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2015 AOC Industry Member Guide 60 Your annual guide to the AOC’s industry, unit, institute/ university members, including descriptions and contact information for you to reference year-round.

The Monitor 15 US Navy Awards SEWIP Block 3 Contract. World Report 26 NATO Panel Reviews Evaluation Methods for IR Anti-ship Missile Decoys.

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John Haystead

Directed infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) technology has come a long way since the first lampbased systems were developed in the early 1990s. With more mature and reliable lasers, the lower cost and smaller size of today’s DIRCM systems means they can find applications on a wider variety of platforms. How Far Can We Take GaN Technology?

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The View From Here Conferences Calendar Courses Calendar From the President Book Reviews EW 101 AOC News Index of Advertisers JED Quick Look

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Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology has evolved quickly over the past decade. Some experts say that we are only scratching the surface of what GaN can do. This month, JED takes a look at the state of GaN.

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EDITORIAL STAFF Editor: John Knowles Managing Editor: Elaine Richardson Senior Editor: John Haystead Technical Editor: Ollie Holt Contributing Writers: Dave Adamy, Kernan Chaisson, Barry Manz, Richard Scott Marketing & Research Coordinator: Kent Agramonte Proofreader: Shauna Keedian Sales Administration: Candice Blair

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ack in January, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) released a Broad Agency Announcement from its Office for Anticipating Surprise. I had never heard of this office before, but the more I thought about it, the more it intrigued me. Of course, can you call something a “surprise” if you anticipate it? Still, I began thinking about the concept of “anticipating surprise” in the context of electronic warfare. How does the EW community anticipate surprise, and how could we do a better job of matching threat technology when it evolves so quickly? Historically, the DOD has been pretty poor at anticipating surprise in EW. There are some threats that DOD can focus on very well, such as air defense radars and antiship missiles that are developed in Russian military design bureaus. However, when a commercial technology (such as a wireless doorbell or a mobile phone used to trigger an IED) is “weaponized,” the DOD is surprised. DOD intelligence agencies focus on conventional threat technology, and their ability to track and recognize commercial technology as a potential source of threats is weak. The DOD’s EW labs understand the threat potential of commercial technology very well. But the labs don’t get to set many of the threat priorities for DOD. The requirements community does that, and they focus on the validated threats instead of the potential threats. So, how can the DOD begin to anticipate surprise in EW? The DOD could begin by shifting from a “reactive” posture to a more aggressive “active” posture with regard to R&D. Why wait for the threat to be fielded, if the potential threat’s technology is already being developed in the commercial sector? Empowering the DOD’s EW labs to act with more initiative and giving them a specific pot of EW funding to address commercial technologies that are being developed today would be a good start. These labs would, in turn, distribute this S&T funding to EW companies that would study commercial technologies and, in some cases, develop countermeasures to defeat these “threats.” This would be different than the present system in the sense that the objective is to anticipate threat technology rather than react to commercial technology once it is weaponized. The companies who receive these awards must put up a matching amount of internal R&D funding focused on the same objective. And, the companies would be given a fairly free hand to spend that S&T money on long-range, forward-looking EW R&D that addresses commercial threat technology. Many years ago, Maj Gen John Corder USAF (Ret.) (the EW architect of the air war in Operation Desert Storm) told me it was ridiculous that so many in the DOD thought EW always had to lag behind the threat. There’s no reason (other than a lack of imagination) why this has to be so. What if the DOD could spend a small amount of money getting ahead of a particular threat rather than spending a lot more money reacting to it? Now, that would be a surprise. – J. Knowles

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Mr. Micael Johansson Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area, Electronic Defence Systems, Saab Mr. Edgar Maimon General Manager, Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT – Elisra Mr. Jeffrey Palombo Senior VP and GM, Land and Self-Protection Systems Division, Electronic Systems, Northrop Grumman Corp. Mr. Steve Roberts Vice President, Strategy, Selex Galileo Mr. Travis Slocumb VP, Electronic Warfare Systems, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems Mr. Rich Sorelle President, Electronic Systems Division, Exelis Gp Capt P.J. Wallace Assistant Head Targeting, Military Strategic Effects, UK MOD Dr. Richard Wittstruck Acting Deputy Program Executive Officer, PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, USA

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AOC Virtual Series: Test and Measurement Receiver Architectures for use in SIGINT, EW and Radar Applications March 12 LIVE Online Webcast www.crows.org

44th Annual Collaborative EW Symposium March 31-April 2 Point Mugu, CA www.crows.org

40th Annual Dixie Crow Symposium March 22-26 Warner Robins, GA www.crows.org

APRIL Navy League Sea-Air-Space April 13-15 National Harbor, MD www.seaairspace.org LAAD Defence & Security April 14-17 Rio de Janiero, Brazil www.laadexpo.org AOC EW Latin America 2015 April 16 Rio de Janiero, Brazil www.crows.org

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Basic RF EW Concepts April 14-16 Atlanta, GA www.pe.gatech.edu

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his month’s article is written for our Service Chiefs. We have an emergency. I was recently reviewing my old EB-66 USAF Flight Crew Check List and came across the checked bordered Emergency Pages. And it reminded me of where we are with our current electronic warfare community. During the 1960s, we Air Force Navigators graduated from the 9 months of Basic Navigator Training and then went through a very technical and demanding 6-month electronic warfare course to become a certified Electronic Warfare Officer (EWO). We spent a lot of time in our T1 and T3 Simulators to apply our skills to our mission requirements. Then we went to our FTU to become mission qualified in our assigned aircraft. For me, it was the EB-66 (similar to the Navy’s EA-3). I honed my skills while flying as an EWO in both the EB-66C and the EB-66B/E at Shaw AFB, Takhli in Thailand and then on to Spangdahlem in Germany. Today, not only does the Air Force EWO not receive this same level of deep instruction for his/her profession, but the EWO designation has turned into a generic and “one-size-fits-all” navigator-related skill set called the Combat Systems Operator (CSO). To make it even worse, there are not enough cockpits available for an Air Force EWO to hone his or her core rated skills. Today, the entire curriculum for the future Air Force EWO boils down to just 6 weeks of intense training at Pensacola and not the 6 months that was considered a minimum 25 years ago, or even the dedicated 3-month specialized training regimen from 10 years ago. While I am describing the Air Force’s approach in the example above, I fear that the Navy and Marine Corps are struggling with the same “quality and quantity” issues. The bottom line is that we are losing the core expertise of our operational EW professional community at a time when there is a growing demand for that very expertise. The near-term retirement of the EA-6B and half the EC-130H fleet are clear examples of cost tradeoffs for future promises of modernized standoff jamming capabilities – the “capability vs. capacity” issue we hear so much about. It is time to recognize that as the Electromagnetic Domain is becoming increasingly competitive, congested and contested, we need EWOs and cyber warriors who understand this maneuver space and appreciate that the world of EW is migrating to digital- and software-driven systems. In order to ensure that we have the expertise needed to fight and win in the Electromagnetic Domain, our leaders must change the culture (and policy) of how we career-manage our EWO/CSO specialists. In very specialized areas, like electronic warfare, you can’t develop the required skillset overnight; it takes time, especially when you need many years of EW experience to develop an EW professional who can support combat staffs and combat operational centers. Today, we are doing an extremely poor job of this. Respectfully, I submit we have a self-imposed emergency. – Maj Gen Ken Israel, USAF (Ret.)

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NORTHROP GRUMMAN WINS SEWIP BLOCK 3 CONTRACT The US Navy has announced its longawaited decision on the SEWIP Block 3 program, awarding Northrop Grumman Corp. (Falls Church, VA) a $267 million contract (including options) for development of the EW upgrade. The SEWIP Block 3 program is developing an improved Electronic Attack (EA) capability for the existing AN/ SLQ-32 (“Slick 32”) countermeasure system on US Navy surface combatants. The new (V)Y version of the system is to be installed on all Navy ships already equipped with the active jamming variants of the AN/SLQ-32, primarily the (V)3 and (V)4 versions. These include CVN, CG, DDG and LHD class vessels, as well as select new-construction plat-

forms. The program leverages technology developed under the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Integrated Topside (InTop) effort and includes a Government software-development effort for a SoftKill Coordinator (SKC) to manage EA engagements. It also includes the provision of a “focused application of the Naval Research Lab (NRL) Transportable EW Module (TEWM) system to support CNO Urgent Operational Needs (UON).” Exelis Electronic Systems (Van Nuys, CA) has been working with NRL on this portion of the program since 2013. The TEWM Speed to Fleet (STF) effort is an interim solution until Block 3 is available, addressing “an EW capability gap for engaging a wide range of

anti-ship missile seekers” and implements a network command protocol allowing for its efficient use on a broad class of ships. The non-acquisition development and demonstration program supports a 6th fleet UON and is scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of this year. Commenting on the Block 3 win, a spokesperson for the Northrop Grumman program team said, “Northrop Grumman is pleased that the Navy has selected our (SEWIP) offering, and we look forward to partnering with the Navy to deliver this critical mission capability.” Block 3 is the latest in a series of SEWIP Block upgrades, with Block 1 focused on obsolescence mitigation and

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special signal intercept, while SEWIP Block 2 focused on electronic support capability improvements. Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, MD) had previously won the contract for SEWIP Block 2, and Northrop Grumman beat out a competitive team of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to win the Block 3 contract. In its statement following the announcement, the Lockheed Martin-Raytheon team said it “will meet with the Navy to better understand their selection decision regarding SEWIP Block III. Together, our team has more than 80 years of combined, proven experience in developing electronic systems. We stand behind our affordable and innovative solution and remain fully committed to increasing the US Navy’s Surface Ship Electronic Attack capabilities.” For its part, Northrop Grumman has been involved in several aspects of the SEWIP Block I program, along with General Dynamics. The Block 3 development effort is heavily leveraging a number of key technologies including active electronically steerable arrays (AESA) and gallium nitride (GaN) high power am-

plifiers (HPAs), as well as advances in microprocessors, analog-to-digital converters (A/Ds) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Together these technologies will provide important new EA capabilities including high-gain, precision power-added efficiency, wide bandwidth operation, digital beamforming and rapid generation of advanced waveforms. Commenting in the January issue of JED (“Leap-Ahead SEWIP Technology Meets Next-Generation Threats Today”), SEWIP Program Manager, CAPT Doug Small, (PEO IWS 2.0) pointed out that, “We’re not doing these things because they’re great ideas; they’re being done to pace the threat…the objective of Block 3 is to bring new technology to bear to get ahead of, and stay ahead of, any possible threats.” Block 3 Preliminary Design (PD) work is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of this year with a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) in the fourth quarter. This is to be immediately followed by an Engineering Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase that will run through the third quarter of 2018.

Initial Operational Test & Evaluation (IOT&E) is planned for the third quarter of 2020. The FY2015 DOD budget includes $59.7 million for SEWIP Block 3 and the President’s proposed FY2016 budget includes a total of $60.1 million for the program. Of this, $16 million is allocated to SKC software development. The budget document also projects additional Block 3 funding of $66.5 million in 2017, $37.6 million in 2018, and similar annual amounts continuing forward. – J. Haystead

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NAVY TAKES NEXT STEP IN LONG-ENDURANCE ANTI-SHIP MISSILE DECOY The US Navy’s Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has released an RFI for a Future Naval Capability (FNC) program intended to develop a new long-endurance, anti-missile EW decoy for the surface fleet. Known as the Shiplaunched EW Extended Endurance Decoy (SEWEED) system, the new start (FY 16) program is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Code 35, Naval Air Warfare and Weapons, Division 351, Aerospace Science Research which supports “air and surface battlespace requirements of joint littoral aircraft involving aircraft, naval surface fire support, and ship self defense.” The Division conducts “exploratory and

HARRIS TO ACQUIRE EXELIS Harris Corp. (Melbourne, FL) has made an offer to buy Exelis Inc. (McLean, VA) for approximately $4.75 billion. The deal would combine Harris Corp.’s strength in tactical communications systems and information technology with Exelis’ broad portfolio of electronic warfare, radio, radar, night vision, remote sensing and navigation systems. By adding Exelis to its business, Harris will employ about 23,000 personnel, and combined revenue is estimated at $8 billion. Harris’s president and CEO, William M. Brown, said in a press statement about the deal, “Acquiring Exelis is transformational for Harris.” He added, “The combination of the two companies’ highly complementary core franchises creates a competitively stronger company with significantly greater scale.” Harris said it has “developed a detailed execution plan to ensure seamless integration and achieve identified cost synergies.” In the EW and SIGINT portions of its portfolio, the Exelis acquisi-

tion is not expected to lead to significant consolidation. Prior to the deal, Harris had maintained limited involvement in the tactical EW and SIGINT markets, primarily as a supplier of specialized tactical COMINT systems and in the EW simulation market via its legacy Miniature-Multiple Threat Emitter Systems (Mini-MUTES). It is a more significant player in the space-based SIGINT market as an integrator of SIGINT payloads for satellites and supplier of SIGINT processing systems. Exelis will help Harris build a larger and more diverse EW portfolio that includes airborne RF EW suites, airborne radar warning receivers, airborne radar jammers, naval ESM systems, naval active RF decoys, RCIED jammers and EW flightline test equipment. Exelis also maintains a specialized SIGINT business near Fort Meade, MD. Exelis was spun off from parent company ITT Corp. in 2011. Harris and Exelis are expected to complete the deal in June. – J. Knowles

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✪ ✪ ✪ US Army Contracting Command (Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD) has issued a sources sought notice for prime contractors to develop, produce, test, train, support and provide research and development/technology insertion capabilities for up to 126 ground tactical SIGINT systems. A formal RFP is anticipated for release in March 2016 for a performance period of up to five years. Responses are due March 23. The solicitation number is W56KGY-15-R-MGTS. The point of contact is Yadira Colon, (443) 861-5374.

✪ ✪ ✪ Strike Group Defender: The Missile Matrix, a simulation and training game developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) as part of its Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Future Naval Capabilities portfolio, was named the Best Government Developed Serious Game in the Serious Games Showcase and Challenge at December’s I/ITSEC Conference. Developed in conjunction with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and two other games experts, Strike Group Defender is the

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mated analysis of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) with the goal of anticipating and/or detecting trends – such as political crises, disease outbreaks, terrorist activities and military actions. The program is looking for innovations including the “development of empirically driven sociological models for population-level behavior change in anticipation of, and response to, these events; processing and analysis of streaming data that represent those population behavior changes; development of data extraction techniques that focus on volume, rather than depth, by identifying shallow features of streaming SIGINT data that correlate with events; and development of models to generate probabilistic forecasts of future events.” The program specifically notes that research will be done on existing foreign SIGINT data only. An Industry Day was scheduled for March 5 to provide proposers with information about the upcoming Broad Agency Announcement. The solicitation number is IARPA-BAA-15-08.

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✪ ✪ ✪ The US Army Product Manager for Counter Explosive Hazards (PM-CEH) is seeking sources that can develop the GEN IIE Husky Mounted Detection Systems (HMDS). Companies with the technology, qualifications and capabilities to field a ground-vehicle-mounted, high performance ground penetrating radar to detect buried in-road improvised explosive devices and land mines at a minimum Technology Readiness Level of 8. Responses are due by March 12. The solicitation number is W909MY-15-RF007, and the point of contact is Brendan DeLuca, e-mail Brendan.a.deluca. [email protected].

✪ ✪ ✪ In February, the US Army Contracting Command (Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD) released an RFI to identify sources for the installation of reliability, maintainability and improvement (RMI) kits into the chassis of Duke V3 systems. The Duke currently provides force protection against Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) threats in wheeled and tracked vehicle platforms and within vicinity of fixed-site positions. Currently the service is procuring and installing 24 RMI kits, however, new requirements may require up to 281 kits. The RFI may provide information for an upcoming RFP. The solicitation number is W15P7T09DM615.

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✪ ✪ ✪ US Army Contracting Command (Picatinny Arsenal, NJ) has announced its intent to enter into a cooperative arrangement with the National Spectrum Consortium for a period of five years. The National Spectrum Consortium is an open consortium of companies, contractors and academic institutions designed to widen knowl-

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✪ ✪ ✪ Last month, the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (China Lake, CA) conducted an RFI to determine the availability and technical capabilities needed to provide mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) scientific grade, ruggedized, consumer-off-the-shelf (COTS) or modified COTS IR imaging cameras for mounting on TIGER pods for carriage on rotary and fixed wing aircraft. NAWCWD Point Mugu maintains and operates the TIGER Pod for airborne infrared signature measurements of aircraft, targets and countermeasure flares. TIGER Pods are certified for carriage on F/A-18B/D, F-15B/D, and CH-

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✪ ✪ ✪ Orbital ATK Inc. (Dulles, VA) has received a $30 million production contract from the US Navy for the manufacture of the AAR-47 missile warning system. The award includes new assemblies, including optical sensor converters and computer processors, as well as options for retrofitting replaceable assembly upgrades and delivery of the company’s Countermeasures Signal Simulator to test systems operability.

✪ ✪ ✪ Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (Lansdale, PA) has received a fiveyear, $10.1 million cost-plus fixed-fee indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for ALQ-99 engineering services. As the designer, developer and manufacturer of the transmitters and antennas for the ALQ-99, the company has received this contract on a sole-source basis. a

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A nine-nation NATO Research Task Group (RTG) is continuing efforts aimed at identifying techniques for modeling countermeasures effectiveness against electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR)guided anti-ship cruise missiles. SCI-224 RTG “EO and IR-Countermeasures against Anti-Ship Missiles,” which draws on representation from Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, together with Australia as a global partner nation, has been set up to investigate the development of IR countermeasure evaluation tools for future use in NATO trials. The work follows on from a late 2008 recommendation from the NATO Naval Armaments Group’s Maritime Capability Group 8 (MCG/8) on maritime EW. Soft-kill IR decoys depend on precise timing and positioning in order to be effective, and the advent of antiship missiles that use imaging seekers has made optimum placement of the decoy in the seeker’s field of view even more important given the fact that these types of seekers can better discriminate between the target ship and countermeasures. As

a result, the need has arisen for tools that can evaluate the effectiveness of IR seduction decoys. However, while anti-ship seeker simulators for the evaluation of RF decoy countermeasures already exist, facilities for the evaluation of IR countermeasure deployment patterns/ploys for anti-ship missile defense are lacking. SCI-224 RTG met in December 2014 for a three-day meeting to review project progress. “SCI-224 RTG is closing in on its goals of surveying available software modeling tools and running generic modeled ship/missile engagements for the evaluation, data collection and countermeasure assessment against EO/IR anti-ship missiles,” said NATO in a statement. “Completion of the final report and consideration of future activities will be key topics at the next two SCI-224 meetings.” It is anticipated that SCI-224 RTG will complete its activities at the end of 2015. As well as providing for the development of countermeasure evaluation tools for future use in MCG/8 trials, it is envisaged that, over the long term, the work will also inform a future IR upgrade of the planned NATO Anti-Ship

AIRBUS, DSTO JOIN ON HFI FOR MILDS Airbus Defence and Space and Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) have partnered to upgrade the AN/AAR-60 Block II MILDS missile approach warner with a software-based Hostile Fire Indication (HFI) capability. The AN/AAR-60 Block II MILDS is a passive missile approach warning system operating in the UV spectrum. About 100 Australian Defence Force aircraft are currently fitted with MILDS, the system being fitted to MH-60 Blackhawk, CH-47 Chinook, ARH Tiger and MRH90 helicopters, and to AP-3C maritime patrol aircraft.

Airbus and DSTO have been collaborating on a joint HFI technology development program for over five years, having recognized that MILDS Block II had a latent capability to detect muzzle flash, tracer and RPG emissions at tactically useful ranges. However, the HFI algorithm required to detect and track these different targets requires extra information in the form of additional pre-processor outputs and additional main processor software. Following data collection and testing, Airbus and DSTO say they have now matured and field-tested the HFI function as a pure software application within the existing system architecture. – R. Scott

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Advances in technology, particularly dramatic advances in laser technology have driven major improvements in Directed Infrared Countermeasure (DIRCM) systems, allowing them to provide greater protection against IR-guided missiles for an increasing number of aircraft platforms. Over the last two decades, DIRCM system designers have been steadily reducing system Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) requirements, while simultaneously dramatically increasing performance and reliability, and reducing overall costs. Looking ahead, it appears this trend will continue, potentially opening up new platform opportunities, as well as very viable possibilities for the addition of significant new functionality and capabilities to the systems in the near future.

LAMPS TO LASERS DIRCM technology has steadily evolved since the late 1980s, beginning with the transition from flashlampbased IRCM systems to laser-based optics. Two major IRCM programs underway at the time were pivotal in actually accomplishing this transition – what is now Northrop Grumman’s AAQ-24(V) Large Aircraft IR Countermeasures (LAIRCM) program and, on the rotary-wing side, BAE Systems’ ALQ-212 Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures (ATIRCM) system. The LAIRCM system actually grew out of the “Nemesis” IRCM program that Northrop Grumman began for the UK in March of 1989 (at the time, it was known as the “Operational Emergency Requirements 3/89” program), and which US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) later joined in 1993. As described by Jeff Palombo, Vice President and General Manager for Northrop Grumman’s Land and Self Protection Systems Division (Rolling Meadows, IL), “At the time,

lamps were really the only available technology for DIRCM.” But, although the systems did provide protection for the aircraft, they also had a number of drawbacks including very limited useful lifetimes, high-cost, and high-power requirements. “As soon as we possibly could,” Palombo says, “we looked at moving away from the lamps and into a laser-based technology.” In general, the primary measure of protection that a DIRCM system provides to its host platform is reflected in its jamming-power-to-platform-heat-signature ratio. As observed by Palombo, this means that “for a large aircraft, such as a C-5 or C-17 with huge engines and therefore tremendous heat signatures, the system must provide a very substantial jamming-to-heat-signature ratio to be able to foil missile seekers.” In fact, this requirement was an important consideration in the evolution from lamps to lasers. Would lasers be able to provide the needed jamming power levels? As it turns out, the jamming-to- heatsignature ratio of high-energy lamps would generally be in the range of about 50:1. Laser-based systems, however, can reach levels of 1000:1. In addition to providing adequate jamming power, DIRCM systems must also incorporate laser sources that can operate in the same frequency range as the missile seekers – generally in the 3-5 μm, Mid-Wave IR (MWIR) region of the spectrum, although some older IRguided threats may operate at lower frequencies. They must also be able to modify the power, Pulse Repetition Frequency (PRF) and spectral composition of the laser beam to adapt to a variety of threats. Referencing early laser research sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), David Rines, Advanced EOIR Systems Survivability & Targeting Solutions, BAE

Systems (Nashua, NH), says that, “Laser technology was advancing in such a way that you could now provide coverage in the required (IR) bands that had previously only been practical for lamps.” Principle among these advances was the move from early-generation CO2-based lasers to multi-band-capable solid-state and semiconductor lasers. As a result, although, the ATIRCM system originally utilized a combination of lamp and CO2 laser technology, as its development was completing in the late 1990s, advancements in multi-band laser technology allowed for complete replacement of the lamp-based functionality with a sole laser-based system. This, as Rines points out, also meant the removal of the lamps’ large aperture requirements, which drove system size, as well as the large power systems needed to drive their high currents and pulse-forming networks. “Eliminating the lamps, together with the arrival of multi-band laser capability, was a significant enabler and brought about the ability to shrink the systems.”

LASER TECHNOLOGY CONTINUES TO ADVANCE Today, advancements in laser technology continue to drive improvements in both DIRCM SWaP requirements as well as system capabilities. According to Rines, “Our experience has been that, starting in the 1990s, about every five years or so, we’ve seen about a 2x reduction in SWaP in our lasers while maintaining similar or even higher output power.” At the same time, however, he notes that new threats continue to emerge with some operating outside the mid-IR range where they have historically resided. “It’s always a cat-andmouse paradigm, and spectrum shifting is one approach to gaining an edge, so there is always significant interest in developing new sources to address threats in this area.”

Charting the Future measures (DIRCM) A C-130 Hercules assigned to the Delaware Air National Guard participates in a tactical airdrop. The LAIRCM turret is visible on the large “blister” mount above the ramp. (US Air Force photo)

terested and active in the DIRCM marketplace. For example, NG has teamed with Daylight Solutions (San Diego, CA) in its bid for the US Army’s Common IR Countermeasures (CIRCM) program, which BAE Systems is also competing for. NG has adopted Daylight Solutions’ QCL-based “Solaris” laser system as its CIRCM laser source. Daylight Solutions also recently formed a strategic partnership with Thorlabs (Newton, NJ) to further advance the development of QCL technology particularly for the defense marketplace. Thorlabs had recently acquired Corning Inc.’s (Corning, NY) QCL business and associated optical semiconductor technologies research group. Northrop Grumman has also formed a strategic alliance with Pranalytica (Santa Monica, CA) to develop a highbrightness, high-power QCL module for its All Semiconductor Airborne Laser Threat Terminator (ASALTT) family of IR countermeasure systems for fixed- and rotary-wing military aircraft. Pranalytica’s laser designs were developed under a $10 million DARPA program dedicated to QCL performance improvement. The new ASALTT QCL module will operate at 10W in the MWIR band. The company also recently introduced a family of ultra-small high-power Quasi-Continuous-Wave (QCW) lasers with a hermetic butterfly package measuring less than 2cm3 and delivering over 1.5W at 4.0 µm

and over 2.5W at 4.6 µm in a collimated (in line and parallel) output beam. BAE’s Rimes says they are also very open to working with commercial providers on their DIRCM efforts. “We’ve partnered with people for other laser applications, and as we go through our trade-offs relative to all of the different constraints, including cost, we are always open to whatever partnering that we need to do to get the technologies that we may, or may not, have organically.” BAE has placed a major emphasis on the advancement of OPOs in its DIRCM lasers. Says Rines, “We continue to advance OPO materials, and there are a variety of new materials that provide a broader spectrum of output wavelengths for both MWIR as well as reaching out into the longer wavelengths.” This materials development work is evident in the company’s CIRCM program offering. Says Rines, “We’ve folded this together with our advances in fiber lasers and other capabilities into the latest version of our multi-band laser which is what we’re offering for CIRCM.”

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Technology advances have also allowed for multiple laser technology classes and system design architectures to be pursued. Examples include fiber lasers, Optical Parametric Oscillators (OPOs) Quantum Cascade (QCL) and other semiconductor lasers, as well as combinations of these technologies. (see sidebar p. 39) As Rines observes, “As threats move into other parts of the spectrum, we will have to engage different versions, varieties and combinations of laser technology to get the waveforms and wavelengths that we need.” For example, says Rines, “Fiber lasers can be used to drive solid-state lasers that can be then wavelength-shifted using OPOs of certain varieties. Options also include systems that switch between multiple wavelength beams all generated from a single laser or systems that incorporate multiple laser sources. Says Rines, “Both approaches offer advantages and disadvantages which are ultimately determined by the threat as well as individual platform constraints.” At Northrop Grumman (NG), a principle focus is on Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) technology, and Palombo says he expects the foreseeable future to see more and more utilization and evolution of QCL-based lasers. “The QCL part of DIRCM is really just at the beginning of its life cycle, and another beauty of QCL is that it’s being supported and invested in by commercial industry for applications across multiple fields. This benefits both us and the military.” In fact, a number of commercial laser technology firms are becoming in-

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sensors. The information from the missile warning system is handed off to the DIRCM, which uses its pointer-tracker subsystem to track the incoming missile and “point” the laser. This can be challenging because of the flight dynamics of both the incoming missile and the host platform. Although today’s passive missile warning systems are fairly robust relative to IR missile warning, other types of threat warning capabilities, such as hostile fire indication (HFI) and laser warning are also becoming in-

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creasingly important for DIRCM systems. For example, the US Navy is now acquiring Northrop Grumman’s 2-color IR, Advanced Threat Warning (ATW) sensors to upgrade the DoN LAIRCM systems on its Marine Corps aircraft with HFI and laser warning capabilities. Says Palombo, “The question of what will be next in DIRCM cannot be disconnected from the fact that DIRCM is going to become one of the centerpieces of survivability on an aircraft, and that means multispectral sensor capabilities.” As they evolve

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PROCESSING POWER AND CLOSED-LOOP DIRCM Advances in the amount, size and possible integration sites of processing power is another significant factor in the evolution of DIRCM systems. Says Rines, “Today, processing power has increased to the point that you can now easily incorporate your processing into very small packages and eliminate the need for additional processing boxes.” Northrop Grumman’s Palombo agrees, noting that, for example, with the arrival of new 2-color IR sensors, it’s now possible to do much of the processing at the sensor level. “It can look out and differentiate threats from clutter by processing right there at the sensor, minimizing the number of false alarms and the amount of processing required elsewhere in the system.” Along with this additional available processing power, come other possible new capabilities for DIRCM sensors. According to Rines, “DIRCM sensors are ready for another round of evolution, and this includes the possibility of ‘closed-loop’ operation.” Today, whether cued or uncued, DIRCM sensors are responsible for finding the threat and ultimately providing the data needed to direct and maintain the laser pointing system on the threat. Currently, that process is open-loop – not using any feedback from the target for this tracking function. With the availability of additional processing power in the DIRCM system, however, it’s possible to use the laser energy reflected by the missile radome to identify the specific threat-type and to refine laser pointing accuracy. Says Rines, “Although, because of the real-time component, the approach adds some complexity to the processing side, it also somewhat eases the burden of the passive tracking component of the system.” Rines believes closed-loop operation will be an increasingly important area

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with more and more flexibility in laser sources comes the ability to implement or incorporate additional applications like rangefinding, communications, targeting, power-line detection, dazzling, etc.” Afzal notes another possibility is the integration of laser-based Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) capabilities. Implementing fiber laser technology, LIDAR systems are already in widespread use providing rangefinding, target identification, and elevation data for battlefield mapping in support of improved battlefield visualization, line-of-sight analysis and urban warfare planning. If and when these applications will become a part of DIRCM systems is dependent on a number of factors, however. One of these is the extent to which existing DIRCM system lasers will have to be modified, or added to, in order to accomplish the different tasks. As pointed out by BAE’s Rines, “For whatever your application is, in the laser world, every approach has advantages and disadvantages in terms of how hard it is to get the waveforms that you want in order to be effective. When you start talking about other applications, you again have to consider possible design tradeoffs because the requirements for these new functions will have an impact on your laser architecture choices. Factors such as optimal pulse formats may be different for the additional application than those most useful for countering threats.” Lockheed Martin’s Afzal points out that the emergence of new laser technologies such as QCL and fiber provide the opportunity for significantly more electronic control over the laser. “Since a QCL is directly electrically driven, by modulating current, you can start doing a whole bunch of things. You already have an aperture, so by going to these new fiber and QCL laser technologies, it’s a lot easier to add multifunctionality to the DIRCM systems.” Northrop Grumman’s Palombo emphasizes that open-system design and modular architectures will be critical to realizing these capabilities. “When you talk about DIRCM systems going forward, if you don’t have to replace the entire system every time a new tech-

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Talk of expanding the use of DIRCM capabilities and systems to platforms beyond their current base of rotarywing and large transport aircraft to include tactical fighter aircraft, ground vehicles, and naval vessels, has been going on for years, with even a few actual programmatic fits and starts, but thus far, that has largely been the extent of the activity. Opinions vary on the prospects of this changing anytime soon. One factor impacting such a development, particularly for tactical fighter aircraft, is the potential impact on performance and radar signature, where the addition of more and/or larger apertures is generally considered a definite negative. Rines says, however, that this is actually one place where the benefits of multifunctionality could help drive the process. “For tactical aircraft, requirements are evolving for both IRCM and for targeting, and this is where you may well see the joining of these two capabilities into a single system.” Although the ground-to-air threat (primarily MANPADs) has been the prin-

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cipal driver for DIRCM systems, it may actually be an evolving air-to-air threat that will have more impact on their use on tactical aircraft. Says Rines, “The air-to-air threat is changing, and is becoming more complex. It depends on how the forces decide to fight and how they choose to protect themselves from or avoid that threat.” Still, Rines doesn’t see DIRCM being added to tactical aircraft in the near term. “I think it’s in the future, but not the very near future.” On this point, Northrop Grumman’s Palombo somewhat disagrees. “We believe that the requirement exists and will be coming forward soon for fast jets.” Northrop Grumman has developed a demonstration DIRCM system for tactical aircraft called the Threat Nullification Defensive Resource (ThNDR), which Palombo says is “essentially an IRCM system that can be used on fast jets. It’s moving slowly with constraints on budgets, etc., and you won’t see new starts jump out right away, but it’s absolutely on the horizon.” Certainly, any DIRCM system intended for tactical aircraft will have a very dif-

ferent set of requirements than existing systems, including the configuration of the installation and to what extent they are exposed on the platform, as well as a very different set of threats with much more emphasis on air-to-air. Also, as observed by Palombo, because they likely will be retrofit systems, they will have to be highly configurable in order to fit into a variety of specific locations on different aircraft. Alternatively, however, another option is a podded system that can be used on multiple platforms. With that approach, says Palombo, “the question becomes whether the requirement would be more missionized in nature vs. that of an individual platform. I don’t think the customer base has made up its mind on that yet.” Even more so than within the tactical aircraft arena, interest in the provision of DIRCM capabilities for ground vehicles seems to come and go like the seasons. Here again, Rines thinks any opportunity would probably come via a new vehicle program. “I don’t really see a lot of thinking about retrofitting onto existing ground-vehicle platforms.”

Because many ground-vehicle threats involve man-in-the loop weapon systems, however, this is one area where laser “dazzling” systems may be seen as viable. This is because, as pointed out by Palombo, “When you start looking at DIRCM for vehicles, you’re asking, ‘How do I stop an actual person from seeing the vehicle, or taking aim and shooting at the vehicle?’” Political considerations also come into play with any consideration of the use of dazzling lasers, however. On the other hand, this is not a factor when instead of dazzling an enemy’s eyesight, the focus is on countering his laser-targeting system. Nevertheless, Rines says he’s “not seeing many people writing needs statements for that kind of thing. It’s an area we stay abreast of, and have some activity going on, but it doesn’t seem to have reached the threshold needed to move forward in terms of a program or investment.” According to Rines, sensor technology is the main driver for ground-vehicle IR countermeasure systems. “Low-cost sensing capabilities is what will drive

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the first part of the ground-vehicle solution, and we haven’t really broken through that barrier yet. Though we’re looking at low-cost sensing solutions, the fact is that the whole ground-vehicle market has a lot of trouble getting started. The technology is there, but it needs a little more maturation before they are ready for deployment.” Palombo agrees that cost is definitely a gating factor for ground-vehicle DIRCM technology. “From a purely cost perspective, the question is whether it’s worth putting a DIRCM system on a vehicle that only costs a couple times more than the DIRCM system itself. Until the threat for ground vehicles becomes so severe and losses unacceptable, I doubt there will be a high concentration of DIRCM-type systems moving to a ground vehicle.” Palombo does, however, point to Northrop Grumman’s work on the Army’s Future Combat System (FCS) program where it was contracted to design a sensor called the Passive Infrared Cueing Sensor (PICS) for ground vehicles. The 2-color IR PICS sensor was to serve as an inexpensive HFI system capable of locating, cueing, and classifying potential threats from tank fire, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank guided missiles in a small enough form factor to be mounted on wheeled and tracked vehicles. Though the program has since ceased, Palombo notes that the system was tested for both its missile warning and HFI capabilities and proved to be suitable for

use on rotary-wing aircraft, as well. In fact, the last funding provided for PICS was for repackaging of the sensor into the AN/AAR-57 CMWS form factor. “This demonstrates,” says Palombo, “that relative to the evolution of DIRCM systems, there is an overlap between the requirements of airborne and ground-vehicle systems and that it is in fact possible to bring a low-cost HFI/missile warning sensor to ground vehicles. As the technology continues to evolve and becomes less expensive, we’re more likely to see excursions onto different platforms.”

WHAT’S NEXT? Looking ahead, most observers agree that the next technological leap for DIRCM systems will come in the form of High Energy Laser (HEL) directedenergy weapons capable of kinetically destroying threat systems. As observed by Lockheed Martin’s Afzal, “Although today’s DIRCM lasers are used strictly for sensing and disruption, and aren’t high enough power to serve as directed energy weapons, at some point, there will be a continuum between directed energy and DIRCM systems, with directed energy systems getting smaller and DIRCM systems becoming more capable.” Afzal believes that, although the timeframe for HELs being a part of a DIRCM system is probably decades away, directed energy systems themselves will start coming out in the next five years and will probably first migrate

into DIRCM applications with shipboard operations. “IR missiles are growing in capability and could easily migrate as asymmetric threats into the naval environment, so directed energy capable DIRCM systems will probably be first deployed on ships. Next will be ground vehicles, but the technology will need to evolve significantly in SWaP requirements before it is suitable for airborne applications, first for large platforms and then next-generation tactical aircraft.” Palombo points out that, even with the arrival of HEL weapons, “DIRCM systems will still have to find the missile, and will therefore still need a missile warning capability, and they will still need to point and hold the laser on target.” Northrop Grumman has been doing some work with DARPA on High Energy Laser Countermeasures (HELCM) aimed at demonstrating near-term HEL vs. seeker-jamming options for selfdefense of low altitude aircraft against MANPADS. Palombo says he expects to see a natural progression from QCLbased systems which “will continue to evolve and improve over the next ten years and then, somewhere during that timeframe, we’ll start to see the HEL countermeasures start to come in on various platforms.” Overall, it’s clear that the IR threat set will continue to evolve and proliferate. Says Palombo, “The threats have the ability to change, and do change, on a fairly regular basis pretty rapidly, so it’s important to have DIRCM systems that can be modified as rapidly as a new threat might be fielded. That means being able to quickly do things like detect sudden changes in threat signature, change laser wavelengths, and adjust power levels for a given band.” In addition, Lockheed Martin’s Afzal sees the number and diversity of military laser applications only continuing to grow. “DIRCM has been a remarkably successful application of laser technology, and I think we’re about to enter a domain where the application of lasers, all across the military, is going to really open up. Directed energy systems will be coming online, and given that in many cases, DIRCM systems are already on platforms, they’re in a position to take on greater roles and functionality.”

Ultimately, says BAE’s Rines, “It’s important for the government sponsors to understand the art of the possible before they write requirements around it. There’s obviously no sense in writing

a requirement for something that can’t be built, or is too immature, or is too costly. But, conversely, there are more things everyday that are within the realm of the possible, and that we can

begin to write requirements around. In some cases, the needs may be there, but the technological solution may be thought to be too immature. That is not always the case.” a

WHAT’S IN A LASER? at the facet of the chip eventually becomes too much for the coatings to handle. And, in addition to wavelength and power, another major consideration for DIRCM lasers is their “irradiance level,” the point of emphasis being the distinction between overall laser power and its actual brightness level at the seeker, which is a function of beam quality. With the growing sophistication of threats, beam quality is increasingly important. Because DIRCM beams are required to travel a considerable distance (typically several miles in a range of atmospheric conditions), an optimal beam would be one in which an initially well-collimated (parallel rays) beam only spreads (diffracts) over the distance it travels as a function of basic physics (strictly ‘diffraction limited’). Beam quality is therefore an extremely important consideration because the lower the quality of the initial laser beam, the more its effectiveness will have to be made up with power, and that means adding size, weight, heat and other problems to the system. Fortunately, commercial applications, such as telecommunications, have been driving major advancements in fiber lasers, where the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with various rare-earth elements. Fiber lasers are highly efficient, producing extremely high-quality, diffraction-limited beams, as well as scaling to high power. They also offer the additional advantage of being leveraged by multiple commercial industries. Ytterbium (1 μm), Erbium (1.5 μm) and Thulium (2 μm) fiber lasers have all been looked at for DIRCM applications. Once again, these are combined with OPOs in order to reach the needed MWIR ranges, but unlike the case with diodepumped lasers, with this approach, the starting point is a laser operating at 15-20 percent efficiency. One additional important consideration for DIRCM systems is pulse energy. To best drive an OPO for high-intensity output, short, high-energy pulses are optimum. And, although fiber is very good at generating high average power, it is not very good at providing intense pulses, because if the light in the fiber is too great, it will damage it. Coming full circle, once again, designers looked to solid-state laser technology for a solution – one approach, for example, being the use of a Thulium fiber laser to pump a Holmium crystal laser, which is then used to pump an OPO. Though it may sound like a “belt and suspenders” solution, Afzal notes “it actually generates much more power than using a solid-state laser alone and, when you’re trying to continuously improve these systems, it’s actually one of the effective paths to power scaling.” – J. Haystead

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In order to understand the evolution and advancement of laser technology for DIRCM, it’s necessary to understand the different types, capabilities, and characteristics of lasers in use today. Robert Afzal, Senior Fellow, Lockheed Martin Laser and Sensor Systems (Bothell, WA), provides a general tutorial on the subject. Among the first lasers used for DIRCM applications were diode-pumped solid-state lasers. These lasers use some type of crystalline material (rod, disk, slab) to serve as the gain medium. Example materials include Neodymium Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd:YAG) which generates beams at 1μm wavelength, or Thulium (Tm:YAG) or Holmium (Ho:YAG) lasers which generate beams at 2μm wavelengths. However, in order to get into the 3-5 μm MWIR range needed for most IR missile-seeker countermeasure applications, it was necessary to find some way to convert the laser wavelengths created by these systems. One of the most successful techniques for this purpose has been the use of Optical Parametric Oscillators (OPOs). OPOs convert an input laser wave of a given wavelength into two output waves of longer wavelength through a process called linear optics. Beyond their usefulness for this purpose, because most lasers typically operate at a fixed wavelength, OPOs are also frequently used to convert a laser beam of one wavelength to another wavelength of specific interest. Much work has been done over the years, and continues to be done, looking at different OPO materials, coatings and ruggedization techniques. Although the solid-state diode-pumped laser-to-OPO approach works well, because these lasers are relatively large and of low efficiency in terms of converting electrical power into light energy (5-10%), designers began to look at ways to instead use semiconductor lasers that from the outset would be capable of directly generating the wavelengths needed for DIRCM applications. This approach would improve system efficiency as well as reduce SWaP and costs and improve reliability. One such successful technique has come via the Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL), which offers a power-conversion efficiency typically on the order of a few tens of percent. Although original demonstrations required QCL’s to be cryogenically cooled, over the last 7-8 years, with major progress in materials and designs, as well as process controls, room-temperature QCLs now offer sufficient power for DIRCM applications. Even so, however, the extent to which semiconductor lasers of any type can be scaled in power are typically limited. This is because the intensity of the light generated

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How Far Can We Take GaN Technology? Gallium Nitride Settles Into Maturity By Barry Manz The Journal of Electronic Defense | March 2015

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ike a baby bird booted from the nest, gallium nitride (GaN) RF power transistors made the transition in the mid-2000s from the laboratory to deployment in one perilous leap. Not quite a nascent technology, but nevertheless developmental, it delivered to the Army’s RCIED jammers the power required for the mission. Less than a decade later, GaN is a maturing technology, is finding its place alongside silicon laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) and gallium arsenide (GaAs) devices, and has been propelled into the merchant world much faster than was GaAs, the technology whose development it is most often compared to. For the defense and perhaps some commercial infrastructure markets, the full promise of GaN will be years in coming – but well worth the wait.

GaN development is comparable to that of GaAs, as it was driven by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and other arms of the DOD. In the early 1980s, DARPA realized that electronically steered (i.e., active) phased array radars would require solidstate rather than traveling-wave tube RF power amplifiers. The Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits (MIMIC) program, created by DOD in the late 1980s and administrated by DARPA, endeavored to bring together the disparate efforts of those working on GaAs devices and MMICs to speed their deployment in transmit-receive modules and other defense systems. It had the additional goal of creating a merchant market that would reduce costs, making GaAs RF power devices suitable for commercial applications. This seven-year, $750-million effort is

now the stuff of microwave legend, as it essentially achieved exactly what was intended. Today the GaAs device market alone generates billions of dollars in revenue and has arguably made highperformance mobile phones and other “wireless-enabled” devices possible – and affordable. The trajectory of GaN has been much the same. DOD determined that the next generations of Active Electronically-Steered Array (AESA) radar and EW systems, as well as communications systems would require more than GaAs MMICs can deliver. As GaN appeared to be the only viable technology, DOD – again through DARPA and other government entities – challenged industry to do for GaN what the MIMIC program did for GaAs. Based on GaN’s current status, the results are likely to be just as substantial.

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Two common themes emerged from interviews conducted for this article. The first is that GaN, whether fabricated on silicon or silicon carbide (SiC) substrates, is already a producible, reliable technology. The second is that at frequencies above about 4 GHz, GaN on SiC and GaN on silicon will drive most DOD systems for many, many years to come. “GaN went through the maturation process in the 2000s, and now we are production-released,” says Steven Bernstein, a principal engineering fellow, Advanced Technology Programs at Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems business. “GaN on SiC technology is at MRL 8 and ready for Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP), so now it’s time for the technology community to push it even further.” The MRL (Manufacturing Readiness Level) system created by DOD has 10 benchmarks. To reach MRL 8, devices must have demonstrated pilot production capability with all required materials available, manufacturing and quality processes and procedures proven, and producibility risks deemed low enough for production. MRL 9 devices are ready for full production and MRL 10 devices are essentially mature, so achieving MRL 8 is quite an accomplishment in the short time it has taken GaN to get there. “The technology has definitely become more mature,” says Wayne Burger, Freescale Semiconductor Fellow and director of RF device technology. “Going back to the late 1990s, the wafer size was 1 3/8 inches. But now material quality is a lot higher, defect densities are lower, and wafer sizes are 4 inches and in some cases 6 inches for GaN on SiC. That’s obviously quite impressive. In spite of this, there’s quite a lot of untapped potential in this technology and achieving the frequently-cited “hero” power density metric of 40 W/mm is a long way off. You don’t see anything even close to that because of thermal limitations.” “Ten years ago it wouldn’t be unusual to take probed known good die derived from 3-inch substrates and put them into a package,” says Andy Walker, principal engineering manager at Rockwell’s Advanced Technology Center. “Now you

can buy 6-inch wafers with mid-90 percent yield for GaN on SiC.” However, he notes that usable power density appears not to have increased much since the mid 2000s. “We could realize 5 W/mm in a saturated power amplifier across two octaves,” he continues, “and I don’t know that things have gotten much further than that. Power density of 5 W/mm seems to be the standard, even though people have demonstrated ‘hero’ results past 40. So there’s still a lot of work to do to realize the performance that can be had.” “The first step is reducing the heat along the gate,” Walker explains, “then chip-level heat, system-level heat, and then maybe we’ll uncover some new surface physics or electron transport problem that limits power that gives us something else to do. Right now, heat is what we have to fix.” “In 2009, we looked at projections for yield and power-added efficiency,” says Mike Meaney, vice president of advanced land and self-protection systems at Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems’ Advanced Concepts and Technologies. “When we look at those projections today, GaN has progressed faster and achieved yield levels we had not anticipated. There is still room to improve from a performance perspective, but yields are now more than acceptable for a production article. A few years ago, there were questions about manufacturing and maturity levels. Those questions have been addressed.” In terms of reliability, “we’re doing accelerated life testing of GaN on silicon and on SiC,” says Timothy Boles, director of strategy for standard products at MACOM, “and we’re one of the few companies looking at RF reliability, driving devices under accelerated conditions and looking at the changes in RF performance, not just a DC test for survivability. The goal is to get to a 1-million-hour lifetime, which might seem excessive, but when you’re building a phased-array radar with 70,000 elements, if you do not have a million hours, you’re going to be constantly changing out elements. If you remember the PAVE PAWS radar systems, I used to wonder why anyone would need a 111-year operating lifetime, but if you do the statistical analy-

sis, you see that it has to be that long. We’re typically looking at 1-dB output degradation over 100,000 hours.” Qorvo, recently formed by the merger of TriQuint and RFMD, has been tackling the issue of GaN reliability for a long time. “Qorvo began development in the late 1990’s,” says Dr. Doug Reep, the senior director of IDP Research. “Our first GaN process became production qualified in 2008, and we recently achieved MRL Level 9. Our GaN mean time to failures (MTTFs) for all of our half-micron, quarter micron, and 0.15 micron gate length technologies is much greater than 10 million hours at 200 degrees C, in addition to meeting stringent environmental qualifications such as HAST compliance to the JEDEC requirements, enabling extremely robust reliability and dependable performance over a long active life-cycle.” While GaN reliability has been a restraint on achieving market penetration for many applications at higher frequencies, it isn’t a showstopper. GaN manufacturers have been addressing this challenge with steady success and will continue to do so.

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For example, a radar operating at Lband frequencies could be powered by either GaN or LDMOS from a pure performance perspective. However, if the radar is intended for airborne or other space-constricted environments, a GaN MMIC solution would be smaller than one powered by LDMOS devices. This is just one of many applications in which GaN is not automatically a slam dunk. GaAs discrete devices and MMICs cannot deliver the high RF power outputs at high frequencies that GaN can provide. But GaAs devices will continue to serve a vast array of applications in the receive path as low-noise amplifiers, variable-gain amplifiers (and others) and as driver or final-stage power amplifiers in low-power applications. However, once the price of GaN on silicon devices inevitably comes down thanks to the affordability and wide availability of silicon fabs, they are likely to penetrate commercial markets currently dominated by GaAs.

THERMAL ISSUES REMAIN A CHALLENGE

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The high power density of GaN is one of its greatest strengths, but it comes at the cost of generating large amounts of heat, even though it is very efficient. Thermal management continues to be a major challenge to realizing GaN’s theoretical RF power densities. There are a variety of technologies and materials being explored for enhancing the ability of GaN devices to dissipate heat, of which diamond has the most potential as it has the highest thermal conductivity (and thus ability to remove heat) of any material on Earth. However, while the benefits of diamond have long been known, and efforts to harness them have been conducted since the 1980s, it is not an easy material to work with. The ideal application for diamond, as it concerns GaN, would be to place it on the die as close to device junctions as possible, where thermal resistance is high. In this way, it would replace traditional silicon or SiC substrates, creating a “GaN-on-diamond” device. This has been the focus of the Near Junction Thermal Transport (NJTT) program within DARPA’s Thermal Man-

agement Technologies initiative, which endeavored to produce a three-times or greater increase in power handling ability from GaN power amplifiers. Program participants Raytheon and TriQuint Semiconductor announced in 2013 that they had reduced junction temperature by 40 to 45 percent by this method and met the 3-time improvement power density benchmark compared to GaN on SiC. Other achievements, according to scientists at program participant Element 6 include increasing the thermal conductivity of the diamond substrate by more than 40 percent to nearly 1600 W/mK by microwave CVD diamond synthesis, increasing the thickness of the dielectric deposited between GaN and diamond from 50 nm to 35 nm (further reducing the thermal barrier resistance between the device area and substrate), and fabrication of research-grade, 4-inch GaN-on-diamond wafers. “While we’re certainly not at MRL 8, the program has demonstrated that the physics and analysis are right,” says Raytheon’s Bernstein, “so now we have to get fabrication technology to be more reproducible and capable, mature it, release it to production and then to manufacturing. We’re kind of where we were in the early 2000s with SiC when we did not have the body of reliability data or manufacturing maturity, but we knew we could get there. “Given the right amount of investment, I think GaN on diamond definitely will be available in 5 years,” he continues. “If you look at what GaN has already done to change military electronics products, we see GaN on diamond having that same potential. Going from GaN on SiC to GaN on diamond is like going from GaAs to GaN on SiC; it’s a big step in performance and affordability. In my mind, GaN on diamond is the heir apparent to GaN on SiC.” Moving slightly further away from the active area, diamond is also being explored for use as a thermal heat spreader using aluminum-diamond metal matrix composites (MMCs). “Diamond spreaders are part of an overall thermal management system,” says Bernstein, “but they’re different from GaN on diamond because, in a diamond spreader, the diamond is not close to the junction.”

“You can do magic with diamond heat spreaders; it’s amazing,” says Boles. “We have evaluated devices from Group 4 Labs (now part of Element 6), and it’s a great story that I think someone will solve one day. The trick is how to attach the spreader without putting a big thermal impedance in the middle, but I think that will get solved too.”

MATCHING TECHNOLOGY TO APPLICATION As stated earlier, while GaN has changed the technology landscape by its very existence, its most significant impact will be in applications where existing technologies like LDMOS cannot compete, which typically means above 4 GHz, but sometimes lower frequencies as well, especially for GaN on silicon. “For the ultimate in performance, GaN on SiC generally wins,” says Boles, “although if you spread the heat sources out far enough, I think you can get somewhat comparable performance with GaN on silicon at low frequencies. At higher frequencies, because the silicon substrate is not a true insulator, you pay a penalty. And, at X-band and higher, GaN on silicon may struggle.” “You’re always on the affordabilityversus-performance curve,” says Bernstein. “GaN on silicon is more affordable but has lower performance, and GaN on SiC has better performance but is more expensive. On many of our systems you need the extra performance, so GaN on SiC is the best choice. But, in others, GaN on silicon is sometimes the best.” Freescale Semiconductor, which has for years had a commanding presence in the wireless infrastructure market with its LDMOS devices, admits that as operating frequencies increase it has needed to invest in GaN. The company introduced its first GaN device, a 100-W CW transistor, at the International Microwave Symposium last June. Recently, it has added a 125-W CW GaN transistor. However, unlike most merchant market suppliers, Freescale is specifying the performance of its GaN devices for CW rather than pulsed (e.g., radar) applications. “We have a different perspective,” says Freescale’s Wayne Burger. “We have historically been averse to military applications from a corporate perspective,

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Two common themes emerged from interviews conducted for this article. The first is that GaN, whether fabricated on silicon or silicon carbide (SiC) substrates, is already a producible, reliable technology. The second is that at frequencies above about 4 GHz, GaN on SiC and GaN on silicon will drive most DOD systems for many, many years to come. “GaN went through the maturation process in the 2000s, and now we are production-released,” says Steven Bernstein, a principal engineering fellow, Advanced Technology Programs at Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems business. “GaN on SiC technology is at MRL 8 and ready for Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP), so now it’s time for the technology community to push it even further.” The MRL (Manufacturing Readiness Level) system created by DOD has 10 benchmarks. To reach MRL 8, devices must have demonstrated pilot production capability with all required materials available, manufacturing and quality processes and procedures proven, and producibility risks deemed low enough for production. MRL 9 devices are ready for full production and MRL 10 devices are essentially mature, so achieving MRL 8 is quite an accomplishment in the short time it has taken GaN to get there. “The technology has definitely become more mature,” says Wayne Burger, Freescale Semiconductor Fellow and director of RF device technology. “Going back to the late 1990s, the wafer size was 1 3/8 inches. But now material quality is a lot higher, defect densities are lower, and wafer sizes are 4 inches and in some cases 6 inches for GaN on SiC. That’s obviously quite impressive. In spite of this, there’s quite a lot of untapped potential in this technology and achieving the frequently-cited “hero” power density metric of 40 W/mm is a long way off. You don’t see anything even close to that because of thermal limitations.” “Ten years ago it wouldn’t be unusual to take probed known good die derived from 3-inch substrates and put them into a package,” says Andy Walker, principal engineering manager at Rockwell’s Advanced Technology Center. “Now you

can buy 6-inch wafers with mid-90 percent yield for GaN on SiC.” However, he notes that usable power density appears not to have increased much since the mid 2000s. “We could realize 5 W/mm in a saturated power amplifier across two octaves,” he continues, “and I don’t know that things have gotten much further than that. Power density of 5 W/mm seems to be the standard, even though people have demonstrated ‘hero’ results past 40. So there’s still a lot of work to do to realize the performance that can be had.” “The first step is reducing the heat along the gate,” Walker explains, “then chip-level heat, system-level heat, and then maybe we’ll uncover some new surface physics or electron transport problem that limits power that gives us something else to do. Right now, heat is what we have to fix.” “In 2009, we looked at projections for yield and power-added efficiency,” says Mike Meaney, vice president of advanced land and self-protection systems at Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems’ Advanced Concepts and Technologies. “When we look at those projections today, GaN has progressed faster and achieved yield levels we had not anticipated. There is still room to improve from a performance perspective, but yields are now more than acceptable for a production article. A few years ago, there were questions about manufacturing and maturity levels. Those questions have been addressed.” In terms of reliability, “we’re doing accelerated life testing of GaN on silicon and on SiC,” says Timothy Boles, director of strategy for standard products at MACOM, “and we’re one of the few companies looking at RF reliability, driving devices under accelerated conditions and looking at the changes in RF performance, not just a DC test for survivability. The goal is to get to a 1-million-hour lifetime, which might seem excessive, but when you’re building a phased-array radar with 70,000 elements, if you do not have a million hours, you’re going to be constantly changing out elements. If you remember the PAVE PAWS radar systems, I used to wonder why anyone would need a 111-year operating lifetime, but if you do the statistical analy-

sis, you see that it has to be that long. We’re typically looking at 1-dB output degradation over 100,000 hours.” Qorvo, recently formed by the merger of TriQuint and RFMD, has been tackling the issue of GaN reliability for a long time. “Qorvo began development in the late 1990’s,” says Dr. Doug Reep, the senior director of IDP Research. “Our first GaN process became production qualified in 2008, and we recently achieved MRL Level 9. Our GaN mean time to failures (MTTFs) for all of our half-micron, quarter micron, and 0.15 micron gate length technologies is much greater than 10 million hours at 200 degrees C, in addition to meeting stringent environmental qualifications such as HAST compliance to the JEDEC requirements, enabling extremely robust reliability and dependable performance over a long active life-cycle.” While GaN reliability has been a restraint on achieving market penetration for many applications at higher frequencies, it isn’t a showstopper. GaN manufacturers have been addressing this challenge with steady success and will continue to do so.

REALITY BECKONS While GaN has a promising future, it is not a panacea, as there are applications for which LDMOS is better suited and it benefits from decades of advancement and market expansion that make it far less expensive than GaN on SiC. GaN on silicon, whose performance is less formidable than for GaN on SiC, can take advantage of silicon fabrication processes that GaN on SiC cannot. This should make it competitive in cost with other technologies, even in the insanely cost-sensitive wireless infrastructure market. There will continue to be systems for which technologies other than GaN will remain a better choice. Although LDMOS devices are best suited for comparatively narrow bandwidths and have a frequency limitation of about 4 GHz, the technology is very rugged and capable of producing devices that generate CW RF output power in excess of 1 kW, and can operate into an almost infinite mismatch without degradation even when driven by twice their rated input power.

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but this is no longer the case. Our initial interest in GaN was for next-generation cellular infrastructure for its high power density, good parasitic capacitances, efficiency, and impedance transformation benefits for broadband performance. However, for the last 4 years, we have been very interested in the military space where applications for GaN are perhaps more attractive.” “Our 125-W device was designed for a specific wideband radio application,” says John Powell, marketing and business development manager at Freescale. “People who make military radios have had to cover wide bandwidths using three or four power amplifiers, each one covering a different part of the band using switching circuits. As DOD is always trying to make things smaller and reduce weight, a CW part covering the full 200-MHz to 2.5GHz range is very appealing, and no one currently offers a GaN device with that bandwidth. We have 150-W LDMOS parts that cover 30 to 500 MHz or 470 to 860 MHz, but once you get into decade bandwidths, LDMOS cannot do that today. With GaN, you can use one amplifier to do the whole range.” Using the aforementioned L-band radar as an example, Powell believes it can be served by either LDMOS or GaN. “Depending on the amplifier and system requirements, one might be a better solution than the other. As an L-band radar might have a bandwidth of only 200 MHz, I can give you similar gain, efficiency, and higher power with LDMOS than is available today with GaN and at lower cost. Basically, we really don’t care whether it is LDMOS or GaN since we offer both.” Boles agrees that where LDMOS is firmly entrenched it will be difficult to displace. “People ask if the solution is GaN on silicon or GaN on SiC, and I think the answer is often just silicon (LDMOS) because it’s hard to compete with its price, and at low frequencies, you do not get much performance advantage with GaN. In my experience, the lowestcost technology that will deliver the minimum requirement usually will win. The fact that you can do 10 times the minimum, people will pay you nothing [extra] for that.”

MACOM is working on porting its GaN on silicon technology into a silicon CMOS or silicon power fab, which could potentially eliminate the cost advantage of LDMOS. “For systems where LDMOS peters out, like base station applications at 2.7 to 3.5 GHz, LDMOS is struggling,” Boles continues. “So, in applications where LDMOS is the solution, GaN on silicon in a large silicon fab can compete on price and will it give you better performance and a more broadband device. I don’t see any other technology getting up to 5.8 GHz or even 3.5 GHz with any kind of bandwidth. There’s a big market opportunity there for GaN on silicon.” GaN is finding its way into more applications as it evolves. “The maturation of GaN processing and improved understanding of GaN capabilities has expanded the application space quite a bit,” says Qorvo’s Dr. Doug Reep. “RF power amplifiers span 2-40 GHz and new applications being addressed include high-power switches, high-power tolerant LNAs, limiters and sensors. Applications through 100 GHz are in active development at this time. As the cost of GaN devices drops with the adoption of larger wafer sizes, GaN technologies have expanded from EW, defense and aerospace to commercial applications such as 4G/LTE base stations, CATV modules and point to point communications. We are actively working with base transceiver station customers and have a large installed base in CATV GaN.” Reep continues, “We expect higher frequency mmW GaN will be important for emerging 5G radio, which will leverage EW developments further.”

tion. Integration would enable different devices and materials to be integrated closely on a chip to reduce performance limitations caused by physical separation. The device technologies CMOS, GaN, GaAs, indium phosphide (InP), as well as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), each provides unique benefits for specific applications, which are tied together by CMOS. The Rockwell Collins Advanced Technology Center, which received a contract under the DAHI program, is “expecting chips back any day now,” according to Walker. “The program has thus gotten most of the way there. Composite power added efficiency at 10 GHz was the hardest metric to meet, but we got in the 50% range. And, if you take that down to L, S, and C bands, you could achieve efficiency improvements for high-data-rate modulation types like the military waveforms based on OFDM [orthogonal frequency-division multuplexing], W-CDMA [wideband code division multiple access].” “As the process integrates so many technologies, it could only work in CMOS because of the high levels of integration it can achieve,” Walker continues. “You can make lots of different devices with CMOS and replace filtering that comes after power amplifiers with just a MMIC, canceling rather than filtering harmonics. We have lots of business at HF through UHF frequencies, where filters are very large, so eliminating them would be beneficial. You could, for example, build a single-chip radio that operates from 2 MHz to 2.5 or 6 GHz.”

TOMORROW TAKING GaN FURTHER In addition to its other programs in which GaN is directly or indirectly related, DARPA is funding a program to allow its integration with other semiconductor technologies. The goal of the Diverse Accessible Heterogeneous Integration (DAHI) program is to create a foundry technology for combining a variety of different devices and materials on a single silicon chip. This would allow designers to choose from many devices and materials on a common silicon substrate and select the best device for each func-

GaN has variously been heralded in the media, by manufacturers, in symposium papers, and research reports as the technology that would change the paradigm of RF and microwave RF power generation forever, making silicon and GaAs technologies “so yesterday.” The first claim is certainly true, but GaN is not the solution for every system whether radar, EW, or wireless systems, and may never be. Nevertheless, when high RF power levels are required at higher frequencies over broader bandwidths, GaN will be the winner, and its ascendancy has just begun. a

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Receivers are at the heart of all EW systems and a significant part of any discussion of elec electronic warfare. Simply put, without viable re receivers, the fundamental purpose of any RF EW system is rendered null and void. This book considers in great detail the major elements that make up good EW systems and the receivers that go into them. Dr. Richard A. Poisel has taken what is part of many books and updated the material, combining it into a single, masterful tome focusing strictly on receiving systems and their architecture. In a little over 800 pages, Dr. Poisel seized on the opportunity to address the latest design and performance issues of the fast-moving digital receiver

world. The result is a wide-ranging resource for system design and development of receivers for modern modulations (such as spread spectrum) as well as for older, common modulation formats. Each major receiver module is considered in detail, with design information and performance trade-offs for various components. The author discusses in detail the major factors that influence the functioning of the modules. Key performance parameters are identified, as well as approaches to receiver design goals. The result is a single volume for engineers’ bookshelves that is a wide-ranging source of proven design approaches and analysis techniques for older, existing EW receivers as well as creative approaches to tomorrow’s digital equipment. Dr. Poisel holds patents in the communications electronic warfare area and is the author of six books on EW systems and applications. Electronic Warfare: Receivers and Receiving Systems, ISBN 978-1-60807-841-7, Artech House Publishing, 2014.

Frigatefire John Burwell Wilkes In March 2012, JED reviewed John Wilkes’ first book, Raventross, which was released at the AOC International Symposium that year in Washington, DC. It featured a tricked-up EF-111A as the main character, a story inspired, according to the author, by AOC Past President “Pepper” Thomas. The rest of the cast was based on a variety of Old Crows. The crew is back at it again. Without giving anything away, think Flight of the Old Dog, Dan Brown, with some John Le Carré thrown in. The story builds on the author’s experience in international aviation, airplane financing and leasing and is a good follow-on to Raventross. It would be good, but not absolutely necessary, to have read Raventross first. Wilkes’ writing creates a nice mental picture of where the action takes place. He has a knack for creating interesting characters and putting them in fascinating places facing exciting challenges. It

does not take too long before the reader begins to know them as old friends, especially the carryovers from his first book. He made very Inter good use of time spent at the InterWashing national Spy Museum in Washington, DC. Interestingly, Wilkes was able to gather a lot of detail from some special exhibits there and pick the brain of Museum Director Peter Earnest for material. Like Wilkes’ first book, Frigatefire activ involves high tech, ultrasecret activna ities revolving around one of the nation’s premier EW assets; adding some Soviets for excitement and intrigue. He hints that this may be the second of what could turn out to be a series of techno-thrillers. Frigatefire, ISBN 978-1-63396-010-7, CDES Publishing, 2014. a

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Radar Decoys – Part 9 By Dave Adamy

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n several earlier columns, we have discussed the “link ERP PROPAGATION MODEL GR GT equation” for various circumstances. Typically, this equaTransmit Receive tion gives the signal strength Antenna Antenna received by a receiving system PR PT height height as a function of the configuration of XMTR RCVR the one-way transmission link and the surrounding circumstances. Figure 1 shows the basic link, which is characterized by the equation: Figure 1: A one-way link moves information from a transmitter to a receiver using one of several PR = P T + GT – L + GR propagation modes characterized by a propagation model. Where: PR is the received power at Figure 1: A one-way link moves information from a transmitter to a receiver using the output of the receiving is modes applicable, loss increases with themodel. fourth power of range one of several propagation characterized by a propagation antenna in dBm or dBW but is reduced by the product of the squares of the heights of the transmitting and receiving antennas. Note that these loss P T is the transmitter power in the same units models are discussed in several earlier “EW 101” columns, most GT is the transmitting antenna gain in dB recently in the July to September 2007 “EW 101” columns. L is the link loss (in dB) GR is the receiving antenna gain Effective radiated power (ERP) is the product (or the sum in FCC OVER-WATER LOSS GRAPH dB) of the transmitter output and the gain of the transmitting Figure 2 shows a widely used chart that was developed by antenna in the direction of the receiver. Thus, the above equathe US Federal Communication Commission (FCC). It comes from tion can be written: the FCC regulations for part 80 – STATIONS IN THE MARITIME PR = ERP – L + GR SERVICE. The following discussion builds on an approach presented in an internet article entitled “Radio Propagation Over The loss term is a function of frequency, the surrounding Water – moderated discussion areas.” This column (and at least environment, the link distance, and the heights of the transone more “EW 101”) will convert the information from this FCC mitting and receiving antennas above the local terrain. For chart into the formats used in our previous propagation model each of the loss terms discussed, we have defined the propagadiscussions, and will develop a family of graphs for loss (in dB) tion loss between isotropic antennas. Each of the loss terms as a function of: range (in km), transmit antenna height (in developed to date has been for loss over land. Now, we will meters) and frequency (in MHz). discuss losses for propagation over water. Figure 3 shows how to use the FCC graph. Start at the disThe two primary propagation loss models we have covered tance – in this case 50 statute miles from the shore transmitin previous columns are shown in Table 1. Both of these forter to the ship. Move up to the data line for the height of the mulas assume loss in dB, distance in km and frequency in MHz. shore transmit antenna – in this case 1,600 feet. Move left to the ordinate of the graph, Table 1: Propagation loss previously discussed which shows the signal denPropagation Model Formula for loss per km Slope of loss curve vs. range sity in dBu at the 30-footLine of Sight L = 32.44 + 20 log(d) + 20 log F Range2 high receiving antenna on the Two Ray L = 120 + 40 log(d) -20 log hT -20 log hR Range 4 ship. This is shown to be 47 dBu. Also highlighted on this If line of sight loss is applicable, the loss increases as a figure is the signal density if the receiver is 60 km from the function of the square of range and frequency. If two-ray loss

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UNIT CONVERSIONS In our earlier discussions of radio propagation, we have dealt with received signal strength in dBm rather than the signal density in µv/m. The conversion formulas are: To convert from signal density to signal strength P = -77 +20 log(E) -20 log (F) Where: P is the signal strength in dBm E is the signal density in µV/m F is the frequency in MHz To convert from signal strength to signal density E = 10(P +77 – 20 log(F))/20 which is the same as, Antilog [(P + 77 – 20 log(F))/20] In both formulas, “log” is log to the base 10. dBu is dB relative to 1 microvolt per meter (µV/m); the dB conversion formula is 20 log10 (signal density in µV/m). You will note that signal density at the receiving antenna is independent of frequency, but the received signal strength is not.

the graph as a baseline to establish consistency with our earlier work. Then, we will consider the propagation paths closer to the water for which data is presented in the FCC graph. The signal density varies with free-space loss as the square of the range. This is demonstrated by reading the free-space loss at 10 miles (83 dBu) and 100 miles (62 dBu). The difference is 20 dB. This is the dB form of the square of the range change. Now, let’s calculate the received signal strength at the ship antenna at 100 MHz. The signal density for free space loss (as shown in figure 3 above) is 69 dBu. This means that the signal density (in dBµV/m) is: E = Antilog(69/20) = 2818 µV/m But 20 log(E) is the 69 taken from the ordinate of the graph. P = -77 +20 log(E) -20 log (F) = -77 + 69 – 20 log(100) = -77 + 69 – 40 = -48 dBm The transmitter ERP is 1 kW (+60 dBm), so the link loss shown on the graph is ERP – PR = +60 dBm – (-48 dBm) = 108 dB.

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Figure 3: The FCC Graph shows that a 30-foot-high shipboard antenna 50 statute miles from a 1,600-foot-high 1kw ERP transmitter would produce a field strength of 47 dBu over water, but 69 dBu if free space loss were applicable.

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30 foot high-20 shipboard statute Now, consider the second situa- Figure 3: The FCC Graph showsP that = -77a +20 log(E) log (F) =antenna -77 + 47 50 – 40 = -70 dBm miles from a 1600-foot-high, 1kw transmitter produce of dB tion highlighted on Figure 3. The ERP propagation loss would is then:+60 dBma–field (-70 strength dBm) = 130 47 dBu over water, but 69 dBu if free space loss were applicable. The ship is 50 statute miles from a 1kW shore based transmitter 1600 feet above the water. WHAT’S NEXT The resulting signal density at the receiving antenna is Next month, we will continue our discussion of radio propa47 dBu. gation over water. For your comments and suggestions, Dave Converting this value to dBm at 100 MHz: Adamy can be reached at [email protected]. a

AOC Professional Development Courses Plan now to attend upcoming AOC courses and take advantage of expanded LIVE online webcourse options.  MARCH 4

APRIL 14-17  

MAY 12-15

Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

EW 104: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving for Electronic Warfare

Essentials of 21st Century Electronic Warfare

Location: LIVE Webcourse Instructor: Dr. Patrick Ford

Location: NGC Linthicum, Maryland Instructor: Dr. Patrick Ford

Location: Alexandria, VA Instructor: Mr. Robert Samuel

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The AOC is planning to hold its inaugural AOC Latin America symposium during LAAD, Brazil, on April 16, 2015, in conjunction with our logistics partner and LAAD organizer, Clarion Events. The conference language will be predominantly Portuguese. EW Latin America 2015 will be attended by a wide range of leading military, government, academic and industrial leaders and thinkers from across the region and beyond. The inaugural Symposium audience will include senior serving military leaders and operators, security personnel, government officials, leading academics and world class industry leaders, and will discuss the increasingly important field, in Latin America, of Electronic Warfare and associated Electromagnetic Operations (EMO), including signals intelligence, information operations, air platform protection, land EW operations, innovative maritime EW solutions, EW-capable UAVs, operational experience and advanced technology. Focus areas include: • Keynote speakers. • Regional issues and factors. • EW capability and the maritime, land, air/space, electromagnetic and cyberspace operational environments; platform protection and situational awareness. • Operational experience and lessons. • Information operations, cyber and network enabled capability. • EW operational support and modelling and simulation. • EW Developments from Industry. • EW concepts and critical lines of capability development • Related EM capabilities including C4ISR, SIGINT and Spectrum Management. In common with our other global events, an EW, EMO, SIGINT and associated C4ISR dedicated exhibition is being arranged by Clarion Events within the AOC Pavilion.

Symposium planning is being led the AOC Director Global Operations, Wing Commander John Clifford OBE RAF (retd), who can be contacted at [email protected].

Visit www.crows.org for more information.

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Event Registration: dixiecrow2015.infinity-international.com Exhibitor Registration: dixiecrow2015exhibitor.infinity-international.com

Exhibit and Sponsorship Opportunities SPONSORSHIPS

Crows N.E.S.T. sponsorship

$5,000

Platinum

$5,000

Sponsorship opportunities to help fund the Dixie Crow Education fund, and STEM education. This is a great way to get your name out there to all the 2,400+ attendees and show your support for the Dixie Crows. All sponsorships go directly into the Dixie Crow Educational Foundation and can be used as a tax deduction. Thank you in advance for all the support you can provide.

Banner displayed in exhibit hall (company provided, limited to 4’ x 20’) • Logo on sign near stage in exhibit hall • Logo on sign in Hospitality suite • Logo on sign at golf tournament • Golf hole sign

Gold

$2,500

• Logo on sign near stage in exhibit hall • Logo on sign at golf tournament

• Logo on sign in Hospitality suite • Golf hole sign

Silver

$1,000

• Logo on sign in Hospitality suite • Golf hole sign

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Bronze

$500

• Logo on sign at golf tournament

Golf Hole sign only

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2ND ANNUAL THE CROW’S N.E.S.T. (Novel Experiments with Science & Technology) Wednesday, March 25 // 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. // Museum of Aviation Century of Flight Hangar The Dixie Crow Chapter of the Association of Old Crows Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Robotics displays and technology demonstrations, are an interactive experience that will capture the minds and hearts of students, parents, and teachers. The display is a collaborative effort between local military, government civil service, academia, defense industry, and volunteers designed to inspire students to pursue STEM careers. Interacting with the robotics displays and technology demonstrations will demonstrate to students that STEM can be both fun and engaging. Enthusiastic workers in STEM fields will also be on hand to answer questions and help students learn how they can prepare to enter the exciting world of STEM. Make time to visit our Crows N.E.S.T. displays and technology demonstrations.

PREPARE TO BE AMAZED! We are looking for Academia, Industry and other Organizations to display their creative robotic talents and/or interactive technological products!!! We look forward to your participation in this fantastic opportunity to interface with our STEM Leaders of tomorrow! If you have any questions and/or would like to participate please feel free to contact: Matt Bryant, [email protected], (478) 926-1008 Lisa K. Fruge-Cirilli, [email protected], (478) 319-0179

Schedule of Events Sunday, March 22 Registration Hospitality Suite

Marriott Courtyard, Warner Robins, Georgia Marriott Courtyard, Warner Robins, Georgia

5:00 PM-9:00 PM 5:00 PM-9:00 PM

Registration Exhibit Setup

Landings Golf Club Century of Flight Hangar, Museum of Aviation

7:00 AM-6:00 PM 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Spring Golf Tourney Sports Banquet

Landings Golf Club Landings Golf Club

8:00 AM-12:30 PM 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Registration Plenary Session Exhibits Open

Century of Flight Hangar, Museum of Aviation Eagle Building, Museum of Aviation Century of Flight Hangar, Museum of Aviation

7:00 AM-6:00 PM 8:00 AM-11:00 AM 11:00 AM-8:00 PM

Chapter President’s Mtg Technical Program Exhibitor Reception

Century of Flight Hangar, Museum of Aviation Eagle Building, Museum of Aviation Century of Flight Hangar, Museum of Aviation

11:30 AM-1:00 PM 12:30 PM-4:30 PM 5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Registration Technical Program Exhibits Open Crows N.E.S.T. Exhibit Teardown

Century of Flight Hangar, Museum of Aviation Eagle Building, Museum of Aviation Century of Flight Hangar, Museum of Aviation Century of Flight Hangar, Museum of Aviation Century of Flight Hangar, Museum of Aviation

7:00 AM-12:00 PM 8:00 AM-4:30 PM 10:00 AM-3:00 PM 11:00 AM-3:00 PM 3:00 PM-9:00 PM

Banquet

Hangar One, Museum of Aviation

Cocktails – 6:30 PM- 7:30 PM Dinner – 7:30 PM-9:30 PM

Eagle Building, Museum of Aviation

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Monday, March 23

Tuesday, March 24

Wednesday, March 25

Thursday, March 26 Technical Short Courses

Join us in Warner Robins for the 40th Annual Dixie Crow Symposium, “The Power of EW & ISR for Sustained Air Supremacy.” This year’s symposium features a great technical program, exhibits, social events, as well as the Crows N.E.S.T., focusing on demonstrating the excitement of STEM education to local students through displays, technology demonstrations and robotics!

Exhibit and Sponsorship Opportunities It’s not too late to book your exhibit and/or sponsorship package for this year’s Dixie Crow Symposium. Visit www.crows.org/chapters/dixie-crow-symposium.html for the sponsorship package form, exhibit application and current exhibit layout.

EXHIBITS 10’ x 10’

$2,000

10’ x 20’

$4,000

10’ x 30’

$6,000

10’ x 40’

$8,000

20’ x 20’

$8,000

For more information and exhibit/sponsorship forms visit www.crows.org/chapters/dixie-crow-symposium.html

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40TH DIXIE CROW SYMPOSIUM TECHNICAL PROGRAM SECURITY CLEARANCE INSTRUCTIONS Send JPAS visit request info to: SMO CODE: RX1MFGLH6 POC: DIXIE CROW 40 SYMP POC PHONE: (478) 222-3891 OR DSN 472-3891 (478) 926-1774 OR DSN 468-1774 POC FAX: (478) 222-3896 OR DSN 472-3896 Visit date: 24 thru 26 March 2015 All visit requests must be submitted no later than 13 March 2015.

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15th Annual AOC Electronic Warfare Europe Future EW - Innovation, Information & Interoperability M AY 2 6 - 2 8 , 2 0 1 5

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As Nations re-focus on contingency operations after over a decade of counter-insurgency there are many challenges and opportunities for governments, the military, academia, science and technology and industry. Events in 2014 have reminded us of the deadly nature of RF guided weaponry and that the counter-insurgency threat has not gone away, but intensified. Air attacks on IS terrorists in Syria and Iraq are inevitably enabled by the usual panoply of Electromagnetic (EM) operations: SIGINT; C4ISR; precise navigation and timing; targeting; communications, spectrum management and the whole gamut of EW. EM-enabled cyber operations are part of defeating terrorists as well as state actors across the spectrum of warfare, starting with influence and counter-propaganda and most likely going much further. National forces are being re-shaped and re-equipped to face the future which will be contested, congested, complex, connected and constrained and potentially chaotic unless the right informed choices are made now. AOC EW Stockholm 2015 will look at future EW from three connected perspectives – innovation by industry, government agencies and academia, the importance of information (including cyber) and interoperability both of capabilities like EW, SIGINT and ISR, and between services and partners in joint, combined and coalition operations.

SAVE THE DATE

A global EW networking, exhibition, seminar and conference not to be missed!

For more information visit www.crows.org.

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Guide listings were updated based on changes received from companies during the month of February 2015. Please send any listings changes to Elaine Richardson, Managing Editor, [email protected].

SUSTAINING MEMBERS

B BAE SYSTEMS

65 Spit Brook Rd. NHQ3-1115 Nashua, NH 03060 www.baesystems.com Phone: +1-603-885-3660 BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, a global defense, security and aerospace company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, BAE Systems, Inc. employs approximately 35,000 employees in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Israel, Mexico, and South Africa, and generated 2013 revenues of $11.8 billion. BAE Systems, Inc. provides support and service solutions for current and future defense, intelligence, and civilian systems; designs, develops and manufactures a wide range of electronic systems and subsystems for both military and commercial applications; produces specialized security and protection products for law enforcement and first responders; and designs, develops, produces, and provides service support of armored combat vehicles, artillery systems, and munitions.

BALL AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGIES CORP

10 Longs Peak Dr Broomfield, CO 80021-2510 Phone: +1-303-533-4945 www.ballaerospace.com AOC contact: Sarah Sloan, [email protected]

THE BOEING COMPANY

Boeing Defense, Space & Security P.O. Box 516 St. Louis, MO 63166 www.boeing.com President & CEO: Christopher Chadwick AOC contact: Lawrence Burt, [email protected] A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is one of the world’s largest defense, space and security businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions, and the world’s largest and most versatile

manufacturer of military aircraft. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a $32 billion business with 63,000 employees worldwide. Follow us on Twitter: @BoeingDefense.

C CHEMRING GROUP PLC

1500 Parkway Whiteley Fareham, Hampshire PO15 7AF, UK Phone: +44-1489-881880 Fax: +44-1489-881123 www.chemring.co.uk Group Chief Executive: Michael Flowers Juan Navarro, President, Chemring North America AOC contact: Judy McCoy, [email protected] Chemring Group is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of IR expendable countermeasure decoys for air, land and sea platforms. With more than 40 years experience, Chemring’s technology has provided effective and reliable solutions to counter increasingly sophisticated worldwide threats. Operations include Chemring Countermeasures UK and Chemring Countermeasures USA (CCM USA: Alloy Surfaces, Inc., and Kilgore Flares, LLC), which provide a full range of IR decoys to all the US armed forces, NATO and nonNATO countries. At CCM USA, Alloy Surfaces produces special material decoys for all US armed services. This advanced, spectrally-matched material, used in both preemptive and reactive modes, provides a significant capability for aircraft to operate at all altitudes against the most advanced IR missiles. Kilgore Flares is the largest US producer of IR decoys. Kilgore leads the MTV decoy mass production industry with its state-of-the-art and fully automated plant in Tennessee. Chemring Countermeasures is the UK design authority for IR decoys and chaff payloads. The company provides an extensive range of spectral and MTV decoys and payloads for most types of air platforms, naval ships and land vehicles.

D DRS SIGNAL SOLUTIONS 1 Milestone Center Court Germantown, MD 20876 Phone: +1-301-948-7550

Fax: +1-301-921-9479 www.drs.com AOC contact: Rheanne Eldridge DRS Signal Solutions is a world-leading provider of high-performance tuners, receivers, transceivers, data recorders, software-definable radios and geoconvergence systems used in a wide-range of applications. Covering radio frequency (RF) ranges from HF to SHF, DRS products are driven by cutting-edge mechanical packaging that yields the best in size, weight and power reductions. In addition to RF and microwave technology, DRS products employ advanced signal processing to search intercept, analyze and record signals. DRS communications products are used for commercial uses, such as Spectrum Management, or in Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Electronics Intelligence (ELINT) missions conducted by allied governments and militaries. For more information about DRS Defense Solutions, please visit the company’s website at www. drs.com.

E ELECTRONIC WARFARE ASSOCIATES INC.

13873 Park Center Road, Ste. 500 Herndon, VA 20171 www.ewa.com Phone: +1-703-904-5700 Fax: +1-703-904-5779 President and CEO: Carl N. Guerreri AOC contact: Edward T. Connolly, Executive VP Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) is a broad-based technology company providing professional services and specialized products to both US and foreign customers. Committed to quality and customer support, EWA prides itself on overcoming technological challenges, delivering on-time products for its customers and providing continuing service. EWA Corporate capabilities are Systems Engineering and Integration, Information Assurance, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Homeland Defense, Radar Design and Development, Training Systems Design and Development, Test and Evaluation, Special Operations, Electronic Warfare, ASIC Design and Development, Software Design and Development, C4I, Cockpit Simulators, Radar Simulators, Digital Signal Processing (Blackhawk™ DSP), Boundary Scan Devices, Computer-Based Training, Range Instrumentation, Wireless Applications,

UV Detection Systems, Crisis Management Systems, MASINT, Field Engineering and Data Collection, Intelligence Operational Support and Analysis, Geolocation Systems, Foreign Materiel Exploitation (FME) and Foreign Materiel Acquisition (FMA). EWA is a technology leader continuing to expand its capabilities and broaden its market presence.

EXELIS

77 River Road Clifton, NJ 07014-2099 www.exelisinc.com Phone: +1-973-284-0123 Fax: +1-973-284-4122 President: Rich Sorelle AOC contact: Andrew Dunn, VP of Business Development Exelis is a diversified, top-tier global aerospace, defense, information and services company that leverages a 50-year legacy of deep customer knowledge and technical expertise to deliver affordable, mission-critical solutions for global customers. Exelis is a leader in positioning and navigation, sensors, air traffic management solutions, image processing and distribution, communications and information systems; and focused on strategic growth in the areas of critical networks, ISR and analytics, electronic warfare and composite aerostructures. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Exelis employs approximately 10,000 people and generated 2014 sales of approximately $3.25 billion.

G GENERAL ATOMICS

3000 K St NW, Ste 250 Washington, DC 20007-5140 AOC contact: Mr. Chris Pehrson

KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES

1050 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 1000 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: +1-202-772-3586 Fax: +1-202-772-3589 www.keysight.com AOC contact: James Gigrich Keysight Technologies is a global technology leader, delivering critical tools and technologies that sense, measure and interpret the physical and radio frequency world. The company’s innovative solutions enable a wide range of customers in communications, spectrum warfare, and electronic warfare to make technological advancements that drive productivity and improve the way the military operates in the ‘Electromagnetic Spectrum’ and ‘Cyber’ battle space. Keysight designs and builds leadingedge measurement solutions for nextgeneration electronic warfare systems. Keysight is enabling the aero/defense transformation with synthetic and modular instruments and AXle, LXI, PXI, & VXI technology backed by their leading scopes,

L LOCKHEED MARTIN MISSION SYSTEMS AND TRAINING (MST)

300 M Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 Phone: +1-571-357-6357 www.lockheedmartin.com/us/mst.html Executive Vice President MST: Dale Bennett AOC contacts: David Beard, +1-315-4561217; Brian Mason, +1-607-751-7089 Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training (MST) provides capabilities spanning domains from the depths of the oceans to the stratosphere. Our solutions are found on nearly 500 programs for US and international customers, both government and civilian, in nearly 50 nations. MST’s sensor systems provide maritime, battlefield, and air surveillance; undersea mine and submarine detection; missile detection and tracking; and advanced early warning. Focus areas include: Maritime Electronic Warfare, Advanced Platforms, Integrated Defense Technologies, Counter IED Technologies, Network-Centric Warfare and Systems Integration. Programs of interest include: Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) – SEWIP is a spiraldevelopment upgrade and replacement program for the AN/SLQ-32 EW system spanning multiple classes of Naval combatant ships. SEWIP Block 1 High Gain, High Sensitivity (HGHS) Subsystem enhances detection capabilities to assist Navy sailors in defending ships from emerging threats. SEWIP Block 2 and beyond will focus on replacing the legacy AN/SLQ-32 (V) altogether with advanced hardware and software improvements, as well as a new combat system interface. Airborne Electronic Support Measures and Radar Warning Receivers – MST has fielded over 3000 EW systems, including ESM, RWR, ELINT, COMINT and Anti-Jam GPS products. They continue production with the lightweight, high performance, concurrent ESM/RWR, namely the AN/ ALQ-210, for USN and Int’l MH-60R. A fixed wing variant, the AN/ALQ-217, is fielded on the USN E-2C and is in production for the E-2D. MST is also modernizing the Radar Frequency Interferometer (RFI), the AN/ APR-48B, which is a targeting ESM system on the US Army and Int’l Apache AH-64D/E.

Development efforts include miniaturizing digital receiver ESM systems for fixed, rotary wing, and UAS application.

M MERCURY SYSTEMS

201 Riverneck Rd. Chelmsford, MA 01824 www.mrcy.com Phone: +1-978-967-1401 AOC contact: Greg Donahue, 978-967-1340 Mercury Systems develops electronic subsystems for EW, SIGINT, RF countermeasures and radar testing. Our capabilities include high-performance DRFMs, low-latency broadband tuners, and small form factor SIGINT solutions with direction finding features. We utilize open system architectures (learn more at mrcy. com/OpenRFM) and pre-integrated building blocks to achieve affordability and schedule demands..

N NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION

2980 Fairview Park Drive Falls Church, VA 22042 +1-703-280-2900 www.northropgrumman.com Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems, cyber security, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers worldwide. The company produced $24.7 billion in sales for 2013. We hold ourselves to a higher standard, both in the products we deliver and in the way we conduct ourselves throughout the entire customer experience. Our mission is to be at the forefront of technology and innovation, delivering superior capability in tandem with maximized cost efficiencies. The security solutions we provide help secure freedoms for our nation as well as those of our allies. Squarely meeting our obligations, fiscally and technologically, isn’t just a business goal, but a moral imperative. Our four business sectors are: Aerospace Systems is a leader in the design, development, integration and production of manned aircraft, unmanned systems, spacecraft, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics and other systems and subsystems. Aerospace Systems’ customers, primarily U.S. government agencies, use these systems in mission areas including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; communications; battle management; strike operations; electronic warfare; earth observation; satellite communications, space science; and space exploration. Electronic Systems is a leader in the design, development, manufacture, and support of solutions for sensing, understanding, anticipating, and controlling the operating environment for

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signal, logic and network analyzers; signal sources; pulse generators and more. Keysight’s solutions are used across the armed forces for air and ground applications to include: Detection/Identification, Direction Finding, Spectrum Warfare, Electronic Warfare, Homeland Security, Networking Technologies, Radio Monitoring Systems, Sensors, Signal Analysis, Spectrum Analysis, Spectrum Management, Surveillance Systems, Test and Evaluation Equipment. For information on EW, radar, military and satellite communications visit www. keysight.com/find/ad

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our global military, civil, and commercial customers. Electronic Systems provides a variety of defense electronics and systems, airborne fire control radars, situational awareness systems, early warning systems, airspace management systems, navigation systems, communications systems, marine power and propulsion systems, space systems, and logistics services. Information Systems is a leading global provider of advanced solutions for the DoD, national intelligence, federal civilian, state agencies, commercial and international customers. Products and services focus on the fields of command and control (C2), communications, cyber security, air and missile defense, intelligence processing, civil security, health information technology, government support systems and systems engineering and integration. Technical Service is a leader in innovative and affordable logistics, modernization and sustainment support, and also provides an array of other advanced technology and engineering services, including space, missile defense, nuclear security, training and simulation.

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870 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02451-1449 Phone: +1-781-522-3000 Fax: +1-781-522-3001 www.raytheon.com Chairman and CEO: Thomas A. Kennedy VP of Business Development and CEO Raytheon International, Inc. (RII): John D. Harris, II AOC contact: Marcus Burch, Senior Manager, Business Development Raytheon Company, with 2014 sales of $23 billion and 61,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, security and civil markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 93 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as cyber security and a broad range of mission support services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more about Raytheon, visit us at www.raytheon. com and follow us on Twitter @raytheon.

ROCKWELL COLLINS

3200 East Renner Road Richardson, TX 75082-2420 Phone: +1-972-705-1438 Fax: +1-972-705-1436 [email protected] www.rockwellcollins.com/ewsigint Rockwell Collins delivers electronic warfare solutions to customers worldwide. Backed by a global network of service and support, we stand committed to putting technology and practical innovation to work for you whenever and wherever you need us. In this way, working together, we build trust every day.

For more than 35 years, our customers have trusted us to meet their electronic warfare solutions requirements. Our innovative designs deliver scalable SIGINT and EA solutions for air, land and sea domains. From antennas, to microwave tuners, to digital pulse analyzers, to RF spectrum displays, to ELINT components and converters, to communications jammers – we offer a wide array of EW solutions regardless of the platform or threat environment. Let our team of experts work with you to create the ideal solution to meet your immediate and emerging needs. To learn more about our integrated capabilities, visit www.rockwellcollins.com/ewsigint or call us at (972) 705-1438.

ROHDE & SCHWARZ USA

6821 Benjamin Franklin Drive Columbia, MD 21046 Phone: (410) 910-7800 Fax: (410) 910-7801 www.rohde-schwarz.com AOC contact: Emily Messer, [email protected] For more than 80 years, Rohde & Schwarz has been one of the world’s leading manufacturers of test & measurement, communications and broadcasting equipment. With more than 9800 employees, representatives in more than 70 countries and worldwide sales over $2 billion, we are able to support customers both globally and locally. We have a worldclass service facility in Columbia, Maryland and our customers can expect extensive after-sales support, including training, free technical support and close personal contact from our engineers out in the field. The Rohde & Schwarz US development team in Oregon offers customers in the US an R&D resource for developing solutions to meet the needs of the American market, including software and firmware. As a German company we’re proud of the values of precision and accuracy, and our products reflect that. We provide solutions and support - right here in the USA where you need it.

S SAAB

Business Area Electronic Defence Systems Nettovägen 6 SE-175 88 Järfälla Sweden Phone +46 8 580 840 00 Senior Vice President: Micael Johansson www.saabgroup.com AOC contact: Mr. Petter Bedoire PO Box 8492 Centurion, 0046 South Africa Phone +27 12 672 6000 AOC contact: Mr. Philip Willcock Graefenberger Str. 32-34 D-91080 Uttenreuth Germany

AOC contact: Mr. Klaus Weighardt Saab serves the global market with world leading products, services and solutions from military defense to civil security. With operations on every continent, Saab continuously develops, adapts and improves new technology to meet customers’ changing needs. It’s most important markets today are Europe, South Africa, Australia and North America. Saab has around 14,700 employees. Annual sales amount to around SEK 24 billion, of which research and development account for about 25 per cent of sales. Saab has divided operations into six business areas: Aeronautics, Dynamics, Electronic Defence Systems, Security and Defence Solutions, Support and Services and Industrial Products and Services. Business area Electronic Defence Systems’ operations are based on Saab’s close interaction with customers requiring efficient solutions for surveillance and for threat detection, location and protection. This has created a unique competence in the area of radar and electronic warfare, and a product portfolio covering airborne, land based and naval radar, electronic support measures and self-protection systems. At Electronic Defence Systems we have some 2,600 employees in Sweden, Norway, Germany, South Africa and US

MILITARY UNITS 453 EW SQUADRON RESEARCH 20323 Blue Trinity San Antonio, TX 78259-2246 AOC contact: Mr. James Mainord

JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE 5-1 Ichigaya Honmura-Cho Shinjyuku-ku Tokyo 162-8804 Japan AOC contact: MAJ Shintaro Ooeda

JEWOSU

DSTO - P.O. Box 1500, Bldg 212 Edinburgh 5111 SA AUSTRALIA AOC contact: SQNLDR Dale A. Wiley

INSTITUTES/ UNIVERSITIES

G GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE (GTRI)

250 14th Street, NW Atlanta, GA 30318 www.gtri.gatech.edu Phone: +1-404-407-7400 Fax: +1-404-407-9280 Director: Dr. Robert T. McGrath, Vice Director: Dr. Stephen E. Cross, Executive Vice President for Research, Georgia Institute of Technology and Interim Director, GTRI

AOC contact: Joe Brooks, GTRI Deputy Director and Director of Research, +1-404407-7144 The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is nationally renowned in Electronic Warfare. As the applied R&D arm of Georgia Tech, GTRI has been nationally recognized for more than 35 years as experts in the analysis, design and development of effectiveness analysis and threat simulation systems. It was also more than 30 years ago that the Peachtree Roost was formed by members of GTRI. Today, our excellence continues not only in the EA technique development, modeling and analysis area but in modernization of radar warning receivers, jamming systems and test systems. GTRI has participated in the development of future integrated electronic warfare systems and is working in the next-generation systems of systems or net-centric warfare. Because GTRI is not a manufacturer, its researchers can provide government and industry unbiased, independent technique effectiveness and technology insertion solutions. GTRI researchers teach a wide range of continuing education courses serving the electronic warfare community.

M MERCER ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER

NATIONAL EW RESEARCH AND SIMULATION CENTER POB 2250(88) Haifa, Israel 3102102 Phone: +972 73 3354583 Fax: +972 73 3354875 [email protected] AOC contact: Dr. Chaim Schwartz

S SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR DEFENCE

STRIDE Main Complex Taman Bukit Mewah Fasa 9 70450 Kajang Selanger Malaysia AOC Contact: Mr. Wan Mustafa Wan Hanafi

GOVERNMENT GROUPS NAVAL RESEARCH CENTER, DAHLGREN DIVISION

4086 Higley Rd, Suite 100 Dahlgren, VA 22448-5145 www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/dahlgren AOC Contact: Richard H. Moran

DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (DSTA) 1 Depot Rd Singapore 109679 AOC Contact: Mr. Cheng Kian Hong

GROUP MEMBERS 3DB LABS INC.

9050 Centre Pointe Dr, Ste 340 West Chester, OH 45069-9705 AOC contact: David Evans, [email protected]

A ACI TECHNOLOGIES

One International Plz, Ste 600 Philadelphia, PA 19113-1510 AOC Contact: Mike Frederickson

ADVANCED ELECTRONICS

Private Aviation-Industrial Estate P.O. Box 90916 Riyadh 11623 Saudi Arabia AOC Contact: Nawaf D. Al Hoshan

AERONIX

1775 West Hibiscus Boulevard, Suite 200 Melbourne, FL 32901 Phone: +1-321-984-1671 Fax: +1-321-984-0366 www.aeronix.com AOC contact: Rick Kneapler Aeronix products include high performance, low cost ESM solutions for manned and unmanned applications. In addition,

Aeronix provides system engineering and design services in the areas of electronic support measures, communications equipment, and information assurance.

AETHERCOMM INC.

2910 Norman Strasse Rd. San Marcos, CA 92069 Phone: +1-760-598-4340 Fax: +1-760-598-4342 www.aethercomm.com AOC contact: Freddie Chavez [email protected] Aethercomm designs and manufactures high-power RF and microwave amplifiers for use in CW and pulsed applications. Aethercomm products operate in the DC-40 GHz frequency range. Aethercomm utilizes the latest in RF device technology (GaN, SiC, LDMOS, GaAs and others) available in the market today. Aethercomm products are used in radar systems, EW systems, communication systems and test and measurement applications. Aethercomm also designs and manufactures transmitters, transceivers and RF/microwave subsystems and systems. Aethercomm offers a wide variety of standard and custom solutions.

A.G. FRANZ, LLC

5 Stanton Ct. Plainsboro, NJ 08536 Phone: +1-609-936-1919 Fax: +1-609-936-8171 www.agfranz.com AOC contact: Andrea Franz [email protected] A.G. Franz, LLC is a small business providing specialized, high-quality communications equipment, technical support and business consulting services to aerospace and defense, satellite and wireless companies and the US Government. Our Products include: • RF test-equipment for operationally detecting interference signals in the field (IDA2) and remotely monitoring RF signals for interference (family of NRAs), from Narda Test Solutions • RF signal-routing equipment and customized solutions (wide-band matrices and multicouplers), from Novotronik • High-quality military and commercial satellite low-power RF distribution equipment for satellite systems in the entire frequency range from IF to Ka-Band, from Peak Communications

AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH

Landshuter Str. 26 D-85716 Unterschleissheim GERMANY Phone: +498931798575 Fax: +498931798928 http://airbusdefenceandspace.com AOC contact: Juergen Steiner, [email protected] Airbus Defence & Space, formerly Cassidian, provides intelligent solutions in the field of classical Electronic Warfare and SelfProtection. Its capabilities are covering the full spectrum of Signal and Communication Intelligence, Electronic Support and Countermeasure solutions for maritime,

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135 Osigian Blvd Warner Robins, GA 31088 Phone number: +1-478-953-6800 http://www.merc-mercer.org/ AOC contact: Mr. Jim Hundley, Director of Software/Electronics Mercer Engineering Research Center (MERC) is a non-profit operating unit of Mercer University, a private comprehensive university located in Macon, GA. Mercer, established in 1833, is one of the oldest universities in the South. MERC was established in 1987 as the applied research extension of the School of Engineering and has grown from an initial staff of three to a vibrant customer support oriented organization of 180 engineers, scientists, managers, logisticians, and business consultants. MERC occupies a modern 113,000 sq. ft. facility with offices, secure areas, conference rooms and laboratories. MERC supports the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex located at Robins AFB, GA; the Air Force Research Laboratory located at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI; and commercial clients including businesses ranging from small to Fortune 500 in various research and development efforts. MERC has more than 280 man-years of electronic warfare analysis, HW/SW design and development, and threat exploitation experience. MERC’s competencies, as it applies to EW, include electronic combat systems engineering, analysis, design and development of electronic test equipment, advanced RF and EO/IR signal processing algorithm development, and re-engineering.

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airborne and land platforms as well as core sub-systems of Tactical EW Systems. Furthermore, Electronic Protection solutions protect platforms against missile attacks while in the theatre of operations. Here, different vulnerability reduction techniques are needed to ensure the survivability of platforms. Airbus Defence & Space provides warning solutions as well as protection suites to increase the safety of the platforms during combat missions against all advanced threats.

ALION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 306 Sentinel Dr., Ste 300 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 www.alionscience.com

ALLEN-VANGUARD

Arlington, VA Phone: +1-703-674-9645 www.allenvanguard.com [email protected] AOC contact: Denyse Le Fever Allen-Vanguard (AV) is world renowned by militaries, law enforcement and public service agencies for providing solutions to defeat terrorist and extremist threats. AV offers field proven COTS capabilities for spectrum dominance and defeat of Remote Controlled IEDs with their Equinox, 3XXX and Scorpion product lines and their next generation multi-function Electronic Warfare capability. Allen-Vanguard is US owned with operations in Canada and the UK supporting governments and prime contractors.

ALPHA PRODUCT INC.

351 Irving Dr Oxnard, CA 93030-5173 AOC contact: Laura Hummel, [email protected]

AMPLIFIER TECHNOLOGY LIMITED Unit 5 Easter Court Woodward Avenue Westerleigh Business Park Yale Glos, BS37 5YS United Kingdom Phone: +4408700509247 Fax: +4408700509249 www.amplifiertechnology.com AOC contact: Mr. Mike Spiewakowski, [email protected]

ANALOG DEVICES

(Hittite Microwave) 2 Elizabeth Dr Chelmsford, MA 01824-4112 Phone: +1-978-250-3343 Fax: +1-978-250-3373 www.hittite.com Founded in 198, Hittite Microwave Corporation, now Analog Devices, designs and develops high performance integrated circuits (ICs), modules, subsystems and instrumentation for technically demanding digital, radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeterwave applications covering the frequency range of DC to 110 GHz. We have developed a deep knowledge of analog, digital and mixed-signal semiconductor technology, from the device level to the design and assembly of complete

subsystems. Our Digital Integrated Circuit (IC), Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) and Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) products are developed using state-of-the- art Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and Silicon based semiconductor processes.

ANAREN MICROWAVE, INC.

6635 Kirkville Road Syracuse, NY 13057 www.anaren.com Phone: (Toll Free) +1-800-544-2414, +1-315-432-8909 Fax: +1-315-432-0197 President & CEO: Lawrence H. Sala Founded in 1967 as a supplier of microwave components and subassemblies to the defense electronics markets, today’s Anaren (NASDAQ: ANEN) is a worldwide innovator of standard and custom high-frequency technology for the defense, space, wireless infrastructure and consumer electronics sectors. Anaren’s Space & Defense Group is a trusted subcontractor to the world’s Tier 1 defense OEMs, offering turnkey, vertically integrated solutions (from extensive design engineering, modeling and analysis – to sophisticated automated manufacturing and testing). The company’s high-density, mil-spec technologies include: IMAs (passive, active; RF/analog/digital/mixed signal), multi-chip RF modules, support of next-gen AESAs (manifolds, T/R modules, control), broadband receivers for missile applications, RF and LO distribution for complex receivers, beamformers for satellite communications antennae, switch matrices for redundancy and signal routing, antenna feed networks for surface, airborne, and space radars, digital RF memories and frequency discriminators, RF integrated backplanes, tuners and front-end receivers, passive and active antenna front-end calibration networks, wide range of passive & active Mil-spec components (including RAD-hard).

ANNAPOLIS MICRO SYSTEMS INC.

190 Admiral Cochrane Drive, Ste. 130 Annapolis, MD 21401 Phone: +1-410-841-2514 Fax: +1-410-841-2518 www.annapmicro.com Annapolis Micro Systems is the leader in COTS FPGA-based high-performance processing products which are used for SIGINT, ELINT, GEOINT, RADAR, SAR and other applications. Annapolis hardware is used in airborne, sea and land based deployed environments. During 2013 and 2014 Annapolis is releasing an entire Ecosystem of OpenVPX products, including WildstarTM Altera Stratix 5 FPGAProcessing board, Xilinx Virtex 7 FPGA Processing board, SSD RAID Storage board (8 Terabytes in 1 slot), 40 Gigabit Switch, and top-of-the-line Turnkey Chassis. Wildstar products feature A/Ds and D/ As at sampling rates of 50MHz-5GHz. The Annapolis Application Development Tool, CorefireTM, accelerates FPGA application development by 10x without compromising performance. CorefireTM is used in dozens

of DoD programs for everything from rapid demonstrations to deployed ruggedized systems running the most challenging realworld and real-time processing applications.

ANRITSU COMPANY

490 Jarvis Drive Morgan Hill, CA 95037-2809 Phone: +1-800-ANRITSU (267-4878) Fax: +1-972-671-1877 www.anritsu.com [email protected] For more than 40 years, Anritsu has supplied effective test and measurement solutions to the DOD and other branches of the US government, and to the contractors supporting them. As commercial wired and wireless technologies migrate into government applications, Anritsu is leveraging its worldwide industry leadership to provide a full complement of solutions that support core programs in the Global Information Grid – including MUOS, FCS, and JTRS – and the Department of Homeland Security. Anritsu’s long history of excellence in government support and contract awards includes: The first mini-OTDRs supplied to the Navy and Marine Corps; numerous optical BER testers sold to DOD R&D facilities; the leading supplier of cable and antenna analysis platforms to every military branch; the leading supplier of high-frequency signal generators to the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force.

APISSYS SAS

Archamps Technopole, 60 rue Douglas Engelbart, ABC1-A Archamps, 74160 FRANCE Phone: +334-503-60758 Fax: +334-503-60529 www.apissys.com AOC contact: Mr. Xavier Bernard, [email protected] ApisSys is dedicated to deliver best in class, very high speed data conversion and signal processing solutions for Electronic Warfare and Radar applications. With unsurpassed performances, such as demonstrated by the 3U VPX boards AV104, Dual 10-bit ADC Single 12-bit DAC, 3 Gsps with Virtex 7 FPGA, and the AV107, Quad 12-bit 2.5 Gsps ADC with Virtex 7, the ApisSys’ range of OpenVPX solutions provides customers with leading edge technologies for wideband ESM, DRFM or 3D radar applications. In addition to COTS products, ApisSys provides custom solutions using the wealth of experience and knowledge of its team.

ASELSAN A.S.

Mehmet Akif Ersoy Mah. 296.Cadde, No.16, Yenimahalle, 06172 Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90.312.592 30 51 Fax: +90.312.385 19 00 www.aselsan.com.tr CEO and President: Cengiz Ergeneman AOC contact: Türker Murat, Project Engineer

ASELSAN is a defense electronics company established in 1975, that designs, develops, manufactures, integrates and supports state-of-the-art system solutions and composed of five major business sectors: 1. Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems Business Sector 2. Defense Systems Technologies Business Sector 3. Communications and Information Technologies Business Sector 4. Microelectronics, Guidance and ElectroOptics Business Sector 5. Transportation. Security, Energy and Automation Systems Business Sector ASELSAN has grown steadily and earned itself a sustainable place in the defense sector, carrying out its activities with a skilled workforce of 4626 employees and an annual turnover of 1.250 Million US Dollars.

ATGI

3489 SE Gran Park Way Stuart, FL 34997 www.atgi.us Phone: +1-772-283-0253 Fax: +1-772-283-0255 AOC contact: John Justak, [email protected] ATGI provides EW and ISR Ram Air Turbine power generation systems. The patented ATGI HiRAT (Hi-power Ram Air Turbine) generates over 2x the power of competing technologies. The HiRAT utilizes a ducted design to provide a low-drag power solution. Reliable power when you need it at altitudes to 60,000ft. 28 VDC – 270 VDC as well as AC can be provided in a power range of 0.1 kW to over 700 kw. Originally developed for pod applications HiRAT can also be utilized for aircraft emergency power.

ATK DEFENSE ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

ATKINSON AERONAUTICS & TECHNOLOGY INC. 803 Hansen Grns San Antonio, TX 78260-4844 Phone: +1-805-908-5104 Fax: +1-240-253-1800 www.ataero.com

ATOS AG

Freilagerstrasse 28 Zurich CH-8047 SWITZERLAND AOC contact: Stephen Krause, [email protected]

AURIGA MICROWAVE

2 Executive Drive, Suite 305 Chelmsford, MA. USA www.aurigamicrowave.com Phone: 978-452-7700 Fax: 978-452-7715 AOC Contact: Ted Lewis, [email protected] Auriga Microwave is a recognized international leader in modeling, measurement and design of RF, microwave and millimeter-wave technologies. Focusing on radar, radar jamming and communications in the military, our unique experience in design and manufacture of high-performance amplifiers provides solutions beyond what is generally available. Success in our design business is fortified by the strength of our characterization and custom test systems team and products. Auriga’s measurement systems continue to be installed at leading worldwide system integrators. Auriga’s headquarters, lab and manufacturing facility is in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA with a sales office in The Netherlands. Please visit Auriga at www. aurigamicrowave.com.

AVALON ELECTRONICS INC.

P.O. Box 460 Eagle Lake, FL 33839 USA Phone: +1-863-519-0905. Fax: +1-863-519-0763 www.avalon-electronics.com AOC contact: Terry Mason, [email protected] Avalon Electronics specializes in the design and manufacture of advanced wideband disk recorders for airborne, mobile and ground-based SIGINT and telemetry applications. The company’s mil-speced product range includes IF and baseband/ video recorders with recording bandwidths of up to 500 MHz. Single and multi-channel variants are available. The latest 500 MHz products incorporate ‘tunable’ record channels permitting the user to select only the spectrum of interest for recording. The company’s product range is supported by a variety of remote control, data management and real-time signal analysis software tools. Its clients include many of the world’s armies, navies and air forces, as well as leading civilian SIGINT data collection and analysis agencies.

AZURE SUMMIT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

3050 Chain Bridge Road Suite 600 Fairfax, VA 22030-2834 Phone: +1-571-308-1400 Fax: +1-571-308-1399 www.AzureSummit.com Azure Summit Technology is a research and development firm specializing in systems engineering, algorithm development and application of advanced technologies to SIGINT and EW systems. We are a small business and are active in the DOD SBIR program. The founders have more than 50 years of experience developing hardware, software and signal processing algorithms. Azure’s mission is to solve high-priority national problems using small, highly qualified teams of scientists and engineers. Our strengths are in blue-sky thinking, breakthrough innovation and the stubborn pursuit of solutions to next- and future generation problems. Azure is interested in a broad set of problems, but has a core focus on Interference Suppression/Cancellation, Direction Finding and Geolocation.

B BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL CISR

Defense Systems Technology Ashton House, Ashton Vale Road Bristol, UK, BS3 2HQ http://www.babcockinternational.com/ technology.enquiries@ babcockinternational.com AOC contact: Matthew Seel Babcock and its partners provide SIGINT systems that deliver leading edge capability in cryptologic information warfare & C2. Our evolving portfolio of technologies serve to acquire, identify, locate, process and analyse communications and noncommunications emitters to provide tactical intelligence, situational awareness,

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9401 Corbin Avenue Northridge, CA 91324 www.atk.com ATK develops and manufactures highly engineered materials and products supporting mission-critical applications for our defense, aerospace, and security/ sporting customers. The Defense Electronic Systems division develops, manufactures and delivers advanced capabilities for Electronic Warfare missions, including the AN/AAR-47A(V)2 and B(V)2 missile and laser warning self-protection system with Hostile Fire Indication, currently deployed on more than 3,000 aircraft worldwide. In addition, ATK’s Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM), is an upgrade to the U.S. Navy AGM-88 HARM system. AARGM is a supersonic, air-launched tactical missile system able to rapidly engage traditional and advanced land and sea-based airdefense threats, as well as non-radar timesensitive strike targets.

AOC contact: Col Marc L Magram, (Ret), [email protected] Atkinson Aeronautics & Technology is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business specializing in Force Protection, Information Operations, Electronic Warfare, Cyber Security, anti-terrorism and C-RCIED. We provide our customers with a broad spectrum of system engineering, acquisition, logistics, and program management expertise. Our cadre of former Navy and Marine Corps Electronic Warfare Officers have been involved with the application of non-kinetic effects as a function of IO for over three decades and are at the leading edge of work involving application of EW capability on UAS. We provide analysis and solutions development regarding UAS operations in the National Airspace and maritime/ littoral environments, weapon systems integration, ISR application, military/ civil aircraft operations, and security support to Navy, Marine Corps, non-DoD government agencies, and academia. Our multiple contracts involve needs definition, technology solution identification, study of Cargo UAS, maturation and transition planning, system development and integration, operations, and sustainment. Headquartered at Dahlgren, Virginia, our operations extend to Alaska, California, New Mexico, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.

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indication and warning, and hostile threat assessment. Babcock has worked in close partnership with Boeing Argon ST to deliver SIGINT capability to the MOD for over ten years. Our understanding of emerging SIGINT technology, platforms and parallel equipment enables us to provide the complete range of expert technical services required for successful integration on maritime and land domain platforms.

BATTLESPACE SIMULATIONS

P.O. Box 99 Clifton, VA 20124-0099 www.bssim.com AOC contact: Gary DeYoung Battlespace Simulations, Inc (BSI) develops Electronic Warfare training software used to train electronic warfare principles to combat aviators worldwide, including all undergraduate USAF Combat Systems Officers (CSOs) in-flight on the T-1A CSO aircraft at NAS Pensacola. BSI’s Modern Air Combat Environment (MACE) software is well suited and widely adopted for desktopbased EW instruction.

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2955 Kerner Blvd. San Rafael, CA 94901-5516 Phone: (415) 453-9955 http://www.berkeleynucleonics.com/ AOC Contact: Alex Palm Berkeley Nucleonics manufactures microwave & RF signal generators and analyzers, programmable synthesizer modules, and dedicated phase noise test systems for ATE, lab or field use. BNC’s mission is to provide reliable, innovative, and smart products to the test and measurement industry at affordable prices. Our customer support is a key focus to our success and sets us apart in our industry. BNC, a 50-year company, has its corporate headquarters in San Rafael, California with several additional manufacturing facilities and sales offices located throughout the United States.

BLUE RIDGE ENVISIONEERING, INC. 14450 Broadwinged Dr Gainesville, VA 20155-5932 Phone: +1-703-927-0450 www.br-envision.com AOC contact: Mr. Edward R. Zimmer, [email protected]

C CACI INTERNATIONAL INC.

6240 Guardian Gtwy Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-1300 AOC contact: Edward Thomas

COBHAM

305 Richardson Rd Lansdale, PA 19446-1495 AOC Contact: Mike Stasiowski

COLORADO ENGINEERING INC

1310 United Hts Ste 105 Colorado Springs, CO 80921-3933 Phone: +1-719-388-8582 Fax: +1-719-265-1962 www.coloradoengineeringinc.com AOC contact: Mr. David French, [email protected]

COMINT CONSULTING

P.O. 11681 Bozeman, MT 59719 www.comintconsulting.com [email protected]

COMMUNICATIONS SUPPLY AND SUPPORT LIMITED 1st Floor Estate Office Hayleys Manor, Upland Road Thornwood, Essex CM16 6QP United Kingdom AOC contact: Hugh Wills

COMTECH PST CORPORATION

105 Baylis Road Melville, NY 11747 Phone: +1-631-777-8900 Fax: +1-631-777-8877 www.comtechpst.com AOC contact: Robert J. Califra, Vice President of Marketing and Sales Founded in 1987, Comtech PST designs and manufactures solid state high power amplifiers, from 1MHz to 6GHz, with output power levels ranging from 2 Watts up to multi-kiloWatts. Our products are utilized in a variety of military and commercial applications, including: electronic warfare, radar/IFF, military communications, SATCOM and EMC/EMI testing. CPST has developed a robust line of linear and pulse amplifier products utilizing LDMOS, Gallium Arsenide, Silicon Carbide, and the latest Gallium Nitride transistor technologies, enabling us to continually expand and improve the performance characteristics of our power amplifiers. Our vast array of solid state power amplifier products are available in modules, or as rack-mountable power amplifiers. While we currently offer a standard amplifier product line, we also develop customized amplifiers to meet unique program and project specifications.

CONCORD COMPONENTS INC.

8 Commercial St Unit B Hicksville, NY 11801-5266 Phone: +1-402-375-5000 (107) Fax: +1-402-375-5004 www.concordcomponents.com AOC contact: Mr. Ed. Walpole, [email protected] Concord Components, Inc. is a trusted supply chain partner to major manufactures and the U.S. Military, which specializes in the distribution of military and commercial grade board level components. Our inventory is comprised of 500,000 line items of obsolete and hard to find parts, which include Semiconductors, Connectors, Passive and Electro-Mechanical Components. Our large in-stock inventory, global

product availabilities, quality inspection program and excess material management programs offer you cost effective solutions to your component shortages. We are an approved DSCC Supplier for the QSLD FSC 5961/5962 program, and our quality standards are validated and certified to ISO9001:2008, AS9120 and ESD S20.20-2007 Quality Systems. Come visit us at www. concordcomponents.com to learn more about out services.

CPI

811 Hansen Way Palo Alto, CA 94304 Phone: +1-650-846-2900 www.cpii.com CEO: Joe Caldarelli AOC contact: Linda Di Lorenzo Communications & Power Industries (CPI), headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, is a leading provider of microwave, RF, power and control solutions for critical defense, communications, medical, scientific and other applications. CPI develops, manufactures and distributes products used to generate, amplify and transmit highpower/high-frequency microwave and RF signals, and/or provide power and control for various applications. End-use applications of these systems include the transmission of radar signals for navigation and location; the transmission of deception signals for electronic countermeasures; the transmission and amplification of voice, data and video signals for broadcasting, Internet and other types of communications; the supply of power and control for medical diagnostic imaging and the generation of microwave energy for radiation therapy in cancer treatment; and for various industrial and scientific applications.

CRANE AEROSPACE & ELECTRONICS

10301 Willows Road N.E. Redmond, WA 98052 Phone: + 1 425-882-3100 Fax: + 1 425-556-5060 www.craneae.com President: Bob Tavares AOC contact: Sarah Moline When failure is NOT an option…rely on Crane Aerospace & Electronics, a major supplier of EW and radar microwave components and power supplies found in ground based, airborne and space flight applications. We design and manufacture high-density, high-reliability electronics for aerospace, military, space, unmanned vehicles, industrial and commercial applications. Product and service offerings are organized in solution sets and include power and microwave and are manufactured under the brand names Merrimac, Signal Technology, Polyflon, Keltec, Interpoint and ELDEC. To learn more, visit www. craneae.com. Partner with Crane, a trusted market leader in demanding commercial defense, space and commercial aerospace applications.

CRFS LTD

Cambridge Research Park Building 7200 Beach Drive Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB25 9TL UNITED KINGDOM Phone: +44 (0)1223 859500 www.crfs.com AOC contact: Kerry Mertz, [email protected] CRFS is the leading supplier of wideband RF spectrum monitoring and signals intelligence systems. We pioneered the concept of remote, distributed, real-time networks of spectrum sensors for continuous 24/7 monitoring of the RF environment. The RFeye® Node is the most cost-effective wideband RF sensor available on the market today, fully networkable with outstanding speed, sensitivity and versatility, all housed in a robust enclosure designed to withstand extreme environmental conditions. CRFS serves customers in the military and intelligence communities, police, homeland security and public safety, as well as many civilian customers including spectrum agencies and regulators, sports and public venues, airports and prisons.

CSIR DPSS

P.O. Box 395 Pretoria, 0001 South Africa Phone: +1 27 128 412 060 Fax: +1 27 128 427 121 http://www.csir.co.za/dpss AOC contact: Mr. Pieter Goosen, [email protected]

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DB CONTROL

1120 Auburn Street Fremont, CA 94538 Phone: +1-510-656-2325 www.dBControl.com Chief Operating Officer: Gary Spaulding AOC contact: Teresa Gaskins, Marketing Specialist, [email protected] dB Control designs and manufactures reliable high-power microwave TWT Amplifiers (TWTAs), microwave power modules (MPMs), and high- and lowvoltage power supplies for radar, electronic countermeasures (ECM), data links, communications and instrumentation applications. The company’s products can be quickly and easily configured to meet custom specifications and platform requirements for ground-based, shipboard and high-altitude military manned and unmanned aircraft. By using a modular

DEFENSE ENGINEERING CORP

4027 Colonel Glenn Highway, Suite 315, Beavercreek, OH 45431 www.defengcorp.com Phone: +1-937-912-1122 Fax: +1-937-320-9054 AOC contact: James Utt, [email protected] Defense Engineering Corporation (DEC), based in Dayton, Ohio, provides high-value engineering and product development services to customers and collaborators in the Department of Defense and industry. DEC specializes in advanced sensor and embedded high-performance computing technologies for Multi-INT Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Unmanned Systems, and Self-Protection applications. On-going research and development areas include modelling, design and characterization, and field/ flight testing of antennas, signal processing and other EO/IR/RF system components. DEC brings a rigorous systems engineering approach to research and development across the spectrum from proof-of-concept studies through laboratory and field evaluations to flight testing. Please visit www.defengcorp.com for details.

DEFENSE RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.

3915 Germany Lane, Ste 102 Beavercreek, OH 45431 Phone: +1-937-431-1644 Fax: +1-937-427-4526 www.dra-inc.net Defense Research Associates, Inc. (DRA) is a small business specializing in developing innovative technologies in conjunction with government research laboratories and transitioning them to support the warfighter. Among DRA’s ongoing programs, DRA has been instrumental in the advancement of Sense & Avoid (SAA) technology, an ongoing Advanced Technology Demonstration program with the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) enabling UAS to fly in US national and international airspace systems; Multi-Mode Collision Avoidance Systems (M²CAS), fusing cooperative with non-cooperative SAA technologies; Affordable Visible Missile Warning Systems (AVMWS), highly reliable, affordable optical missile warning systems utilizing low-cost CCD technology and high-performance processors; the Vigilant Sensing System (VSS), a small multi-sensor platform that mounts to common high-voltage power lines that inductively draws its power from the power line and uses the power line for communication and control; and the

Remote Auxiliary Power System (RAPS), a very simple but effective power harvesting system that acts as a universal extension cord.

DELCROSS TECHNOLOGIES LLC 1301 N Neil St, Ste 302 Champaign, IL 61820-3167 AOC contact: Shawn Carpenter

DHPC TECHNOLOGIES

10 Woodbridge Center Dr., Suite 650 Woodbridge, NJ 07095 Phone: +1-732-791-5400 Fax: +1-732-855-6916 President and AOC contact: Joseph Aletta, [email protected] Since our founding in 1992, DHPC Technologies has been devoted to supporting our national security with multi-discipline engineering solutions, technology assessment, modeling & simulation, software development and systems engineering expertise. With sustained growth over the past 20 years, we now have office locations in Woodbridge, NJ; Aberdeen MD, and Huntsville, AL. DHPC Technologies specializes in providing technical services in the areas of systems engineering, testing, sensor/system evaluations, modeling/simulation and prototyping. Our customers rely upon us for independent evaluation and analysis to assist in the requirements determination, technology development and testing phases of complex electronic warfare programs. DHPC has industry leaders in engineering solutions for laser design and application, electronics and technology forensics, countermeasure system testing and verification, specialized Counter-IED techniques and systems, and high-tech laboratory design and operation.

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DRAGOONITCN

900 Senate Drive Dayton, OH 45459 Phone: +1-937-439-9223 Toll Free: 800-439-4039 www.dragoonitcn.com President: Kathy Appenzeller AOC contact: Bob Appenzeller Dragoon Technologies has acquired ITCN and are now DBA DragoonITCN. This new union provides expertise with ISR services & embedded systems test and monitoring equipment. DragoonITCN is a woman owned small business and is ISO 9001:2008 certified. All product lines are on GSA Schedule. DragoonITCN’s latest technology is the BCIT (Bus Characterization & Integrity Toolset) cable network tester: http://www. itcninc.com/products/BCIT/Demo/BCIT. htm. BCIT combines a Bus Monitor, Bus Controller & TDR all in the same package. The TDR can shoot any twisted pair or coaxial cable and detect faults to within 6 inches. The ruggedized model has an NSN: 6625015888215. Contracting vehicle: AFRL Phase III SBIR: FA8750-09-D-0167.

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3299 SW 9th Ave. Ft Lauderdale, FL 33315-3026 Phone: +1-954-463-3451 Fax: +1-954-761-3172 www.daytongranger.com AOC contact: Mr. William Senneff, [email protected]

construction based on mature technologies and proven designs, and by working with standard modules and manufacturing processes, dB Control produces products that cost less, are easy to maintain and are available in production quantities. dB Control’s excellent reputation for encapsulation and high-voltage winding, and its ability to assemble high-voltage circuitry, is known throughout the industry.

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DRS TACTICAL SYSTEMS

1110 W Hibiscus Blvd Melbourne, FL 32901-2704 Phone: +1-321-768-7977 Fax: +1-321-768-7907 AOC contact: Carrie Robinson, [email protected]

DSCI

Eatontown, NJ Phone: 866-DSCI-USA www.dsci.com

D-TA SYSTEMS, INC.

2500 Lancaster Rd Ottawa, ON K1B 4S5 CANADA Phone: +1-877-382-3222 www.d-ta.com AOC contact: Roger Serpico, [email protected] D-TA Systems Inc. serves the ISR market. D-TA’s reconfigurable system-level COTS products cut deployment time and cost for demanding EW, Radar, Sonar and Test & Measurement applications. D-TA has pioneered 10 Gigabit sensor processing that makes the “sensor-to-network” concept come to fruition. For the SIGINT, COMINT & ELINT markets, D-TA’s RFvision series scanning receiver products provide very wide spectrum coverage, signal activity detection, and real-time recording and playback of ultra-wide bandwidth signals.

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1002 Explorer Blvd. Huntsville, AL 35806 Phone: +1-256- 964-4000 Fax: +1-256-922-9260 www.dynetics.com AOC contact: Kathleen Miller For almost 40 years, Dynetics has been a leader in research, development, test, and engineering for Government agencies and commercial firms in the areas of Intelligence, Systems Research and Development; Hardware and Software Product Development, System Analysis, Engineering, and Integration. Corporate expertise includes Modeling and Simulation; Radar, Ladar, EO/IR, RF/MMW Sensor Systems; Exploitation of Radars, Missiles, C4I, EO/IR/Acoustic Devices, and Launchers; Data Mining; Network Architectures and Security; Data Fusion; and Webenabled Data Management. Dynetics has a professional staff of about 1,300 employees with offices throughout the United States.

E E2V AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE, INC.

765 Sycamore Drive Milpitas, CA 95035 Phone: +1-408-737-0992 Fax: +1-408-736-8708 AOC contact: Skip Hoover, [email protected] e2v aerospace and defense, inc. is a leading U.S. company providing RF power, imaging and semiconductor solutions to the U.S.

aerospace and defense industry and warfighters. Offering a diverse portfolio of products and services, including wideband RF components and sub-systems, high performance imaging sensors and cameras and Semiconductor Lifecycle Management services to secure long-term continuity of supply, e2v aerospace and defense, inc. provides solutions tailored to meet its customer needs for modern ground-based, naval, and airborne equipment and services. Corporate headquarters of e2v aerospace and defense, inc. are located at 765 Sycamore Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035.

ELBIT SYSTEMS EW AND SIGINT – ELISRA LTD.

48 Mivtza Kadesh Street Bene Beraq, 51203 Israel Phone: +972-3-6175522 Fax: +972-3-6175850 www.elisra.com CEO: Itzchak Gat, CEO AOC contact: Mr. Asher Ackerman Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT – Elisra Ltd. is a global EW leader, with integrated solutions tailored to customer requirements and platforms. The company specializes in the development, manufacture, supply and integration of multispectral advanced EW suites, including: RWR, ESM, ELINT, COMINT, LWS and IR- MWS,ECM, C/f Dispensing system, DIRCM and COMJAM. Elisra’s proven performance as a systems integrator is supported by in-house capabilities ranging from microwave components to fully integrated EW and SIGINT suites. The company is the prime contractor for the Israel Air Force, ARMY and Navy EW systems. As a preferred provider of customized solutions to its worldwide customers, Elisra’s EW systems are installed on more than 70 types of aircraft, naval and ground platforms. Recently Elisra has expanded its family of EW and SIGINT systems to offer fully integrated solutions and combat proven systems for the latest-generation aircraft, naval, ground and UAS.

ELECTRO-METRICS CORP.

231 Enterprise Road Johnstown, NY 12095 Phone: +1-518-762-2600 Fax: +1-518-762-2812 www.electro-metrics.com Electro-Metrics is a leading designer, producer and integrator of antennas and equipment for TSCM, COMINT, EW, SIGINT, broadband RF testing and other communications applications. ElectroMetrics’ antennas cover the frequency range from 100 KHz to 40 GHz. The company’s products are used for detection and measurement of electromagnetic signals across all frequencies, and are most used for wireless voice and data communications. Electro-Metrics’ antennas and electromagnetic sensors have been selected by numerous agencies in the US government as the standards for use in communications

security application. The high-performance antennas and antenna kits have been designed in cooperation with the foremost experts in the communications security field to provide maximum performance with high portability and durability.

ELEKTROBIT WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LTD.

Tutkijantie 8 Oulu, FI-90590 FINLAND Phone: +358403442000 Fax: +3588343032 www.elektrobit.com AOC Contact: Mr. Timo Poranen, [email protected] Elektrobit (EB) is a developer of cuttingedge embedded technology solutions for the wireless and automotive industries. EB’s defense solutions enable end customers, system integrators, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and technology vendors to expand their product portfolios and gain access to next-generation products and product platforms that truly push traditional industry boundaries. EB’s defense product portfolio includes products and product platforms such as EB Tactical Wireless IP Network and EB Tough VoIP product family for Tactical Communications, EB Wideband COMINT Sensor for Signals Intelligence and EB Counter RCIED Platform for Electronic Warfare.

EMPOWER RF SYSTEMS

316 W Florence Ave Inglewood, CA 90301-1104 Phone: +1-310-412-8100 Fax: +1-310-412-9232 www.empowerrf.com AOC contact: Mr. Jon Jacocks, [email protected] Empower RF Systems is a global leader in power amplifier solutions. Our broadband, high efficiency, high power modules and amplifier systems are key building blocks in mission critical platforms that not only protect the modern warfighter, but also enable rapid communications, surveillance and counter measure deployments. Our customer base includes market leading OEMs and government agencies with an array of demanding performance requirements. Empower RF amplifier designs incorporate state-of-the-art GaN, LDMOS, and other power semiconductor device technologies. Our extensive library of product designs range from basic-function PA modules to complete, multifunction PA assemblies with embedded software and controllers.

ESL DEFENCE LIMITED

A subsidiary of AAI Corporation — an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company 16 Compass Point, Ensign Way Hamble, Southampton Hampshire, UK SO31 4RA Phone: +44 (0) 23 8045 5110 Fax: +44 (0) 23 8074 4200 www.esldefence.co.uk

AOC contact: Miss Jo Grout, Sales Office Manager ESL is a leading provider of test and training products for defensive aid suites and self-protection systems. The company has specialist expertise in electronic warfare (EW) systems, including electrooptic (EO), infrared (IR), and radio frequency (RF) technology. The company specializes in innovative system design, manufacturing, and product support of EO/IR and RF stimulators, flight line test sets (FLTS) and laboratory test benches for military applications. ESL aims to deliver confidence to flight crews and aircraft maintenance support organizations through a combined array of advanced, combat-proven EW test and training products and technologies. As such, we manufacture a wide range of products for testing ultraviolet (UV) and IR missile, laser and radar threat warners; IR jammers; and directed IR countermeasures (DIRCM).

CEO: John E. Parsons, CEO AOC contact: Dr. Robert S. Andrews, [email protected] EW Simulation Technology Limited (EWsT) is a UK Company (owned by Herley Industries Inc.), specializing in the design and manufacture of multi-spectral Radar Threat and Electronic Countermeasures Simulation Equipment for EW training and test & evaluation applications. EWST’s products include the RSS8000 Radar Threat Simulator, Chameleon-II ECM/RTG simulator, PTS-8000 portable multi-spectral test set and the MERTS mobile high-power test and evaluation system. The Company has been established in the radar threat and ECM simulator business since 1984 and has a well-proven and distinguished track record worldwide. The success of EWsT has been through the supply of high quality products together with a total commitment to post sales service and logistic support.

Dave Beck, Senior Engineer, [email protected] Who We Are: EWTSLLC was formed as a subsidiary of Flight Support Incorporated to fill the void in economical Electronic Warfare training, currently experienced by all branches of the U.S. military and government agencies. What We Do: We provide onsite training, with state of the art equipment, providing a real world training environment that is tailored for the unique requirements of each customer. “Land, Sea and Air” How We Do It: Using coherent (DRFM) and non-coherent (Noise) technique generators, we present “LIVE EA”, which challenges operators, maintenance personnel, as well as planners, to operate within an RF contested environment.

ESROE LIMITED

EW SOLUTIONS

540 Highland St. Frederick, MD 21701-5721 AOC contact: Peter Borgel

First Floor Offices 6a High Street Fareham, Hampshire PO16 7AN United Kingdom Phone: +44 1329237285 www.esroe.com AOC contact: Mr. Jonathan Roe, [email protected]

ESTERLINE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIES

EW SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY LTD B9 Armstrong Hall Southwood Business Park Farnborough, Hants UK GU14 ONR Phone: +44 1252 512951 Fax: +44 1252 512428 www.ewst.co.uk

EWTSLLC

Electronic Warfare Training Support LLC 120 Newsome Dr., STE J Yorktown, VA 23692-5011 Phone: 757-877-6730 Fax: 855-432-0759 www.EWTSLLC.com AOC Contacts: Bob Shaw, President, [email protected] D. G. Hicks, Senior Engineer, [email protected]

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FEI-ELCOM TECH INC.

11 Volvo Drive Rockleigh, NJ 07647 Phone: +1-201-767-8030, ext. 286 www.elcom-tech.com CEO: Jim Davis Elcom Technologies Inc. is a privately held US Technology Company that designs and manufactures broadband instruments and modules for RF and microwave applications. Primary markets served include aerospace/ defense, SIGINT, SATCOM and commercial communications. Elcom specializes in low-phase noise RF/ MW design and manufacturing. Products range from compact synthesizers used in UAV applications to integrated instruments and subsystems utilizing RF DSP technology in applications including radar simulation, EW test, COMINT, ELINT, TELINT and SATCOM. Products include broadband fastswitching synthesizers, tuners, converters and receivers with 1U or VME form factors. Frequency ranges up to 40 GHz are available and custom designs up to 60 GHz are within the company’s capabilities.

G GIGA-TRONICS INCORPORATED

4650 Norris Canyon Road San Ramon, CA 94583 Phone: +1-925-328-4650 Fax: +1-925-328-4700 www.gigatronics.com [email protected] Founded in 1980, Giga-tronics Incorporated (Nasdaq “GIGA”), an ISO 9001 and AS 9100 certified company, headquartered in San Ramon, California, is a leading engineeringand-design manufacturer of best-in-class RF and microwave signal generators, microwave power amplifiers, USB power sensors, microwave power meters and broadband switching matrices. R&D, production and

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85901 Avenue 53 Coachella, CA 92236 Phone: +1-760-398-0143 Fax: +1-760-398-3896 www.esterline.com AOC contact: Ms. Lisa Montgomery Esterline Defense Technologies (EDT) is the leading developer and manufacturer of infrared (IR), kinematic and spectrally matched decoy flares and radar countermeasure chaff used to protect aircraft from the most advanced heatseeking and radar-guided weapons. We offer a full range of countermeasure products that span helicopter, transport and fast jet platforms in all US, UK, NATO and Former Soviet Union form factors. Our products are developed and manufactured at Armtec Countermeasures in the US, and at Wallop Defence Systems in the UK. Wallop Defence has over 60 years of experience and expertise in military pyrotechnics for use in land-based, maritime and airborne applications for armed forced across the world. Within its three main business areas: Aircraft Countermeasures, Naval Decoy Systems and Pyrotechnics, Wallop provides a comprehensive service of capabilities, resources and experience.

Jubilee House Long Bennington Business Park Long Bennington, Newark Nottinghamshire NG23 5JR United Kingdom Phone: +44 (1636) 550 490 www.solutions-ew.com AOC Contact: Richard Canale, Richard. [email protected] EW Solutions (EWS) has a recognized pedigree in the Electronic Warfare (EW), Electronic Counter Measures (ECM), Counter Terrorism (CT), Counter-IED (C-IED), Battlespace Spectrum Management and Intelligence domains, providing independent consultation, training and support services globally. Our domain knowledge experts work with governments, system users, manufacturers and integrators to identify requirements, define specifications and source reliable equipment solutions and training to meet operational demands. Working on a “defined opportunity” basis, and compliant with UK export requirements, EWS consultants provide fully independent advice and solutions that are optimised to meet current operational needs, but with the agility to quickly realign and deal with future intelligence targets. We have operational, advisory and training experience on a global basis which we use to assist clients in creating a relevant and sustainable operational capability.

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test managers, scientists, engineers and technicians, around the world, use Gigatronics test equipment to realize higher productivity and greater ease of use in many applications: ATE systems, aerospace & defense, communications and general microwave component test. Visit Gigatronics at www.gigatronics.com

GMRE, INC.

1412 Russell Pkwy, Ste 236 Warner Robins, GA 31088-8640 AOC contact: Ms. Deborah Davis

H HP MARKETING & CONSULTING WUST GMBH Grootkoppel 9 23858 Reinfeld GERMANY Phone: +49(0) 45 33 70 110 Fax: +49(0) 45 33 45 95 www.hp-jammer.de [email protected]

HUNTER TECHNOLOGY CORP

1940 Milmont Drive Milpitas, CA 95035-2578 Phone: +1-408-957-1300 Fax: +1-408-957-1301 www.hunter-technology.com AOC contacts: Jason Seifert, CTO, [email protected] Joseph O’Neil, President, [email protected] Hunter Technology is an industry leading source for rugged, integrated microwave assemblies (IMAs), system solutions and manu facturing services for Electronic Warfare, Radar and Signal Intelligence applications. Our product and engineering expertise cover up to 77 GHz and includes broadband RF Receivers, Signal Generators and Synthesizers, Frequency Converters, and high speed Digital RF subsystems. Our unique vertically integrated campus includes a class 10,000 clean room, milspec printed circuit board fabrication and assembly, box build and systems integration gives our engineering team the infrastructure to optimize size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C).

I INFORMATION WARFARE TECHNOLOGIES INC.

P.O. Box 800 Middletown, DE 19709-0800 Phone: +1-302-276-6056 Fax: +1-302-258-0776 www.iw-tech.org AOC contact: Albert B. Evans, [email protected]

INNOVATIONSZENTRUM FÜR TELEKOMMUNIKATIONSTECHNIK GMBH (IZT) Am Weichselgarten 5 91058 Erlangen Germany

Phone: +49 (0)9131-4800-100 Fax: +49 (0)9131-4800-190 www.izt-labs.de General Manager: Rainer Perthold AOC contact: Marisa Schaffer, [email protected] Innovationszentrum fuer Telekommunikationstechnik GmbH (IZT) specializes in the most advanced digital signal processing and field programmable gate array (FPGA) designs in combination with high frequency and microwave technology. Its product portfolio includes equipment for signal generation, receivers for signal monitoring and recording, transmitters for digital broadcast, digital radio systems and channel simulators. IZT offers powerful platforms and customized solutions for high signal bandwidth and real-time signal processing applications. In the context of demanding surveillance technology, IZT provides digital wideband receivers up to 120 MHz bandwidth, suitable for signal monitoring and direction finding. The IZT Signal Suite adds a comprehensive multi-user software platform for data collection, signal analysis and evaluation.

INTEGRATED MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

200 International Drive Mt. Olive, NJ 07828 Phone: +1-908-852-3700 Fax: +1-908-813-0399 www.imt-government.com [email protected] AOC contact: Elena Waldhuber,elena. [email protected]

IRF – INTELLIGENT RF SOLUTIONS, LLC

14600 York Rd., Suite B Sparks, MD 21152 P 443-595-8500 F 443-595-8506 www.irf-solutions.com AOC contact: Alicia Fowler, [email protected] Intelligent RF Solutions (iRF) supports global defense and intelligence missions with custom developed and designed solutions for SIGINT and EW missions. iRF product lines include; broadband search and collection microwave receivers, tunable up/ down converters, and signal distribution equipment. Key technologies include integrating miniaturized MMIC and surface-mount RF electronics with ADC / FPGA technology to provide the customer actionable intelligence. Some of the markets we currently serve are SIGnals INTelligence, wireless communications, and aerospace & defense. Customer focus, agility, and being responsive to the Customer’s needs are the inherit values of iRF. Leveraging the best of our past to build partnerships for the future is our mission.

ISPAS AS

P.O.Box 219 Moss NO-1501 NORWAY Phone: +92252612 AOC contact: Richard Norland

IW MICROWAVE PRODUCTS DIVISION 20 East Franklin Street Danbury, CT 06810 Phone: +1-203-791-1999 Fax: +1-203-748-5217 www.iw-microwave.com [email protected] AOC contact: Daniel Duris, [email protected]

J JT3, LLC

821 Grier Dr Las Vegas, NV 89119-3717 www.jt3.com AOC contact: Raymond E. Sommer JT3, a joint venture of Raytheon and URS, provides engineering and technical support to the U.S. Air Force’s 412th Test Wing at Edwards AFB, the Nevada Test and Training Range at Nellis AFB, and the Utah Test and Training Range at Hill AFB. We also support the Navy’s China Lake Ranges at the Naval Air Weapons Station (China Lake). We develop and maintain realistic integrated test and training environments. We prepare our nation’s war-fighting aircraft, weapons systems, and air crews for today’s missions and tomorrow’s global challenges.

K KRYTAR, INC.

1288 Anvilwood Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Phone: +1-409-734-5999 Fax: +1-409-734-3017 www.krytar.com AOC contact: Mr. Doug Hagan, [email protected] KRYTAR specializes in the design and manufacture of ultra broadband RF, microwave, and millimeter wave components and test equipment covering the DC to 67.0 GHz frequency range. The KRYTAR product line includes directional couplers, 3 dB 90 and 180 degree hybrids, MLDD power dividers, detectors, dualdirectional couplers, directional detectors, terminations, coaxial adapters and a power meter.

L L-3 COMMUNICATIONS, APPLIED SIGNAL & IMAGE TECHNOLOGY

613 Global Way Linthicum Heights, MD 21090 Phone: +1-443-457-1111 Fax: +1-443-457-1112 www.l-3com.com/asit General Manager/Vice President: Bob Biller

AOC contact: Derek Bailey, [email protected] The L-3 ASIT organization has been providing quick-reaction solutions to those protecting national security interests for over twenty years. Our small innovative team consists of highly experienced engineering and manufacturing professionals with extensive backgrounds in designing and building radio frequency electronic solutions. Acquired by L-3 Communications in 2005, ASIT has remained dedicated to providing rapid support in Direction Finding (DF) and geo-location ground and airborne missions with more than 1,600 assets deployed worldwide. Operations are based in our Linthicum Heights, Maryland and Chelmsford, Massachusetts facilities which house a combination of research and development, test and integration, and manufacturing functional areas.

L-3 COMMUNICATIONS CINCINNATI ELECTRONICS

7500 Innovation Way Mason, OH 45040 http://cinele.com/ Phone: +1-513-573-6100 [email protected] [email protected] L-3 Cincinnati Electronics (L-3 CE) is an established pioneer in space exploration, missile electronics, infrared detection, and military technology. L-3 CE is world renowned for its design, development and manufacture of highly-sophisticated electronics equipment for government, civil and commercial applications. In relation to the Space Launch System, L-3 CE’s experience derives from heritage on Space Shuttle, Atlas V and Delta IV, International Space Station, Landers, Rovers, Probes, and Satellites.

L-3 NARDA-MITEQ

Unit 19, Miller Court, Severn Dr. Tewkesbury Glos GL20 8DN United Kingdom Phone: +44(0) 1684 278732 Fax: +44(0) 1684 850406 www.l-3com.com/TRL AOC contact: Mrs. Judith Walton, [email protected] L-3 TRL Technology is an agile UK-based technology company which designs, develops and delivers advanced electronic systems for the protection of people, infrastructure and assets. We operate in the fields of electronic warfare and cyber security, creating scalable solutions by investing in innovation and delivering excellence. Working in partnership with civil and defense organizations, we defend against evolving and emerging threats worldwide to help create a more secure society. As part of the leading US defense supplier L-3, we are resourced to anticipate and support our customers’ evolving needs, staying one step ahead of the threat in a changing environment.

LS TELCOM AS

Im Gewerbegebiet 31-33 D-77839 Lichtenau Germany Phone: +49-7227-9535-600 Fax: +49-7227-9535-605 www.LStelcom.com AOC contact: Georg Schoene Founded in 1992, LS telcom is today a leading supplier of advanced systems for radio spectrum management and highend wireless network analysis, planning and engineering. The company’s specialist expertise is based on almost two decades of global experience supported by massive R&D both in-house and with partners. The company’s product and services portfolio for electronic warfare and homeland security covers complete software systems for spectrum management, software and integration services for Electronic Support and partially for Electronic Countermeasures. This comprises strategic consulting services, training and engineering as well.LS telcom is committed to enabling its military customers to increase efficiency of strategic frequency assignment, scenario analysis and premission planning for RF communications and signalling.

M MACAULAY-BROWN INC.

4021 Executive Drive Dayton, OH 45430 Phone: +1-937-426-3421 Fax: +1-937-426-5364 www.macb.com AOC contact: Tim Lawrence For more than 30 years, MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (MacB) has been solving some of the Nation’s most complex National Security challenges. Defense, Intelligence Community, Homeland Security and Federal

agencies rely on our innovative and proven engineering and technical solutions to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world. Throughout its history, the company has supported the development, testing and evaluation of RF/EO EW systems, IW/ IO SIGINT, MASINT and ISR systems. MacB also provides engineering expertise and technical support in the areas of modeling and simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) system design and operation, foreign equipment exploitation, threat assessment and system effectiveness analysis. With Corporate Headquarters in Dayton, Ohio and National Capital Headquarters in Vienna, VA, our 2,000 employees worldwide are dedicated to developing mission focused and results oriented solutions that make a difference where and when it matters most.

MASS CONSULTANTS LTD.

Enterprise House, Great North Road Little Paxton, St Neots Cambridgeshire, PE19 6BN, UK Phone: +44 1480 222600 Fax: +44 1480 407366 www.mass.co.uk AOC contact: Malcolm Lowes, [email protected] MASS is the UK’s leading provider of independent Electronic Warfare Operational Support services and solutions that deliver critical force protection, platform protection and accelerates operational independence across air, land and maritime domains. Independent from EW equipment manufacturers, we give truly impartial advice with expertise in training, signal collection; analysis and planning; data management; mission data production; countermeasures development and offensive operations. We provide THURBON™, a nextgeneration EW data management system It is a fully integrated suite of tools enabling management, processing and storage of complex platform, sensor and weapon system data and is simple to configure, use and deploy.

MBDA FRANCE

1 avenue REAUMUR LE PLESSIS ROBINSON 92358 France AOC contact: Mr. Patrice Claveau

MC COUNTERMEASURES INC.

260 Hearst Way, Suite 207 Kanata ON K2L 3H1 Canada Phone: +1-613-592-0818 Fax: +1-613-592-2818 President: Ken McRitchie www.mc-cm.com AOC contact: Scott McDonald, [email protected] For more than 15 years, MC Countermeasures Inc. (MCCM) has offered quality products and services designed specifically for EW applications. Our hardware products include: EW Training systems, DRFM-based radar jammers, radar target generators (RTG), radar environment simulators (RES), situation awareness receivers (ESM),

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100 Davids Drive Hauppauge, NY 11788 Phone: +1-631-436-7400 Fax: +1-631-436-7430 www.miteq.com AOC Contact: David Krautheimer L-3 Narda-MITEQ, located in Hauppauge, New York, is a leading designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art RF microwave components and RF SATCOM products and subsystems serving the military and commercial communication markets. Components include integrated and multi-function assemblies, low-noise amplifiers and block converters, mixer products, frequency generation products, IF products, passive components, and fiber-optic transmitters and receivers. Subsystems include synthesized converters, block up/downconverters (single or multiband), 1/3 1 RU high solutions, redundant switchover units, uplink power control units, delay/slope equalizers, amplifier systems, RF fiber-optic links, translators, LNA/LNB plate assemblies and INMARSAT equipment.

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data collection/instrumentation and performance enhancing sub-systems such as radar PRI and RF Agility predictors. MCCM also offers consulting services such as ECM technique development and technology/threat analysis. Predictors enhance the ECM effectiveness of jammers (VCO or DRFM-based) against (PRI and RF) agile-agile radars. A unique aspect of these products is the ability to perform real-time signal de-interleaving allowing jammers and receivers alike to work with multiple emitters simultaneously in dense signal environments. At MCCM we know that technology moves fast – but we move faster.

MDA SYSTEMS LTD

1000 Windmill Rd, Suite 600 Dartmouth, NS B3B 1L7 Canada AOC contact: Mr. Richard Billard

MEDAV GMBH

Graefenberger Str. 32-34 D-91080 Uttenreuth Germany AOC contact: Mr. Klaus Weighardt

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122 Banner Road Stroudsburg, PA 18360-6433 Phone: +1-570-424-8400 Fax: +1-570-424-6031 www.megaphase.com [email protected] President and CEO: William Pote, [email protected] MegaPhase is an ISO 9001:2000-certified, privately held company that designs, manufactures and sells RF/microwave coaxial cable, cable assemblies, connectors and RF components. Located in Stroudsburg, PA, MegaPhase customers include OEMs in instrumentation, broadband networking, wireless communications, semiconductors, advanced microwave and optical electronic systems, space and defense. MegaPhase products include GrooveTube® test cables, semi-rigid and flexible coaxial cables for advanced systems, test adapters and coaxial connectors. MegaPhase’s broadband and high-frequency interconnect technologies include coaxial cables through 67 GHz that have been used reliably to test Sprint-Nextel cell phones, the US Navy’s new AWACS E-2D Hawkeye, Agilent’s new FireFox handheld analyzers and many other high-profile projects.

MERCURY DEFENSE SYSTEMS

10855 Business Center Drive, Building A Cypress, CA 90630 Phone: +1-714-898-8200 www.korelectronics.com President and CEO: Kevin Carnino AOC contact: Rich Beeber, VP Advanced Development Mercury Defense Systems, formerly KOR Electronics, is a recognized authority in the exploitation of the digital RF and information domains. Leveraging its analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog technologies, Mercury delivers innovative solutions to the defense and intelligence

communities. These engineering-based solutions support both tactical and national missions. Mercury Defense serves the ISR, EW and radar markets. Its capabilities include quick-reaction engineering capabilities, unique hardware solutions and mission software analysis services. Mercury’s hardware solutions are enabled by its extremely fast coherent data conversion technology, agile RF, FPGA implementations, high-fidelity frequency synthesis and wide-bandwidth waveform recording/generating technologies. Mercury’s solutions provide software and mission engineering for clients. It specializes in systems design, architecture integration, real-time software development and implementation, mission operations, analysis and data support.

MICRO COMMUNICATIONS

15 Caron St. Merrimack, NH 03054 Phone: +1-603-429-0800 Toll Free: 800-545-0608 Fax: +1-603-429-1633 www.mcibroadcast.com CEO: Paul Smith AOC contact: Walt Shelmet, [email protected] Micro Communications Inc. (MCI) designs, engineers and manufactures RF and microwave components and systems for broadcast, medical, military, industrial and scientific applications. From coax and waveguides to filters and antennas, Micro Communications prides itself on finding unique solutions for your applications. We specialize in first-time development applications with small-tomedium volume production runs. No project is too small. With the best RF tools and personnel, we get the job done right. Our extensive RF and microwave experience allows us to: - Develop innovative, highly-efficient low and high power products up to 20 GHz. - Combine standard and custom components for quality at the best price. - Discern which materials and geometries ensure maximum robustness. - Manage our manufacturing capabilities for precision and timeliness. Founded in 1966, Micro Communications is located in Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA. Our parent company RYMSA, located in Madrid, Spain, expands the Micro Communications product line with its broadcast, defense, space and telecom products. Visit the RYMSA web site at www. rymsa.com

MICRO LAMBDA WIRELESS

46515 Landing Parkway Fremont, CA 94538 Phone: +1-510-770-9221 Fax: +1-510-770-9213 http://microlambdawireless.com [email protected]

MICRO-COAX INC.

206 Jones Blvd. Pottstown, PA 19464

Phone: +1-610-495-0110 Fax: +1-610-495-6656 www.micro-coax.com AOC contact: John Lewis For more than 50 years, MicroCoax has been serving the defense, telecommunications and test/measurement marketplace, earning a reputation for excellent customer service and unmatched quality with its high-performance product line. Throughout its history, the company has never deviated from doing what it does best – manufacturing high-performance RF transmission products. UTiFLEX® flexible cable assemblies are found in high-reliability applications on space, military and airframe systems. Several Micro-Coax UT® semi-rigid cables are found on the MIL-DTL-17 QPL. ARACON® metal-clad fiber is the most recent addition to Micro-Coax’s growing line of RF and transmission-line products. This lightweight, high-strength fiber is an alternative to conventional metal wire and is ideal for military and aerospace applications where weight and reliability are critical.

MIKES MICROWAVE ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INC.

Cankiri Yolu 5. km Akyurt 06750 Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90-312-847-5100 (14 lines) Fax: +90-312-847-5114 (3 lines) www.mikes.com.tr AOC contact: Nurhan Ayaz Ozveren, [email protected] Established in 1987, MiKES is the “electronic warfare specialist of Turkey,” with 100 percent Turkish-owned shares, of which 72 percent belong to ASELSAN. MiKES is a value-oriented engineering and manufacturing house focusing on defense programs, with nearly 300 high-caliber personnel experienced in the design, development, procurement, manufacturing, testing and logistic support of EW equipment and systems in both hardware and software. More than 50 percent of the company workforce consists of engineers from various disciplines. MiKES’ major products include the MiKES Integrated Defense Aid System (MiDAS), an integrated radar warning receiver and RF jammer ECM system; and the Self-Protection Expendables Airborne Dispenser (SPREAD), a countermeasures dispensing system.

MILSO AB

Wennerbergsgatan 10 SE-112 58 Stockholm SWEDEN Phone: +46 8 672 07 81 Fax: +46 8 618 38 50 www.milso.se AOC contact: Kristian Hammar

THE MITRE CORPORATION 202 Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 Phone: +1-781-271-2000 and

7515 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102 Phone: +1-703-983-6000 www.mitre.org President, CEO and Director, National Security Engineering Center: Alfred Grasso AOC contact: Lucinda T. Spaney, Director of Strategy and Plans, +1-781-271-7372 The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. Its specialty is applying systems engineering and advanced technology to critical national problems. MITRE manages federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), partnering with government sponsors to support their crucial operational missions in the areas of aviation system development, federal sector modernization, defense and intelligence, and homeland security. Sponsored by the Department of Defense, the National Security Engineering Center FFRDC focuses on integrated, enterprisewide capabilities that promote information sharing and systems interoperability. An independent research and development program explores new technologies and new uses of technologies to solve complex challenges.

monitoring. Its focus areas are passive EW systems, satellite communications, surveillance systems, EW and mission planning.

MY-KONSULT

Vintergatan 2 SE-17269 Sundbyberg SWEDEN Phone: +0046-703-440350 Fax: +0046-28-83-61 www.mykonsult.com AOC contact: Tommy Kahlin, tommy. [email protected] My-konsult is a Swedish company specializing in the design, development and manufacturing of cost-effective EW support and simulation systems. The company is focusing on the development and production of industrial-standard EW products and includes test and evaluation, airborne, ground and naval applications. Astor III is an example of a COTS product that contains digital-based ECM, ESM and TES functions in one system and utilizes subsystems like DRFM, Predictor, Modeeditor and built-in GPS-Map. My-konsult’s product range is described on its website.

MODERN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC.

N NAGRAVISION S.A.

Route de Geneve 22 Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne CH-1033 SWITZERLAND AOC Contact: Mr. Patrick Antonietti

NEW WORLD SOLUTIONS INC.

2962 NW 60th St. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309-1735 AOC contact: Roslyn Lipshultz O’Hearn

11350 Random Hills Rd, Suite 800 Fairfax, VA 22030-6044 Phone: +1-703-891-9515 CEO: John J. Todd AOC contact: Harry G. Looney, Jr. New World Solutions (NWS) is a servicedisabled, veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) whose team members bring technical, analytical, administrative and special security support across many engineering and operations disciplines. The company was founded in 2002 to provide the US government and industry with highly educated, skilled and experienced engineers and analysts to solve hard problems confronting the United States in the post-September 11, 2001, environment NWS has broad experience in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT) with a focus in RF MASINT, and SIGINT. Our core competencies include systems engineering and integration (SE&I), research and development (R&D) management and intelligence analysis.

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MOUNTAIN RF SENSORS, INC.

Via Porta Pinciana 34 00187, Roma ITALY Phone: +39-06-483505 Fax: +39-06-4819815 AOC contact: Gaetano Moneti This company provides UHF, VHF and HF detection and identification radio

Mile End South, South Australia www.novasystems.com AOC contact: Martin Shadbolt Nova Systems’ mission is to be the preeminent supplier of Independent and Professional complex Electronic Warfare Systems Engineering, T&E and Certification Services for Australia and South East

O OPAL-RT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

1751 Richardson, Suite 2525 Montréal, Québec, Canada H3K 1G6 www.opal-rt.com Phone: 514-935-2323 Fax: 514-935-4994 AOC contact: Darcy La Ronde – [email protected] Founded in 1997, OPAL-RT TECHNOLOGIES is a world leading developer of open, RealTime Digital Simulators and Hardware-Inthe-Loop testing equipment for electrical, electro-mechanical and power electronics systems. OPAL-RT’s simulators are used by engineers and researchers at leading manufacturers, utilities, universities and research centers around the world. The company’s unique technological approach integrates parallel, distributed computing with cost-of-the-shelf technologies. Customers perform Rapid Control Prototyping, System Integration, and Hardware-In-the-Loop testing of electric drives, electronic controllers and power distribution networks in a variety of industries including automotive, aerospace, electric ships, power generation, and industrial manufacturing, etc.

OVERLOOK SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES

1950 Old Gallows Rd, Ste. 400 Vienna, VA 22182-3920 Phone: +1-703-972-4371 Fax: +1-703-356-9029 www.overlooksys.com Overlook Systems Technologies, Inc. is a specialized professional technical services and engineering firm. Overlook provides a wide spectrum of timely, responsive, and cost-effective engineering, professional, technical, and programmatic services to government and commercial clients. In particular, Overlook has extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) technologies, operations and applications, as well as Electronic Warfare, Space and Information Operations and Space Control. We have numerous senior personnel who are

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Poplar Run Office Park 5285 Shawnee Road, Suite 400 Alexandria, VA 22312 Phone: +1-703-564-3800 www.mtsi-va.com AOC contact: Steven A. Sunderlin, [email protected] Modern Technology Solutions, Inc., a fast paced and dynamic “employee-owned and operated” technology firm, provides leading edge technical services supporting unmanned systems engineering, ballistic missile defense, air vehicle survivability and flight test operations. From our co-presidents to our project teas, MTSI employees stay actively engaged in multiple engineering activities and programs. We are respected throughout the aerospace industry and work hard to protect our reputation of providing quality technical and programmatic work by using ethical, honest, and fair business practices. MTSI possesses big-company aerospace engineering capabilities, with smallcompany responsiveness and flexibility. We are only successful if our clients are successful.

Asia. Nova employs more qualified and experienced EW operators and engineers than any other independent Australian professional service provider and is one of the largest suppliers to the ADF in this field. Nova’s diverse specialist workforce includes professional engineers, experienced operators, logisticians and para-professional personnel with Navy, Army and Air Force backgrounds from Australia, UK, US, Canada, New Zealand and Singapore. The EW engineering and design capability is a significant enabler to Nova’s expertise in T&E, when combined with Nova’s subject matter experts in Platform Certification, Safety Engineering and Systems Engineering.

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the leaders in GPS development, operations and policy formulation. We are committed to providing the highest quality service, on time and within budget.

P PARKER AEROSPACE

Parker Hannifin Corporation 2218 North Molter Road Liberty Lake, WA 99019 www.parker.com AOC contact: Dan Kinney, Business Development Manager, Thermal Management Systems, +1-509-232-3435, [email protected] Parker Aerospace is an operating segment of Parker Hannifin Corporation. Parker Aerospace designs, manufactures, and services flight control, hydraulic, fuel and inerting, fluid conveyance, thermal management, and engine systems and components for aerospace, defense, and other high-technology markets. Parker Aerospace’s Thermal Management Systems (TMS) organization specializes in thermal management systems utilizing single-phase and two-phase liquids. Products include liquid-cooled environmentally sealed SprayCool enclosures, liquid flow-through conduction chassis, cold plates, and heat rejection products. The TMS organization works closely with other Parker divisions to provide motors, controllers, pumps, valves, reservoirs, hoses, tubes, disconnects, fittings, and other fluid distribution products to provide customers complete thermal management systems. For more information on Parker Aerospace’s thermal management capabilities, please visit tms. parker.com.

PERALEX

Peralex House, 5 Dreyersdal Road Bergvilet Cape Town, 7945 South Africa Phone: +27217107442 Fax: +28866196260 www.peralex.com AOC contact: Mr. Alex Bassios, [email protected]

PLATH GMBH

Gotenstrasse 18 20097 Hamburg Germany Phone: +49-40-23-73-40 Fax: +49-40-23-73-41-73 www.plath.de AOC contact: Peter Sägenschnitter PLATH GmbH is the specialist in COMINT and EW solutions for ambitious customers in strategic and tactical missions. The portfolio of PLATH GmbH covers the entire intelligence cycle “from sensors to knowledge” including detection, location, analysis, interception, recording, identification of comms and non-comms signals, as well as evaluation and decision support. PLATH GmbH is the headquarters of the PLATH Group, a corporate association of

specialists in the domain of COMINT, EW and Intelligence Collection Management (ICM). The PLATH Group consists of following companies: - PLATH GmbH, - PLATH AG, - PROCITEC, - PLATH EFT, - INNOSYSTEC and - NEXA Technologies

PRAEMITTIAS SYSTEMS, LLC 8354-E Terminal Rd Lorton, VA 22079-1455 Phone: +1-571-290-9166 Fax: +1-703-879-0588 http://praemittias-systems.com AOC contact: Brian Stuckert

Q Q MICROWAVE INC.

1591 Pioneer Way El Cajon, CA 92020 Phone: +1-619-258-7322 Fax: +1-619-444-7939 www.qmicrowave.com [email protected] Q Microwave is a microwave-filter design and manufacturing company specializing in quick-turn engineering support and low-cost production microwave / RF filter products for use by the wireless, military, and space industries. Q Microwave specialties include lumped-element, cavity/ combline and ceramic resonator filter topologies within the frequency range of 20 MHz to 40 GHz.

QORVO

500 W Renner Rd. Richardson, TX 75080 Phone: +1-972-994-3600 www.qorvo.com Qorvo is a leading provider of core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace and defense applications. Qorvo was formed following the merger of RFMD and TriQuint, and has more than 6,000 global employees dedicated to delivering solutions for everything that connects the world. Qorvo has the industry’s broadest portfolio of products and core technologies; world-class ISO 9001, ISO 14001- and ISO/TS 16949-certified manufacturing facilities; and is a DoDaccredited ‘Trusted Source’ (Category 1A) for GaAs, GaN and BAW products and services. More information at www.qorvo.com

QUEUED SOLUTIONS, L.L.C. 5043 Winding Hills Ln Woodstock, GA 30189-2566 AOC contact: Wayne T. Smith

R RADIO FREQUENCY SIMULATION SYSTEMS INC. 2345 North Glassell Street Orange, CA 92865 Phone: +1-714-974-7377

www.rfss-inc.com AOC contact: Richard C. Damon (President), [email protected] Radio Frequency Simulation Systems Inc. (RFSS) is a US based defense electronics company specializing in advanced simulation of radar signals, target returns, electronic counter-measures (ECM), and clutter returns for radar testing and radar jamming. We utilize the highest fidelity Digital RF Memories (DRFMs) in the industry. Our products include: 6U VME and 3U VPX Digital RF Memories (DRFM); Compact (4U to 9U) Laboratory Radar Target Generators; ECM/Radar Target Simulators for Ranges and Anechoic Chambers; Radar Environment Simulators for complete closed loop testing of radar systems; Mark X/XII Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) Simulators; and Small, Ruggedized DRFMs for tactical ECM and training systems. Our approach has been to reduce costs and lead times through extensive use of COTS and open standards, as well as our promise to the customer for the best support of their systems.

RADIXON INC.

4144 N. Central Expy., Ste. 600 Dallas, TX 75204-3131 www.radixon.com Phone: +1 855-RADIXON (855-723-4966) Fax: +1 214-393-9228 AOC contact: Jim Bentley, [email protected] Radixon delivers high performance SIGINT surveillance and direction finding products for LF-SHF targets of interest. As a pioneer in the field of Software-Defined Radio receivers and with our proven track record of performance and support, we provide our customers in the military and intelligence community with intuitive, affordable, easyto-deploy technology.

RAYTHEON CANADA LIMITED

360 Albert Street, Suite 1640 Ottawa, Ontario K1R 7X7 Canada http://www.raytheon.ca/ SupportServicesDivision/ Raytheon Canada Limited Support Services Division (RCL-SSD) is a Canadian leader in the provision of comprehensive, quality support services for high technology systems. Our vision is to be the most admired defense and aerospace support solutions provider, in Canada, through world class tools, people and technology. RCL-SSD operates in eastern and western Canada and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. It is a division of Raytheon Canada Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) a technology leader specializing in defence, Homeland Security and other government markets throughout the world.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES OF SYRACUSE (RAS)

111 Dart Circle Rome, NY 13441 Phone: +1-315-339-4800, x408 (Primary)

Fax: +1-315-339-8870 www.ras.com AOC contact: Brian Moore Research Associates of Syracuse (RAS) is a small business located within the Griffiss Technology Park in Central New York. We have analyzed, developed, and assessed new concepts for Electronic Intelligence (ELINT), Electronic Support (ES), and Specific Emitter Identification and Tracking (SEI/ SET) systems and processing techniques for over 25 years. Founded in 1986, RAS has a proven track record winning and executing DoD SBIRs, and has also contracted with multiple government and commercial organizations. RAS has extensive experience in analyzing Electronic Warfare (EW) performance for airborne, naval, and ground-based systems; researching advanced signal detection, characterization, and processing algorithms; designing and developing systems to accurately measure pulse parameters; implementing automatic modulation recognition on pulse; developing techniques for interference mitigation; detecting and measuring key characteristics of Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) signals; and developing and implementing Specific Emitter Feature (SEF) extraction techniques for use in SEI and SET algorithms.

ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG

ROSCHI ROHDE & SCHWARZ AG Muhiestrasse 7 Ittigen, CH-3063 Switzerland Phone:+(413)192-21522 Fax: +(413)192-18101 AOC contact: Mr. Heinz Lutz, [email protected]

8750 Shirley Ave. Northridge, CA 91324-3409 Phone: +1-818-349-8680 Fax: +1-818-772-7577 www.rpm-psi.com CEO: Kathy Flynn Nikolai AOC contact: Mark H. Mathews, [email protected] Rotating Precision Mechanisms, Inc. (RPM) is a complete design, engineering and manufacturing company specializing in Pedestals (Positioners) and Rotator SubSystems and Controls for EW Systems and Simulators such as; JTE, EWITR, V12/13, DTSO, EWSS, TRSS, AN/ULM-4, ARME, AN/ VPQ-1 TRTG, AN/MSR-T4, AESAJ, RSDME, G-TAMS, Triple Threat Emitter, and many others. We typically mechanically integrate CFE Antennas, Optics and Sensors along with Rotary Joints, Slip Rings, Waveguides, Transmitters, Receivers, etc. RPM supplies customized, Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Non-Developmental Items (NDI) Positioning Sub-Systems in fixed, transportable, mobile and shipboard versions. A woman-owned small business in operation since 1975, we have supplied over 3,000 sub-systems of many different sizes and types. RPM’s team has more than 335 cumulative years of direct engineering experience in Pedestal/Rotator and Controls design and uses modern computer technology for both design and manufacturing functions. RPM works as a major team member directly with major defense prime contractors and the US Government.

S SAT CORPORATION

321 Soquel Way Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Phone: +1-408-220-9127 AOC contact: Sydney Erickson, [email protected]

SAZE TECHNOLOGIES

8630 Fenton St, Ste 420 Silver Spring, MD 20910-3828 AOC contact: Dr. Michael Zatman

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CORP.

2300 Windy Ridge Parkway, Ste. 400 S Atlanta, GA 30339 Phone: +1-770-859-9161 Fax: +1-770-859-9315 www.scires.com AOC contact: Alan Harris 1101 Remount Rd, Ste 500 North Charleston, SC 29406-3547 AOC contact: Mr. Christian Jacques Chekroun Scientific Research Corporation (SRC) is an advanced engineering company that was founded in 1988 to provide innovative solutions to the US government, private industries and international markets. SRC’s business activities are focused on a broad range of information, communications, intelligence, EW, simulation, training

and instrumentation systems. With corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA, and engineering offices located across the US, SRC is dedicated to a full range of engineering, integration, testing, support and research and development activities. SRC laboratories and test facilities reflect state-of-the-art technology and mirror both commercial and defense operational environments. SRC has expert resources and facilities in place to provide complex electronic systems; custom hardware/software product research; design and development; and engineering services that span analysis, design and development through integration, installation and support.

SELEX ES

300 Capability Green Luton, Bedfordshire LU3 1EU United Kingdom www.selex-es.com @SelexES Phone: +44 (0) 1268 883013 AOC contact: John Stevenson, Press Manager UK, [email protected] Selex ES, a Finmeccanica company, is an international leader in electronic and information technologies for defence systems, aerospace, data, infrastructures, land security and protection and sustainable ’smart’ solutions. From the design, development and production of state-of-the-art equipment, software and systems to through life support, Selex ES partners with its customers to deliver the information superiority required to act decisively, complete missions and maintain security and protection for operational effectiveness. Throughout 2014, Selex ES is celebrating 100 Years of Electronic Warfare in support of Air Operations and 150 years of Officine Galileo.

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SELEX GALILEO, INC.

201 12th Street South, Suite 704 Arlington, VA 22202 www.selexgalileo.com Phone: +1-703-418-7280 AOC contact: Clio Timmerman, [email protected] SELEX Galileo Inc., part of the Finmeccanica Group, is a US subsidiary of Selex ES, an international leader in electronic and information technologies for: defence systems, aerospace, data, infrastructures, land security and protection, and sustainable ’smart’ solutions. Leveraging a distinctive strength in airborne mission critical systems for situational awareness, self-protection, and surveillance, SELEX Galileo Inc. brings a wide range of capabilities and services to its customers that enhance mission success. By combining state-of-the-art equipment, integration and technology insertion capabilities, training support services, and logistics support, SELEX Galileo Inc. supplies an inclusive service loop that addresses its customers’ stated requirements.

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P.O. Box 80 14 69 81614 Muenchen Muehldorfstrasse 15 81671 Muenchen Germany Phone: +49-89-4129-15485 Fax: +49-89-4129-65485 www.rohde-schwarz.com AOC contact: Martin Atanassov The Rohde & Schwarz electronics group is a leading supplier of solutions in the following business fields: test and measurement, broadcast and media, secure communications, radiomonitoring and radiolocation for governmental authorities. With Rohde & Schwarz’ radiomonitoring and radiolocation solutions threat scenarios can be assessed early on. The company’s receivers, direction finders, signal analysis solutions, antennas and customized systems are operational in military organisations, homeland and external security. Besides COMINT/CESM equipment Rohde & Schwarz offers a new ELINT solution for radar collection and analysis. The German independent company has an extensive sales and service network in more than 70 countries.

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SEMATRON

Sandpiper House Aviary Court, Wade Road Basingstoke, Hampshire RG24 8GX United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0) 1256 812 222 Fax: +44 (0) 1256 812 666 www.sematron.com [email protected]

SIERRA NEVADA CORPORATION

444 Salomon Circle Sparks, NV 89434 Phone: +1-775-331-0222 www.sncorp.com Chairman of the Board: Ms. Eren Ozmen CEO: Fatih Ozmen AOC contact: John Smith, +1-937-431-2800 SNC is a world-class prime systems integrator and electronic systems provider known for its rapid, innovative and agile technology solutions. Fastgrowing and widely diversified, SNC is a high-tech electronics, engineering, and manufacturing corporation that continues to expand its impressive portfolio of capabilities, products and services. SNC has a 45 year tradition of developing and providing high technology Electronics, Avionics, and Communications systems. Investing heavily over the years in people, processes, modern facilities and stateof-the-art equipment, SNC continues to enhance our technical advantage to provide innovative and cost-effective solutions to our customer’s requirements. With numerous successful and diverse acquisitions, SNC continues to acquire new capabilities as we expand our tradition of excellence into the areas of space, telemedicine, nanotechnology, energy and net-centric operations

SIGNAL HOUND

35707 NE 86th Ave. La Center, WA 98629-3512 Toll Free: (800) 260-8378 www.signalhound.com [email protected] AOC contact: Bruce Devine Signal Hound designs and manufactures compact and lightweight USB-powered RF spectrum analyzers, providing unparalleled value. They achieved this milestone beginning with their first spectrum analyzer (USB-SA44) in 2010. Since then, Signal Hound has regularly added free software upgrades and innovative new models. Signal Hound’s latest product, the BB60C, is a broadband real-time spectrum analyzer and RF recorder that captures RF events as short as 1 µs. With accurate operation from 9 kHz to 6 GHz over its entire temperature range (-40°C to +65°C available), the BB60C is well-suited for capturing intermittent events in addition to performing complex and remote functions.

SOS

1902 Campus Commons Dr., Ste 330 Reston, VA 20191-1563 AOC contact: Craig Fletcher

SOURIAU PA&E

434 Olds Station Rd Wenatchee, WA 98801-5975 Phone: +1-509-667-5480 AOC contact: Rick Kalkowski, [email protected] SOURIAU PA&E is a custom manufacturer of hermetic electronic packages, connectors and EMI filters for harsh environment applications. The company utilizes specialized precision machining techniques, advanced materials science, process engineering and proprietary technologies and processes to produce reliable, high performance products for the most demanding defense applications, including: military satellites, self-guided missiles with infrared seeker systems, advanced electronics for state-of-the-art combat aircraft and sophisticated laser-guidance systems.

SPECTRANETIX, INC.

2066 Walsh Avenue, Suite #B1 Santa Clara, CA 95050-2527 Phone: +1-408-982-9057 Fax: +1-408-982-9380 www.spectranetix.com AOC contact: [email protected] Spectranetix designs and builds sophisticated EW, SIGINT, DF and COMMS Systems. In particular we design tactical, multi-mission high-end Spectrum Warfare Systems and also miniature SWAP Software Defined Transceivers. These systems are mobile, ruggedized, multi-mission EW/ SIGINT/COMMS systems for high speed multiple target scanning, geolocation, collection, threat warning, and jamming all-in-one. Our Miniature SDR Transceivers are ideal for UAV platforms as well as handheld dismounted EW operations, and are designed so customers can load their own demods, waveforms, and special applications on them. For select Customers and Primes, we provide custom EW/SIGINT/ DF sub-system design and advanced R&D services with fast prototyping and proof-ofconcept engineering.

SPECTRUM SIGNAL PROCESSING BY VECIMA

2700 Production Way Ste 300 Burnaby, BC V5A 4X1 CANADA Phone: +1-604-676-6700 Fax: +1-604-421-1764 www.spectrumsignal.com AOC contact: Mr. Greg Frey, [email protected] Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima designs and builds board and systemlevel hardware solutions for demanding signal and video processing applications. Spectrum combines high-performance data acquisition (RF, analog and digital I/O) and reconfigurable signal and video processing hardware with its best-in-class support and engineering services. Spectrum has worked with both commercial and military customers worldwide to develop and deliver solutions optimized for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR),

electronic warfare (EW), video, military (MILCOM) communications and satellite communications (SATCOM) markets.

SR TECHNOLOGIES

4101 SW 47Th Ave Ste 102 Davie, FL 33314-4037 Phone: +1-954-797-1920 Fax: +1-954-587-8566 www.srtgrp.com AOC contact: David H. Flynn, [email protected]

SRC, INC.

7502 Round Pond Road North Syracuse, NY 13212 Phone: +1-315-452-8000 www.srcinc.com AOC contact: Maria Ucchino, [email protected] SRC, Inc. is a not-for-profit research and development company with more than 50 years of experience in defense, environment and intelligence. SRCTec, an SRC company, provides manufacturing and logistics support for complex electronics systems. Together, through innovation in science, technology and information, they are redefining possible®. SRC works with the customer for the best solution – not the bottom line – resulting in nationally significant, next generation products and services. For more information visit www.srcinc.com.

SRCTEC, INC.

5801 East Taft Road North Syracuse, NY 13212 Phone: +1-315-452-8700 Toll Free: +1-866-913-3559 www.srcinc.com President: Drew James AOC contact: Jim Periard In partnership with our not-for-profit parent company, SRC, SRCTec provides design, development, manufacturing, program management, and lifecycle support for highly reliable, complex electronic and electro-mechanical systems. We have particular engineering and manufacturing expertise in radar, electronic warfare, communications, and chemical-biological, and other sensor systems.

SRI INTERNATIONAL

333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025-3453 Phone: +1-650-859-3843 AOC contact: Jon Cory, [email protected]

SUNSHINE AERO INDUSTRIES

3164 Airport Road Crestview, FL 32539 Phone: +1-850-682-6811 www.sunshineaero.com Sunshine Aero Industries (SAI) is a privately-owned small business located at the Bob Sikes Airport in Crestview, FL. Additional facilities are located at Florala, AL. Established in April 1980, SAI is a growing firm dedicated to providing high-tech support for the development of

advanced aircraft and aircraft systems. SAI provides general aviation aircraft and modifications to preform flight test and flight test support for Government and civil customers. SAI is a corporate member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the AOC. The 8,000-foot, hard surface runway and associated facilities at the Bob Sikes Airport can support most private, commercial and military aircraft. From its Crestview base, SAI has supported test operations at every national test range, with extensive experience at the Eglin AFB Test Range.

SYMETRICS INDUSTRIES

1615 W. NASA Blvd. Melbourne, FL 32901 Phone: +1-321-254-1500 www.symetrics.com President: Mitch Garner AOC contact: Rhonda Hester Symetrics Industries, a subsidiary of Extant Components Group, manufactures and supplies complex electronic assemblies to the DOD, DOS and international customers primarily for military applications. Symetrics has an Electronic Warfare (EW) product line highlighted by the AN/ ALE-47(V) Countermeasures Dispenser System (CMDS) that has been successfully integrated with ATK’s AN/AAR-47 Missile Warning System on various aircraft platforms. This EW self-protection suite provides combat aircrews with enhanced survivability against surface-to-air and airto-air missile threats in all environments. Symetrics also manufactures the AN/ ALM-295 Countermeasures Dispenser Test Set, and the AN/USQ-131 Memory Loader Verifier Set (MLVS), utilized for loading EW suite software. They are the US Government’s prime supplier of the AN/ALE47 Countermeasures Dispenser System.

SYSTEMS & PROCESSES ENGINEERING CORP (SPEC)

T TCI INTERNATIONAL, INC. 3541 Gateway Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538-6585 AOC contact: Brad Terres

TECH COMM, INC.

511 SE 32nd Ct Ft Lauderdale, FL 33316-4134 AOC contact: Ms. Lynn Porcelain

TECH RESOURCES, INC.

1 Meadowbrook Dr. Milford, NH 03055-4613 AOC contact: Gary Andrews

TECHNOLOGY SECURITY ASSOCIATES, INC.

22685 Three Notch Rd, Ste E California, MD 20619-3045 AOC contact: Edward Diego

375 Conejo Ridge Ave. Thousand Oaks, CA 91361 Phone: +1-805-267-0100 Fax: +1-866-840-8550 www.tecom-ind.com AOC contact: Vicki Rubio TECOM, part of the Smiths Microwave Business Unit designs and builds antenna systems for the defense, commercial wireless and satellite communications markets. TECOM specializes in in custom designs, modifying standard products to meet special requirements and providing build-to-print capabilities for sophisticated antenna systems. For more than three decades, TECOM has produced complex antennas and antenna systems, developing a comprehensive array of proven products and engineering expertise. TECOM customers around the world benefit from a team of highly skilled engineers who respond to difficult challenges with innovative solutions and years of experience; a broad catalog of systems and components, available either for offthe-shelf delivery or as components of a custom system design; and product designs covering direction-finding, telemetry, communication and EW applications.

TEK MICROSYSTEMS, INC. 300 Apollo Dr Chelmsford, MA 01824-3629 AOC contact: Andrew Reddig

TEKTRONIX COMPONENT SOLUTIONS

2905 SW Hocken Ave Beaverton, OR 97005-2411 http://component-solutions.tek.com/ AOC contact: Eric Hodges With more than 40 years experience providing turnkey services for custom microelectronics, Tektronix Component Solutions enables your next-generation systems by providing quality engineering and manufacturing services for highreliability, high-performance devices. Tektronix Component Solutions is an on-shore, ITAR-registered and accredited Trusted Supplier offering: • ASIC design services • Design, assembly and test services for IC packages and RF/microwave modules • Broadband data converters and engineering services for next-generation EW, radar and ISR systems • Component test and screening services for high-reliability applications

TELEDYNE MICROWAVE SOLUTIONS

11361 Sunrise Park Drive Rancho Cordova, CA 95742 916-636-3344 www.teledynemicrowave.com Teledyne Microwave Solutions is a global leader in the research, development and manufacturing of sophisticated microwave products utilized in EW, Radar, SIGINT and Communication systems for military/ homeland security applications.

TELEPLAN GLOBE

Fornebuveien 31 NO–1324 Lysaker NORWAY Tel.: +47 67 12 70 00 Fax.: +47 67 12 72 70 [email protected] www.teleplanglobe.no AOC contact: Mr. Robert Herber Teleplan Globe is a software engineering company with a long-standing international reputation for delivering operational defence products in combination with military domain knowledge. Our main military focus areas are Command and Control, Electronic Warfare and Intelligence. Specifically, we provide Joint Fire Support Systems, Battlefield Management Systems, Dismounted Soldier Systems and Intelligence Collection Management Tools. In combination, our products are compliant with and support requirements from a strategic to a tactical level. Our business also include Police and Security applications and Radio/Frequency Planning Tools for military and civilian use.

TEMPUS JETS, INC.

2100 Gsp Dr # B Greer, SC 29651-6651 AOC contact: Sheldon Early

TERASYS TECHNOLOGIES LLC

1001 Bishop St Ste 950 Honolulu, HI 96813-3403 Phone: +1-808-469-4251 Fax: +1-808-237-5168 AOC contact: Kevin Miyashiro, [email protected]

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TERMA A/S

Hovmarken 4 DK-8520 Lystrup Denmark Phone: +45-8743-6000 Fax: +45-8743-6001 www.terma.com AOC contact: Anne Mette Soendergaard, Marketing director Terma develops and markets high-tech solutions, systems and products for civilian and military applications. Terma’s headquarters is located in Lystrup near Århus, Denmark. The company is 100 percent Danish-owned. Terma’s high-tech solutions and products are developed and designed for use in extreme mission-critical environments and situations where human lives and valuable material assets are at stake. Terma’s business areas cover aerostructures for aircraft; airborne systems, including self-protection systems for aircraft, audio systems solutions and electronic manufacturing; integrated systems, including self-protection systems for ships and command and control systems for navy, army and air force applications; radar surveillance systems; and solutions, services and products for space applications.

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7050 Burleson Road Austin, TX 78744 Phone: +1-512-479-7732 AOC contact: Gary Zreet, [email protected]

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TEVET

1113 Tusculum Blvd., Suite 108 Greeneville, TN 37745 Toll Free: (866) 886-8527 Phone: +1-678-905-1300 Fax: +1-678-804-1881 www.tevetllc.com [email protected]

TEXTRON SYSTEMS

P.O. Box 126 Cockeysville Hunt Valley, MD 21030-0126 www.textronsystems.com/ Phone: +1-410-666-1400 AOC contact: Michael Paturzo, +1-410-628-3187 Textron Systems is a leader in the development and production of innovative, high-technology products and services for military and government customers in the United States and internationally. Simulation and Training: Textron’s training and simulation systems include embedded shipboard naval crew trainers, air defense trainers, maintenance trainers and electronic combat trainers. Test and EW Systems: Textron has a considerable heritage of developing innovative flight line and depot-level test equipment. The portable Joint Service Electronic Combat Systems Tester, or JSECST, is used on air base flight lines and aircraft carrier decks to ensure the mission readiness of EW systems.

THALES COMPONENTS CORPORATION

40G Commerce Way PO Box 540 Totowa, NJ 07511 Phone: +1-973-812-9000 Fax: +1-973-812-9050 www.thalescomponents-us.com AOC contact: Joseph Emanuele [email protected] Thales is a world leader in the manufacture of TWTs for military telecommunications, including Tri-band, Ka-band and EHF-band. It also produces klystrons, magnetrons and other microwave vacuum electron devices for radar, countermeasures and related applications, as well as X-ray source tubes and detectors for cargo and baggage security inspection. Thales Components Corporation, based in New Jersey, is committed to offering Thales’ high-quality products and services to US customers.

THALES SUISSE SA

Defence & Homeland Security Binzstrasse 18 Zürich CH-8045 SWITZERLAND AOC contact: Andreas Cantoni The Thales Suisse SA is the Swiss subsidiary of the international Thales group. With 200 employees, mostly in Zurich, Thales is your partner for solutions in the areas of security, defence and transportation. Thales employs 65,000 people worldwide and specializes in electronics, technology, systems and complex services, which are mainly developed within the Group. For more information please visit our website: www.thalesgroup.ch.

TIMES MICROWAVE SYSTEMS

358 Hall Ave. P.O. Box 5039 Wallingford, CT 06492 Phone: +1-800-867-2629 Fax: +1-203-949-8423 www.timesmicrowave.com AOC contact: Ted Prema Times Microwave Systems is the leader in coaxial transmission line technology and production. We provide the broadest range of interconnect solutions for military, aerospace, wireless and industrial applications. With unmatched engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we supply products for demanding, highly specialized needs and high volume commercial applications at frequencies from a few KHz to 50 GHz. Standard and custom high performance cable designs with specialized materials for specific environments is where we start. For connectors, Times has introduced many industry innovations, including the pioneering self-locking connector and easyto-use microwave multi-port styles. Beyond these, specialized Times interconnects incorporate filter, equalization and amplifier circuits for the ultimate in system packaging flexibility. Combining unmatched electrical performance with specialized features to support the full range of land, sea, air and space military/defense environments, Times is proud to be the interconnect solution provider for countless critical protection systems around the world.

TINEX AS

Østre Aker vei 203 Oslo Norway Phone: +47 48196666 www.tinex.no CEO: Werner Fuchs AOC contact: Knut Ellingsen [email protected] The system house TINEX is a natural local Scandinavian partner within Defense & Security projects for international suppliers in the following technologies: SIGINT, EW systems, Radars, Other sensors (active and passive), Communications, Security systems and Maintenance. As a Systems Integrator, we at TINEX are combining the know-how to design, develop and implement overall system solutions by integrating across all levels be it platforms, equipment or services or on site. TINEX is registered as a Broker (K-2728) with the U.S. Department of State.

TMD TECHNOLOGIES LTD 338 Bodega Way San Jose, CA 95119 AOC contact: Steve Olson, [email protected]

TMD TECHNOLOGIES LTD Swallowfield Way Hayes Middlesex, UK UB3 1DQ

Phone: +44 (0)20 8573 5555 Fax: +44 (0)20 8569 1839 www.tmd.co.uk AOC contact: James Allibone, [email protected] TMD Technologies Ltd has more than 60 years’ experience in the design and manufacture of RF and microwave equipment for EW, radar and communications for the defense market. TMD provides a wide range of products including power amplifiers & transmitter subsystems, microwave power modules (MPMs), both solid state and TWT-based, as well as microwave tubes and high voltage switched mode power supplies. The company also offers instrumentation amplifiers for EW & radar simulation and high power EMC testing in laboratory environments. TMD has a reputation for product reliability and innovation, particularly in the area of ultralow noise power supply design.

TRAK MICROWAVE CORPORATION

4726 Eisenhower Blvd Tampa, Florida 33634 Phone: +1-813-901-7200 Fax: +1-813-901-7491 www.trak.com [email protected] TRAK, part of the Smiths Microwave Business Unit is a world class supplier of high reliability microwave and RF components and sub-systems for the world’s most demanding applications and environments. With 50 years of experience in defense, space and wireless markets TRAK is a major global supplier to manufacturers of military electronics, satellite, navigation and communication systems around the world. Our product lines consist of Integrated Microwave assemblies, Frequency Source products, Signal Control products, RF and microwave components, Ferrites, and Time and Frequency Systems. TRAK defense products are found in airborne communications equipment, electronic warfare equipment, radar and missile applications. Space applications include components for communication, television broadcast, meteorological, earth resource, and intelligence gathering satellites.

TRANSFORMATIONAL SECURITY, LLC 9101 Guilford Road Columbia, MD 21046 Phone: +1-301-490-0112 Fax: +1-301-490-0118 www.powerfulsecurity.com [email protected]

TRIASYS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

227 Chelmsford Street Chelmsford, MA 01824 Phone: +1-978-244-1060 Fax: +1-978-244-1062 www.triasys.us President: John Apostle, [email protected] TriaSys Technologies Corporation is a provider of innovative signal processing solutions for use in ISR and ES applications.

TriaSys provides individual software products, integrated systems and custom software engineering to support its customers’ requirements. TriaSys product lines include telecommunications signal processing software, signal collection systems, tactical RF monitoring and ES systems, as well as wireless infrastructure systems for use in cellular and WiFi test beds. Headquartered in Massachusetts, along with domestic and international sales representatives, TriaSys works closely with its customers to provide long-term solutions and on-site service and support.

connectivity challenges, working closely with customers through its applications engineering team and providing thorough technical responses to project specifications. TRU’s cable and cable assemblies are qualified on a number of airborne, shipborne and groundbased communications systems; ECM/ EW platforms; and radar and missile applications.

TRIQUINT INC .

12 Douglas Dr Mawson Lakes 5095 SA AUSTRALIA AOC contact: Peter Weir

500 W Renner Rd. Richardson, TX 75080 Phone: +1-972-994-3600 www.triquint.com

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TRU CORPORATION

245 Lynnfield Street Peabody, MA 01960 Phone: +1-800-262-9878 Fax: +1-978-717-2531 www.trucorporation.com CEO: Linda A. Moulton President: Scott O’Neil TRU Corporation has been pioneering custom RF/microwave cable assemblies and interconnect solutions for more than 60 years. TRU Corporation manufactures RF interconnect solutions for complex, demanding applications in mil/aero, semiconductor, test & instrumentation and other similar markets. TRU’s capabilities span high power (kW) to high frequency (50 GHz). TRU Corporation focuses on creative design approaches to solve RF/microwave

ULTRA ELECTRONICS AVALON SYSTEMS

ULTRA ELECTRONICS TCS INC.

88 Hines Road Ottawa, ON K2K 2T8 Canada Phone: +1-613-592-2288 Fax: +1-613-592-8555 www.ultra-tcs.com AOC contact: Carolyn Stitt, [email protected] Ultra Electronics TCS is a recognized industry leader in SIGINT and EW products, producing effective and advanced surveillance and countermeasure systems and suites for airborne, ground and naval applications. Ultra Electronics TCS produces an elite line of Network-Centric Integrated Electronic Warfare Systems for use across all crucial domains from the frontlines of conflict to border and harbor security. Based in Canada, Ultra Electronics TCS has a 25-year history of design, development and manufacture of SIGINT and countermeasure systems. Ultra Electronics TCS has developed a worldwide reputation for supplying vertically integrated advanced EW systems from its full breadth EW technology base. This includes the EAGLE family of integrated Surveillance Receiver and DF systems that has been designed for ELINT and SIGINT applications.

V VALLEY ASSOCIATES

2108 Old Montreal Road Cumberland, ON K4C 1G8 Canada AOC contact: Michael Martin

VIASAT

6155 El Camino Real Carlsbad, CA 92009-1602 Phone: +1-760-476-2200 www.viasat.com AOC contact: Greg Norton, [email protected] For more than 20 years, system designers have relied on ViaSat’s signal modeling expertise to launch better avionics and communications systems. ViaSat’s RF Signal Environment Generation can shake out design problems during developmental testing in a true-to-life environment.

VMR ELECTRONICS LLC

P.O. Box 1830 Binghamton, NY 13902-1830 Phone: +1-607-238-7077 www.vmrelectronics.com AOC contact: Mark Kelly

W W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES 380 Starr Rd Landenberg, PA 19350-9221 Phone: +1-610-268-1000 Fax: +1-610-268-1755 www.gore.com AOC contact: Brian Tallman, [email protected]

X X-COM SYSTEMS

12345-B Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20191 Phone: +1-703-390-1087 www.xcomsystems.com Headquartered near Washington, DC in Reston, Virginia, X-COM Systems designs, manufactures and sells advanced products and solutions to all branches of the Department of Defense (DOD) and to commercial technology companies worldwide. At X-COM, we strive to bring advanced technologies and innovative solutions to our customers in the fields of RF test equipment, deployable signal sources, and military digital communications equipment. Responsiveness, agility and technical excellence are hallmarks of the value we bring to our customers and result in solutions that consistently satisfy unmet needs, expand current functionalities and bring new capabilities to an ever-adapting marketplace.

Z ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS

5, Avenue des Andes - CS90101 91978 COURTABOEUF Cedex FRANCE Zodiac Data Systems is a leading provider in the fields of telecommunications, telemetry and high data rate transmissions for: Integrated solutions for Carrier & Signal Analysis, Monitoring and Geolocation, Tracking Antennas and Baseband Receivers (Cortex HDR) for Earth Observation applications, Deep Space processors (Cortex DS), TT&C modems (Cortex CRT) and Ranging solutions as well as other RF products (SSPAs, Frequency Converters…).

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950 Lawrence Drive Newbury Park, CA 91320 Phone: +1-805-499-1818 www.triquint.com www.capwireless.com AOC Contact: Scott Behan Now part of TriQuint, the former Cap Wireless has provided quality small signal and high power amplifiers and Amplifier based subsystems to the defense electronics and commercial communications markets since 1996. Our underlying strategy is that extensive use of sophisticated EDA tools can enable cost-competitive custom designs with performance characteristics superior to off-the-shelf products. A scalable business model coupled with experienced manufacturing partners enables us to address quantities from one-off to production runs in the tens of thousands on tight schedules, with proven quality and reliability. The Spatium™ spatial combining platform enables us to manufacture the highest power-bandwidth product solid state amplifiers available today. This industry changing technology enables the solid state replacement of travelling wave tube microwave and millimeter wave amplifiers for ground-based, airborne and shipboard operations.

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Signal scenarios are controlled, repeatable and dynamic to help optimize system performance. We have a library of more than 100 signals for realistic environment generation, delivering large-scale systems for platforms such as the F-22 and F-35 and portable signal generators for IFF testing.

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AR Worldwide ......................................... www.arworld.us/covered ...................................13 BAE Systems ........................................... www.baesystems.com/EW......... Outside Back Cover Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation............... www.berkeleynucleonics.com /rf-microwave-signalgenerators.html .................23 Ciao Wireless, Inc. ................................... www.ciaowireless.com.......................................14 Comtech PST Corp. ................................... www.comtechpst.com........................................33 CPI, Inc. ................................................. www.cpii.com/mpp ...........................................19 CTT, Inc. ................................................. www.cttinc.com ...............................................32 D-TA Systems Inc. ................................... www.d-ta.com .............................................. 8, 10 dB Control .............................................. www.dbcontrol.com ..........................................30 DragoonITCN ........................................... www.dragoonitcn.com .......................................18 E2V ....................................................... www.e2v-us.com ...............................................40 EW Simulation Technology LTD ................. www.ewst.co.uk................................................. 3 Freescale Semiconductor .......................... www.freescale.com/RFmilitary .......................... 11 GEW Technologies (PTY) Ltd ..................... www.gew.co.za .................................................20

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Teledyne Microwave Solutions .................. www.teledynemicrowave.com ............................49

Raytheon Company.................................. www.Raytheon.com/spectrum ....Inside Front Cover

Syntonic Microwave................................. www.syntonicmicrowave.com ............................25

TERMA ................................................... www.terma.com ................................................27 Textron Systems...................................... www.textronsystems.com/electronicsystems ....... 7 Times Microwave Systems ........................ www.timesmicrowave.com .................................45 X-Com Systems ........................................ www.xcomsystems.com .....................................24

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Air Force Research Lab, coming BAA for Reconfigurable Electronics for Multifunction Agile RF (REMAR) ............................................. 22 Air Force Research Lab, RFI for High-Powered Electromagnetic (HPEM) weapons ......................................................................... 16 Airbus Space and Defence, partnership with DSTO for AAR-60 HFI upgrade............................................................... 26 Andy Walker, Rockwell Collins .......................................................... 42 AOC Industry Member Guide .............................................................. 60 BAE Systems, ALQ-212 Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures (ATIRCM) .......................................................... 28

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NATO, research task group for anti-ship IR missile decoys ................... 26 Naval Air Warfare Center, RFI for mid-wavelength infrared COTS cameras for TIGER pods ....................................................... 25 Naval Research Lab, RFI for Shiplaunched EW Extended Endurance Decoy (SEWEED).......................................................... 20 Naval Research Lab, Transportable EW Module (TEWM) ........................ 15 Near Junction Thermal Transport (NJTT) program...............................44 Northrop Grumman, AAQ-24(V) Large Aircraft IR Countermeasures (LAIRCM).......................................................... 28

Cobham, ALQ-99 engineering services contract .................................. 25

Northrop Grumman, All Semiconductor Airborne Laser Threat Terminator (ASALTT)................................................................... 29

David Rines, BAE Systems ................................................................. 28

Northrop Grumman, SEWIP Block 3 contract....................................... 15

Daylight Solutions, Solaris laser system for CIRCM .............................. 29 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ......................... 41

Office of Naval Research, Strike Group Defender: The Missile Matrix game simulation ............................................. 23

Directed Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) systems ......................... 28

Orbital ATK, AAR-47 contract ............................................................ 25

Dixie Crow Symposium 40 ................................................................. 58

Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) technology........................................... 29

Dr. Doug Reep, Qorvo ........................................................................ 43

Radar decoys, part 9......................................................................... 50

Dr. Richard Wiley, obituary ............................................................... 58

Raytheon, contract for additional pods for Next Gen Jammer .............. 23

Electronic Warfare Officers (EWOs) .................................................... 12

Robert Afzal, Lockheed Martin Laser and Sensor Systems ................... 32

Electronic Warfare: Receivers and Receiving Systems, book review........... 48

SEWIP Block 3 contract ..................................................................... 15

Egypt, acquisition of Rafale aircraft and FREMM frigate ..................... 26

Steven Bernstein, Raytheon.............................................................. 42

Exelis, acquired by Harris ................................................................ 20

Terma, Royal Netherlands Air Force contract for MASE pod.................. 26

Exelis, Transportable EW Module (TEWM) ........................................... 15

Thales, Egypt order for Rafale aircraft and FREMM frigate ................... 26

Frigatefire, book review.....................................................................48

The Boeing Company, EA-18 AEA kit contract ..................................... 24

Gallium Nitride development ............................................................. 41

Thorlabs, Quantum Cascade Laser technology ..................................... 29

Harris, acquisition of Exelis .............................................................. 20

Timothy Boles, MACOM ..................................................................... 42

HPEM Cyber Electronic Warfare (CEWA) RFI ........................................ 18

US Army Contracting Command, agreement with National Spectrum Consortium ............................................. 25

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Mercury SIGINT analysis program ................................................. 23 James Federica, Exelis ...................................................................... 21 Jeff Palombo, Northrop Grumman ...................................................... 28 John Powell, Freescale Semiconductor ............................................... 46 John Southwick, Naval Research Lab ................................................. 21 Mike Meaney, Northrop Grumman ...................................................... 42 National Spectrum Consortium, agreement with US Army Contracting Command ................................................................. 25 NATO Anti-Ship Missile Defensive Evaluation Facility (NASMDEF) ........ 26

US Army Contracting Command, RFI for Duke V3 reliability, maintainability and improvement kits ......................................... 24 US Army Contracting Command, seeking sources for electronic vehicle stopping technology.................................... 25 US Army Contracting Command, solicitation for development/ tech insertion for ground-based tactical SIGINT ............................ 23 US Army Product Manager for Counter Explosive Hazards, seeking sources for Husky Mounted Detection Systems .............................. 24 US Army, Common IR Countermeasures (CIRCM).................................. 29 Wayne Burger, Freescale Semiconductor ............................................. 42

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