Electronic Warfare (EW)

Today’s global war on terror requires development of new and advanced EW techniques to protect the warfighter in new battlespace environments. Dynetics supports design, development, and test of EW equipment through our work with US Intelligence agencies and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Through intelligence data analysis, and threat weapon system analysis, exploitation, test, and evaluation, Dynetics develops a comprehensive description of the threat weapon system. This description forms the foundation for development of EW equipment. Dynetics–developed threat descriptions are designed to:

• Provide a complete system definition,
• Support US vulnerability assessments and countermeasure development, and
• Support tactics and simulator development.

Dynetics’ high–fidelity models and simulations of threat weapon systems support conceptual all phases of EW equipment development from concept of operations, through design and development, to test and evaluation. Dynetics’ real–time simulations are used in several HWIL test facilities throughout the US to test EW equipment under development or undergoing upgrades. We design and fabricate special test equipment and instrumentation to characterize the performance of threat weapon systems. This equipment/instrumentation used to:

• Characterize performance of threat weapon systems,
• Reveal threat system vulnerabilities, and
• Develop potential EW countermeasure techniques and tactics for further consideration.

Dynetics supports development of the Next Generation EWIR (Electronic Warfare Integrated Reprogramming) (NGE) that is revolutionizing the dissemination of threat RF waveform descriptions. NGE allows interactive display of threat RF waveforms and using Dynetics’ interface software, direct ingestion of these waveforms into RF waveform simulators can be accomplished. These simulators are then used to develop detection algorithms used in radar warning receivers and related EW equipment.

Dynetics directly supports development of advanced EW techniques for AFRL. We are developing concepts and conducting analyses of candidate EW techniques, using modeling and simulation, including Hardware in the Loop (HWIL) simulation, to support EW technique development for Electronic Attack, Electronic Protection, and Electronic Support systems.

Dynetics’ long-term support to the US Intelligence community and our high–fidelity digital models and simulations ensure new EW concepts and techniques can meet the challenges of current and future threats.