EWOs, some of
whom are being assigned to provide EW
support for brigade commanders. These
EWOs are showing how mission success
can be improved by providing real-time
tactical SIGINT to small units at the tac-
tical edge.
The other factor is the recent avail-
ability of lightweight SIGINT systems
that can be carried on smaller tactical
UAVs, such as the Shadow and the Tiger
Shark, without displacing other sen-
sors on the aircraft. One example of this
type of SIGINT solution is the Seeker
system from Mercury Defense Systems.
The Seeker, which is housed in a small
pod, provides emitter detection, identi-
fication and single-ship direction find-
ing. The receiver system, which weighs
in at 9 lb, is designed to minimize plat-
form integrations costs. For example,
says Michalski, the Seeker uses its own
GPS receiver for navigation rather than
increasing the cost and complexity of
using the GPS receiver on the host air-
craft. While the SIGINT receiver can take
advantage of new technologies to reduce
its weight and size, the DF antenna array
is still restricted in terms of how small
it can be without trading off too much
performance. However, by housing the
whole system in a pod, the antenna array
does not have to find scarce real estate in
the Shadows already crowded fuselage.
The need for high performance from the
antenna also is mitigated in part by the
UAVs close proximity to the emitters.
FUTURE CHALLENGES
The commercial and military tech-
nology trends that have driven the ex-
ploding population of emitters and their
growing sophistication will continue to
evolve. This will, in turn, drive new in-
novation in COMINT and ELINT systems.
Saabs Christo Pelster says, The need
to be able to perform message content
extraction has always been a require-
ment for the COMINT parts of SIGINT
systems. Spread-spectrum technology,
digital modulation techniques, propri-
etary encoding and encryption makes it
complicated to extract message content
in real-time. The trend of signals with
specialized waveforms as generated by
Software Defined Radios is set to con-
tinue and is compounded by links that
use adaptive transmit power ensuring
low probability of detection. He adds,
ELINT receiving systems will need to
have greater sensitivity in order to de-
tect energy in low-power radar signals,
which are also spatially directed using
Actively Electronically Steered Arrays
(AESA). The requirements of process-
ing in a high-density pulse environ-
ment in the presence of strong CW like
signals will drive receiver front-end
technology as well as pulse processing
requirements.
Over the past decade, airborne
SIGINT providers have addressed some
of the markets most stubborn problems,
such as developing SIGINT solutions for
more types of aircraft, utilizing open
architectures and increasing system
performance without a corresponding
increase in cost. This level of innova-
tion is likely to continue well into the
future, as SIGINT technology continues
to evolve and adapt. a
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I
n the six months since JED last took a look at the pros-
pects for careers in the electronic warfare industry, the
employment environment has become even more muddled,
leaving many with a sense of confusion about the state of
the overall market for jobs.
On the one hand, companies preparing for the arrival
of sequestration have been making adjustments needed to ride
out the coming lean times through a combination of tactics
including workforce cuts, elimination of contract employees,
and hiring freezes. On the other hand, there are still a fair
number of employment opportunities both advertised and
not available for those who are looking. So, while the outlook
seems dire, the reality for job hunters, for now anyway, is that
the market hasnt dried up.
Its a time of transition. Theres a lot of paralysis, says
Bob Katelhut, president of the recruiting firm Warfare Solu-
tions. There are a lot of opportunities still out there. And the
market is not flooded with candidates yet. I keep hearing its
going to [happen], but its not happening yet.
At least in the US. In Europe, where austerity is a continu-
ing reality, the employment picture is more than dire. How-
ever, world events do change rapidly, and the growth markets
Latin America and Southeast Asia remain strong options
for European companies, which may offer a small ray of light at
the end of a very long tunnel.
In the US, of course, the situation could change at any mo-
ment. With sequestration all but set to go forward, defense
companies may be taking another look at what they need to
do to ride out the coming storm and deciding that the picture
is just too vague to do anything other than hunker down and
wait for the storm to pass. Other companies, meanwhile, look-
ing forward to a market full of talent pruned from their com-
petitors, could be thinning their own ranks in anticipation of
picking up the cream of the crop. The one thing that is clear
in all the uncertainty: Things will probably get worse before
they get better. So if youre looking to make a move, now may
be the time.
Heres four important keys to EW professionals navigating
the current market:
1. SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
Its not just a must-have for EW systems. Basic situational
awareness is key to understanding the current situation of
your companys business and whether you want to make a
move.
Those working in business development may have a better
handle on this than others, but everyone, from marketing and
sales down to engineers, needs to have a clear understanding
of where their current employer stands in the market. What is
your company making and is anyone buying it? What level of
the long-lead order book is likely to be held up by sequestra-
tion? This also means keeping a close eye on the day-to-day
news of the industry. Knowing where you stand can give com-
fort level about the current situation, or at least give you the
knowledge you need to start making moves now, while there
are moves to be made.
And the opportunities vary depending on what you do.
Business development managers are going to be key in this
environment, Katelhut notes. Theyre the ones that are go-
ing to have to go out there and dig up the business. They have
the relationships and a good BD manager can make or break a
program.
Engineers are also in demand. Although, with contract em-
ployees among the first cuts, some engineers not working full
time may be coming back to the market, for now, advertising
for engineers remains strong.
Riding Out the Uncertainty
By Elaine Richardson
EW Careers:
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Even if youre not in an in-demand
field, its good to know how your con-
temporaries at other companies are far-
ing and to consider whether now is the
time to start brushing up on secondary
skill sets that might make you more
marketable for open positions. Even if
youre just putting out feelers, do it now.
The time to start looking for new
opportunities is now, Katelhut says. It
is devastating to be unemployed, espe-
cially if the market turns the way every-
one says its going to turn. Thats not a
good place to be.
And, understanding the entire mar-
ket situation can help you to assess the
opportunities you see and whether you
want to make a move into a particular
organization at this time. This is also
something companies have to remember
as they make the necessary adjustments
to their structures, while still trying to
hire new employees.
If candidates see a company isnt
advertising in JED anymore, and
theyre not seeing companies at AOC
events and a lot of folks are being
laid off thats not going to lend well
to the companys reputation on the
street, Katelhut notes. Its difficult
to attract candidates to those compa-
nies. At least until the industry gets
flooded with candidates.
2. INVEST IN YOUR NETWORK
Whether youre making moves or
not, the first thing to do is to ensure
that you are in touch and involved with
your professional network. Its always
key to remember that, for all the jobs
advertised, key positions sometimes
arent. Who you know can be an open
door to the perfect position you havent
even seen.
Starting online, ensuring you have
a robust LinkedIn profile is a must.
Make sure youre on the various groups
for EW professionals, including the AOC.
Be social responding to and initiating
conversations shows youre out there
and involved. Getting your network to
connect you to the people in their net-
works is even better.
Its also a good time to shore up
your personal connections. Pick up the
phone and call people in your network
you havent seen in awhile. Or a person-
al note about advancements in their
companies, an article that applies to
them, etc. can be a good way to recon-
nect with those in your network.
If you havent been to your local
AOC chapter meeting in awhile, you
need to go and take advantage of face-
to-face communication. If you have
the opportunity to attend other up-
coming industry events, set aside some
time to walk around and talk to people
you havent seen lately and to pick up
new connections.
Making your network as strong as
you can not only gives you the opportu-
nity to find new work when you need it,
but puts you in the position to bring the
There are still a lot of
opportunities out there.
And the market is
not flooded with
candidates yet.
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3. KNOW WHOS HIRING
So whos hiring? Small and mid-size
companies, which havent yet seen the
trickle down from the pull back, are
actively looking for people on sites like
Indeed.com and other posting aggre-
gators, as well as in postings on their
own sites and through active outreach
by recruiters.
I seem to be getting a lot more cli-
ents that are component companies
companies that are working along the
signal path; RF power solutions and
things like that, Katelhut says. In
part, I think its because in this aus-
tere environment the integrators are
having to cut people, theyre having to
save money and I think the suppliers
are looking at displacing their current
vendors by bringing in their products
maybe at a lower cost.
In addition, small and mid-size com-
panies may also see the opportunity to
pick up some expertise in the market.
Considering a shift from a large to a
smaller company can be daunting, es-
pecially given the usual differences in
culture and environment. But, with
the number of opportunities, skill sets
that might not be as marketable to
larger companies in this environment,
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in robust companies with less overhead
to trim.
This is also a place where you can
reach out to your professional network
to find not only past employees, but
those whove worked with the company
your considering as a vendor, to see
what type of situation would be avail-
able and to ensure that its a good fit
4. CONSIDER ACADEMIA
The other place thats hiring is the
academic lab world. From the Johns
Hopkins Advanced Physics Lab and
MITs Lincoln Laboratory to the Georgia
Tech Research Institute and others, the
academic labs are looking for personnel
to help them fight for available technol-
ogy-development money.
Like their corporate counterparts,
colleges and universities are also feel-
ing the squeeze from the reduction in
government financing. And while it
seems like money for technology de-
velopment will be tight, even in the
current environment we must con-
tinue to prepare for coming spectrum
threats; especially given that larger
companies, which usually have to
fund research and development them-
selves, will have to be cutting back
on those efforts due to sequestration
cuts. Some money will be available,
and the ability to reel in every dollar
will be critical for academic labs work-
ing to ensure the next generation of
EW technology is in development.
And, depending on your point of
view, academia can be a great place to
wait out the current market or the start
of a unique new career in a different
area of EW. In either case, there are po-
sitions being advertised now.
Given the fiscal current environ-
ment, its likely that the career picture
will change significantly in the next
six months. a
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Reviewed by Kernan Chaisson
b o o k
revi ew
It is unusual for a book to have the
reader at pucker-factor twelve by page
13; especially non-fighter pilots. But
that is exactly what Lt Col Dan Hamp-
ton, USAF (Ret.) does with Viper Pilot: A
Memoir of Air Combat. He flew more than
151 combat missions over his 20-year
career (1986-2006) and is credited with
pioneering now-standard EW tactics.
Dan Two Dogs Hampton opens with
a mission over Nasiriyah, Iraq, where
his flight of F-16CJs rolls in to save a
trapped Marine unit. It was the fifth
day of the 2003 Iraq War and a unit of
the Third Battalion Second Marines had
been cut off by Iraqi fighters and called
for Emergency Close Air Support. The
Wild Weasel four-ship came to the rescue
in the face of an intense sandstorm that
made the life-or-death situation for the
Marines and the flyers much worse. Be-
cause they were flying the -CJ, Hampton
and his fellow Weasels were equipped
for ground attack, and ground attack
they did. What followed was a pulse-
pounding description of a fight that
validates the book covers claim that
Hampton is one of Americas deadliest
F-16 aviators.
From the start, the author is a
straight-talking this aint no B/S
fighter jock. He makes plain how he
feels about higher-ups and staffers who,
many jet-drivers feel, spend a lot of time
making things hard for the real war-
riors who routinely face the dangers
and hardships of the front line. On the
other hand, he has the utmost respect
writes. This makes Nel-
lis Air Force Base true to its name on
the sign at the front gate, Home of the
Fighter Pilot, he points out.
With a sense of humor and turn of
a phrase, Hamptons description of the
Wild Weasel operations will scare the
hell out of readers. He takes us through
the gut-wrenching twists and turns as
well as ground-scraping attacks on ra-
dars, missile sites, and general ground
targets. He adds the missions he flew on
9-11 and days after, revealing what it
felt like to be in the cockpit that fateful
day. He was also in on the first attacks
in the Iraq War, 2003.
Hampton writes that the F-16CJ was
a quantum leap forward in technology.
Tremendously versatile, with an amaz-
ing capacity for adaptation, the F-16 is
a natural Weasel. It could be as deadly
to other aircraft as it is to SAMs, and
unlike the venerable F-4G, it does not
need an escort. The new Viper-jet adds a
deadly ground attack capability to what
has become the Wild Weasel of today.
He makes the case for destructive ver-
sus suppression of enemy air defenses
(SEAD vs. DEAD); bombs versus HARM.
This saved the idea of Wild Weasel op-
erations, Hampton writes.
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat,
ISBN 978-0-06-213035-8, was published
by William Morrow an Imprint of Harper
Collins Publishers, 2012. a
Viper Pilot:
A Memoir of
Air Combat
by Dan Hampton
and gratitude for those who keep
the F-16s and their electronics in
top condition. While some find such
a self-centered attitude a bit much, be-
cause of my Red Flag experience, this
reviewer can attest that this confidence
can be what enables a fighter pilot to
face the dangers and challenges of the
job. This becomes clear as Hampton re-
lives his life and exploits as an F-16
Weasel driver.
The reader has a chance to catch
his or her breath after the sweaty-palm
opening as the book takes the reader
through the making and training of a
fighter pilot; starting with the authors
first flying advice from his Dad; If the
trees are getting big, pull back till you
see blue. From UPT (Undergraduate Pi-
lot Training) through Lead-In Fighter
Training (LIFT), to the first-time assign-
ment to a fighter squadron; Hampton
lets the reader feel what the life is like.
A fascinating, sometimes humorous,
often scary, section brings out stories
of Hamptons assignment supporting
the Egyptian Air Force by helping train
their pilots and performing Functional
Test Flights on aircraft coming out of
heavy maintenance. Combat is not the
only terrorizing side of flying.
He also brings us through the
vaunted Fighter Weapons School, mak-
ing it clear why pilots who wear that
patch deserve all the respect they can
get. Fighter Weapons School was a tre-
mendous, life-altering experience and
you truly emerge as someone else, he
writes. This makes Nel- -
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L
ast month, we looked at the various components
of heat-seeking missiles, including early tracking
reticles. Now we will consider some more modern
tracking reticles. In each of these discussions,
keep in mind that the objective is to determine the
angular position of the target in the trackers field
of view so that the missile carrying the tracker can be steered
to place the target at the optical axis.
WAGON WHEEL RETICLE
The wagon wheel reticle is not rotated, but rather nutated
to move it in a conical scanning pattern. This causes a target
to move through the tracking window in a circular pattern.
As shown in Figure 1, the energy to the sensing cell has a
number of non-uniform pulses when the target is off axis. To
center the target in the tracker, the trackers optical axis must
be moved in the direction opposite to the narrowest pulses.
Note that when the target is centered on the optical axis of
the tracker, the clear and opaque segments of the reticle would
cause a constant square wave pattern of energy to the sensor
as shown in Figure 2. The rising sun reticle shown in Figure
4 last month causes the amount of energy in each pulse to the
sensing cell to reduce as the target moves toward the optical
axis of the tracker causing a zero signal when the tracker is
aimed directly at the target. The wagon wheel reticle has the
advantage of a strong signal when the target is centered.
Target
Energy Reaching Sensor
Time
Energy to sensor
Figure 1: The wagon wheel reticle does not rotate. It is offset from the
optical axis and moves in a conical pattern.
Figure 2: When the target is centered in the tracker (i.e., at the optical
axis), the wagon wheel reticle produces a constant square wave of
energy into the sensing cell.
Figure 3: The multiple frequency reticle produces an energy pattern in
which the number of pulses varies with the off-axis angle of the target.
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Infrared Systems and Countermeasures Part 3
Tracking Reticles
By Dave Adamy
MULTIPLE FREQUENCY RETICLE
Note that the reticle shown in Figure 3 causes a series of
energy pulses into the sensor half of the time just like the ris-
ing sun reticle. However, the number of pulses to the sensor as
the target passes through the clear/opaque area of the reticle
has differing numbers of pulses depending on the angle be-
tween the target direction and the optical axis of the tracker.
The tracker is only tracking a single target, but the figure
shows two targets to illustrate the different energy patterns.
The target shown in red is farther away from the optical axis
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than the target shown in green. You will note that the red
target causes a pulse pattern with nine pulses, and the green
target causes only a six-pulse pattern. This allows the tracking
logic to determine the angular tracking error magnitude so
the correct steering correction can be made. Just as in the ris-
ing sun tracker, the direction the missile must turn to center
the target in the tracker is derived from the time at which the
pulse pattern starts.
CURVED SPOKE RETICLE
The reticle shown in Figure 4 has curved spokes and has
a large, functionally shaped opaque area. It is rotated around
the optical axis of the tracker. The curved spokes are designed
to discriminate against straight line interfering optical inter-
ference. The horizon has a bright line, and reflections from
various objects would reach the tracker as straight, bright
lines, which can interfere with the tracking processing.
Note that the shape of the opaque area causes a difference
in the number of spokes through which a target passes as a
function of the angle between the target and the optical axis.
If the target is near the outer edge of the reticle, there will be
seven pulses of energy covering half of the time. As the target
moves toward the optical axis, the number of energy pulses
increases, as does the percentage of time that the pulses are
present. When the target is very near the optical axis, there
are 11 pulses of energy and the pulses occupy nearly 100 per-
cent of the time of a reticle rotation. This allows for propor-
tional guidance just as in the multiple frequency reticle.
ROSETTE TRACKER
The rosette tracker shown in Figure 5 moves the focal point
of the sensor in the pattern shown. This movement is accom-
plished by two counter-rotating optical elements, and the ro-
sette can have any number of petals. As the sensor is moved
through the target, a pulse of energy reaches the sensor. In the
figure, the target is shown in a location where it is covered by
two petals. Thus, there are two response pulses. The location
of the target relative to the optical axis is determined from the
timing of the energy pulses.
CROSSED LINEAR ARRAY TRACKER
The crossed linear array shown in Figure 6 has four linear
sensors. The array is nutated to move it in a conical scan. As
the target passes through each of the four sensors, an energy
pulse is generated. The location of the target relative to the
optical axis of the tracker is determined from the timing of the
energy pulse in each sensor.
Time
Energy to sensor
TARGET
Figure 5: The timing of the energy bursts into the sensor following a
rosette pattern, which determines the angular position of the target.
TARGET
Figure 6: The crossed linear array has four linear sensors. The array is
nutated, and outputs a pulse as each sensor passes through the target
location.
Figure 4: The curved spoke reticle discriminates against straight line
extraneous inputs (such as the horizon). It also inputs an energy
pattern with a number of pulses proportional to the off-axis angle
of the target.
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IMAGING TRACKER
The imaging tracker creates an optical image of the target.
As shown in Figure 7, the tracker can have a two dimensional
array of sensors or can move a single sensor in a raster scan
pattern as is done in a commercial television camera. Each lo-
cation creates a pixel from which the processor can create a
representation of the size and shape of the target and its an-
gular location relative to the optical axis.
As in all optical devices, the number of pixels deter-
mines the resolution that
can be achieved. In gen-
eral, the imaging tracker
is usually thought of as a
terminal guidance device
because it will have rela-
tively few pixels. Thus, to
have enough pixels on the
target to identify it as the
tracked target, the mis-
sile (carrying the tracker)
must be relatively close.
Some literature has given
approximately 20 as the
number of pixels that can
receive target energy at
the acquisition range.
In the figure, the pixels
on the target are shown in
green. This does not make a very clear picture of an airplane,
but it looks radically different from a thermal decoy. The decoy
would likely occupy only a single pixel allowing the processor
to reject the decoy in favor of the target aircraft.
Whats Next
Next month, we will discuss the sensors, including those
for so-called two-color trackers. For your comments and sug-
gestions, Dave Adamy can be reached at dave@lynxpub.com. a
Figure 7: An imaging tracker has either a number of sensors in a two-dimensional array or a single sensor, which
is moved over an angular area in a raster pattern. It creates an image of the target.
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UK
UK HOSTS 8TH CLASSIFIED 4-EYES EW SYMPOSIUM
The eighth classified EW Sympo-
sium was held December 5-6 at the
Defence Capability Centre, part of the
UKs Defence Academy at Shrivenham
80 miles west of London. John Clifford
OBE, Director Global Operations, AOC
Global, and President of the AOC UK
Chapter, organized and ran the opera-
tional program while Professor Rich-
ard Ormondroyd, Associate Dean for
Research in the School of Defence and
Security, Cranfield University, ran the
industry and academic parts. Michael
Hewetson OBE, Director of Symposia
at Shrivenham, and his excellent team
ran the logistics of the event with
his usual humor and thoroughness.
The Symposium was judged to be a
huge success by delegates, exhibitors,
speakers and organizers.
The theme of the 2012 Symposium was Full Spectrum EM
Operations: The Future of EW, ISTAR and SIGINT. As described
in pre-event publicity, the symposium was designed to: dis-
cuss the future of EW, ISTAR, and SIGINT in the context of
electromagnetic operations (EMO) derived from the NATO EW
transformation concept, which recognizes the EM environment
as a real, vital, war-fighting manoeuvre space. Future opera-
tions are increasingly being realized in congested and contest-
ed complex environments across the spectrum of conflict in
hot spots around the world, in cyberspace and counter-piracy
and against terrorism everywhere. Successive defense spend-
ing cuts have created new challenges for electronic warfare
and other EM capabilities. Yet the need for accurate and timely
ISTAR has never been greater and the requirement to counter
potential adversarys systems is growing. Following the format
of previous EW Symposia, this Symposium will use a mix of
invited and contributed papers. Many of the invited papers will
have an operational bias related to the main theme. These will
be interspersed with contributed papers that will be an oppor-
tunity for researchers to showcase their latest work in areas
related to EW, ISTAR and SIGINT and other EMO capabilities,
including threats; capabilities; platform, force and area protec-
tion; intelligence; advanced technology; integration, modelling
and simulation. In recognition of the important contribution
that the SME community makes in EW and ISTAR, contributed
papers from SMEs are particularly welcome.
Brigadier Steve Vickery, himself a former CO of the Brit-
ish Armys 14 Signals Regt (EW) and now Head of the Cen-
tre for Defence Acquisition and Technology, welcomed more
than 100 delegates to the Academy. He, like all the other
operational speakers, has a huge amount of warfighting ex-
perience in a variety of theaters over many years, includ-
ing Afghanistan. He is also a Chartered Engineer and Fellow
of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). He
was followed by Lt Col Mark Purves, current CO of 14 Sig
Regt (EW), who drew on on-going operations in Afghani-
stan, where one of his squadrons is currently serving, to talk
to great effect about the state of current EW, and on work
to ultimately transform the Regiment from a COIN-focus to
one able to support any potential contingency operation.
He used operational vignettes to underline the importance
of ISTAR and EW layering and all-source coordination, con-
cluding that the mature ISTAR-rich and largely uncontested
EM environment in Helmand Province in Afghanistan should
not lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn about the
future.
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Lt Col Chris Middleton MBE, CO 30 Cdo Royal Marines
(RM), and Major Rob Thorpe, OC Y Sqn (EW/SI) RM, took up
the gauntlet in the next two presentations on 21st Century
Information Exploitation: Taking The Lessons from Helmand
in Contingency Operations and Beyond Helmand: EW and
SIGINT in the Response Forces Task Group. These presenta-
tions were largely written while the Commandos were em-
barked on RN warships as part of the large-scale COUGAR 12
littoral warfare exercise in the Mediterranean and displayed
an incredible level of intellect, capability and resolve. A bo-
nus was a side briefing on COUGAR and the critical role of EW
in finding, fixing and defeating opposing forces. The morn-
ing concluded with a lively operational panel discussion.
The afternoon included sessions on EW Technology and
Exploitation of the Spectrum. The former included R&D to
Support Situation Awareness and Survivability by Professor
Steve Roberts of SELEX Galileo, which led to some spirited
debate; Gordon Slater, of Slater Aerosystems, talked about
De-risking Platform Clearance of EW Systems, increasingly
important in these financially challenging times, and Rus-
sell Searle of RJD Technology Ltd talked about EW SMEs driv-
ing the EW agenda forward. The final session started with
Paul Flavell of Logica talking about Integration in the EM
Environment and concluded with an update on Passive Co-
herent Location by Professor Ormondroyd.
A truly outstanding formal dinner was held in a most un-
usual venue; perhaps the most unusual ever for an EW event,
as it took place in STEAM, the Museum of the Great Western
Railway. STEAM is housed in a beautifully-restored Grade II
railway building in the heart of the former Swindon railway
works. There, surrounded by beautiful steam engines and fas-
cinating railway artifacts, with a small brass band playing,
a convivial evening was had by all. After the Loyal Toast,
the highlight was the informal after-dinner speech given by
the Special Guest, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach KCB CBE
FRAeS RAF, Commander UK Joint Forces Command. Sir Stuart
outlined his understanding of the need for advocacy, enthu-
siasm, leadership and governance for UK EM and EW capa-
bilities, to leverage the past and prepare for the future. He
finished by presenting the UK Chapters operational award for
work in 2011 to 30 Cdo /Y Sqn RM for their great achievements
in conducting EW/SI operations. The Dinner was sponsored by
Babcock and Boeing, who are to be congratulated on having
helped ensure a truly memorable experience.
The second day continued with the same operational pace
and intellectual content. Brigadier Nick Davies started off with
a keynote looking at the thesis and theme of the Symposium
and providing great insights, before explaining the role of the
new Joint Forces Intelligence Group, which he commands. With
the scene so well set, Sqn Ldr Richard Birchenall PhD of the
Defence Intelligence Staff gave an impressively detailed and in-
sightful talk on Integrated Air Defence Systems and the threat
they pose to UK Forces (allies too), comparing and contrast-
ing the IADS of Libya at the start of operations in support of
NATOs Operation Unified Protector with those of significantly
more capable IADS in nearby countries. Richard is shortly to
leave the RAF after 22 years service and is looking for new
challenges. On this showing, he should be snapped up by poten-
tial employers. Major Grant Johnston, OC 225 Signal Squadron
(ECM(Force Protection)), part of 10 Signal Regt, next gave an
overview of his unit, which is responsible for all UK C-RCIED
operational support, training of UK and some coalition partners
and elements of the Afghan National Army. It is also in charge
of updating equipment countermeasures, ensuring vehicle kits
work and resolving issues, with a small permanent deployment
in Afghanistan. With 35-plus years experience, 225 Sig Sqn and
its predecessors are uniquely qualified in this field. Capt Rosie
Bonnor, Operations Officer, 225 Sig Sqn, then maintained the
pace with insights into the actual equipment used, the various
threats and plans for upgrades and new capability in the move
from COIN to contingency operations. Both officers returned
to the UK from Afghanistan just days before the Symposium.
Next off, Commander Dave Hewitt briefed on the UK Defence
EW Centre and its role in supporting operations, the changes
taking place and the challenges and opportunities ahead. John
Clifford, as UK Chapter President, rounded off the mornings
operational sessions with a brief used at the NATO School on
NATO EW transformation concept and its use by UK forces and
implications for industry.
The final afternoon had sessions on RF Countermea-
sures with two more classified briefs from DSTL, by Paul
Potter and Malcolm Hodkin, on expendable active decoys for
air platforms, focusing on the evolution of a revolutionary
capability, The final session, on Electronic Surveillance,
included the communications and cross-cutting EW program
by Dr. Giles Bond of QinetiQ and Chris Tarran of Roke Manor
Research; autonomic sensor surveillance in the cloud, by Dr
Darminder Ghataoura from the University of Surrey, and op-
timizing detection of pulsed radar in a digital receiver by
Graham MacKerron of SELEX Galileo. Malcolm Hodkin of DSTL
rounded out the symposium with a brief on radar counter-
measures against threat air defence systems.
In conclusion, this was a truly content-packed SECRET sym-
posium which left everyone buzzing with ideas and good will
and frankly in awe at what the UK armed forces are doing with
EW and other EM capabilities. Moreover, all these forces and
their commanders, having learnt a great deal about EW in COIN,
have set their sights firmly on the transition to perhaps more
challenging world-wide contingency operations. The EM con-
cepts and EW terminology that the UK has adopted along with
NATO is also proving to be a great success enabling day-to-day
operations, understanding across all levels of command, and
almost demanding thinking outside the box. A great way for
the UK Chapter and AOC Global to end the year and well placed
for whatever 2013 brings. Co-hosts Cranfield University and
Symposia at Shrivenham performed brilliantly throughout at
what was undoubtedly, from the perspective of those delegates,
exhibitors and speakers who attended, the c lassified EW con-
ference of 2012. John Clifford, OBE, UK Chapter President and
Director Global Operations, AOC Global
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COMING OF AGE 3RD SUCCESSFUL ELECTRONIC WARFARE
CONFERENCE FOR THE GCC
With a very successful third foray into Abu Dhabi for an
Electronic Warfare Conference under the patronage of the
UAE Electronic Warfare Command, EW GCC can justifiably
claim to have come of age.
The attendance of Gulf Co-operative Council members
(GCC) alongside UAE Armed Forces personnel and dele-
gates from 14 nations swelled the numbers to 300, more
than justifying the aspirations of the 8 Sponsor Compa-
nies as well as exhibitors (which were deliberately lim-
ited to a total of 20). A comprehensive program, matching
delegates to companies, ensured a worthwhile result in
Connecting Business.
A discerning UAE customer encouraged the inclusion
of a broader base of subjects including cyber warfare and
directed energy weapons (delivered by local speakers) and
complementary presentations on counter-IED from the NATO
Communication and Information Agency and Captain Na-
than Blencowe, Royal Engineers, part of the team training
the Afghan National Army.
Contributions from Wg Cdr John Clifford, RAF (Ret.), Di-
rector of AOC Global Operations (and President of the UK
Chapter) and Dr. Sami Al Humaidi, Managing Director,
Prince Sultan Advanced Technologies Research Institute,
Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabias AOC President) introduced a
fresh dimension.
UAE EW Command has an intensive program of develop-
ment for its personnel, (both in-house and overseas), result-
ing in an attentive and well-informed audience. Company
presentations coupled with VIP events ensured networking
at a high level, introducing EW products and capabilities to
key opinion formers from across the region. For Tangent
Link, the event organizer, this positive exposure promises to
bring an expansion of its defence and aerospace conferences
across the region.
Thanks to all who contributed to and supported this
highly professional effort. Join us on www.tangentlink.com
to view the forward looking Event Portfolio. Rear Admiral
Terry Loughran, Conference Chairman
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: AOC 2013 ANNUAL ELECTION
Nominations for the 2013 AOC Annual Election are cur-
rently being accepted. Help determine the future of the AOC
by nominating yourself or your colleagues to serve on the
board.
The 2013 election slate will include the position of Pres-
ident-Elect, who will serve as Vice President in 2014 and as
President in 2015. The AOC President appoints the Associa-
tions Secretary and Treasurer, presides over the Board of
Directors and Executive Committee and appoints committee
chairs. The President is also the AOCs primary spokesperson,
visiting AOC chapters across the world and meeting with
leaders in the Electronic Warfare community.
The 2013 election slate will also include three At Large Di-
rector positions. At Large directors serve a three-year term.
In addition, Regional Directors will be elected for three-year
terms from the International I, International II and Infor-
mation Operations Regions.
Nomination packets must be received at AOC headquar-
ters by close-of-business on March 1, 2013. If you wish to
nominate more than one person, please duplicate the form.
Nomination Forms are available on the AOC website at www.
crows.org or by contacting Glenda Reyes-Montanez at reyes-
montanez@crows.org. For any questions or assistance,
please contact:
Glenda Reyes-Montanez, AOC Election Coordinator
Office: (703) 549-1600
Fax: (703) 549-2589
E-mail: reyes-montanez@crows.org
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A O C a s s o c i a t i o n n e w s
AOC CAPITOL CLUB ANNOUNCES THE JOSEPH R. PITTS ELECTRONIC
WARFARE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
The AOC Capitol Club has announced the new Jo-
seph R. Pitts Electronic Warfare (EW) Scholarship
Program, a scholarship opportunity designed to help
noncommissioned officers serving in the US armed
forces pursue postsecondary education degrees to
advance their military and career direction in fields
related to electronic warfare.
The scholarship program is named after the
Honorable Joseph R. Pitts in recognition of his
military service, career as an educator, and his
lifetime support of the electronic warfare disci-
pline. He served five and a half years in the U.S.
Air Force, with three tours of duty in Vietnam. He was
trained as an EW officer. Joseph Pitts was also a math
and science teacher in both Kentucky and Pennsylvania
public schools. Additionally, he was elected to Congress in
1996, where he established the Congressional EW Working
Group, a bipartisan caucus dedicated to educating gov-
ernment leaders about the importance of EW to military
operations. Throughout his military and professional ca-
reer, he has worked to strengthen the
EW community and cultivate leaders
to advance the discipline.
The $2,500 scholarship will be
awarded annually. To be eligible for the
scholarship, applicants must be from
the greater Washington, DC metropoli-
tan area or be enrolled in a regional
school for the fall 2013 semester. Ap-
plicants may pursue undergraduate,
graduate, post-graduate or professional
certificate degrees; however, prefer-
ence will be given to students pursuing the highest degree
to advance their career in EW. The application deadline for
the 2013 award is March 1, 2013. The awardee will be an-
nounced in April 2013 and the scholarship will be awarded
through the selected students educational institution.
For more information or to download an appli-
cation, please visit the AOC Capitol Club website at
www.aoccapitolclub.com.
AOC TECHNOLOGY HALL OF FAME MEMBER BUD SEARS PASSES
William E. Bud Sears III, a principal research engineer
with GTRI, a member of the AOC EW Technology Hall of Fame,
one of the founders of the Peacthree Roost and former lab
director of ELSYS, died unexpectedly on Jan. 20. He was 67.
Sears had more than 39 years of experience in radar and
electronic warfare and served as director of ELSYS from
1996-1997. During his career he served as a branch head and
division chief in addition to lab director.
We will miss Bud, said Tom McDermott, GTRIs deputy
director and director of research. He took me under his wing
when I first came to GTRI and got me started in the profes-
sional education program, as well as teaching me the details
of electronic warfare techniques and threat systems.
Bob Zimmer, a former ELSYS colleague, recalled how Sears
work on various radar problems became the foundation for
his work in electronic warfare.
In the late 70s he was the leader in GTRI receiving its
first Electronic Warfare Techniques Assessment program,
which exists even today, Zimmer said. He was dedicated
to modeling and analysis in the electronic defense area and
used many of his models in analyzing the effectiveness of
electronic countermeasures. He realized the importance of
training our employees and made sure all knew the funda-
mentals of electronic warfare.
His emphasis on internal training led to the development
of short courses which were given to the public, Zimmer said.
He also provided consulting services to the Department of
Defense Science Board in developing investment strategies
for the combined utilization of laser optics and electronic
warfare technologies in combat.
Bud was born in Buford, Georgia and graduated Vale-
dictorian from Buford High School. He earned his Bachelor
of Electrical Engineering and Master of Science in Electri-
cal Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Bud
started working for Georgia Tech while still a student and
continued for a 30-year career retiring as the Director of
the Electronic Systems Laboratory at Georgia Tech Research
Institute (GTRI).
He was one of the founders of the Peachtree Roost of the
Association of Old Crows (AOC) in 1977 and was inducted into
the AOC EW Technology Hall of Fame. After retiring from
GTRI in 1998, Sears continued to support GTRI through mul-
tiple sales efforts and administrative support of the Office of
Organizational Development. He founded a small consulting
firm, EWCA, and continued his educational activities in the
fields of Radar and EW at Robins AFB and Eglin AFB.
Bud is survived by his wife of forty-six years, Beverly
Miller Sears of Sugar Hill, GA; two daughters and sons-in-law
and six grandchildren, among others.
Funeral services were held Jan. 24. Donations may be
made to the Suwanee United Methodist Church, 603 Scales
Road, Suwanee, GA 30024 in memory of William Earl (Bud)
Sears, III. To express condolences, please sign the online
guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com. a
SUSTAINING
Agilent Technologies
Applied Research Associates Inc.
Argon ST
BAE SYSTEMS
The Boeing Company
Chemring Group Plc
DRS Defense Solutions
Electronic Warfare Associates, Inc.
Elettronica, SpA
Exelis
General Dynamics
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Raytheon Company
Rockwell Collins
Saab
TASC
Thales Communications
Thales Aerospace Division
INSTITUTE/UNIVERSITY
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Mercer Engineering
Research Center
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
National EW Research and
Simulation Center
GROUP
3dB Labs Inc.
453 EWS/EDW Research
AAI Corporation
Active Spectrum Inc.
Advanced Concepts
Advanced Testing Technologies
Advanced Reconnaissance Corp.
Aeronix
Aethercomm, Inc.
A.G. Franz, LLC
Air Scan Inc.
Akon, Inc.
Alion Science and Technology
Allen Vanguard
Alpha Design Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
American Systems
AMPEX Data Systems
Amplifier Technology Limited
Anaren Microwave, Inc.
Anatech Electronics
Annapolis Micro
Systems, Inc.
Anritsu
ApisSys SAS
Applied Geo Technologies
Applied Signal Technology
ARC Technologies Solutions
ARIEL Group, Inc.
ARINC, Inc.
Aselsan A.S.
ATDI
ATK Defense Electronic Systems
Atkinson Aeronautics &
Technology, Inc.
Atos IT Solutions and Services AG
Avalon Electronics, Inc.
Azure Summit Technologies, Inc.
Ball Aerospace Technologies Corp.
B&Z Technologies, LLC
Battlespace Simulations, Inc.
Bharat Electronics Ltd.
Blackhawk Management Corporation
Blue Ridge Envisioneering, Inc.
Booz & Allen Hamilton
CACI International
CAE
CAP Wireless, Inc.
Ceralta Technologies Inc.
Clausewitz Technology
ClearanceJobs.com
Cobham DES M/A-Com
Cobham Sensor Systems
Colorado Engineering Inc.
Communications Audit UK Ltd.
Comtech PST
Concord Components Inc.
CPI
Crane Aerospace & Electronics
CSIR
CSP Associates
Cubic Defense
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded
Computing
CyberVillage
Networkers Inc.
DARE Electronics Inc.
Dayton-Granger, Inc.
dB Control
Defence R&D Canada
Defense Research
Associates Inc.
Delta Microwave
DHPC Technologies, Inc.
DRS Tactical Systems
D-TA Systems, Inc.
Dynetics, Inc.
EADS Deutschland GmbH, Defense
Electronics
EADS North America
Electro-Metrics
Elektrobit Wireless
Communications Ltd.
Elisra Electronic
Systems, Ltd
ELTA Systems Ltd
EM Research Inc.
Empower RF Systems
EMS Technologies Inc.
Eonic B.V.
ESL Defence Limited
ESROE Limited
Esterline Defense Group
ET Industries
ETM Electromatic Inc.
e2v Aerospace and Defense, Inc.
EW Simulation
Technology Ltd
EWA-Australia Pty Ltd.
FEI-Elcom Tech, Inc.
GBL Systems
Gigatronics Inc.
Herley CTI
Hittite Microwave
Honeywell International
Huber + Suhner
Hunter Technology Corp.
Hutchins & Associates, Inc.
Impact Cases Inc.
Impact Science & Technology
Impulse Technologies Inc.
Information Warfare Technologies
Innovationszentrum Fur
Telekommunikation
-stechnik GmbH (IZT)
Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC
ISPAS as
ITCN, Inc.
iVeia, LLC
Jabil Circuit
JB Management, Inc.
JP Morgan Chase
JT3, LLC
Keragis Corporation
KRYTAR, Inc.
KMIC Technology
KOR Electronics, Inc.
L-3 Communications
L-3 Communications-Applied Signal &
Image Technology
L-3 Communications Cincinnati
Electronics
L-3 Communications/ Randtron
Antenna Systems
LNX Corporation
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin Aculight Corporation
Logos Microwave
Longmont Machining
Lorch Microwave
LS telcom AG
MacAulay-Brown
MANTECH Security Technologies
Mass Consultants
MC Countermeasures, Inc.
MegaPhase
Mercury Computer Systems
Micro-Coax, Inc.
Microsemi Corporation
Micro Systems
Midcon Cable Company
MiKES Microwave Electronic Systems
Inc.
Miles Industrial Electronics Ltd.
Milso AB
MITEQ, Inc.
The MITRE Corporation
Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.
MRSL
Multiconsult Srl
My-konsult
New World Solutions, Inc.
Nova Defence
Nurad Technologies, Inc
Ophir RF Inc.
Optocon USA, Division of Impulse
Orion International Technologies
Overlook Systems Technology
Overwatch Systems Ltd.
Parker Aerospace (SprayCool)
Peralex
Phoenix International Systems, Inc.
Plath, GmbH
Protium Technologies, Inc.
QUALCOMM
Queued Solutions, L.L.C.
Rafael-Electronic
Systems Div.
Research Associates
of Syracuse, Inc.
RF Simulation Systems Inc.
Rheinmetall Air Defence AG
Rising Edge Technologies
Rohde & Schwarz
GmbH & Co. KG
Rohde & Schwarz USA
RUAG Holding
Science Applications International
Corporation
Scientific Research Corporation
SELEX Galileo Inc.
The Shephard Group
Siemens IT Solutions and Services
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Sivers IMA AB
Soneticom, Inc.
SOS International
SOURIAU PA&E
Southern Marketing
Associates, Inc.
SpecPro-Inc.
Spectranetix, Inc.
Spectrum Signal Processing
by Vecima
SR Technologies
SRC, Inc.
SRCTec, Inc.
SRI International
STI Electronics, Inc.
Strategic Influence Alternatives, Inc.
Subsidium
Sunshine Aero Industries
SURVICE Engineering Co.
Symetrics Industries, LLC
Sypris Data Systems
Systematic Software Engineering
Systems & Processes Engineering Corp.
SystemWare Inc.
Tactical Technologies Inc.
Tadiran Electronic
Systems Ltd.
TASC
TCI International
Tech Resources, Inc.
Technical Information
Products & Services LLC (TIPS)
Technology Management Consultants
TECOM Industries
TEK Microsystems, Inc.
Tektronix, Inc.
Tektronix Component Solutions
Teledyne Technologies
Teleplan AS
Teligy
TERASYS Technologies, LLC
TERMA A/S
Thales Components Corp.
Thales Homeland Security
Times Microwave Systems
TINEX AS
TMD Technologies
TRAK Microwave
TriaSys Technologies Corp.
TriQuint Inc.
Tri Star Engineering
TRU Corporation
Ultra Electronics Avalon Systems
Ultra Electronics Telemus
URS Corp.
Vigilance
VMR Electronics LLC
W.L. Gore & Associates
W5 Technologies, Inc.
Wavepoint Research, Inc.
Werlatone Inc.
Wideband Systems, Inc.
X-Com Systems
ZETA Associates
Zodiac Data Systems
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Elisra Electronic Systems ..............................www.elisra.com ....................................................... 23
Emhiser Research ..........................................www.emhiser.com .................................................... 10
EW Simulation Technology Ltd. .....................www.ewst.co.uk .........................................................5
GEW Technologies (PTY) Ltd .........................www.gew.co.za ..........................................................8
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation ....................www.hawkerbeechcraft.com ..................................... 16
The Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory ........................www.jhuapl.edu ....................................................... 30
Mercury Defense Systems ..............................www.mrcy.com ..........................................................3
PLATH AG - Go2SIGNALS ................................www.go2signals.ch .................................................. 17
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SRC, Inc. .........................................................www.srcinc.com .........................................................7
Warfare Solutions, LLC ..................................www.warfaresolutions.com ....................................... 31
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Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) ............................................................. 20
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach KCB CBE FRAeS,
UK Joint Forces Command ............................................................ 37
AOC, Board of Directors Nominations ................................................. 38
AOC, renewed government affairs initiative ....................................... 18
BAE Systems, ALE-55 contract ........................................................... 17
Bob Katelhut, Warfare Solutions ........................................................ 29
Book Review: Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat .............................. 32
Brigadier Nick Davies, Joint Forces Intelligence Group ........................ 37
Brigadier Steve Vickery, UK Defence Acquisition and Technology......... 36
Capt Rosie Bonnor, 225 Sig Sqn.......................................................... 37
Captain Nathan Blencowe, Royal Engineers ........................................ 38
Cassidian, SIGINT suite for EuroHawk ................................................ 19
Chris Michalski, Mercury Defense Systems ......................................... 25
Chris Tarran, Roke Manor Research .................................................... 37
Christo Pelster, Saab......................................................................... 22
Cobham, NAVAIR contract for ALQ-99 low-band transmitters ............... 17
Commander Dave Hewitt, UK Defence EW Centre ................................ 37
Dan Hampton, Viper Pilot.................................................................. 32
Dassault Aviation, Rafale purchase for India ...................................... 19
Distributed Common Ground System Army (DCGS-A) ......................... 21
DOD, Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) solicitation topics ..... 18
Dr. Darminder Ghataoura, University of Surrey ................................... 37
Dr. Giles Bond, QinetiQ ..................................................................... 37
Dr. Sami Al Humaidi, Prince Sultan Advanced Technologies
Research Institute ...................................................................... 38
Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool (EWPMT) ............... 13
Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance
System (EMARSS)........................................................................ 21
EW advocacy ........................................................................... 6, 12, 18
EW Careers ....................................................................................... 29
EW Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) conference .................................... 38
Gordon Slater, Slate Aerosystems....................................................... 37
Graham MacKerron, SELEX Galileo ..................................................... 37
Hawker Beechcraft, RC-12 ................................................................. 21
Hawker Beechcraft, modified King Air 350ERs .................................... 21
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Rafale construction for India .................. 19
India, considering additional fighter jet purchase .............................. 19
Infrared Systems and Countermeasures, part 3 ................................... 33
Integrated Electronic Warfare System (IEWS) ..................................... 13
John Clifford, OBE ............................................................................ 36
Joseph R. Pitts EW Scholarship program ............................................. 39
Lockheed Martin, Dragon ISR ............................................................ 23
Lt Col Chris Middleton MBE, Royal Marines ......................................... 37
Lt Col Mark Purves, 14 Sig Regt ......................................................... 36
LTC Dean Hoffman, PEO IEW&S .......................................................... 21
Major Grant Johnston, 225 Signal Squadron ....................................... 37
Major Rob Thorpe, Y Sqn (EW/SI) Royal Marines ................................. 37
Malcolm Hodkin, DSTL ...................................................................... 37
Michael Hewetson, OBE ..................................................................... 36
NIITEK, Spanish Army contract for Husky ground-penetrating radar .... 19
Northrop Grumman, EuroHawk SIGINT-sensor test flight ..................... 19
Northrop Grumman, NAVAIR contract
for LAIRCM processor/sensor upgrade ........................................... 17
Paul Flavell, Logica .......................................................................... 37
Paul Potter, DSTL.............................................................................. 37
Project Liberty MC-12W ..................................................................... 21
Raytheon BBN, contract for Acoustic Hostile Fire Indicator (A-HFI) ..... 17
Raytheon, Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suite (EISS) for
South Korea Global Hawk purchase ............................................... 19
RC-12 Guardrail ................................................................................ 20
RC-7 Airborne Reconnaissance Low ISR aircraft .................................. 20
Rear Admiral Terry Loughran ............................................................ 38
Richard Ormondroyd, Cranfield University ......................................... 36
Russell Searle, RJD Technology .......................................................... 37
Saab, AIRTRACER ............................................................................. 23
Saab, Integrated Defensive Aids Suite
contract from AgustaWestland ..................................................... 19
South Korea, request for SIGINT-equipped
Global Hawk purchase ................................................................. 19
Spanish Army, Husky ground-penetrating radar purchase ................... 19
Sqn Ldr Richard Birchenall, Defence Intelligence Staff ...................... 37
Steve Roberts, SELEX Galileo ............................................................. 37
Task Force ODIN ............................................................................... 21
Thales, new radar and integrated sensor Centre of Excellence
in Singapore ............................................................................... 19
UK 8th Classified 4-Eyes EW Symposium report .................................. 36
US Air Force, RFI for Global Horizons science and
technology study ........................................................................ 15
US Army, RFI for Spectrum Monitoring and Engineering
Control System (SMECS) life-cycle replacement ............................. 16
US Army, RFI for UAS EW capabilities ................................................ 14
US Army, RFP for IEWS Increment 1 ................................................... 13
William E. Bud Sears III, obituary ................................................... 39
X-Com Systems, US Army contract for mobile
RF recording, DF system ............................................................. 17
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