EPS 2020-02

WEBINAR

Teledyne Defense Electronics Launches ‘Virtual Trade Show’ as an Ongoing Showcase for Flagship Products and Services

Business Wire – 30/11/2020 – Teledyne Defense Electronics (TDE) this week unveiled a new interactive Virtual Trade Show online as a vehicle to promote key product lines and capabilities to customers in a permanent, ongoing… voir l’article

Stratégies

UK

RAAF Base Edinburgh to receive infrastructure boost

Mirage News – 30/11/2020 – The Morrison Government will invest more than $220 million in major infrastructure upgrades at RAAF Base Edinburgh. The significant investment will focus on maximising opportunities for businesses across South Australia, as the economy recovers from COVID-19. The upgrades will include the construction of a hangar, maintenance facilities, and operational accommodation to support the Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare MC-55A Peregrine capability. Lire l’article

USA

Congress requires shake-up in electromagnetic spectrum operations

C4ISRnet – 4/12/2020 – WASHINGTON — Congress is requiring a consolidation and transfer of all electromagnetic spectrum operations to a yet-to-be-determined entity. Language about the issue in the defense policy for fiscal 2021 that both congressional defense committees accepted and released Dec. 3 differs from the Senate Armed Services Committee’s version in June. President Donald Trump still has to sign off… lire l’article

Can America win the next big war?

Washington Examiner – 3/12/2020 – Every year, China and Russia independently invest hundreds of billions of dollars in pursuit of a single, overriding objective — attaining the ability to defeat America in a major war. But it is only now that the U.S. national security apparatus has begun to wake up to how successful Beijing’s and Moscow’s endeavors have been. Unless the Biden administration allocates continued resources to countering the gains America’s adversaries are making, Beijing and Moscow might soon be able to defeat America in a climactic conflict… lire l’article

US Army is looking for updates to its electronic warfare planning tool

C4ISRNet – 25/11/2020 – WASHINGTON — The Army is looking for potentially more vendors and capabilities for its Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool. EWMPT, which provides for mission planning and management within the electromagnetic spectrum, has been developed thus far by Raytheon and has taken advantage of what it calls software capability drops to add incremental capabilities. The system is also thought to be the front runner for the joint force to manage the electromagnetic spectrum… lire l’article

U.S. Blacklists Chinese Defense Firm for Sales to Venezuela

Réservé aux abonnés

The Wall Street Journal – 30/11/2020 – WASHINGTON—The Trump administration on Monday blacklisted a major Chinese government-owned defense company it said sold goods to Venezuela that aided political repression by the regime of President Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. Treasury Department said goods sold by China National Electronics Import & Export Corp., or CEIEC, helped the Maduro government restrict internet service and conduct digital surveillance and cyber operations against political opponents… lire l’article

How the Biden administration is expected to approach tech research and development

C4ISRNet – 30/11/2020 – WASHINGTON — Experts expect President-elect Joe Biden’s administration to build on the Trump administration’s investments in emerging technologies, while adding to research and development budgets in the Defense Department and across the federal government. Biden’s campaign platform calls for a four-year investment of $300 billion in R&D for new technology such as 5G, artificial intelligence, advanced materials and electric cars… lire l’article

Russie

OSCE SMM again spots Russian electronic warfare system in occupied Donbas

UK Inform – 2/12/2020 – An OSCE SMM long-range UAV spotted the latest Russian electronic warfare system R-330Zh Zhitel in the uncontrolled territory of Donbas, 5km from the border with Russia. “On 28 November at 23:29, about 4km west-north-west of Kovske (91km south of Donetsk) and about 5km from the border with the Russian Federation, an SMM long-range UAV spotted an electronic warfare system (R-330Zh Zhitel),” reads the daily report of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine issued on 1 December 2020… lire la suite

Russian-led forces violate ceasefire in Donbas four times

UK Inform – 30/11/2020 – On November 29, the Russian occupation forces violated the ceasefire in the areas of responsibility of Ukrainian units in Donbas four times. « The armed formations of the Russian Federation and Russia’s mercenaries violated the ceasefire in the area of Katerynivka (64km west of Luhansk), using grenade launchers of various systems and 82mm mortars. Outside Popasna (69km west of Luhansk), the enemy opened fire from grenade machine gun, small arms and hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher, » the press center of the JFO Headquarters reports. Lire l’article

Australie

The Next Phase of Australian National Security Strategy: Noise Before Defeat 2

SLD Info – 29/11/2020 – I am in the throes of finishing up my book on the evolution of Australian defence strategy over the past several years, from 2014 until now. With the announcement of the new government defence strategy by Prime Minister Morrison on July 1, 2020, it seemed a good time to draw together the work I have done over the past several years in Australia. The book provides a detailed narrative of the evolution over the past few years of how Australia got to the point where it currently is with regard to national defense. Lire l’article

Chine

China Threatens U.S. Primacy in Artificial Intelligence (UPDATED)

National Defense – 30/10/2020 – It is a statement that has been broadcasted and heard around the world: China intends to be the global leader of artificial intelligence by 2030. The country is putting its money where its mouth is, officials and analysts say, and making investments in AI that could threaten the United States and erode Washington’s advantages in the technology. “The Chinese Communist Party recognizes the transformational power of AI,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper recently said during remarks at the Defense Department’s AI Symposium and Exposition… Lire l’article

China Prepares for ‘Informationized’ War

Creators – 30/11/2020 – In March 2012, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, speaking to the National People’s Congress, declared that the Chinese military’s most important mission was « to win local wars under Information Age conditions. » Wen’s use of « local wars » drew immediate reaction. Given China’s territorial claims in Asia, locals such as Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan heard a threat. As for the phrase « under Information Age conditions, » media took that to mean the internet, interconnected global communications and pervasive information resources — information’s soft power side, to include propaganda to cover a Chinese « gray zone » war. Lire l’article

Japon

Japan launches joint military, scientific optical data relay satellite

Nasa SpaceFlight – 30/11/2020 – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan plans launched an H-IIA rocket on Sunday, 29 November to deploy a top secret communications satellite to support the country’s reconnaissance and scientific programs. Liftoff occurred at the start of a two-hour window that opened at 16:25 local time (07:25 UTC or 02:25 EST) from the Tanegashima Space Center.

The payload :

The Optical Data Relay Satellite payload aboard this mission will be used to relay data collected by Japan’s fleet of Information Gathering Satellites (IGS) – including both optical and radar-imaging reconnaissance spacecraft – back to Earth for analysis. It is a joint mission with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), who will also use the spacecraft to collect data from scientific satellites in low Earth orbit… lire la suite

Etudes de marché

Digital Radio Frequency Memory Market Giants to Grow at Much Faster Pace | Key players Northrop Grumman, Thales Group, Raytheon Company

The digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) is a device with storage means in which the radar signal is stored, controlled with jamming signals and then retransmitted to the threat. The digital radio frequency memory stores complete radar pulses together with their modulations, e.g. intrapulse modulation, it also stores RF pulses of different pulse repetition intervals (PRIs) without losing consistency and can immediately follow frequency agile radars. The purpose of the DRFM technique is to use high-speed sampling to digitally store and re-form radio frequency and microwave signals.

Key Players in This Report Include,
Northrop Grumman Corporation (United States), Thales Group (France), Raytheon Company (United States), BAE Systems plc (United Kingdom), Israel Aerospace Industries (Israel), Rohde & Schwarz (Germany), Elbit Systems Ltd (Israel), Leonardo S.p.A. (Italy), Airbus Group (Netherlands), Curtiss-Wright Corporation (United States) and L&T Ltd. (India) are some of the key players profiled in the study. Additionally, the Players which are also part of the research are Radio Frequency Simulation Systems, Inc. (United States), Mistral Solutions (India) and Mercury Systems (United States)… Voir l’étude

Ground Surveillance Radar Market Growth Strategy and Industry Developments to 2027 – ASELSAN, Elbit, FLIR®, HENSOLDT, L3Harris, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Saab AB, Thales Group

The Market Feed – 30/11/2020 – Ground surveillance radar are utilized to monitor activity surrounding critical infrastructure and installations such as borders, airports, power plants, harbors and camps. These radars are having capability to detect every activities at ground level of targets. Security & surveillance radar systems are also utilized for tracking and detection of small, non-linearly and non-cooperative, moving targets for national security. Advancement in border surveillance systems, requirement for drone detection systems at airports and increasing need for missile detection systems are some of the major factors driving the growth of the market. Moreover, Advancement in radar technologies and Advancement in electronic warfare is anticipated to boost the growth of the ground surveillance radar market… Voir l’étude

Global Multibeam Antennas Market Trends, Growth Demand, Opportunities & Forecast To 2026

The Courier – 28/11/2020 – The Multibeam Antennas market report, published by Syndicate Market Research, offers an organized assessment of the important aspects of the global Multibeam Antennas market, serving as a means to the better evaluation of the present and future situations of the market. The report provides a 360-degree outline of the competitive landscape of the Multibeam Antennas market. It also consists of wide-ranging data in relation to the prominent competitors/players ( Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Commscope, Comba Telecom, Kathrein, AT&T, ET Industries, CCI antennas ) of the industry. These data comprise numerous companies, organizations, suppliers, manufacturers, and associations competing for supply, production, revenue generation, sales, and after-sales performance opportunities. Multibeam Antennas Market acquired revenue of USD XX million in 2019 globally and has been anticipated to produce USD XX million by 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of xx% over the estimate period… Voir l’étude

Global Extremely High Frequency Military Antenna Market Report 2020 – Covering Impact of COVID-19, Financial Information, Developments, SWOT Analysis by Global Top Companies | Harris, Cobham, Rohde Schwarz, Terma, Rami

The Courier – 29/11/2020 – Report covers a detailed analysis of the Extremely High Frequency Military Antenna Market in the estimated forecast period. It analyses and determines the effect of the external factors which are impacting the revenues and the growth of the market in the estimated forecast period. In addition, with the emergence of the global pandemic, the effect of COVID-19 is also analyzed in the report. Based on the type and applications, introduction of new products and research involved in the development of new products is one of the major aspects which is likely to have an impact on the Extremely High Frequency Military Antenna Market. Similarly, the impact of the COVID-19 on the manufacturing and the effect of the demand for these products is also one of the major aspects which are likely to have an impact on the growth of the market in the estimated forecasts period… Voir l’étude

Capacités

Traitement des données

USA

Chiffrement

DISA starts to monitor quantum-resistant encryption capabilities

C4ISRNet – 3/12/2020 – WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency has begun monitoring encryption capabilities that could protect defense communications from powerful quantum computers, a top technology official said Thursday. At DISA’s annual forecast to industry, Stephen Wallace, systems innovation scientist at the agency’s emerging technology directorate, said that quantum-resistant encryption is a new technological area of focus for the agency in fiscal 2021. Quantum-resistant technology is only in the “monitor” stage, Wallace said, and DISA officials are working to get a better understanding of what the technology will mean in the future… lire l’article

SIGINT

USA

Management du spectre

Electromagnetic spectrum management tool coming next year

C4ISRNet – 4/12/2020 – WASHINGTON — Officials expect a tool to jointly manage the electromagnetic spectrum to kick off next year, helping commands strengthen battle plans to track and stop threats over the waves. Leaders have discussed the program, called Electromagnetic Battle Management, or EMBM, for some time, and it will now get started in fiscal year 2021. The electromagnetic spectrum has gained importance in recent years, with adversaries becoming more proficient in exploiting it to jam communications and geolocate units based solely on their electromagnetic signatures. As such, the Department of Defense has realized it needs to take a more holistic approach than just electronic warfare — the manipulation of signals — to planning and managing forces and systems within the spectrum… lire l’article

COMINT

3 Dimensional Monolithic System on a Chip (3DSoC)

DARPA.pdf

Motivation for the 3DSoC program
Program structure
Program metrics
Program schedule
Proposal specific

Voir le ppt de la DARPA

Research Conducted for DARPA NOMARS USV

UST Drones – 30/11/2020 – Gibbs & Cox’s DLBA naval architecture and marine engineering division has been selected to support DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO) in researching designs and technologies for the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) Program. This program aims to design, build, and field test an unmanned surface vessel (USV) that can operate autonomously for long durations at sea while requiring no human intervention or at-sea maintenance… lire l’article

Interception flux RF

Spaceflight Signs Multi-Launch Agreement with HawkEye 360

Via Satellite – 12/10/2020 – Spaceflight Inc. has signed a Multiple Launch Services Agreement (MLSA) with Earth Observation (EO) company HawkEye 360. Spaceflight announced Oct. 7 that it will provide capacity, engineering, and mission management services to launch HawkEye 360’s Cluster 4, 5, and 6 of its Radio Frequency (RF) mapping satellites. HawkEye 360 worked with Spaceflight to launch its first cluster of spacecraft on Spaceflight’s SSO-A rideshare mission with SpaceX in 2018. Its second cluster is set to launch with Spaceflight on its SpaceX Rideshare-3 (SXRS-3) mission via the Sherpa-FX orbital transfer vehicle in December. Hawkeye 360 completed environmental tests for Cluster 2 in July… lire l’article

HawkEye 360 Satellite System Tracked Chinese Activity near Galapagos

SEA Power – 8/10/2020 – ARLINGTON, Va. — The recent concentration of Chinese fishing vessels in the vicinity of the Galapagos Islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, accused of fishing inside the Ecuadorean Economic Exclusion (EEZ) around the islands, was tracked by a commercial satellite system that intercepts RF signals and can detect when a vessel turns off its AIS (Automatic Identification System). HawkEye 360, a commercial satellite company which specializes in RF geo-analytics, collected RF data from the Chinese fishing fleet near Galapagos and published the data, which the company said “reveals the Chinese vessels deactivated their Automatic Identification System (AIS) tracking system hundreds of times to ‘go dark.’ “ The discovery of the Chinese fishing fleet near Galapagos raised protests from Ecuador and other nations, despite the denial on Aug. 24 by Chinese Ambassador Chen Guoyou that the fishing fleet did not penetrate the EEZ. The Ecuadorean navy sent vessels to investigate the fleet, later joined by a U.S. Coast Guard cutter… lire l’article

Suite ELINT/COMINT

Lockheed Martin to provide design engineering services for AN/SLQ-32(V)6 of US Navy

Navy recognition – 29/11/2020 – AN/SLQ-32(V)6 or “SEWIP Lite”, the latest fielded variant of the AN/SLQ-32, incorporates receiver, antenna and combat system interface upgrades developed under the SEWIP Block 2 ACAT II program and adds the High Gain High Sensitivity adjunct sensor developed under the SEWIP Block 1B3 ACAT II program. SEWIP Lite is capable of both littoral and open ocean electronic surveillance. This system will be installed on fast U.S. Navy frigate class and U.S. Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutters. The SLQ-32(V) is the principal EW (Electronic Warfare) system carried by major US Navy surface ships, with more than 450 systems produced to date. The (V)1 and (V)2 suites are passive, providing early warning, identification, and direction finding capability for simultaneous multiple threats. The (V)3 suite provides an additional active response for simultaneous jamming of multiple threats. The (V)4… Lire l’article

Partenariat HE360 - Airbus

HawkEye 360 and Airbus form strategic partnership

HawkEye360 – 20/01/2020 – The companies will leverage their global relationships and capabilities to deliver high-impact geospatial intelligence solutions. Herndon, Virginia (January 20, 2020) — HawkEye 360 Inc., the first commercial company to use formation flying satellites to create a new class of radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Airbus, a global leader in the aerospace and defense industry. Through the partnership, Airbus and HawkEye 360 will deliver high-impact geospatial intelligence solutions not currently available. Both companies can leverage the platforms and services of the other partner to address client mission needs… lire l’article

EAU

Interception flux RF

Stratign – Communication Interception

StratIGN – Stratign intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) products and programs (Sensors, Platforms, Systems and Services) are designed and developed for our Intelligence customer to provide them with automated signal acquisition and intelligent processing. Stratign has considerable years of experience providing mission-critical systems that contribute to some of the most significant advances in intelligence collection and decoding technology for military and defence customers. Stratign solutions for Communication Surveillance and Intelligence include communication intercept and collection systems, signal analysis and processing tools and high end stand alone decoding and demodulation systems which can be integrated into your existing intelligence systems. Our defense-based capabilities extend way beyond communication interception into areas like communication jamming that aims at restricting communications using advanced products like Anti-Drone Jammer, Prison Jammer, RCIED Jammers, Communication Jammers and GPS Jammers. Stratign also deals in Communication Security solutions like Secure GSM as well as Cyber defense and Imaging solutions. Voir les solutions Stratign

UK

Joint Threat Emitter (JTE)

ESA – 01/02/2016 – Multiple spot-beam antennas are becoming increasingly common on satellites because they offer great flexibility and make optimal use of the spacecraft’s radio power. Multi-beam antennas, however, require feed arrays that are large, complex and dimensionally stable. To support the next generation of large telecom satellites, Airbus Defence and Space UK initiated the development of the Large Ku-band Multi-spot Feed Array (LMFA) with the support of ESA through the ARTES Competitiveness & Growth programme. As part of the activity, a new feed array configuration was developed in which a single feed cluster is used to illuminate multiple reflectors. A Proto-Flight Model of each of the clusters was manufactured in parallel with the ARTES activity and these are now mounted on a spacecraft scheduled to be launched in the coming months. The design guidelines developed during this contract and the lessons learned as a result of performing the work have since been successfully incorporated into two further commercial contracts… l ire l’article

UE

Antenne adaptatives

Next-Gen Antennas for Next-Gen Satellites

Aviation Today – 4/09/2019 – There are a plethora of research and development efforts under way right now among in-flight connectivity antenna makers. The majority of them are moving toward lower-profile designs, with little-to-no moving parts in a variety of architectures and performance categories including phased array, multi-beam, and multi-constellation. With future low earth orbit (LEO) constellations providing so much potential to disrupt the economics around in-flight connectivity for airlines, most of the antenna suppliers interviewed are keeping their designs as open and flexible as possible… lire l’article

IA

USA

JAIC focuses on warfighting capabilities

Defense Systems – 2/12/2020 – The Pentagon’s artificial intelligence arm is entering a new phase focused on increasing the technology’s use as a warfighting tool. « We want to help defense leaders see that AI is about generating essential warfighting advantages. AI is not IT, » said Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, the director of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. « It’s not a black box that a contractor’s going to deliver to you. It’s not some digital gadget that an IT rep will show you how to log into. » lire l’article

Raytheon and C3.ai announce alliance on artificial intelligence solutions

C4ISRNet – 30/11/2020 – WASHINGTON — Raytheon’s intelligence and space business is partnering with C3.ai, a software company known for its predictive maintenance business with the U.S. Air Force, the companies announced Monday. The alliance between C3.ai and Raytheon Intelligence and Space aims to speed up artificial intelligence adoption across the U.S. military. The partnership will pair Raytheon’s expertise in the defense and aerospace sector with C3.ai’s artificial intelligence development and applications… lire l’article

Russie

Can Russia’s AI Technology Protect Its Weapons Against Electronic Warfare?

National Interest – 3/12/2020 -The Russian military claims its new artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled software allows offensive and defensive weapons sensors, targeting and guidance systems to be hardened against or impervious to electronic attack. “The new software outshines Russian and foreign versions in terms of the munition’s protection and renders the operation of electronic warfare systems ineffective,” Rostec Industrial Director Bekkhan Ozdoyev, says in a quote from an essay in Russia’s TASS news agency… lire l’article

ECCM

Russie

Protection EM

Russian firm Developing Ammunition to Outsmart Electronic Countermeasures

Defense World – 3/12/2020 – Russia’s Techmash has developed a new software for ammunition to enable it to hit targets in conditions of electronic warfare. The main feature of the complex is a new electronic protection system, which allows obtaining detailed information about targets in conditions of active interference with varying intensity. The new product is intended for use in high-precision ammunition for defensive and offensive weapon systems, Rostec announced Wednesday… lire l’article

Corée du Sud

Système d'arme rapproché

South Korea to purchase US Mk 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System for KDX III Batch II Class destroyer

Navy Recognition – 2/12/2020 – The Republic of Korea has requested to buy two (2) MK 15 MOD 25 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) Block 1B Baseline 2 (IB2) systems; and four thousand (4,000) rounds, 20MM cartridge API linked. Also included are spare parts; other support equipment; ammunition; books and other publications; software; training; engineering technical assistance and other technical assistance; and other related elements of the program and logistical support. The estimated total cost is $39 million. The proposed sale will improve the Republic of Korea’s capability to meet current and future threats. Korea will use the systems aboard its first KDX III Batch II Class destroyer to provide it with effective means of detecting and defending itself against incoming airborne threats. The Republic of Korea will have no difficulty absorbing this equipment into its armed forces… lire l’article

ECM

USA

déception EM

US Army working on new electromagnetic deception tool

C4ISRNet – 23/11/2020 – WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is developing a new tool to gain an advantage in the cat and mouse game that is the electromagnetic spectrum mission. Currently in the early concepts stage, the Army detailed its idea for the Modular Electromagnetic Spectrum Deception Suite, or MEDS, that will seek to confound the enemy within the invisible yet highly dynamic maneuver space of the electromagnetic spectrum… lire l’article

EAU

Stratign – Electronic Warfare / Communication Jamming

The term communications Jamming is electronic jamming that is directed against communications circuits and systems. COMJAM is used to prevent radio communications by the use of electromagnetic signals, i.e. the deliberate radiation, re-radiation, or reflection of electromagnetic energy with objective of imparing the effective use of electonic communications systems. The aim of communication jamming is to prevent communications by electromagnetic means, or at least to degrade communications sufficiently to cause delays in transmission and reception. Besides the top-notch Communication Jamming products, Stratign also deals in Communication Interception solutions like GSM Interception System, CDMA Interception System, Thuraya Interception System, Iridium Interception System, Satellite Interception System, Wi-Fi Interception System and ISAT Interception System. We also offer Communication Security solutions like Secure GSM.

Ressources humaines

USA

STARCOM: Training Troops To Fight Space Wars, Boldly

Breaking Defense – 30/11/2020 – WASHINGTON: Space Force’s new training and readiness unit, called STARCOM, is working from the ground up to figure out what doctrine, skills and tech space professionals will need for orbital warfare. “What we are really bringing to the fight is focus. Focus on space,” Col. Peter Flores, director of the Space Training and Readiness (STAR) Delta Provisional at Space Operations Command, said in an interview today. (STAR Delta is the predecessor to a brand new training and readiness field command, that will be called STARCOM. It will be led by a two-star and is expected to be up and running sometime next year.)… lire l’article

Recherche & technologie

USA

DARPA

DARPA – Mr. Serge Leef – Next-generation intelligent systems supporting Department of Defense (DoD) applications like artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, shared spectrum communication, electronic warfare, and radar require processing efficiency that is orders of magnitude beyond what is available through current commercial electronics. Reaching the performance levels required by these DoD applications however will require developing highly complex system-on-chip (SoC) platforms that leverage the most advanced integrated circuit technologies. Despite advances in electronic design automation (EDA) tools, the complexity associated with the design and verification of integrated circuits (ICs) continues to increase rapidly due in part to the steady progress of Moore’s Law. To help meet design requirements, commercial electronics manufacturers creating advanced hardware solutions will employ large teams of designers, each with expertise in a specific facet of the design flow. For the DoD however, researchers and development teams do not have the resources available to effectively execute such a strategy, resulting in hardware design cycles that are two to three times longer than commercial establishments… lire la suite ou lire la présentation ppt. de la DARPA

DARPA-BAA-10-79: Behavioral Learning for Adaptive Electronic Warfare (BLADE)

The Behavioral Learning for Adaptive Electronic Warfare (BLADE) program is developing the capability to counter new and dynamic wireless communication threats in tactical environments. BLADE is enabling a shift from today’s manual-intensive lab-based countermeasure development approach to an adaptive, in-the-field systems approach. The program will achieve this by developing novel-machine learning algorithms and techniques that can rapidly detect and characterize new radio threats, dynamically synthesize new countermeasures, and provide accurate battle damage assessment based on over-the-air observable changes in the threat. Voir le pdf

Acting Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Liste des programmes de la DARPA pour la guerre électronique en 2017 :

Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM)
High-Performance RF Arrays
Cognitive Electronic Warfare
Communications Through Jamming
Finding Nuclear and Radiological Threats
Submarine Detect and Track
Highly Autonomous Unmanned Ship
PNT Without GPS
Protection from Cyberattacks
Cyber Operations
Assessment of Information Operations
Space Situational Awareness
Rapid Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases

DARPA – The Shared Spectrum Access for Radar and Communications (SSPARC) program seeks to improve radar and communications capabilities through spectrum sharing. Spectrum congestion is a growing problem. It increasingly limits operational capabilities due to the increasing deployment and bandwidth of wireless communications, the use of net-centric and unmanned systems, and the need for increased flexibility in radar and communications spectrum to improve performance and to overcome sophisticated countermeasures. Radar and communications jointly consume most of the highly desirable spectrum below 6 GHz. SSPARC seeks to develop sharing technology that enables sufficient spectrum access within this desirable range for radar and communications systems to accomplish their evolving missions. Voir le projet

Current airborne electronic warfare (EW) systems must first identify a threat radar to determine the appropriate preprogrammed electronic countermeasure (ECM) technique. This approach loses effectiveness as radars evolve from fixed analog systems to programmable digital variants with unknown behaviors and agile waveforms. Future radars will likely present an even greater challenge as they will be capable of sensing the environment and adapting transmissions and signal processing to maximize performance and mitigate interference effects. The goal of the Adaptive Radar Countermeasures (ARC) program is to enable U.S. airborne EW systems to automatically generate effective countermeasures against new, unknown and adaptive radars in real-time in the field… lire la suite

DARPA – The general-purpose computer has remained the dominant computing architecture for the last 50 years, driven largely by the relentless pace of Moore’s Law. As this trajectory shows signs of slowing, however, it has become increasingly more challenging to achieve performance gains from generalized hardware, setting the stage for a resurgence in specialized architectures. Today’s specialized, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) — hardware customized for a specific application — offer limited flexibility and are costly to design, fabricate, and program. The Domain-Specific System on Chip (DSSoC) program seeks to prove that there need not be a continued tradeoff between efficiency, like that found in ASICs, and flexibility, the hallmark of general-purpose processors. The goal of DSSoC is to develop a heterogeneous system-on-chip (SoC) comprised of many cores that mix general purpose processors, special purpose processors, hardware accelerators, memory, and input/output (I/O) devices to significantly improve performance of applications within a domain. A domain is larger than any one application, where one processor can effectively address problems more efficiently than a general purpose processor but without the challenge, time, and cost of building a special-purpose system like an ASIC. DSSoC is exploring architectures that improve the efficiency of computing through specialized processing while maintaining programmability… lire la suite

ONR

Electronic Warfare

Appel d’offre qui commence en 2021 : Electronic Warfare (EW) and Radio Frequency (RF) Surveillance Technology – N00014-20-S-SN16.pdf

The Electronic Warfare (EW) program’s goal is to control the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) by exploiting, deceiving, or denying enemy use of the spectrum while ensuring its use by friendly forces.

Research Concentration Areas

Research Efforts provide Navy and Marine Corps with:

Improved threat warning systems
Electronic warfare support (ES)
Decoys and countermeasures against weapon tracking and guidance systems
Electronic attack (EA) against adversary command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR)
Electronic protection (EP) of our own weapons and C4ISR from intentional and unintentional interference

Research Challenges and Opportunities

Compact, efficient, multi-spectral EO/IR sources and systems, with a focus on reduced size, weight, power and cost of steering technology including non-mechanical beam steering.
Compact and efficient EW antennas covering HF to VHF (3-300 MHz), with a focus on technologies that reduce the size and weight constraints of current antenna systems.
W-band millimeter wave high-power transmitters – develop technology to deny or deceive sensors or weapons guidance systems operating in the millimeter wave band.
Counter intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). Explore truly innovative EW concepts which can counter emerging ISR sensor threats.
Advanced signal processing circuits and algorithms to address complex emitters with reduced size, weight and power over conventional computational approaches.

France

ONERA

MATISSE – Modélisation Avancée de la Terre pour l’Imagerie et la simulation des Scènes et de leur Environnement

Nouveau : MATISSE-v3.5.0rev25 est disponible et à été qualifiéee par la DGA

Le code de transfert radiatif MATISSE peut vous aider à la conception des senseurs optroniques et au développement d’algorithmes de détection, pour des longueurs d’onde comprises entre 0.25 (LDV)/0.4 (IMG) et 14 µm.

MATISSE fournit :

des images en éclairement de fonds naturels : atmosphère claire, nuages de haute et basse altitude, mer et terres émergées géo référencées, vues d’un capteur spatial, aéroporté ou naval.
des luminances et transmissions le long d’une ligne de visée, tenant compte
– des effets de mirage à très basse altitude au dessus de la surface marine
– d’une aide pour l’évaluation du contraste cible / fond (mode raie par raie)
des sphères d’éclairement autour d’un point cible pour le calcul de sa signature.
une caractérisation de la turbulence atmospherique pour l’imagerie VIS et IR

Voir le projet

PEA CERBERE : Un ballon captif qui mesure l’environnement électromagnétique

Le démonstrateur aérien CERBERE (Capacité expérimentale ROEM pour ballons et aérostats légers), qui mesure l’environnement électromagnétique, a été expérimenté près de Lorient en Bretagne en juin 2019.

Le PEA CERBERE, conduit par INEO Défense et l’ONERA pour la Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), a pour objectif de démontrer les performances d’une solution ROEM (Recueil du renseignement d’Origine ElectroMagnétique) sur un porteur de type ballon captif.

Les forces armées sont en effet confrontées de plus en plus sur le terrain à une densité accrue d’émissions électromagnétiques, dues en particulier au développement des télécommunications. Il est devenu essentiel de les identifier à l’aide de moyens de détection et de localisation optimisés et innovants. Prouver la faisabilité d’un tel système : tel est l’enjeu de l’étude expérimentale CERBERE. Après la phase d’étude et de développement, une campagne d’essai s’est déroulée sur deux semaines près de Lorient au-dessus d’un site d’entraînement de la Marine Nationale en juin dernier… voir le projet

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