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June 2011 • Volume 34, Issue 6
NEW RULES
FOR EW EDITORIAL STAFF
JUNE 2011 • Vol. 34, No. 6
EXPORTS
Senior Editor: Glenn Goodman
Assistant Editor: Jon Pasierb
Technical Editor: Ollie Holt
Contributing Writers: Dave Adamy, Barry Manz, Martin Streetly,
Tom Withington, Gábor Zord
Marketing & Research Coordinator: Allie Hansen
Sales Administration: Esther Biggs
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
T
he defense market in general and the electronic warfare (EW) market Mr. Tom Arseneault
in particular have undergone a decade of (sometimes intense) spend- President, Electronic Solutions, BAE Systems
Mr. Roy Azevedo
ing growth, mostly due to years of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan Vice President, Advanced Concepts and Technology,
Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems
and a desire by some nations to boost defense spending as a percent- Mr. Chris Bernhardt
President, ITT Electronic Systems
age of GDP. The most obvious example of this trend is the US, whose Maj Gen Bruno Berthet
Deputy Director for International Development, DGA, French MOD
defense budget has doubled in that time. But many other nations, Lt Col Dean Ebert
Warfighter Integration, Aviation Weapons Requirements Branch, HQ USMC
particularly in Europe, have followed a similar pattern until recently. This growth Mr. Gabriele Gambarara
Elettronica S.p.A.
is already starting to slow down in the US and Europe and, in some countries, it Mr. Tony Grieco
is reversing itself. As was the case in the 1990s, when domestic defense spending Former Deputy for Electronic Warfare, OSD
Mr. Itzchak Gat
shrinks or stagnates, industry will place more emphasis on export opportunities. CEO, Elisra
CAPT John Green
For many EW manufacturers, success in the international market can be ex- Commander, EA-6B Program Office (PMA-234), NAVAIR, USN
Mr. Ron Hahn
tremely important when domestic spending becomes constrained. At the same VP, EM Spectrum Strategies, URS Corp.
Mr. Micael Johansson
time, however, the EW needs of the international market are becoming more com- Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area, Electronic Defence
Systems, Saab
6 plex. Countries such as Brazil and India are conducting significant fighter aircraft Mr. Anthony Lisuzzo
Director, Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate, CERDEC, USA
competitions. They do not simply want to buy EW for their new fighters; they CAPT Paul Overstreet
Commander, ATAPS Program Office (PMA-272), NAVAIR, USN
eventually want to build advanced EW systems themselves as part of a strategic
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lectronic Warfare professionals work with pretty high-tech stuff, but more Southern: Wes Heidenreich
Central: Judith Westerheide
and more, technology advancement is paced not by government military Northeastern: Nino Amoroso
electronics procurement but rather by greater and more intense commercial Mountain-Western: Jesse “Judge” Bourque
electronics sales. For example, the 2011 global retail electronics sales will Mid-Atlantic: Bill Tanner
exceed the total 2011 US DOD budget and is forecasted to be $964 billion, Pacific: Joe “JJ” Johnson
International I: Robert Andrews
with the greatest growth in Western Europe followed by the United States and International II: Gerry Whitford
China. Forty-eight percent of those sales will be wireless portable devices. While there APPOINTED DIRECTORS
are some near monopolies in the commercial electronics market space such as Apple, Robert Giesler
Nintendo, Verizon, AT&T and Vodaphone, among others, the robust and upward global Jim Lovelace
Donato D’Angelantonio
electronics sales trend is indicative that even in competition for sales there is coopera- Thomas Metz
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of 3G and 4G networks operated by Verizon, AT&T and Vodaphone, and the networks’ Chris Glaze
growth in sales depends on consumer’s insatiable appetite for ever increasing mobile AOC STAFF
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technology. This type of cooperative-competition, dubbed “co-opetition,” allows these Don Richetti
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companies to capture value not from each other, but to realize even greater value with richetti@crows.org
each other. Norman Balchunas
Practiced for nearly 100 years in the commercial sector, co-opetition is fueling the Director, Operations
acceleration of electronics technology and yielding explosive sales growth. Co-opetition balchunas@crows.org
is real, it works, and it’s time for the EW community to better leverage this business Mike Dolim
Director of Education
practice to meet the challenges of 21st century military operations. EW needs to “co- dolim@crows.org
opetate” with all of information operations’ (IO’s) other core capabilities to converge on Carole H. Vann
the battlefield. To do that, IO’s competencies must complement each other with unique Director of Administration
competency-based strategies and be free to innovate rather than consolidate, collapse vann@crows.org
Shelley Frost
and be constrained within a sole organization. Game theory underpins co-opetition as
Director of Convention and Meeting Services
a method for IO to focus on the right competency-based strategies and make the right frost@crows.org
decisions to change the proverbial game. Co-opetition changes the game by changing Kent Barker
one of more of the parts of the game – Players, Added Value, Rules, Tactics and/or Conferences Director/FSO
Scope, known as PARTS. barker@crows.org
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In January, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates issued a memorandum on Strategic Director of Membership Operations
Communications and Information Operations in the DOD that, in essence, initiates co- oneilin@crows.org
opetition among core IO capabilities. His memo redefined roles and responsibilities of Stew Taylor
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management and, among other role assignments, USSTRATCOM capability proponency Tanya Miller
for EW and CNO. He adjusted the rules, tactics and scope with a new definition of IO to Member and Chapter Support Manager
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emphasize its integrating nature. This memo sets forth the needed change to the exist- Jennifer Bahler
ing notion that core IO capabilities must be overseen by one entity. Specifically: “Capa- Registrar
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bility integration does not necessitate ownership.” Co-opetition or integration among
Keith Jordan
IO core capabilities will provide the best cost-effective solution to provide maximum IT Manager
IO effects value to the warfighter. EW professionals have a rich history of unleashing jordan@crows.org
innovation and exhibiting an entrepreneurial spirit. It’s time for EW to integrate and Tasha Miller
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USAF UAV-BORNE COMMS JAMMER Engineering and Manufacturing
MOVING FORWARD Development (EMD) phase in 2013.
The US Air Force’s Aeronautical Sys- The 18-month TD contracts
tems Center (ASC) at Wright-Patterson will encompass three phases:
AFB, OH, was preparing to award up to prototype concept design (basic
four 18-month Technology Develop- contract-Objective A); an option
ment risk-reduction contracts by the for ground/laboratory demon-
end of July for the service’s planned strations (Objective B); and a
Communications Electronic Attack subsequent option for flight dem-
(EA) Pod program, newly dubbed DEA- onstrations (Objective C). The ini-
CON (Disruptive EA of Communication tial contracts will be worth up to
Networks). The external jamming pod $1.75 million each. ASC plans to gation for all medium/high-risk or criti-
is slated to be mounted on Air Force select up to three of the four Objective cal components and subsystems. Each
MQ-9 Reaper (Predator B) Block 5 un- A contractors to receive the Objective B Objective C contractor will demonstrate
manned aerial vehicles (UAVs) built by option and up to three of those to re- a flight-worthy prototype EA pod sys-
General Atomics. ceive the Objective C option, with the tem that uses components representa-
The EA pod is intended to provide combined value of the two options to tive of a follow-on EMD configuration.
the Air Force an advanced airborne each company not to exceed $7 million. The Broad Agency Announce-
communications jamming capability Each contractor will provide an initial ment solicitation number is ASC-XR- 15
for irregular warfare scenarios, such as integrated assessment of cost, schedule BAA-08-01-02. The contracting point
those experienced by US forces in Iraq and technical program risks associated of contact at ASC is Frederick Rueth,
and Afghanistan. The pod would dis- with the concept design and a mitigation (937) 255-7995, e-mail frederick.rueth@
rupt communication networks used by strategy for each risk. Specific technol- wpafb.af.mil. – G. Goodman
insurgents and prevent the detonation ogy areas to be addressed include re-
of radio-controlled improvised explosive ceivers, antenna arrays, radomes, beam UPGRADED HARM AIMS
devices (IEDs). The Air Force’s workhorse formers, exciters, power amplifiers and FOR FULL PRODUCTION
EC-130H Compass Call stand-off commu- data links, as well as related consid- The US Navy’s AGM-88E Advanced
nications-jamming aircraft has logged erations such as prime power, volume, Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM)
countless flight hours in recent years weight, cooling and packaging. Under program was expected to begin Opera-
carrying out such missions in support of Objective B, the contractors will provide tional Evaluation (OPEVAL) flight test-
Army and Marine ground forces instead ground demonstrations of the risk miti- ing following an extensive Pentagon
of its primary purpose of jamming inte-
grated air defense system (IADS) com-
mand-and-control networks to disrupt US ARMY READY TO DEVELOP UAV SIGINT PAYLOAD
enemy coordination. The US Army’s Program Manager for Aerial Common Sensors (Aberdeen Prov-
BAE Systems, ITT, Raytheon and Boe- ing Ground, MD) planned to release the request for proposals (RFP) on May 23
ing’s Argon ST received small Technology for Engineering and Manufacturing Development of a Tactical Signals Intelli-
Maturity study contracts last November gence (SIGINT) Payload (TSP) for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
that were a precursor to the forthcoming Responses were due on June 23. The Army anticipates selecting a single TSP
Technology Development (TD) contracts. contractor in late September. The leading industry contenders are expected to
The goal of the TD phase will be to ma- be BAE Systems (Nashua, NH) and Northrop Grumman ESL (Sacramento, CA).
ture critical EA pod technologies to a TSP will be a pod-mounted system to be initially integrated and tested on an
Technology Readiness Level of 6-plus RC-12D Guardrail aircraft and then fielded on the Army’s new MQ-1C Gray Eagle
in a flyable form factor by the middle UAV, an enlarged Predator derivative built by General Atomics. The Solicitation
of 2012, with flight demonstrations by Number is W15P7T-11-R-S801; the point of contact is Brian Bosmans, (443) 861-
late 2012. This would allow the EA pod 4743, e-mail brian.bosmans@us.army.mil. – G. Goodman
program to transition directly into an
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recertification review that was slated to stand-off weapon used for lethal sup- flights begun in the spring of 2010 due
occur in late May-early June. Successful pression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) to intermittent software and circuit
completion of the operational testing missions by US Navy and Air Force tacti- card failures. The Navy halted the test-
will lead to approval of delayed full-rate cal aircraft since 1984. ing on September 3. ATK corrected the
production. AARGM is an upgraded de- AARGM entered low-rate initial pro- problems, as verified in Integrated Test
rivative of Raytheon’s supersonic AGM- duction by ATK (Woodland Hills, CA) & Evaluation flights since February. The
88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile in January 2009 but ran into problems Navy’s program office for Direct & Time-
(HARM), the primary air-to-surface in Initial Operational Test & Evaluation Sensitive Strike Weapons (PMA-242) at
NAS Patuxent River, MD, told JED in a
written response, “Based on weapon
performance in integrated test, we are
FlxGen™ Family of confident we will successfully complete
HF-VHF/UHF-MW OPEVAL.”
AARGM retains HARM’s warhead,
Receivers & Downconverters wings, fins and rocket motors, but up-
grades the missile’s control section with
a GPS/inertial navigation system and
NEW! completely replaces its front-end seek-
er section. The new multi-mode seeker
section features a more sensitive anti-
SIR-3000 radiation homing seeker with a digital
receiver and an active millimeter-wave
(MMW) radar seeker. The latter is used
• Frequency Ranges
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for terminal guidance when a targeted
air defense radar shuts down after the
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supersonic AARGM is launched and
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homes in on its RF emissions. The GPS/
Define • High Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR)
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• Flexible Control of IF Bandwidths
16 emitting time-sensitive target if its co-
• Flexible Control of
ordinates are known. The MMW radar
IF Frequencies
Defend seeker can actively search to find a non-
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Diversity Receivers
PSRX6D, SRx
and MobilCMDR
Amplifiers, Block
Downconverters, LNAs and Repeaters
ALPA, HDRLNA and X-Tender
18G Growlers, and the Italian Air Force’s ing Germany, which would be potential sensor control by operators in three
Tornado ECR aircraft. AARGM is a co- customers for the US Navy or US Air separate locations.
operative development and production Force HARM upgrades, along with F/A- First flown in February 2010, Fire-
program with Italy. The US Navy alone 18 users. – G. Goodman bird has been designed, built and tested
may convert about 1,750 of its more by Northrop subsidiary Scaled Compos-
than 5,000 HARMs to AARGMs. EMPIRE CHALLENGE TO ites (as their Model 355) and takes the
The US Air Force launches HARMs SHOWCASE FIREBIRD form of an all-composite monoplane
from single-seat F-16CJ Block 50 aircraft US Joint Forces Command’s May powered by a Textron Lycoming TEO-
fitted with the HARM Targeting System 3-June 23 “Empire Challenge 2011” 540 piston engine. The air vehicle’s
external pod built by Raytheon. The Air intelligence, surveillance and recon- aerodynamics have been crafted to
Force does not plan to convert any of naissance (ISR) demonstration was set optimize mission endurance, data col-
its HARMs to AARGMs. Instead it is com- to showcase Northrop Grumman’s new lection, climb and dash speed. Physi-
peting development of a less extensive, Firebird “optionally manned” air ve- cal specifications include an operating
lower-cost upgrade called the “HARM hicle. Firebird can accommodate and speed of approximately 370 km/hour; a
Control Section Modification,” which operate four discrete sensor payloads wingspan, length and height of 19.81,
only adds the GPS guidance capability simultaneously. 10.36 and 2.96 meters, respectively; an
to the missile’s mid-body control section The US Army has sponsored the endurance of 24 to 40 hours (depend-
and upgrades its existing INS. The Air vehicle’s participation in Empire Chal- ing on the air vehicle’s configuration);
Force awarded both Raytheon and ATK lenge and will operate it from Fort a gross take-off weight of 2,268 kg;
18-month limited production contracts Huachuca, AZ, during the exercise. and the ability to reach an altitude of
last December. Following a performance Key capability demonstrations were to 30,000 ft. Conversion of the air vehicle
verification fly-off, the service plans to include simultaneous use of the four from a manned to an unmanned con-
award a single full-rate production con- payloads (billed as signals intelligence figuration involves plating over the
tract encompassing about 500 modified (SIGINT)/direction-finding, electro- platform’s cockpit glazing, removing
HARM control sections. optic/infrared (EO/IR) imaging, radar the pilot’s seat and installing control
HARM is in service with the air surveillance and communications re- electronics in its place.
forces of several European, Middle lay), sensor swap-out and re-launch In terms of payload options, JED un-
Eastern and Asian countries, includ- within 60 minutes, and simultaneous derstands that Firebird’s baseline sen-
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sors comprise two full-motion video (probably derived from the company’s Ku-band (12.5 to 18 GHz) AN/ZPY-1
(FMV) cameras from FLIR Systems, a scalable Airborne Signals Intelligence STARLite ground moving target indi-
Northrop Grumman SIGINT package Payload architecture) and Northrop’s cator/synthetic aperture radar. On the
EO front, photographs have shown the
Firebird prototype to have been vari-
AFRL SEEKS ADVANCES TO ENGAGE AGILE EMITTERS ously equipped with FLIR Systems’ Star
The Air Force Research Lab’s Sensors Directorate at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH SAFIRE 380-HD EO imager and what ap-
(AFRL/RYWE) announced that it anticipated seeking industry research propos- pears to have been Raytheon’s AN/DAS-1
als in June in the area of Integrated Digital Apertures, Receivers and Exciters target detection, ranging and tracking
(I-DARE). It will be Amendment 19 to AFRL’s Sensor Technology Research, De- sensor. Firebird has also been photo-
velopment, Test & Evaluation Open-Ended Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) graphed carrying a radar other than the
II (STROEB II). AN/ZPY-1 on its centerline.
AFRL plans to award a single $24 million indefinite delivery-indefinite Aside from Empire Challenge, Fire-
quantity contract. bird was demonstrated to DOD officials
The objective of the I-DARE effort will be “to design, develop and test inno- with a three-sensor fit (FMV, radar and
vations involving apertures, receives, exciters, signal processing and algorithms EO/IR imaging) in October 2010 and flew
for signals intelligence, threat warning, direction finding, information opera- with two FMV cameras (as a precursor
tions, electronic attack (EA), electronic support (ES) and electronic protection to a four-sensor wide-area surveillance
(EP) applications. Extensive modeling, simulation, testing and integration of suite) the following December. – M.
hardware and software will be required to develop electronic warfare architec- Streetly
tures capable of assessing and engaging advanced agile emitters. Concepts will
be evaluated in a multitude of ways to measure the effectiveness of advanced ONR COUNTERING REVERSE
EW techniques which include network-enabled ES/EA/EP tactics.” ENGINEERING
The BAA number is STROEB II BAA 09-01-PKS Amendment 19. The technical The Office of Naval Research (ONR)
point of contact at AFRL/RYWE is Gary Kaufman, (937) 528-8253, e-mail Gary. released a Broad Agency Announcement
Kaufman@wpafb.af.mil; the contracting point of contact is David Sheelbarger, (BAA 11-020) seeking industry research
(937) 255-4863, e-mail David.Sheelbarger@wpafb.af.mil – JED Staff proposals in the area of “Protection of
Electronics Systems.” White papers were
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due May 31 and full proposals by Sep- • Performance Enhancements of High- ONR anticipates a budget of up to
tember 28. Density 3D Packages – Technologies $3 million per year and plans to award
The overall goal is to “develop in- for improving the performance of multiple one-to-three-year technol-
novative techniques and technologies such electronics packaging, includ- ogy development contracts valued at
to deter the reverse engineering and ing enhanced cooling, minimized $500,000 to $1 million each. The esti-
exploitation of our military’s critical electromagnetic interference be- mated start date for the projects is April
technology in order to impede technol- tween internal components and 2012. The technical point of contact at
ogy transfer and alteration of system minimized external electromagnetic ONR is Betsy DeLong, e-mail betsy.de-
capability and prevent the development emissions. long@navy.mil; the contracting point
of countermeasures to US systems.” ONR • Packaging for Secure Processing – of contact is Rebecca Foster, e-mail
seeks proposals that will “result in ro- Technologies for high-density 3D rebecca.d.foster@navy.mil – JED Staff
bust, long-lived, layered technologies electronics packaging that can inte-
capable of lengthy operation in unat- grate into a single package the mul- IN BRIEF
tended and un-powered environments. tiple commercial-off-the-shelf and Sierra Nevada Corp. (Sparks, NV)
The proposed technologies shall have custom devices necessary for a com- was awarded a $38.6 million contract
a very high probability of tamper de- plete secure processing. The combina- modification from US Naval Sea Sys-
tection, a very low probability of false tion of the high-density packaging tems Command to procure an additional
alarm, be undetectable in the host sys- and anti-tamper measures shall pro- 360 Dismounted Joint Counter Radio-
tem, and provide no indication when a tect against open-source reverse en- Controlled Improvised Explosive Device
tamper event has been detected.” gineering techniques. Electronic Warfare (JCREW) 3.1 jammers.
Each proposal is to focus on one of • Reliable Physical Unclonable Func-
the following four research areas: tions – Techniques for implementing
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• New Approaches to Memory Erasure reliable intrinsic PUFs in field-pro- SRCTec, Inc. (Syracuse, NY) was
– Technologies for completely and ir- grammable gate arrays and then using awarded a $78 million US Army contract
reversibly erasing data stored in non- the PUFs to provide FPGA authentica- modification to increase its ordering
volatile memory without producing tion and generate volatile keys for ceiling for Duke V3 CREW jammers to
damage beyond the active portion of Advanced Encryption Standards (AES) $278 million. Estimated completion date
the memory device. encryption/decryption. is Aug. 24, 2014.
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tion has been India’s significant offset petition. The contract would upgrade encompass the country’s largest ever de-
requirements, which stipulate that 50 the first four to six aircraft in France, fense project, with a price tag of nearly
percent of the full value be reinvested with the remainder to be retrofitted $35 billion. – E. Richardson
into Indian industry, realized through
the contract, which calls for purchase of
18 completed combat aircraft by 2012,
with the remaining 108 to be construct- IN BRIEF
ed in country. ❍ BAE Systems (Warton, Lancashire, UK) was awarded contracts totaling £39 mil-
And, now that it has its finalists, lion by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide support services for main-
India might be looking to advance the tenance of the Eurofighter Typhoon. The contracts also covers development
schedule. According to published re- work to enhance the Royal Air Force’s capability to process intelligence data
ports, Pakistan is attempting to expe- about operational threats and then upload them to the Typhoon’s EW systems
dite delivery of its new JF-17 Thunder prior to a mission.
aircraft, the multirole fighter co-devel- ❍ Saab Avitronics received an order for its Civil Aircraft Missile Protection System
oped with China. In response, India may (CAMPS) from Mexican charter airline FlyMex, which flies for the United Nations
attempt to advance its timeline for se- World Food Program in several countries, as well as operating helicopter, amphibi-
lection to occur by March 2012. ous and jet air taxi operations over Mexico. The contract adds CAMPS, which
Perhaps as a result of growing threats detects man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) threats with a missile
from China and Pakistan, India has been approach warning system and dispenses Chemring infrared decoys, to a third
in a defense acquisition mode of late, type of aircraft, the Dornier 328JET. It is already operational on Lockheed L-382
also getting ready to ink a long-delayed and Embraer 120 aircraft.
deal with Dassault to upgrade its 52 Mi- ❍ Malaysia has requested, via US Foreign Military Sales channels, a Mid-Life
rage 2000 aircraft. The contract, said to Upgrade to its Boeing F/A-18D Hornet aircraft, including six AN/ASQ-228
be worth $2.4 billion, has sat for around Raytheon Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pods, software
three years as India worked to come to development, system integration and testing, test sets and training in a contract
terms with Dassault and its partners, estimated at $72 million. a
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When considering the state of current maintenance heavy and frequently tlefield and into towns and cities where
airborne signals intelligence (SIGINT), manual in operation. Again, the hard- a new generation of well educated and
as good a starting point as any is con- ware was big and heavy, while the tar- equipped activists are prepared to die
text. When this writer was a bright-eyed get set was largely made-up of fixed for a cause and to use mass killing as
neophyte in the late 1970s, airborne frequency emitters that, in the radar a means to an end. In the fight against
SIGINT was probably the blackest of the context, relied on mechanical scanning. homeland terrorism, communications
black arts. The inextricable link be- Techniques such as frequency agility, intercept has become both a vital tool
tween SIGINT and the Cold War and its digitization and electronic scanning and one that sometimes sits uncomfort-
place in national intelligence gathering (both passive and active) were at best ably alongside the traditional civil lib-
meant that it was not a subject for open in their early stages of development and erties that the western world cherishes.
discussion other than in the context of perhaps more importantly, the military On the technology front, advances in
tabloid-style “spy plane” stories. Again, targets being looked at were essentially digitization, miniaturization, reliability
the target set was essentially formalized conventional in terms of structure and (solid-state and the like) and processing
(with air defense networks being high implementation. Looking specifically have all come together to create much
30 on the list) and the levels of classifica- at communications, conventional radio more flexible SIGINT architectures that
tion were such as to preclude wide dis- links predominated with satellite com- facilitate plug and play, virtually on the
semination. That this was beginning to munications and (particularly) cellular fly updating and which increasingly fea-
Elecctron Defense | June 2011
be seen as a major stumbling block had telephone technology either just begin- ture data hand-off capabilities in real-
been demonstrated by the conflict in ning to appear or still being but a gleam or close to real-time. Real-time data
Southeast Asia, where vital information in a designer’s eye. hand-off (combined with a more open
had been withheld from the war fighters Come up to date, and the SIGINT approach to who sees what) is probably
because of compartmentalization and world has been turned upside down. On the real game changer and one that is
who was and who was not in the loop. the operational side, the Cold War veri- absolutely vital in meeting today’s bat-
The Journal of Electronic
Just as important was ties have been swept away to be replaced tlefield and homeland security needs.
the level of available by both conventional and asymmetric Elsewhere in the described mix, current
technology, with a typi- threats, with the latter making use of satellite link and processing technology
cal high-end SIGINT non-conventional communications and together with miniaturization and im-
platform taking the command and control tools such as cell proved reliability have opened the door
form of a bespoke, and satellite phones. Perhaps more im- to unmanned aircraft system (UAS) SI-
hardwired sys- portantly, the threat has in part moved GINT platforms
tem that was off the bat-
pr imar ily
a nalog,
By Martin Streetly
The
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h Journal of Electronic Defense | June 2011
that apart from anything else, make cessing), their responsiveness and op- combined with other sensors, such as
possible persistent surveillance that is erational flexibility and, put simply, the electro-optical (EO) imagers, to create
moving towards operations measured in prestige associated with being able to architectures that are capable of cross-
weeks or even months. afford and operate such aircraft. Afford- cueing and/or undertaking a range of
ability is another key driver, with more missions previously carried out by mul-
FUTURE AIRBORNE SIGINT TRENDS and more countries wanting an airborne tiple platforms with discrete roles.
If the foregoing is the context in SIGINT capability and even big defense This ability to multi-task can also be
which airborne SIGINT functions, spenders like the US having to address seen in the UAS world, where fixed-wing,
what of its future? Rightly or wrongly, an increasingly hostile budgetary envi- rotary and lighter-than-air systems are
this writer believes that in the short ronment. In a world where the defense emerging that are capable of carrying
to medium term, the sort of high-end budget trend is universally down, this surveillance radars, SIGINT receivers and
manned SIGINT platforms such as “Rivet writer sees a significant market for SI- EO sensors, with the payloads being op-
Joint” will continue to figure large due GINT systems that are an adjunct to erated via datalink and/or satellite and
to their capabilities (particularly their another mission, that can be rolled on making use of ground-based data pro-
ability to undertake onboard data pro- and off a non-dedicated platform or are cessing. While such an approach works, 31
its downside is the bandwidth needed
to down-link acquired data and up-link
commands. Here, one solution (which
INTERNATIONAL SIGINT AIRCRAFT also addresses persistence) may be high-
In addition to programs in the US and UK, airborne SIGINT capabilities altitude, optionally manned airships
are known to be operated by the following countries: (such as the USAF’s proposed “Blue Devil”
Australia: putative C-130 and Orion COMINT platforms Block II) that are large enough to house
Brazil: R-35AM program both the necessary sensors and a process-
Chile: 2 × Petrel Beta (status uncertain)
Ch ing suite capable of reducing their data
China:
Chh an unknown number of Y-8- and Tu-154-based platforms output to more manageable levels.
Egypt:
Egg 2 × Beech 1900C-1 and 2 × EC-130 Multi-tasking is also likely to pro-
Finland:
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France:
Frr 2 × C.160G Gabriel a standard air vehicle (say, a transport
India:
In
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Iran:
Ir
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Israel:
Is
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Italy:
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South
Soo Korea: 4 × Hawker 800SIG (to be replaced) Scout” platform that takes a minimally
Poland: 2 × Procjon W-3 helicopters
P modified Hercules transport aircraft
Russia: an unknown number of Il-20Ms
R and equips it with an operator’s shelter
SSaudi
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Singapore:
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Spain:
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Sweden:
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Taiwan:
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Thailand:
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Scout’s” original contractor) has gone
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lance and reconnaissance (ISR) solu- the specific SIGINT field, Finland’s on- tainer which is inserted into the host
tions. Ranging in size from UAS pods going SIGINT C-295M “ferret” project is aircraft’s cargo bay and which houses
to roll-on/roll-off systems for aircraft the first known Dragon series solution six operators, each of whom sits at a
such as the C-130 and C-295 transports, to have been sold. workstation that features three dis-
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France’s Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) procurement retaining its EW responsibilities. Currently, this unit contains
agency is pursing several electronic warfare (EW) programs two SIGINT regiments (44e and 54e Régiment de Transmis-
across the land, sea and air domains for the country’s armed sions); artillery and light cavalry regiments; a cartographic
forces. Several of these initiatives have been launched in the group; an information collection group charged with interro-
last five years, and additional EW system acquisitions are ex- gating prisoners of war; and civil communications operations.
pected over the next five-year period. These initiatives are being In addition to this formation, French Army EW doctrine also
driven by two key motivations; firstly to outfit platforms that highlights the importance of retaining tactical-level EW as-
the Armée de Terre (French Army), Marine Nationale (French sets, and to this end, is rolling out equipment onto its ground
Navy) and Armée de l’Air (French Air Force) are acquiring; and vehicles to provide tactical-level SIGINT and force protection.
secondly, to respond to urgent operational requirements gener- EW force protection assets utilized by the French Army in-
ated by the continuing French presence in Afghanistan in sup- clude a route clearance system, known as the SOUVIM-2, which
port of NATO operations there. Around 4,000 French personnel is understood to have deployed to Afghanistan. The system
are deployed both inside the country, and as part of Combined obtains its designation from Système d’OUVerture d’Itinéraire
Task Force-150 supporting maritime security operations in the Miné, (Mine Route Clearance System). The DGA contracted
Indian Ocean region. Most of these personnel are involved in MBDA to develop the SOUVIM-2 in 2000, following the draft
counter-insurgency efforts inside Afghanistan and, as a result of a requirement by the French Army for a vehicle which could
of the French Army’s experiences there, a number of EW pro- clear ordnance from up to 93 miles of road per day. The require-
grams have been launched to provide force protection to French ment also stipulated that the vehicle should be able to mark
troops operating on the ground. the safe route for other traffic in a convoy. The acquisition of
the SOUVIM-2 by the French Army replaces the legacy SOU-
ARMÉE DE TERRE VIM-1 system that the force was using for the mine and Impro-
The French Army follows two distinct approaches as far as its vised Explosive Device (IED) clearance task. SOUVIM-1 was the
EW doctrine is concerned, maintaining both brigade and tacti- local designation given to the four DCD Dorbyl Husky vehicles
cal-level EW capabilities. The force is unusual in the European that the French Army procured from South Africa.
context in maintaining a dedicated unit charged with collect- Each SOUVIM-2 comprises two separate vehicles, each de-
ing signals intelligence (SIGINT). This unit was initially called signed with a narrow V-shaped hull. The two vehicles both tow
the Brigade de Renseignement et de Guerre Electronique (BRGE/ trailers, and travel in a tandem formation. A frame outfits the
Electronic Warfare and Information Brigade) and was formed in front of the leading vehicle accommodating an infra-red sen-
1993. It was renamed the Brigade de Renseignement, despite sor designed to detonate IR-activated ordnance, as well as a
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plate: 14.3 x 19.1 x 2.5 cm. applied aero-structures, e.g., fuselage
mounted, PIDS, MCP, SCDs or SWPs.
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* For fixed and rotary-wing applications.
* * Programmable SmartStore dispenser.
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SIZE WEIGHT NATO # FEATURES
1 x1 x 8 in. 180 g 1370-99-051-9514 Advanced MTV, spectral, aerodynamic and thrusted variants are also available
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L
ast month, we discussed the impact of location All of the simplest techniques share the advantages of sim-
on the application of (or defense against) kinetic plicity of implementation and robustness. It is very hard to
weapons. This concept requires that distributed “jam” this kind of connectivity. It also requires that an enemy
assets be networked – which requires connectivity. be relatively close to intercept transmitted information. That
Because of our dependence on connectivity in our said, security requires diligent measures to prevent an enemy
daily lives and business, an enemy can also cause us from successfully employing techniques like hidden micro-
real damage by attacking the connectivity itself. Consider the phones or cameras, or even monitoring reflections from lasers
economic impact of having our banking system, our rail infra- bounced off windows.
structure or our air transportation capability shut down. All of However, all of these simple connectivity techniques have
these, along with many more aspects of our modern economic the immense disadvantage of short range. Increasing the range
and military capabilities, are so dependant on connectivity requires sending a messenger or relaying the information. Both
that a radio frequency or cyber attack could cause significant techniques cause significant increase in complexity, reduce
physical damage, loss of military capability or devastating dis- security against interception and reduce the reliability and
ruption of economic activity. Before discussing attacks on con- confidence in the accuracy of the information passed. Thus,
68 nectivity in more detail, it will be useful to discuss the nature it becomes advantageous, even necessary, to employ technical
of connectivity from a technical point of view. transmission paths and techniques to extend the range – per-
Connectivity can be thought of as any technique for the haps by a few kilometers or perhaps to some significantly dif-
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movement of information from one location or “player” to ferent part of the Earth.
another. The medium can be wire, radio propagation, opti-
cal propagation or audio propagation. We must also consider Connectivity Requirements
the most basic connectivity; Between two people, two devices Regardless of which connectivity technique is employed,
(e.g., computers) or between devices and people. from the simplest to the most complex, the requirements
shown in Table 1 must be met. First consider the simplest con- your cell phone at about 1000 Hz. However, tactile communica-
nectivity techniques and the characteristics of the informa- tion is generally limited to alarms that point to more detailed
tion passed: audio or video information.
Latency Short enough to allow an activity loop to operate with required performance.
Information fidelity Adequate to allow recovery of required information from a received transmission.
Message security Adequate to protect the information for the duration of its usefulness to an enemy.
Transmission security Adequate to prevent a enemy from detecting a transmission in time to prevent required trans-
mission or to locate a transmitter in time to make an effective attack on it or to determine
electronic order of battle in time to effect a military operation.
Interference rejection Adequate to provide required information fidelity in the operating environment.
Jamming resistance Adequate to prevent an enemy with the anticipated jamming capability and geometry from pre-
venting the achievement of adequate information fidelity.
E W101
digital cable, by RF link, or by optical Latency is the delay in the received individual pieces of very wideband data
link. The rates can be from a few Hertz data compared to the transmitted data. can be transmitted over limited band-
to Gigahertz. A good demonstration of latency is a width by spreading them in time. How-
news broadcast involving a local host ever, if the average rate of information
Long Range Information Transmission talking to a reporter who is half a world flow is higher than the transmission
Now consider the longer-range con- away. The host asks a question and the bandwidth, the latency increases until
nectivity techniques that move infor- reporter is shown standing there look- the process crashes. A simple example of
mation from one human location to ing like an idiot for a few seconds be- this phenomenon is an individual speak-
another (or from one computer location fore answering. The host’s question ing in a foreign language with limited
to another). We will consider each of the travels about 85,000 km to and from fluency. The foreign listener typically
requirements in Table 1. a satellite at the speed of light, which does not know some of the words used.
As shown in Figure 3, the band- takes about 2.5 seconds. The reporter’s That person can follow a conversation
width at the point at which the infor- response takes another 2.5 seconds to at some rate, but must mentally review
mation is input must be adequate to reach the host’s location. The process la- what has been said to pull unknown
accept that data. However, the band- tency causes the observed 5 seconds of words out of context. This review pro-
width over which it is transmitted may blankness on the reporter’s face. There cess is part of the information path, and
be different. If the data flow must be is additional latency between the host’s thus narrows the effective transmission
continuous, the transmission path location and your television set, but you bandwidth. If the native speaker con-
70 must have the full input data band- do not notice it because the constant tinues at too high a rate, the listener’s
width. However, if the input data is not delay allows you to see a continuous review process delay increases the la-
continuous or has a varying data flow flow of data. tency until the foreign listener cannot
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rate, it can be transmitted at a lower Latency becomes critical when the follow the conversation.
rate. Practical systems that perform connectivity is inside a process loop. In computer-to-computer commu-
this way digitize the data and clock it Let’s say you are far away trying to nication, an analogous process is the
into a register at the sending end of manually land an unmanned aerial ve- storage of wideband data until there is
the link. Then, the data is clocked out hicle. With any significant latency, it a pause or a period of lower bandwidth
of the register at a lower rate, which would take extraordinary skill to avoid data that allows the receiving computer
allows a narrower transmission band- crashing the aircraft by over control- to put the whole data stream back into
width. At the receiving end, the data ling. The less latency you can tolerate, the proper format to be processed out.
can (if required) be input to another the less transmission bandwidth reduc- The amount of latency allowable de-
register and clocked out at its original tion you can use. The propagation time pends on the available memory in the
data rate. There are two other factors vs. distance is, of course, also a latency receiving computer. When this memory
that impact the required transmission factor. overflows because of excess throughput
bandwidth. One is latency and the sec- Throughput rate is the average rate rate, the process crashes.
ond is throughput rate. at which information flows. In general, Typically, a networked system will
get in trouble because of the required
throughput rate rather than the peak
data rate. We will be discussing this fac-
tor in the context of specific EW tasks
later in this series.
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DATA TRANSMITTED DATA OUTPUT
REGISTER REGISTER What’s Next
DATA
Next month, we will continue our
discussion of basic connectivity require-
ments. For your comments and sugges-
tions, Dave Adamy can be reached at
Figure 3: High bandwidth, non-continuous source data can be transmitted at a lower rate and
returned to its original format at the receiver, but with latency. dave@lynxpub.com. a
2011
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ing from USAFA and a Masters of Aeronautical Science in Aero- Joint Electronic Warfare Center in San Antonio, TX, and he
nautics and Operations. A career EWO with more than 2,500 served as its first Director until August 2008 making opera-
flying hours, he has supported operations DESERT SHIELD, tional support of EW the hallmark of his service. He completed
DESERT STORM, DENY FLIGHT, SOUTHERN WATCH, ENDURING his military career with a two-year overseas tour to III MEF,
FREEDOM, and IRAQI FREEDOM as a combat aviator, operational Okinawa, Japan, where he forward deployed to Operation IRAQI
planner and C2 expert. FREEDOM. He holds a Bachelors of Science Degree from Rutgers
Colonel Vanderberry is focused on advancing understanding University and a Master of Arts Degree from Air University,
of Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations’ pivotal role in 21st Maxwell AFB. His personal decorations include the Defense Su-
century warfare. perior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, as
well as other awards and ribbons. He was the 2008 recipient of
Joseph “HULTEC” Hulsey the AOC’s Executive Management Award.
Joe Hulsey is a 35-year EW practi- Marc is seeking an AOC Director at Large position to con-
tioner, advocate, educator, tester and tinue serving Joint Electronic Warfare and ensuring the AOC
program manager. He served 21 years remains the pre-eminent organization among EW/IO profes-
in the US Navy, including tours in VAQ- sionals as we prepare for the challenging road ahead.
137 and VAQ-135 EA-6B squadrons, as
a flight tester in VX-5 (now VX-9) and LtCol Ronald D. “Fog” Hahn, USMC
tours as Carrier Group EWO and at Na- (Ret.)
val Air Systems Command as a Program Mr. Hahn served twenty years in
Manager in the EA-6B program office. the United States Marine Corps, retir-
While at NAVAIR, his responsibilities included EA-6B R&D ef- ing in August 2005. As a Naval Flight
forts, ALQ-99 jammers, EW mission planning and integrating Officer, he flew EA-6B’s and accrued
HARM on the EA-6B. HARM integration was accomplished in more than 2,000 flight hours in the
just 18 months. Prowler. Mr. Hahn’s deployments in
Since his retirement from the Navy in 1989, he has been support of combat operations include
an industry program manager for a multitude of EW programs, operations NORTHERN WATCH, DENY
FLIGHT, SOUTHERN WATCH, ALLIED FORCE, JOINT ENDEAVOR, 2. Improving access to technology for our international part-
ENDURING FREEDOM, and IRAQI FREEDOM. Mr. Hahn served as ners while maintaining proper security controls.
the Command EW Officer for USCENTCOM during Operation EN-
DURING FREEDOM and Special Operations Team Chief for USSO- Mark Schallheim
COM, deploying in support of operations ENDURING FREEDOM Mr. Schallheim has been an EW En-
and IRAQI FREEDOM. gineer and Manager at the Naval Air
Following his retirement from military service, Mr. Hahn Warfare Center, Point Mugu, for over
was hired as a Department of the Air Force Civil Servant (GG- 35 years. He is currently the NAVAIR
14) and served as the JIOWC Special Operations Deputy Team EMS Dominance Chief Engineer. He
Chief. In the summer of 2006, he assumed the duties of Deputy has spent most of his government
Director of the Joint Electronic Warfare Center (JEWC) and, in career leading a government and in-
April 2008, was promoted to GG-15. dustry engineering team supporting
Mr. Hahn holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Econom- EA-6B, EA-18G, NGJ AEA systems, and
ics from the University of Delaware and a Masters of Arts other EA programs. In addition to new acquisition support
since 1998. As a member of the AOC help the AOC and its members improve EW and IO capabilities
since 1972, he has actively participat- and make the AOC more relevant to the government, industry
ed in many conventions, conferences, and our coalition partners.
symposiums and focus studies in sup-
port of the AOC. He is a recipient of the AOC’s Management Douglas “Chopper” Lamb
medal, the Technology Award and the Lifetime Achievement Douglas “Chopper” Lamb is a 28-
Award. Vince is currently employed at Raytheon Space and year Air Force veteran with nearly
Airborne Systems and is a member of the Electronics Center 3,000 fighter hours who has been ac-
Technical Staff. He has held prior technical and business man- tively involved in developing EW re-
agement positions with Northrop, Litton, Varian, AIL and ITT. quirements based on war experiences
Vince received a Bachelor of Science Degree at City University and testing fighter EW capabilities.
of NY, a Master’s Degree in Physics from Adelphi University and Chopper’s EW experience includes com-
an Executive Master’s Degree in Business Management from bat in Viet Nam, working closely with
Northwestern University. engineers and flight testing. In the
As an AOC Director, Vince will provide his experience, ener- 422nd Fighter Weapons Squadron he was the F-15 Tactical Elec-
gies and commitment to growing the AOC’s role and visibility tronic Warfare System (TEWS) flight test manager.
at the forefront of the military defense community. His broad In HQ USAF, Chopper was actively involved in POM develop-
community recognition and personal relationships will benefit ment and achieving funding for new EW capabilities. He man-
the AOC in getting its message presented and accepted. His aged test range programs and facilities used to develop, test
proactive management style will assist in bringing together and conduct EW training. In DIA as the Technology Assess-
the AOC’s overall organizational strength to the individual ments Group Chief, he was responsible for developing Integrat-
chapters and to the National Headquarters. ed Air Defense System (IADS) studies and validated Services’
Vince is a strong supporter of the importance of recognizing threat documents required to acquire and test EW systems.
the organizations members and the individual chapters. Chopper managed the DOD’s Foreign Materiel Acquisition/Ex-
ploitation activities leading to improvements in our EW sys-
tems against major threats.
Currently, at SAIC he is involved in EW systems develop- Within the Foreign Technology Division, Mr. Hayden garnered
ment. Chopper is an active member in the Capitol Chapter, national interest in utilizing foreign electro-optical assets as
holding numerous positions including President and Chair- data sources. He rotated to Washington, DC, and represented the
man of the Capitol Chapter/Naval Research Laboratory An- intelligence community on space policy discussions/decisions
nual Technical EW Symposium. While President, the Capitol and traveled to Vienna, Austria, to negotiate the sensor portion
Chapter won the AOC’s Outstanding Large Chapter Award for of the Open Skies Treaty and crafted final treaty language.
2008-2009 and 2009-2010. Chopper seeks a National Board Mr. Hayden stood-up the National Policy Integration Divi-
of Director position to continue advocating increased EW/IO sion within the new National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC)
capabilities for warfighters and to identify and implement and developed working relationships with executive levels at
activities to stimulate AOC membership growth and par- national agencies and developed new NAIC production prod-
ticipation at all levels. He also plans to focus on increasing ucts/processes for executive level consumption. In 2003, he
multi-national participation in all AOC activities to foster as- was selected to become the senior intelligence analyst for the
sociation growth. Electronic Systems Division, bringing national attention of the
electronics data work not only to the operational community
Southern Region Director edge and expertise I’ve been fortunate enough to gain over the
past several years will serve me well in working to expand the
AOC’s already excellent support for individual members, while
Col Wesley J. Heidenreich, USAF simultaneously encouraging continuation of the record growth
(Ret.) in corporate sponsorships that the Association has enjoyed
Mr. Heidenreich first joined the As- over the past few years.”
sociation of Old Crows (AOC) in 1973,
near the beginning of his 39-plus-year
career in EW. He currently serves on
the AOC National BOD as the Southern
Regional Director, and as Chairman of Candidate for Mountain-West
the Board’s Constitution and Bylaws
Committee. Region Director
Wes’ 30-year military career mostly involved work in the de-
fense suppression arena, followed by continuing employment Lt Col Wayne L. Shaw, USAF (Ret.)
as a defense contractor. During this time, he’s been actively in- Wayne is a retired US Air Force of-
volved in three AOC chapters, culminating with the Dixie Crow ficer working for Booz Allen Hamil-
Chapter where he currently serves as Immediate Past President. ton. His military decorations include
Wes has served four years as Chapter president, four years as bronze stars, air medals, the Navy
Chapter Secretary, one year as Chapter Treasurer, and three “Battle E” and the Navy Commenda-
years as Chapter Advisor. Additionally, Wes is active in help- tion medal. He has served as an EWO
ing to organize and conduct the annual Dixie Crow Regional in the B-52, B-1B, EF-111, and the EA-
Technical Symposium, which generates approximately $43,000 6B. Wayne was Department Head of a
per year in scholarships and grants for deserving military, civil Navy squadron and then an instructor
service, and dependent personnel pursuing educational de- at the EA-6B Weapons School. On the Air Staff, he was the pro-
grees. For his work in supporting the AOC, Wes was recognized grammer for USAF EW programs (e.g., MALD-J). As CENTCOM’s
in 2010 with a National Lifetime Achievement Award. EW Shop Chief in the Middle East for a year, he supervised
members from all US military services, as well as coalition Charlie has taken his corporate knowledge and experience to
personnel, and worked operational EW and RF spectrum issues the AOC where he has reinforced the chapter’s positive pres-
from all domains for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ence and impact within the New England government, corpo-
At the Joint EW Center, he worked on the “EW Functional rate, and academic communities and now wishes to support the
Solutions Analysis,” before retiring from the Air Force in 2009. Northeast Region’s continued success.
Now, working in the JIOWC for JFCOM on the Joint IO Range, he
is charged with injecting more EW into IOR events.
Wayne has grassroots AOC experience as a small chapter
president in the late 1980s, when his chapter won “Chapter of
the Year.” He was also Red River Chapter President in the early
1990s. He received awards for contributions to EW and was the
USAF recipient of the AOC Joint EW award in 2009, and voted
by his fellow chapter Board members as the 2009 and 2010 Billy
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AARGM, operational evaluation flight test ..........................................15 King Air, MC-12W Liberty ...................................................................32
AFRL, BAA for agile emitters............................................................. 20 Lockheed Martin, Dragon ISR .............................................................32
AFRL, BAA for SIGINT collection, processing and exploitation ..............24 Lockheed Martin, F-16 .......................................................................43
Air National Guard, CUPID for F-16..................................................... 46 Malaysia, F/A-18D Mid-Life Upgrade ................................................... 28
Alloy Surfaces, airborne IR decoys/flares ............................................62 MBDA, airborne dispensers................................................................ 60
AOC 2011 Election Guide ....................................................................71 MBDA, DDM-NG ................................................................................. 56
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Armtec, airborne IR decoys/flares ......................................................62 MBDA, missile warning for Mirage 2000 ............................................. 56
ATK, AAR-47 contract ........................................................................24 MBDA, Saphir-400 expendable decoy dispensing system.......................57
ATK, AARGM flight test .....................................................................16 Meggitt, airborne dispensers ............................................................. 60
BAE System, DEWS for Saudi F-16SA ....................................................43 MES, airborne dispensers .................................................................. 60
BAE Systems Rokar, airborne dispensers ............................................ 60 MiKES, ALQ-178 SPEWS ................................................................ 43, 48
BAE Systems, airborne dispensers ..................................................... 60 Niron, airborne dispensers ................................................................ 60
BAE Systems, ALR-56M ..................................................................... 46 Northrop Grumman, ALQ-131 Block II jamming pods ........................... 44
BAE Systems, contract for CMWS A-Kits ..............................................24 Northrop Grumman, ALQ-165 ASPJ..................................................... 46
BAE Systems, UAV comms jammer .......................................................15 Northrop Grumman, ASIP.................................................................. 40
BAE Systems, UK contract for Typhoon EW development...................... 28 Northrop Grumman, ASIP contract .....................................................24
BGT, IRIS-T dogfight missile ...............................................................43 Northrop Grumman, Firebird ............................................................. 18
Cassidian, ISIS for EuroHawk............................................................. 40 ONR, BAA for protection of electronics systems .................................. 20
Cassidian, upgrade for Greek F-4E .......................................................43 Rafael, ELINT for UAS platforms ........................................................ 38
Chemring, airborne IR decoys/flares .................................................. 64 Rafael, Litening II targeting pod ........................................................43
CPI, TWT contract..............................................................................24 Raytheon, ALE-50 ............................................................................ 46
DEACON attack pod ............................................................................15 Raytheon, ALR-67(V)3 ...................................................................... 48
Elbit, Litening pods ...........................................................................53 Raytheon, ASPIS for F-16s ................................................................. 48
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Envisioneering, R&D contract for offboard EW .....................................24 Saab, BOW RWR for Tornado DASS upgrade ......................................... 50
Etienne-Lacroix, airborne IR decoys/flares......................................... 64 Saab, BOZ dispenser.......................................................................... 50
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French EW ....................................................................................... 54 Sagem Défense et Sécurité, missile warning for Mirage 2000 ............... 56
HARM, AARGM conversion .................................................................16 Sierra Nevada, JCREW contract .......................................................... 22
House Armed Services Committee, FY12 Defense Markup ......................26 Spectrum Warfare, part 2 .................................................................. 68
IMI, TAAS dispenser ..........................................................................52 SRCTec, Duke V3 CREW jammer contract ............................................. 22
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