Statement of Work - SOW Network Analyzer.pdf

Keysight 2-Port PNA Network Analyzer

Background:

Sponsor / Customer: NAVSEA, PMS 408 Expeditionary Missions

End User: Navy (CIED/CUAS), Air Force, FMS – Australia

Requirement: The Software Support Activity (SSA) provides a full software sustainment capability for the JCREW

I1B1 System of Systems. The goal is to support / lead system integration and technical insertion efforts as directed by the I1B1 APM/PM. The SSA will implement the system software and firmware (SW/FW) supportability and sustainment requirements identified in the Capabilities Production Document (CPD) and the Life Cycle Sustainment

Plan (LCSP).

Project Completion: The JCREW I1B1 is a DoD Program of Record (POR) - ACAT II program with major milestones through its life cycle where SSA has a direct involvement.

• Technical Insertion/Enabling Functions FY25-28

• Operational Program (OP) 7.7.X Release FY24=25

• Full Rate Production-2 Contract Award FY24-Q4

NSWC IHD:

RDT&E VSYSCOM Lab 209, E34, NSWC IHD, serves PMS408 - Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive

Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) as the Software Support Activity (SSA) for JCREW I1B1 Family of

Scanner/Jammers. The nature of the software/firmware makes it imperative that the SSA must "mirror" the software development environment of the prime vendor, Northrup Grumman for sustainment (main deliverable software/firmware), transformational (NEXTGEN SDR, SC, CDU), and support of the JCREW Organic Depot at NSWC

CN.

The JCREW family of systems in deployed to the US NAVY, US AIRFORCE, OGA, and FMS customers.

The JCREW SSA must handle SW from other USG stakeholders, JHU/APL, and Industry.

This document is prepared in accordance with the direction of the Joint Counter Radio Controlled Improvised

Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) program Statement of Work (SOW).

Identification:

This Computer Software Product (CSP) describes how to build each of the JCREW software and Very High Speed

Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language (VHDL) components and the Digital Versatile Discs

(DVDs) that contain all the source code, test and peer review artifacts for the CSCIs.

System Overview:

JCREW System of Systems (SoS), shown in shown below, implements a network-ready system architecture that is to be integrated into a variety of host platforms (dismounted, mounted and fixed site/semi-permanent). JCREW

Devices share a common modular hardware and software design for a cost effective solution using electronic warfare (EW) methods and techniques that meets the war fighter’s need for an agile and adaptive active defense system to suppress ever changing Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (CIEDs) AND (CUAS) threats.

Who: NSWC IHD RDT&E VSYSCOM Lab 209 E34, serves PMS408 - Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised

Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) ACAT II, as the Software Support Activity (SSA) for JCREW I1B1

Jammers and in that capacity are required to "mirror" the software lab development and system testing environment of the prime vendor, Northrup Grumman, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

(JHU/APL), and the JCREW Organic Depot at NSWC CRANE.

What: Software Support Activity (SSA) has a unique need, in its mission of testing and verifying the detection and defeat of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), for a Network Analyzer This Network Analyzer allows SSA to eanalyze cell communications in an isolated lab environment. Testing cell network performance when additional environmental variables are added is mission critical.

N5221B PNA Microwave Network Analyzer, 900 Hz / 10 MHz to 13.5 GHz

10 MHz to 13.5 GHz, 2-ports with one source and 4-ports with two sources, source and receiver attenuators, bias-tees, pulse generators and modulators, noise figure, and best RF performance.

As microwave and RF components become more complex, so do your test challenges. Wireless devices operate at even higher frequencies, requiring careful characterization to achieve faster data transmission specifications. The

Keysight PNA series vector network analyzers (VNA) provide the measurement integrity you need to transform deeper insights into better designs.

In R&D, design verification, or manufacturing, PNA network analyzer solutions use highly integrated hardware and specialized software to keep you ahead of next-generation performance requirements. The flexible hardware and extensive software applications provide complex device characterization with multiple measurements over a single connection. Characterize Broadband Millimeter-Wave Devices

Why waste time struggling to build a millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) VNA from scratch when our preconfigured test set makes it simple? Our broadband mm-Wave VNA solution includes a two-port or four-port network analyzer with the necessary mm-Wave cabling, frequency extenders, and test-set controller.

With the Keysight build your solution from either a PNA or PNA-X network analyzer and get enhanced broadband mm-Wave device characterization and modeling for on-wafer and connectorized measurements.

Highlights

A Winning Combination of Excellent Hardware and Powerful Software

The PNA Series of network analyzers offers industry-leading performance for testing amplifiers, mixers, and frequency converters. Built-in pulse modulators and pulse generators provide pulsed S-parameter measurements quickly and accurately. All models are available in two-port single-source and four-port dual-source versions.

Solve your toughest measurement challenges with the highest-performing microwave network analyzer in the industry.

• Measure S-parameters with the lowest uncertainty and highest stability.

• Characterize active components efficiently with applications that simplify setups.

• Accelerate insight into component behavior using a multitouch display and intuitive user interface.

• Get the measurement sophistication you need by customizing your PNA network analyzer to your desired level of performance.

Why: The Network Analyzer is required in support of JCREW Technical Instructions (TI) QUATTRO/MIB as well as the C-IED threats that are addressed by the FPGA, CPLD, and SoC in current and future JCREW systems. These TI’s are for next generation JCREW I1B1 product capability improvements: Software Defined Radio (SDR)

(RTSP/TTSP), CDU 2.0, SC 2.0. The JCREW SW, critical to the correct operation of the JCREW family of scanner/jammers requires a reliable system testing and verification of JCREW SW products and updates, quickly and correctly, to a global customer base. JCREW products are vital to the safety and security of all operational naval units.

The JCREW SSA must handle NEXTGEN HW/SW from other USG stakeholders, JHU/APL, and Industry. The JCREW

SSA provides government support and oversight of computer software configurations items being developed by the prime vendor. The JCREW SSA needs an Network Analyzer to test and verify to the FLEET, USAF, OGA, and FMS customers the operational software.

When: FY24-25

B. This Network Analyzer will be used for RF Testing and Calibration for the JCREW I1B1 Test Station. The addition of this device to our current configuration will allow us to perform a more in-depth (Depot Level) testing in support of our program.C.

Features:

The PNA Series builds on Keysight Technologies Inc. 40-year legacy of excellence to deliver new standards in speed, accuracy, and versatility for microwave network analysis. The PNA’s architecture includes high quality, stable hardware and flexible software. The standard PNA is suitable for testing passive and active devices such as filters and amplifiers. Users can easily add options to test mixers, harmonics, intermodulation distortion (IMD), pulsed-

RF, antennas and millimeter-wave (mmWave) components.

Key features

• Excellent performance

• High dynamic range: 127 dB at 20 GHz at test port

• Low trace noise: 0.002 dB rms at 1 kHz bandwidth

• Fast measurement speed: 4.5 to 26 μsec/point

• High stability: 0.05 dB/degrees Celsius

• State-of-the-art calibration capabilities and wide-range of ECal modules

• Advanced applications for mixer and pulse measurements

• Single-ended and balanced measurements

• 32 measurement channels, unlimited traces, and 16,001 points per channel

• Connectivity with Open Windows XP, 6 USB connectors, LAN, and GPIB

PNA-X – The Premier-Performance Microwave Network Analyzer

The industry-leading performance and highly integrated configurable nature of the PNA-X make it the ideal solution to address active device measurement challenges.

The PNA-X enables engineers to stay on the leading edge of component testing.

High quality synthesizers

• 10 MHz to 26.5 GHz

• Internal 2nd source for IMD, hot-S22, and high speed swept-LO measurements

• High output power and wide power-sweep range for testing amplifiers

• Excellent harmonic performance for accurate harmonic and IMD measurements

Sensitive and linear receivers

• High compression point for improved dynamic accuracy

• More sensitivity for pulsed S-parameter measurements

Friendly user interface

• Large 10.4 inch touch screen display

• Click-and-drag markers and zoom

Exceptional flexibility

• Built-in signal combiner for easy IMD and hot-S22 measurements

• Easy pulsed measurements with internal pulse modulators and pulse generators

• Flexible signal routing via internal switches for adding external filters, pre-amplifiers, and additional test equipment

• Optional noise figure measurement capability extends the suite of measurements available with a single connection and offers the industry’s highest accuracy

• Front-panel jumpers for direct access to test-port couplers and receivers

• Source and receiver attenuators with 5 dB increments for better measurement optimization

• Built-in bias-tees simplify amplifier evaluation

• Three sets of triggering lines for complex test systems

Mixer measurements

• Conversion loss/gain, magnitude and phase

• Input match, output match, and LO match

• Isolation and compression

• The two internal independent synthesizers with +13 dBm power and < 60 dBc harmonics eliminate the need for external synthesizers or components.

• Advanced error correction Patented vector-mixer calibration for measurement of absolute group delay

• Scalar-mixer calibration (SMC) for match-corrected amplitude measurements

• Significantly faster speed for fixed-IF (20 to 30 times faster than with an external source)

• Easy-to-configure multi-stage converter measurements

• LO source control and LO power calibration

• Mixer IMD

• The simple two-step SMC calibration provides match-corrected conversion loss, error-corrected input and output match

• Software tuning for embedded LO

Amplifier measurements

• Gain, gain flatness, reverse isolation, and return loss

• Simple, fast, and accurate AM-AM and AM-PM compression measurements with the Gain Compression

Application with 38 dB power sweep range at 20 GHz, +13 dBm output power

• Test harmonics accurately with < 60 dBc source harmonics. No need for external filters.

• Accurate and simple IMD using the dual sources and internal combiner, located behind the couplers, providing highly accurate and stable measurements. No need for external combiners.

• Source corrected noise figure measurements with exceptional accuracy

• Integrated source attenuators and receiver attenuators for measurement optimization

• Perform all of the above measurements with one single connection using the PNA–X.

Pulsed-RF measurements

• Wideband and narrowband detection

• Up to four internal pulse generators

• Up to two internal pulse modulators

• Pulse widths as narrow as 33 ns

• Pulse-to-pulse

• Point-in-pulse, average pulse, and pulse-profile capability

• No need for external components

The Keysight PNA-L is designed for your general-purpose network analysis needs and priced for your budget. With the same firmware as the PNA, the PNA-L offers the perfect balance of value and performance. PNA-L provides efficiency and flexibility in both manufacturing and R&D applications, for industries ranging from wireless LAN component production to aerospace and defense.

Basic measurements

• Insertion loss, gain, return loss, isolation, group delay, compression, both magnitude and phase

• Connectorized, in-fixture, or on-wafer

• Fast and accurate

• Reliable and repeatable

• Affordable

On-wafer measurements

• Class of TRL calibrations for accurate measurements

• Differential measurement capabilities with integrated multiport network analyzers

• Accurate power control and de-embedding algorithm for device characterization

• Compatibility with on-wafer calibration software for a total solution

PNA-L – Speed and Accuracy You Can Count On – Balanced/Differential Measurements and Multiport Test

Easily measure single-ended, balanced, and mixed-mode S-parameters, in addition to ratioed and unratioed receiver measurements.

New multiport components require complicated test plans. Multiple port combinations must be tested over several frequency bands, resulting in lengthy tests. To reduce test time and lower costs, the PNA-L/PNA-X and test set combinations have been designed for high-speed measurements. To further simplify complex test requirements, up to 32 independent channels are available, eliminating the need for recalling instrument states.

Differential measurements

• Single-ended, balanced, mixed-mode

• S-parameters

• Ratioed and unratioed measurements

• Mode-conversion analysis

• True-mode stimulus measurements

Multiport measurements

• Multiport configurations optimized for your device, including full cross-bar

• Quick-Short-Open-Load-Thru (QSOLT) for fast, multiport cal

• N-port calibration for accuracy and ease-of-measurements

• Test-set control part of PNA firmware

• 32 independent channels for fast measurement speed

Where: JCREW I1B1 SSA, as required by PMS-408, must maintain a software development and system testing environment, which an Network Analyzer that's capable of emulating networks from GSM to 3GPP standards is a critical component in building the NEXT GENERATION JCREW Software and Firmware by having the in-house, in-depth capability to simulate, test, and verify the critical and vital JCREW SW products and updates, quickly and correctly, to a global customer base.