EWIC INDUSTRY DAY Technical.pptx

412th Test Wing 412th Electronic Warfare 772nd Test Squadron / EWOM Electronic Warfare Improvement Capabilities (EWIC)

Industry Day PCO: Craig Keelen PM: James Ryder 05 Feb 2020

War Winning Capabilities… On Time, On Cost Electronic Warfare Improvement Capabilities (EWIC) 412th Electronic Warfare Group (EWG) Mission Overview 412th EWG Organization The Benefield Anechoic Facility Requirements Programs Questions

412 EWG Mission Provide our nation and its allies expertise and credible capabilities to perform survivability Test and Evaluation (T&E) ensuring our continued world-wide air dominance Maximize our customers’ ability to survive on the battlefield

Joint Simulation Environment

Open-Air Range Manned Flight Simulators

DIADS –C2

BAF

ADTRA

Radar Targets-ARES EW Threat Simulators

Real World Tests Prior to Combat

CAOC

NCW

412 EWG T&E

Multi-Spectral Virtual EW Battlespace…

412 EWG

EW Test & Evaluation (T&E) Facilities

TEMS

IFAST

BAF

Test & Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation Digital Simulation EW Threat Simulators

Hardware-In-The-Loop Integrated Facility for Avionic Systems Test Systems Integration Lab Benefield Anechoic Facility Installed Systems Test Facility

412 EWG Organization

412th Electronic Warfare Group (EWG) Master Architect Acquisition Security

772 TS

EWB Business Division

771 TS

OL-EG Eglin AFB EWS Site Support Division 6 Flights EW M&S, Ground Test Capabilities, I&M

AIR FORCE MATERIEL COMMAND (AFMC)

AIR FORCE TEST CENTER (AFTC)

412th TEST WING 412th ELECTRONIC WARFARE GROUP

412 EWG Organization--Mission Execution

412 EWG

772 TS

EWOM

Improvement & Modernization Future Test Capability Development

Benefield Anechoic Facility (BAF) As a DoD asset, the BAF is the largest anechoic chamber in the world.

The BAF possesses instrumentation and utilities to operate and evaluate avionics systems (signals, control functions) in strategic and cargo-sized aircraft.

Testing also includes single/multiple tactical-sized air/space vehicles.

BAF Physical Layout (chamber) 264 Ft L X 250 Ft W X 70 Ft H Two 40-ton hoists 175-ton 80-ft diameter turntable (One-of-a-kind capability) Power, Cooling (air and liquid), Hydraulics available Quiet Zone Isolation (Typical)

* Below 500 MHz special techniques are used to optimize range for use with specific SUT for antenna patterns and isolation tests RF Shielding Effectiveness To/from outside environment ≥ 100dB

“Virtual open-air range” within four walls

Cont.

Benefield Anechoic Chamber GPS (pass through or simulation) EW Threat Simulation Comm, Nav, IFF (CNI) Antenna Patterns

EMI/EMC

Secure test environment for sensitive signals (SAP, SCI, war reserve modes) Credible “pedigree” Instrumentation

Cont.

EW/IO Systems Test The AFTC RF ISTF infrastructure supports T&E requirements of diverse RF systems Electronic Warfare (EW) / Information Operations (I/O) Radar Warning Receivers Electronic Support

SIGINT/ELINT/COMINT/MASINT

Electronic Attack (EA) (Jammers) Radar systems Antenna systems for all types of avionics and systems Data Links and Satellite Communications

Manned and Unmanned Systems!

Nearly “Anything RF” Can Benefit – An asset to EW/IO

Applicable T&E Requirements These facilities are used to satisfy a significant variety of today’s systems’ test requirements such as:

Situational awareness – dense electromagnetic environment (EME) Threat detection, identification, processing and response Angle of arrival (AOA) or direction finding (DF) measurements Jammer system functionality Antenna performance – patterns, beam forming, beam steering Sub-systems interoperability/compatibility testing Intra- and intersystem isolation Suitability Minimum discernable signal measurements and other RF characterization Supplement OAR when range assets or time are not available

Mitigates Surprises at the OAR or Operationally

Overall 412 EWG EWIC Requirements Improvement and Modernization (I&M) upgrade/development programs Support the research and development (R&D) and procurement of capability enhancements to this environment increased simulator fidelity Increased signal density throughout the electromagnetic spectrum improving efficiencies with regard to real-time test execution, environment monitoring techniques, and data capture and processing 772 TS requires continuous improvement in test methodologies and development of EW test capabilities in order to maintain its posture as the Center of Excellence (COE) for EW T&E

Overal 412 EWG EWIC Requirements (cont.)

Improvement & Modernization (I&M) Current Support on Infrastructure Programs Current Test Infrastructure Programs ADTRA (Advanced Dynamic Transmit Array) NEWEG (Next Generation Electronic Warfare Environment Generator) RAGE (Radar Air to Ground Environment) MSTC (Mission System Test Capability) EWTCIP (Electronic Warfare Test Capability Improvement Program) 5GATE (5th Generation Aerial Target Environment) JAMMER/ECM (Closed Loop High Fidelity Threat Radar)

Upcoming Test Infrastructure Programs LB-EFS (Low Band – Extended Free Space) ULB – EFS (Ultra Low Band – Extended Free Space) mmW (Millimeter Wave)

Current Projects ADTRA: Advanced Dynamic Transmit Array The capabilities introduced by ADTRA will provide the RF environment necessary to test, evaluate, and to validate the performance of installed systems such as advanced radar warning receivers, electronic support measures and jammers being integrated on current and future weapons systems.

Design and Production of a Free Space radiation cart utilizing an Active Electronic Scanned Array (AESA)

Current Projects NEWEG: Next-Generation Electronic Warfare Environment Generator The NEWEG will provide the next generation threat simulator to meet AF future test requirements.

NEWEG will provide a high fidelity simulation capability design that supports essential survivability testing to our existing and future weapons systems.

Threat simulator will feed digital signals to ADTRA and future carts for free space radiation.

RAGE: Radar Air-to-Ground Environment Projects resolves several current Navy and Air Force radar testing shortfalls by providing a high-fidelity virtual battlespace simulation compatible with modern radar systems installed on tactical and surveillance aircraft platforms.

RAGE addresses four key capability gaps for the test and evaluation (T&E) of airborne radar systems.

Air-to-Air (A/A) Air-Ground Range (A/G) Radar Cross-Section (RCS) Radar Signal Modulation (RSM)

MSTC: Mission Systems Test Capability Mission Systems simulation for the 4th and 5th generation aircraft and test capability for Multifunction Advanced Data Link (MADL) to enable interoperability and integration testing of new data links and waveforms.

EWTCIP: Electronic Warfare Test Capability Improvement Program Integration efforts of newly developed capabilities into the BAF.

New with Existing New with New Develop the subsystems needed to integrate new capabilities Develop subsystem for calibration of free space carts

5GATE: 5th Generation Aerial Target Environment Test capabilities applicable to the 5th generation battle environment BAF infrastructure upgrade for radio frequency simulation

JAMMER/ECM: Closed Loop High Fidelity Threat Radar Provides signal measurement capability targeted to ECM testing, as well as ECM analysis capability in a realistic threat environments.

Provide near real time jammer analysis software to assess jammer performance.

Provide the ability to ground test agile multi-beam jammers to include multiple simultaneous jam

Upcoming Projects LB-EFS: Low Band Extended Free Space Cart The Low Band Extended Free Space Cart (LB-EFS) is basically an ADTRA cart with a new array design.

LB-EFS carts will be integrated into existing ADTRA system configuration.

ULB-EFS

Ultra Low Band Extended Free Space Cart mmW Millimeter Wave Free Space Cart

412 EWG Task Element Questions?

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AEGIS

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Are we sure that the wheel in the lower left corner is the no kidding “warfighter” way of describing the process (e.g. is it really “find, fix, track, target, engage and assess”). Or is this some “labby” guy’s semantical way of thinking through it? Otherwise a very nice picture—thanks.

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