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News The Monitor 15 DARPA Seeks Proposals for UAS Detection World Report 24 Australia Selects Manpack CESM System

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Both the US Army and the US Navy are making important aircraft survivability equipment (ASE) investments for their helicopter fleets via programs like APR-39 modernization, CIRCM, DAIRCM and ATDS. But some lurking questions, such as a strategy for integrated ASE, remain to be solved. Slow but steady progress is the result.

Cover photo courtesy U.S. Army.

53rd Annual AOC International Symposium and Convention Guide 37 Your guide to the key speakers, schedule, sessions and exhibitors coming to this year’s AOC Convention, November 29-December 1, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Conference Report 57 The Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMW) Systems Engineering and Acquisition Conference.

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

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he topic of “multi-domain operations” has been gaining considerable traction over the past year. The Air Force, for example, has been articulating its multi-domain command and control (C2) concept as a way to improve operations across the air, space and cyberspace domains. At last month’s AUSA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, one of the most interesting panels was titled, “Multi-Domain Battle: Ensuring Joint Force Freedom of Action in Future War.” The multi-domain operations concept focuses on enabling fighting forces in one domain, say a ground force, to generate effects in another domain, such attacking ships with land-based fires or targeting aircraft with a Patriot battery. Generating these types of cross-domain effects is certainly not new to warfare, of course. But, what is novel about multi-domain operations is the strong emphasis on smoothing out many of the “operational seams” between the warfighting domains and placing cross-domain effects at the center of how we conceptualize the battlespace. We’ve been evolving our Joint concept since World War II, and pursuing the multi-domain concept is the logical next step in this process. The reason that the multi-domain operations topic has been attracting so much attention recently is mostly due to the recognition of two new operational domains: Cyberspace and the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Commercial technologies are driving the widespread use of electromagnetic (EM)-dependent systems (radars, datalinks, satnav systems, etc.), as well as the growth of battle networks that link these electronic systems across the air, land, sea and space operational domains. Not only do cyberspace and the EMS domain share a lot of synergy between them, they also share tremendous synergies with the air, land, sea and space domains. To reduce this down to a simple example, consider the F-35. Is it a traditional strike aircraft operating in the air domain, or is it a cyberspace system that is a powerful node in an integrated battle network, or is it a multi-spectral EMS system that can sense and communicate across the EM environment and deliver EM effects against targets in other operational domains. The answer, of course, is that it is all three! Now, if we bump this multi-domain concept from the platform level up to the operational level, then it becomes clear that our current perception of operational domains – and the relationships between them – will be a liability in any future conflict against a near-peer competitor. Instead, we must develop a multi-domain operational concept that exploits the many evolving synergies between these domains. The question that we in the EW community should ask ourselves is, how can we continue to grow our thinking to better support multi-domain operations? In some ways, the multi-domain concept is already programmed into our EW brains. The EMS is an inherently Joint domain, after all. But in other ways, such as our community’s cautious embrace of directed energy (talk about something that generates EM effects in other domains!), we have been too slow to appreciate the opportunities that are in front of us. It’s definitely time to expand our thinking. – J. Knowles

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or me, the opportunity to serve as your AOC President over the past year has been personally rewarding in lots of ways. In particular, it has enabled me to meet so many of you at chapter events, symposia, conferences and workshops. This year has been an eye opener for me in terms of witnessing the sheer energy of the United States’ EW partners and allies around the globe. While I had some NATO exposure on analytical committees over the years, and was deeply involved for decades in The Technical Cooperation Program’s “fiveeyes” EW science & technology (S&T) group, I gained a new perspective into our AOC community through attending the 2016 EW events in India; Rotterdam (EW Europe); Kuala Lumpur (EW Asia); Adelaide, Australia; and a South Korean workshop. These experiences truly impressed me in many ways. At each venue, I could perceive many variations in EW approaches and regional influences – for example, issues ranging from global counter-terrorism challenges in Europe, to the Korean Peninsula, to the South China Sea. What was more striking, however, were the common qualities that EW professionals displayed at these events – their vision, sense of purpose and dedicated focus on today’s EW challenges. The speakers and the audience members (through their questions) provided a balanced view of urgent, near-term capability with that of a longer term lexicon, like cognitive, adaptive, networking and cyber. And very visibly, there were significant concentrations of “young Crows” in attendance – a mix of both civilian and military professionals – including a very engaging group of young industry scientists and engineers that I met at a workshop outside Seoul a few weeks ago. What is obvious from these data points is an overriding sense of “jointedness” from the start. It’s certainly no secret that the US enjoys an advantage of resources, but this dichotomy from our partner’s perspective certainly motivates each country to be smarter about investing in and shaping their national EW enterprise. The clarity of their needs and the analytical precision of their EW-requirements knowledge demonstrates that not only do many US allies monitor US EW trends very closely, but they also can efficiently and pragmatically distill those trends and derive a succinct Joint approach appropriate for their needs and region. This “Joint EW enterprise” mindset drives how these governments approach everything, from their industrial base to their investment in S&T, acquisition, procurement and sustainment. In other words, the international EW community is becoming more sophisticated in their EW approach, and the increasing teamwork within their EW “ecosystem” has helped to grow not only the ranks of EW professionals in these countries but also fueled indigenous EW markets in many of them. This suggests how important it is for the AOC to continue to pursue its international strategy in the future: how can the Association help to connect those markets outside the US and enable the US and its allies to become even more effective in their sustainment and growth of EW, SIGINT and cyber capabilities? – Dave Hime

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AIR FORCE PLANS SPECTRUM WARFARE CHALLENGES Emphasizing the “need for Science and Technology (S&T) to enable effective military operations in anti-access/ area-denied (A2/AD), cyber, and contested environments, where advancements in sensing and countermeasures technology are needed to defeat highend weaponry such as integrated air defenses, long-range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, advanced fighters, and weapons of mass destruction (WMD),” the Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate, Spectrum Warfare Division (AFRL/RYW), has released a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) notice of

signal processing to keep costs low and allow for rapid upgrade. “The total expected cost of a notional system providing neighborhood coverage of a 20-km2 area with a single aerial platform and sensor payload should be less than $10,000. This would lead to a networked system of nine nodes providing city-wide coverage of a 180 km2 area at a cost under $90,000.” The design and development of the aerial platform is not part of the program, but proposers are encouraged to base their designs on existing platforms. Three key system requirements are identified: 1) signal-processing algorithms for non-line-of-sight (NLOS) detection, tracking, and classification of small UASs, 2) sensor sub-systems using low size, weight, and power (SWaP); and 3) a networked multiplatform system for autonomously generating and disseminating a COP to ground forces in the coverage area. Proposers are required to provide a preliminary system design, including a functional block diagram of their detection, classification, and tracking components, and are “strongly

contract action (NOCA) for two upcoming Spectrum Warfare Enduring Challenges (SWEC) efforts. The Spectrum Warfare Division is pursuing challenges aimed at research and development (R&D) in the areas of aircrew/aircraft protection and in defeating integrated air defense systems (IADSs). For aircrew/aircraft protection, the goal is described as “enhancing threat understanding, the spectral coverage and sensitivity of warning receivers, and the effectiveness of countermeasures techniques to protect against a range of surface-to-air and air-to-air threats, with a focus on the most advanced, lethal, and emerging threats. Enable assured

encouraged” to consider combinations of multiple sensor modalities, both active and passive, together with associated algorithms. Proposers are also encouraged to provide an example of how their system would perform against a notional 20-UAS attack over a city-wide area of 180 km2 during a continuous 24-hour period. The program is expected to entail three 15-month-long phases conducted over a four-year period. Target metrics for phase 1 of the program include: NLOS detection and classification at a greater than 20 km2 coverage area, over 10 ft. in height, and less than 30 m/sec speed; time-to-detect, classify and initiate track (once within range) of less than 10 sec; probability-of-detection (Pd) greater than 0.95; and payload SWaP of less than 1 cubic ft., less than 15 lb, and less than 100 W. Multiple awards are anticipated for the program. Proposals are due by November 12, 2016. The solicitation number is DARPA-BAA-16-55. Program officials can be reached via e-mail at [email protected]. – J. Haystead

operations of airborne missions in the presence of agile and complex threat kill chains, electromagnetic disruption of mission systems such as Global Positioning System (GPS) and communications, and on- and off-board cyber threats.” To defeat IADSs, the challenge will be to “enable persistent airborne missions with distributed, networked and adaptive electronic warfare capabilities to deny, disrupt, degrade, and deceive integrated active and passive, airborne and ground-based defensive capabilities, including directed energy threats.” The total funding for the SWEC program is estimated at $23.2 million. Multiple Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) con-

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Noting that in future urban battlegrounds, US forces will be at risk from small unmanned aerial systems (UASs) not currently detectable using conventional approaches, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Strategic Technology Office (STO) has released a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the “Aerial Dragnet” program aimed at providing persistent, wide-area surveillance of small UASs in urban terrain on a city-wide scale. The program is seeking proposals for a “scalable network of sensors on aerial platforms to perform threat-agnostic UAS detection, classification, and tracking by looking over and into complex terrain.” The conceptual approach to Aerial Dragnet calls for networked sensors mounted on tethered and/or long-endurance UASs providing a continuallyupdated common operational picture (COP) of the low-altitude airspace (below 1000 ft.). The BAA states that solutions should use Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) or previously-developed components together with software-defined

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EW COMMUNITY OF INTEREST PLANS 2017 MEETING The Electronic Warfare Community of Interest (EW COI) Senior Steering Group has announced it will hold an Independent Research and Development (IR&D) Technology Interchange Meeting (TIM) the week of April 24-28, 2017, at WrightPatterson AFB, OH. The EW COI is one of 17 COIs that focus on prioritizing and aligning science and technology (S&T) investment throughout the DOD and industry. The EW COI TIM will focus on six areas of interest: Cognitive/Adaptive Capabilities: Effectively outpace adversary decision and technical options.

Distr ibuted/Coordinated/Net-Enabled Systems: Spatially and temporally diverse awareness, action and response. Preemptive/Proactive Effects: Prevent or disrupt the adversary’s ability to engage our forces. Broadband/Multispectral Components and Systems: EO/IR/RF receivers and transmitters with wideband and extended spectral coverage. Modular/Open/Reconfigurable Architectures: Software defined; unrestricted waveforms; standard interfaces. Advanced Electronic Protection Techniques and Technology: Allow unfettered ops in the dense EM spectrum environment. The EW COI invites companies and academic institutions to nominate IR&D projects that meet one or more of these areas of interest. Those who would like to participate in the EW COI TIM should express their interest immediately via email to [email protected]. Nomination of projects must be submitted to the IR&D database by December 15, 2016. – JED Staff

IN BRIEF Lockheed Martin MST (Syracuse, NY) was awarded an initial $148.9 million Navy contract for full-rate production of Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 2 systems for US Navy aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers, as well as other ship. The Block 2 program provides the AN/SLQ-32(V) shipboard EW system with a new antenna, digital receiver and an improved interface to the ship’s combat system. The full-rate contract includes four one-year options for additional system deliveries. During low-rate initial production, the company has received US Navy orders for 38 Block 2 systems, with 22 of these systems having been delivered on schedule so far. In another aspect of the SEWIP Program, the Navy exercised $8.9 million worth of contract options with General Dynamics Mission Systems (Fairfax, VA) for SEWIP Block 1B3 full-rate production. SEWIP Block 1 addresses obsolescence mitigation and special signal intercept.

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The Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for engineering and technical services in support of its Tactical Electronic Warfare Division (TEWD). The scope of work covers eight areas: requirements and performance analysis of concepts and systems; RF engineering; mixed-signal circuit design (analog/digital); digital signal processing (DSP) and software development; mechanical and aeronautical engineering; system/subsystem prototype development; test and evaluation of concepts and systems; and program support. The solicitation number is N00173-15-RJFO2. The contracting point of contact is James Friel, (202) 404-1922, e-mail [email protected].

✪ ✪ ✪ NRL has also issued a solicitation for contractor support related to electronic warfare (EW) and computer modeling and simulation (M&S) applications for the TEWD’s EW Modeling and Simulation Branch and its Electronic Support Measures Branch. Areas of interest in-

clude systems engineering, combat systems analysis, electronic attack (EA) and electronic support (ES) systems performance, EW tactics development, test and evaluation (T&E) and computer modeling and simulation. The scope of this contract covers a broad range of research and development, which is categorized into five task areas: Task Area 1, Systems Engineering for Modeling and Simulation Testbed; Task Area 2, Computer Modeling and Simulation; Task Area 3, Federation Infrastructure; Task Area 4, Systems Engineering for ES Systems; Task Area 5, ES Systems Technical Support. This procurement is being conducted as a “total small business set aside.” The solicitation number is N00173-16-R-JH03. The contracting point of contact is Lauren Levy, e-mail [email protected].

✪ ✪ ✪ Advanced Technology Leaders, Inc. (August, GA) has won a $524,000 contract from US Army Forces Command (Fort Bragg, NC) to provide support services to FORSCOM’s G-39 Cyber Electro-

magnetic Activities (CEMA) Division. The CEMA Division is FORSCOM’s staff lead for cyberspace, electromagnetic activities, information and space operations. It also assists the Deputy Chiefs of Staff (DCS) G-3/5/7 in evaluating policies and directives, and leads a working group that will identify CEMA equities associated with Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leadership and Education, Personnel, Facilities and Policy (DOTMLPF-P).

✪ ✪ ✪ The Air Force Research Lab’s Sensors Directorate has awarded an $888,621 contract to Leidos, Inc. as part of its Passive Radio Frequency Identification Environment (PRIDE) program. The company will help to develop automatic target recognition (ATR) algorithms that enable a non-emitting friendly aircraft to fuse friendly bistatic RF signals with threat data collected by its own ESM sensors. Additional PRIDE contacts are anticiapted.

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UTC Aerospace Systems (Danbury, CT) has won a $1.7 million contract to provide Laser Warning System Fieldof-View Test Sets for the US Army. The company supplies the AN/AVR-2B family of laser warning systems that is widely used across most US Army helicopter types.

✪ ✪ ✪ BAE Systems (Nashua, NH) has won a $249.4 million contract from the US Army to supply AN/AAR-57 Common

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✪ ✪ ✪ Chesapeake Technology International Corp. (California, MD) has won a $12.8 million contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center - Weapons Division (NAWCWD) for Joint Electronic Attack and Compatibility Office (JEACO) Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineering

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✪ ✪ ✪ Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (Lansdale, PA) received a $16.7 million contract for the completion of an engineering change proposal for the AN/ALQ-99 Low Band Consolidation (LBC) in support of the EA-18G aircraft. The company will modify the existing Low Band Transmitter system, including the design, manufacture, integration, and test of the LBC Kit. The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded a $2 million sole source, contract to Northrop Grumman (Linthicum Heights, MD) to study how integration of a “counter-electronic attack (EA) capability” (i.e., Electronic Protect or ECCM) into the Multi-Function Active Sensor (MFAS) radar on the MQ-4 Triton UAS. The company will determine the feasibility of modifications to the MFAS to incorporate the counter-EA capability; determine necessary trades in size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) and/or processor changes that may be required for this modification; define detailed requirements; and conduct a system requirements review (SRR) for counter-EA incorporation.

✪ ✪ ✪ Northrop Grumman Amherst Systems, Inc. (Buffalo, NY) was awarded a $9.8 million contract from the Air Force Test Center (Eglin AFB, FL) for sustaining engineering services support for test facilities, threat simulators / Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulators (CEESIM) and Advanced Multiple Environment Simulators (AMES).

✪ ✪ ✪ The Boeing Company (St. Louis, MO) and Lockheed Martin (Ft. Worth, TX) received contracts in the amounts of $3 million and $2.9 million, respectively, from Air Force Materiel Command for Full Spectrum Sensor Resource Management. The contracts were awarded as part of the Air Force Research Lab’s Research and De-

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✪ ✪ ✪ Naval Air Systems Command (Lakehurst, NJ) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for companies that can supply ALM-288 Countermeasures Test Sets, which is used to test AN/ALE-40, -45 and -47 countermeasures dispensers. The point of contact is Charlie Gill, e-mail [email protected].

Armtec Countermeasures (Coachella, CA), a subsidiary of Esterline Corp., has received a $7.4 million contract option from the US Navy for spectrally tailored Airborne Expendable Infrared Countermeasures to meet a US Special Operations Command Joint Urgent Operational Needs Statement (JUONS). Deliveries will be completed by July 2017. The Air Force Research Lab, Directed Energy Directorate (Kirtland AFB, NM)

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Chemring Countermeasures USA (Toone, TN) has received a $12.8 million contract to manufacture MJU-61A/B infrared decoys for the Navy’s Air Expendable Countermeasures Program.

✪ ✪ ✪ The US Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Amherst Systems (Buffalo, NY) an $11 million contract option for additional quantities of provisional spares for the Joint Threat Emitter. Spares will be delivered through March 2019.

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Instructor: Kyle Davidson

Instructor: Dave Adamy

The goal of this course is to educate the participants in the the field of Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) and Electronic

Recent upgrades to legacy threats and a new generation of threats present significant challenges to Electronic Warfare equipment and tactics. We simply cannot continue doing things the way we have been doing them, with significant success, for decades. This is a practical, hands-on course which covers 2016 threats and the new equipment capabilities and Tactics required to meet the new threat challenges.

Attacks (EA). This includes the complete countermeasures development cycle from analyzing threat systems, to developing jammer techniques, and finally confirming their effectiveness.

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On-Demand Courses Fundamental Principles of Electronic Warfare

An Introduction to RF and Microwave Front Ends

Mr. Dave Adamy

Dr. Warren du Plessis

This is an introductory Electronic Warfare course in eight three hour sessions. It provides insight into the whole electronic warfare field at the systems and operational level. It uses little math beyond algebra, yet the sources of important propagation and jamming equations are made amply clear. New threats and EW techniques are covered at an unclassified level.

August 01, 2016 until August 24, 2016

Advanced Principles of Electronic Warfare Mr. Dave Adamy This Advanced Electronic Warfare course has eight three hour sessions. It is designed for individuals who have completed a fundamental EW course or have significant experience in the field. Legacy and new generation threats and EW techniques are covered at an unclassified level. The course avoids deep mathematical coverage, explaining all concepts in practical, physical terms. Each of the sessions includes lecture and in-class problems. Although each session stands alone, the set of eight provides full coverage of the EW field.

For four weeks in August, Warren du Plessis will instruct participants for three hours on Monday and Wednesday afternoons over eight sessions. The sessions are available for purchase individually or as the whole course at a discounted rate.

Electronic Intelligence - Principles and Practice Kyle Davidson The goal of this course is to educate participants in the principles and practice of Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) for radar and communications systems. At the conclusion of these modules you will have an understanding of the theory behind ELINT and be able to apply it in practical scenarios. This includes estimating radar performance from ELINT, using it to develop countermeasures, and hacking communications channels. This course is composed of six modules designed with a progressive approach to learning the principles and practice of ELINT. As a result it is recommended they be taken in order.

world repor t AUSTRALIA SELECTS MANPACK CESM SYSTEM The Australian Department of Defence (DOD) announced that it has awarded an AUS$18 million contract to Chemring Australia to supply up to 50 Resolve 3 manpack communications electronic support measures (CESM) systems for the country’s ground forces. The Resolve system, which was designed by Cherming Technology Solutions (Romsey, Hampshire, UK), will replace an older DF system used by the Australian Army. The Resolve 3 is a lightweight ESM system that can intercept communications in the 1-MHz to 3-GHz range and provide direction finding (DF) from 2 MHz to 3 GHz

via phase interferometry techniques. It can be operated on the march or quickly set up for “on the halt” signals collection. The system can also be networked with other Resolve systems or with other EW assets to geolocate emitters using angle-of-arrival techniques to display red and blue force positions on a digital map. Up to 50% of the program’s funding will go to Australian-based businesses, according to a statement from Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP. Over the first 18 months of the contract, Chemring Australia (Mulgrave, Victoria) will assemble and

deliver the CESM systems to the Australian Army. The DOD’s Diggerworks organization, a collaboration between the Australian Army, the Defence Science and Technology Group and the Defence Materiel Organization, will design the backpacks that will carry the Resolve 3 systems. Transport and storage cases will be supplied by Trimcast Pty Ltd (Knoxfield, Victoria), a subsidiary of US company Pelican Cases. After delivery of the 50 systems, the contract also covers 10 years of sustainment options estimated at AUS$10 million, which could bring the total program value to AUS$28 million. – J. Knowles

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❍ Orbital ATK (North Ridge, CA) has received a $14.7 million US Government Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract modification to convert AGM-88B High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARMs) to the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles (AARGMs) standard for the Italian Air Force. The company will convert 19 HARMs to the AARGM configuration for use on Italian Air Force Tornado ECR and IDS aircraft. Final deliveries are scheduled for September 2018. ❍ French EW companies Thales and Défense Conseil International (DCI) have extended their collaboration under which they offer EW training to Thales customers. The partnership, which was originally signed in 2015 for airborne EW training, will now include naval training. The companies have also signed a similar partnership agreement for underwater warfare training. ❍ Harris Corp. (Clifton, NJ) has received a $21.9 million FMS contract modification from the US Navy for development and qualification of 12 digital receivers and technique generator shop replaceable assemblies for the ALQ-214(V)4/5 on-board jammer system for the government of Australia. The Royal Australian Air Force’s F-18F Super Hornet uses the ALQ-214(V) as part of its Integrated Defensive Electronics Countermeasures (IDECM) suite. ❍ Northrop Grumman, (Rolling Meadows, IL), has been awarded a $27.9 million FMS contract from the US Air Force for integration and installation of Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) on Germany head of state BG5000 aircraft. Final deliveries are scheduled for December 2019.

❍ The Government of Egypt has requested the purchase of 67 AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Systems (CMWSs) from BAE Systems Electronic Systems (Nashua, NH) for use on the country’s AH-64 Apache, UH-60 Blackhawk and CH-47 Chinook helicopters. The deal, which also includes delivery of AN/ALM-294 countermeasures test sets, training and technical assistance, is valued at $81.4 million. ❍ The Iraqi Government has requested the purchase of two additional Cessna AC-208 Combat Caravan aircraft from Orbital ATK Special Mission Aircraft (Fort Worth, TX) via US Government FMS channels. The aircraft will be fitted out for surveillance and strike missions and will use the AN/ AAQ-35 EO/IR imaging system (MD-15 from L-3 Wescam) as its primary sensor. For self-protection, the aircraft will be fitted with Airbus AAR-60 Missile Launch Detection Systems (MILDSs) and AN/ALE-47 countermeasures dispensers. The Iraq Air Force already operates three AC-208 aircraft and three C-208 models. The AC-208 is capable of firing Hellfire missiles from a pair of wing stations. ❍ Spanish EW company Indra (Madrid, Spain) and Spanish shipyard Navantia (Madrid) have jointly won a €15.7 million (US$18 million) contract from PT PAL shipyard (Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia) to update the combat system and sensors on the Indonesian Navy’s KRI-362 Malahayati corvette. The contract is part of a larger mid-life modernization program for the Navy’s three Fatahillah-Class corvettes. The contract calls for Navantia to upgrade the Malahayati’s combat management system and install Indra’s Rigel EW system and DORMA fire-control system. a

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By John Haystead Both the US Army and the US Navy have made major improvements and upgrades to the aircraft self-protection equipment (ASE) systems protecting their rotary-wing fleets. Both Services recognize, however, that there is still work to be done, particularly in providing for a more fully-integrated system capability addressing multiple threat types, compiling and clearly presenting comprehensive threat information for flight crews and providing assured and effective automated responses to immediate threats.

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The AN/AAR-57(V) Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) is the Army’s standard system for protecting its rotary-wing aircraft from IR-guided missile threats. Built by BAE Systems (Nashua, NH), the UV-sensor-based system incorporates an electronic control unit (ECU) to manage threat warning functions and the automatic dispensing of flare/ chaff countermeasures. In 2014, the Army fielded a new “Gen 3” ECU system processor that provided increased processing power for expansion of the system’s threat data base, as well as the addition of a software-based hostile fire indication (HFI) capability. The CMWS’s initial “Juliet” configuration software capability drop for the Gen 3 ECU processor, which enables the system to serve as a bus controller – correlating and deconflicting threat information from the IR, RF and laser warning capabilities onboard the aircraft and providing for a single threat icon on the display screen – was delivered for the Army’s CH-47F Chinook helicopters in 2015. Since then, says BAE’s CMWS Product Line Director, Mark Altvater, the software has been continuously updated to interface to all of the Army’s other helicopter plat-

forms. “We’re currently at the Juliet-F version, which speaks to the modularity of the design where we can add and interface to different platforms without changing huge amounts of code.” BAE Systems has now developed the “Kilo” full-material-release version of the software that is expected to complete internal qualification and testing by the end of 2017. Says Altvater, “This is a major algorithm update that provides for our full-threat requirement and is expected to be fielded after 2018.” To date, BAE Systems has delivered 1,894 Gen 3 ECUs, and, according to Altvater, the company is on track to deliver an additional 141 units this year. “Having delivered the entire US requirement [covering approximately 1600 aircraft for the Army with the divestiture of the Kiowa fleet], we’re looking at FMS [foreign military sale] sales going forward, look-

ing at between 100-200 FMS systems per year. We’ve currently delivered to roughly 15 countries and expect this to reach 20 countries by the end of next year.” BAE Systems has also been working through the Army’s Communications Electronics Research & Development & Engineering Center (CERDEC) Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, to develop and test an enhanced UV (EUV) sensor for the CMWS system intended to provide significant improvements in sensitivity, dynamic range and missile warning range. Says Mike Sweeney, Technical Director for the company’s Threat Management Solutions Product

Line, “the work showed that you could make improvements in sensitivity by making upgrades to the existing sensor. So, we were able to upgrade the sensor’s sensitivity while maintaining a low false-alarm rate as well meet aircraft interface and size, weight and power (SWAP) considerations. We’re continuing to work with CERDEC on other improvements. For example, CERDEC has released an RFI seeking information on applying lower-TRL technologies that could help solve the threat warning problem, so we’ve looked at that also and have come back with potential solutions that support them as they go forward.” Currently, laser warning for Army rotorcraft is provided by the AVR-2B system built by UTC Aerospace Systems (Danbury, CT). The CMWS Gen 3 accepts data from this system and passes it up to the cockpit. Although Sweeney says the Army has looked at a fullyintegrated laser warning capability for the CMWS, “to date there really hasn’t been a requirement to merge the detectors into one LRU. The Army has their CMWS and their AVR-2s and they work, and so I think the Army is looking to future timeframes for potentially bringing these things together.” The Army has also shown interest in integrating an acoustic sensor into the CMWS to assist in determining hostile intent through tighter definition of miss-distance around an aircraft. Altvater says BAE Systems currently has “some contracts with US customers for acoustic sensors that we’re qualifying as we speak. We completed our FAA qualification earlier this year and are now moving on to our full-mil qualification, which we expect to complete this year. We’ve shown the benefit of the capability and people are interested, but budget concerns are also a factor.”

NAVY CHANGES COURSE The Navy has also been upgrading the missile warning capabilities of its

asingly Lethal Variety of Threats

The AAR-47B(V)2 upgrade configuration of the system provided for improved missile and laser warning, as well as an HFI capability. Terry Thames, Business Development Manager for Orbital ATK - Defense Electronic Systems Division, says “the -47 is basically a sensor of sensors with UV for missile warning and IR for laser warning, all in the same sensor envelope. We’re always looking at introducing new technology into the sensor housing, but it must fall within the same footprint of the existing system.” Many of the Navy and Marine Corps’ existing missile warning systems, including the AAR-47 (particularly on newer platforms), had been planned for replacement with the new AN/AAR59 Joint and Allied Threat Awareness System (JATAS), but that program was cancelled in late 2014 altering those plans. As described by Thames, after the 47B(V)2 configuration was introduced, there were some sustainment modifications to the system that in-

cluded a new variant of the computer processor. The A(V)2 sensor configuration systems (primarily with the Air Force) and B(V)2 configuration (primarily Navy) have both been upgraded with the new processor. The new variants, which comprise all new procurements of the system, are known as the D(V)2 and E(V)2 respectively. Says Thames, “The configurations support both branches and their platforms. As requirements come forward, the Air Force is replacing some of its ‘A’s but it’s not a huge effort. The Navy, however, is replacing a significant number of its B configuration systems.” Although Thames says that the AAR47 as a product was not affected by the JATAS cancellation, it did impact the company’s overall production plans. “We needed to tighten our belt and find a better way to economically manufacture the system.” To accomplish this, the company transitioned AAR-47 production to a different manufacturing facility in Northridge, CA – an existing Orbital ATK production facility for other high-end Navy weapon system programs that had space available to take in the -47 production. CAPT Laura Schuessler, Program Manager of the Navy’s Advanced Tactical Aircraft Protection Systems Program Office (PMA-272) at Naval Air Systems Command, says replacement of the AAR47 with the latest AN/AAR-47 D(V)2 or E(V)2 versions of the system will be platform dependent based upon other installed aircraft survivability equipment, and the aircraft’s mission. “The AAR-47 program recently overcame obsolescence issues in the microprocessor and finalized testing of a new software Operational Flight Program, which improves system performance and enables a countermeasure smart dispense capability. Additionally, the AAR-47 program redesigned and fielded an improved intermediate level depot test set that reduces component level returns to the OEM and life cycle costs. The AAR-47

is positioned to remain in use for many years to come.”

DON LAIRCM In addition to the AN/AAR-47, the Navy also has the AN/AAQ-24(V)25 Department of the Navy Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure (DoN LAIRCM) system and its associated Advanced Threat Warner (ATW) technology in service on its larger platforms. Built by Northrop Grumman (Rolling Meadows, IL), the ATW provides missile warning via a two-color IR sensor, as well as laser warning, HFI and a situational awareness picture to the aircrew. Marine Corps CH-53E “Super Stallion” helicopters were to integrate the AN/AAQ-24B(V)25-configuration of the system, with an initial operational capability (IOC) date originally planned for 2014. Captain Schuessler says the integration and the subsequent Integrated Testing (IT) and Follow-On Test and Evaluation (FOT&E) required to field the DoN LAIRCM ATW configuration on the CH-53E completed in FY2015, but the assets intended for the CH-53E (as well as the KC-130J) were redirected to support higher-priority Joint Urgent Operational Need Statement (JUONS) efforts for USMC, USA, USAF and USSOCOM rotorcraft platforms. “The DoN LAIRCM ATW configuration began fielding in 2016 in support of the JUONS, and this will continue through FY2018. Sufficient assets will be in place for CH-53E and KC-130J to commence ATW upgrades beginning in 4Q2017.” Operational testing of the nextgeneration CH-53K platform (with AN/ AAQ-24) is scheduled for FY2018 with a CH-53K program IOC now planned for 2019. Captain Schuessler says the CH53K baseline configuration of the AAQ24 uses the current two-color IR sensors and 2103 processor, but is planned to begin integration of the DoN LAIRCM System Processor Replacement (LSPR). “Non-recurring Engineering began in 2016 to integrate ATW software into the

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rotorcraft fleet. The Orbital ATK (Clearwater, FL), UV-sensor-based AN/AAR-47 is one of the principle missile warning systems deployed on Navy platforms. Currently installed on over 3,000 domestic and foreign platforms/aircraft, in addition to providing aircrew warning, the system’s processor cues an onboard flare dispenser (ALE-39, ALE-40, or ALE-47.) In some aircraft, control and indication are integrated into the Northrop Grumman AN/APR-39 radar warning receiver controls and displays.

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LSPR to support the objective configuration for CH-53K, and the LSPR integration will continue into 2017-18. Fielding of the ATW and LSPR configuration is planned in FY2020.” In response to a Universal Urgent Need Statement (UUNS) issued in 2014, DoN LAIRCM ATW systems are also being deployed on the Marine Corps’ MV22 aircraft. Captain Schuessler says the MV-22 Integrated Test will be completed this year with DoN LAIRCM A-kit retrofitting of 24 UUNS aircraft beginning in May and production B-kits provided to support installation throughout 1Q2017. “DoN LAIRCM will be fielded with a GLTA, and the Program Office will continue to evaluate CIRCM feasibility for a GLTA replacement.”

CIRCM/DAIRCM Until the JATAS cancellation in 2014, the expectation was that the Common IR Countermeasures (CIRCM) system would interface with both JATAS for the Navy and with the Army’s CMWS. Northrop Grumman delivered the first CIRCM systems to the Army earlier this year under an Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract awarded in 2015. According to Carl Smith, Northrop Grumman Vice President of Mission Solutions, Land & Avionics C4ISR Division, the system is currently going through a series of rigorous qualification tests to prove system performance across the full range of operational environments. “In parallel with this, we’re making sure

we have the infrastructure in place to support follow-on production. The Army is very committed to this program and plans to field over 1,000 systems for training and deployment on all helicopters and some fixed-wing aircraft.” The Army plans to reach a low-rate initial production decision in the middle of fiscal 2018 and a full-rate production decision in fiscal 2020. Initial operational test and evaluation will be conducted in fiscal 2019. As for the Navy, Smith points out that CIRCM was designed around an open architecture and, “we planned for CIRCM to have multiple, open interfaces so it could easily be integrated with existing and future missile warning systems. It does interface with existing Northrop Grumman missile warners and we can rapidly integrate with any new missile warner the Navy may field to replace JATAS.” Captain Schuessler, says “the Navy requirement for a next-generation MWS integrated with a Directed Infrared Countermeasure (DIRCM) for rotorcraft platforms still exists. The AN/ AAQ-24 DoN LAIRCM is the integrated MWS/DIRCM solution for our large aircraft. The system is already fielded on the CH-53E and P-8, and will soon field on the KC-103J, MV-22 and the CH-53K. DoN LAIRCM has performed well, but there are trade-offs in the areas of size, weight and power, even for our large aircraft, and it exceeds the SWAP allocations on our smaller platforms (e.g., the AH-1Z, UH-1Y and the MH-60R/S).”

Captain Schuessler explained that, in 2015, the PMA-272 office was conducting market research to find a replacement MWS to integrate with the Army-lead Common IRCM (CIRCM) system when a Joint Urgent Operational Need Statement (JUONS) was issued to account for a new threat in a particular area of operations. “The schedule requirement associated with the JUONS did not afford the traditional timelines required to develop, integrate and test a new system. DoN LAIRCM was selected as the solution for integration into the large aircraft in response to the JUONS, but for the smaller aircraft, the Program Office vetted a system that has been developed and funded as a technology maturation tool for both JATAS and CIRCM. That system, the Distributed Aperture IRCM (DAIRCM) system, has been successfully demonstrated on multiple platforms and live-fire events.” DAIRCM was approved by OSD as the solution for small aircraft in response to the JUONS. Relative to CIRCM, Captain Schuessler says the loss of JATAS and the priority demanded by the JUONS has delayed the Navy’s planned participation in the program. “Post JUONS, the Navy will evaluate paths forward for the smaller/lighter rotorcraft, as well as looking at CIRCM as a potential SWaP reduction on the AN/ AAQ-24 system as well. The Navy continues to participate in the CIRCM technical and program reviews, and plans to procure CIRCM test articles in FY17.” In the meantime, Captain Schuessler says the AN/AAR-47 MWS will continue to interface with the ALE-47 Countermeasure Dispensing System (CMDS), as it is not capable of cueing CIRCM. The DoN LAIRCM (AN/AAQ-24) currently employs a Guardian Laser Tracker Assembly (GLTA) as its DIRCM. “CIRCM will be evaluated as a potential replacement of the GLTA to reduce [aircraft] SWaP,” she says.

RF THREAT WARNING The Army and Navy are also introducing an upgraded RF warning system for their helicopters. Most Army, Navy and Marine Corps rotorcraft platforms carry a variant of the Northrop Grumman AN/APR-39 radar warning receiver (RWR). The Army had decided to piggyback and leverage the ongoing AN/APR-

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39D(V)2 Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) all-digital upgrade path that the Navy had been following with Northrop Grumman. Among the potential benefits of the new system are increased integration capabilities such as sensor fusion, specific emitter identification, connection to warfighter information networks, as well as room for growth to accommodate additional functionality, including the possibility of RF countermeasure capabilities. According to Captain Schuessler, the AN/APR-39D(V)2 is now moving through its acquisition efforts for an FY19 IOC. “This is a multi-Service acquisition effort which includes the Departments of Navy and Army, with the Army procuring higher quantities. Currently the program is in developmental testing as both Services use their T&E teams to evaluate performance. The AN/APR39D(V)2 recently completed a successful second round of flight testing on the AH-64. The program office is planning a 2QFY17 production decision to support DoN and Army platform fielding.”

ATDS FOR THE FUTURE In June of this year, the Army released an RFI for a new Advanced Threat Detection System (ATDS) to provide a next-generation missile warning, HFI and laser warning capability for its fleet of both rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft. According to the RFI, the capability has a planned First Unit Equipped (FUE) date of FY2023. Among the system architecture requirements, the RFI calls for an “ability to integrate the proposed solution with the existing ASE suite, as well as into the aircraft. The objective is to integrate ASE (APR-39D(V)2, AVR-2B, ATDS, CIRCM, countermeasures dispensers) and provide a single interface to both legacy and future platforms; provide a coordinated situational picture of the threat to

the commanders and crew; and manage the entire ASE suite.” The RFI also states that the system must “meet a gross B-kit weight of no more than 45 lb (MW and HF only - excludes LW).” Says BAE Systems’ Sweeney, “The RFI basically says, ‘provide us mature technologies (TRL-6) that can be brought to bear on the threat-warning problem and asks what do you have to offer in terms of capabilities within the timeline we’re looking at?’ BAE has responded to the RFI. We’ve spent a lot of focus over the last years really looking at the threat space, and we’re investing significant IR&D funding now and in the future on the capability in order to be able to bring the best technology forward for the rapidly-advancing threat.” Northrop Grumman (Rolling Meadows, IL) is also responding to the RFI, offering what Smith describes as “an innovative ATDS hardware and software solution that represents a USG-validated overmatch for today’s threats and an open system architecture that ensures that it will continue to outpace new threats quickly and affordably.” Orbital ATK’s Terry Thames, says they’re also interested in pursuing the effort and are “looking at it to see if there is an advantage that one of our technologies can bring to bear to support the work.”

NEXT GENERATION IASE The ultimate target of rotorcraft ASE is a fully-integrated, fully-capable single-system solution that can handle all of the multitude of threats, both existing and emerging. But, given the wide mix and ages of platforms, and the existing installed base of equipment addressing multiple threat types, achieving truly integrated ASE (IASE) is an elu-

sive and challenging task. In addition, the demands of continually advancing technology are driving the need for even greater levels of platform-wide system integration, involving not only multiASE sensor integration and suite control, but integration with other aircraft electronics and communication systems. For the Navy, Captain Schuessler says the IASE concept is maturing slowly. “The program office continues to work with resource sponsors and other entities to explore improvements to existing capabilities, as well as the introduction of new technologies, in an effort to present affordable solutions. The affordability of maturing the concepts and the potential solution(s), in the current fiscal environment, has been pacing our progress.” Captain Schuessler says the Navy’s current assessment is that, for legacy platforms, IASE will be an incremental (i.e., evolutionary vs. revolutionary) approach. “For example, with legacy ASE (AAR-47, ALE-47 and APR-39) systems, we could improve detection-andresponse as well as aircrew situational awareness by having these currently federated systems share information. The sharing of the currently available information from these federated systems would result in a more survivable response, better situational awareness and reduce the aircrew workload. These efforts could be introduced through incremental upgrades to existing software and/or through more aggressive introduction of both software and hardware improvements. The bottom line is solutions pursued and capability improvements gained will be determined by what is deemed affordable.” One question that has been posed relative to IASE is where to best locate the system’s processing. For example, as it currently stands, options include the CMWS Gen 3 ECU, the APR-39D(V)2, or the aircraft’s mission computer. Says Captain Schuessler, “We’re in the beginning stages of coordinating with NAVAIR Program Offices, DoD and other services to determine the most advantageous methods and processes to synchronize all efforts regarding IASE. Using the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) standard as a means to

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“We see the Army still formulating the strategy relative to the next-generation IASE requirement. It’s been evolving over the last year or two and collecting input with this RFI to determine what is in the realm of the possible, is part of that process.” Adds Sweeney, “as part of the ATDS, they’ll probably look at integrating different sensors and phenomenology in terms of an IASE capability or not.” For his part, Orbital ATK’s Thames says he still sees different paths within

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the Services of how to best address consolidating the requirement within the ASE market. “In general, they have very consistent thoughts on how they have to address the emerging threats and the technologies that will be needed to do that, but how they take that technology and integrate it into the systems is where they kind of deviate and take multiple paths. For example, in the case of ATDS, the Army’s concept of integration is at a different level than our approach. We integrate into the same sensor housing (MW, laser, HFI) whereas they’re trying to integrate all of their sensors into a centralized configuration onboard the aircraft.” Northrop Grumman’s Smith says that whether or not the Army pursues IASE as part of ATDS remains to be seen, but emphasizes “this is a real opportunity for the Army to make their ASE suite greater than the sum of its parts with no risk and very little additional cost. It’s important to note that no additional systems are needed to make this happen. What is needed is a well-defined requirement that allows both the platform and ASE PMs to collaboratively acquire and manage the system with traceability back through the JCIDS [Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System] process. By doing so, the Army would dramatically increase the value proposition of its material solutions and, more importantly, the level of force protection. Looking forward, we can expect more multispectral threat systems. To counter these advanced threats, we will need to integrate conventional RFCM and IRCM solutions with threat-agnostic self-protection solutions, such as high-energy lasers and active protection systems with guided intercept vehicles.” Captain Schuessler agrees with this last point, “An area of focus for future capabilities is in the realm of unguided, ballistic threats (specifically, Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs)). The Navy is pursuing a Helicopter Active RPG Protection (HARP) capability to fill the gap. Technologies being evaluated would improve our ability to detect, precisely locate and dispense an active countermeasure in response to the threat.”a

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DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS Vice Admiral Charles A. Richard Deputy Commander, USSTRATCOM

Mr. Neil Kacena VP Technology Innovation and Strategic Pursuits, Raytheon Third Off Strategy US Industry Perspective

Professor Steve Roberts Leonardo, Visiting Professor in EW Systems, Cranfield University and the Defence Academy of the UK Third Offset Strategy

Mr. Bryan Clark Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

Brig Gen Edward Sauley USAF Deputy Director of Operations for Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations, and the Mobilization Assistant to the Director of Operations, U.S. Strategic Command Brig Gen Robert Spalding Defense Attaché Designate to China AIRCDRE Gary Martin Australian Air Attache

Dr. William Conley, SES Deputy Director, EW, OUSD(AT&L)/A/Tactical Warfare Systems

Rear Admiral Yuki Sekiguchi Defense Attaché, Embassy of Japan

Brig Gen Roberto Mazzolin Canadian Army, U.S. Cyber Command

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SYMPOSIUM SESSIONS Session 1 – Moving to EMSO Session 2 – Building EMSO: Core Stakeholder Perspectives Session 3 – Technical Session – Electronic Support Measures (ESM) Session 4 – U.S. Service Perspectives on Achieving EMS Capability Superiority

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Session 5 – Technical Session – Electronic Support Session 6 – Current and Future EMSO – a Global Perspective Session 7 – Technical Session – Electronic Attack Session 8 – EMSO from a European Regional Perspective Session 9 – Technical Session – Electronic Protect Session 10 – EW and Electromagnetic Operations NATO and UK Perspectives Session 11 – Technical Session – EW/Cyber Session 12 – International Perspectives on Warfighting Operations in the EMW Session 13 – Technical Session – Spectrum Awareness

SUPPORT STEM WITH A STATIC DISPLAY Help us inspire STEM students, the future innovators, inventors and leaders of this nation, to become Spectrum Warriors and Young Crows! Your company can participate in this inaugural AOC STEM effort by providing a static display. Contact Karlene HemerlyFluck; [email protected] Visit http://www.crows.org/conventions/stem-sponsorship-exhibit-opportunties.html for more information.

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53rd Annual AOC International Symposium and Convention Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations: A Global Perspective

Distinguished Speakers Vice Admiral Charles A. Richard Deputy Commander, USSTRATCOM

Leonardo, Visiting Professor in EW Systems, Cranfield University and the Defence Academy of the UK

Mr. Neil Kacena VP Technology Innovation and Strategic Pursuits, Raytheon

Mr. Bryan Clark Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

Dr. William Conley, SES This year’s 53rd Annual International Symposium and Convention is AOC’s premier event to enhance your personal and professional network, while engaging in discussions regarding Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations with military leaders, policy makers and electronic warfare practitioners from an international perspective. Technical papers will be presented to disseminate research findings and increase awareness of emerging technologies or concepts in the areas of electronic support, electronic attack, electronic protection, spectrum awareness and spectrum deconfliction. Speakers representing the combatant commanders and our international community will address their regional perspectives on Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations providing an overview of their operational environments and addressing capabilities and challenges regarding EMSO policy, doctrine, procurement, training and joint or coalition operations. International regions that will be represented include Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas. There will be three days of focused briefings plus supporting professional development courses offered by outstanding instructors. The exhibit hall will provide additional training opportunities with companies showcasing their reliable, affordable “stateof-the-art” products and diverse services. Discussions will also include the AOC International awareness and advocacy mission and how we will continue to advance the cause of EW/EMSO in the military. We are also bringing back the AOC STEM Program to help inspire the future innovators, inventors and leaders of this nation, to become Spectrum Warriors and Young Crows.

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR Mr. Muddy Watters AOC Regional Director

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Professor Steve Roberts

Deputy Director, EW, OUSD(AT&L)/A/Tactical Warfare Systems

Brig Gen Edward Sauley USAF Deputy Director of Operations for Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations, and the Mobilization Assistant to the Director of Operations, U.S. Strategic Command

Brig Gen Robert Spalding Defense Attaché Designate to China

AIRCDRE Gary Martin Australian Air Attaché

Rear Admiral Yuki Sekiguchi Defense Attaché, Embassy of Japan

Brig Gen Roberto Mazzolin Canadian Army, US Cyber Command

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Schedule of Events

As of October 14. Subject to change. All events will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

AOC Central Open (Badge Pick Up, Registration and AOC Membership Booth) New Symposium Attendee Orientation Welcome Reception sponsored by Raytheon (held in Marriott Marquis Hotel)

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 7:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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12:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

4:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

AOC Central Open Morning Coffee Opening Session and Keynote Speaker Symposium – Joint Session Session 1 – Moving to EMSO Grab and Go Lunch Symposium – Concurrent Sessions Session 2 – Building EMSO: Core Stakeholder Perspectives Session 3 – Technical Session – Electronic Support Measures (ESM) Symposium – Concurrent Sessions Session 4 – U.S. Service Perspectives on Achieving EMS Capability Superiority Session 5 – Technical Session – Electronic Support Exhibit Hall Open Preview the AOC STEM Outreach Program Reception in Exhibit Hall

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

AOC Central Open Morning Coffee Symposium General Session and Keynote Speaker AOC STEM Outreach Program Symposium – Concurrent Sessions Session 6 – Current and Future EMSO – a Global Perspective Session 7 – Technical Session – Electronic Attack Networking Lunch in Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall Open Chapter Presidents Meeting Reception in Exhibit Hall AOC Annual Banquet ($25 ticket for Full Symposium Attendees)

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 7:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. 10:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

AOC Central Open Morning Coffee Symposium – Concurrent Sessions Session 8 – EMSO from a European Regional Perspective Session 9 – Technical Session – Electronic Protect AOC STEM Outreach Program Symposium – Concurrent Sessions Session 10 – EW and Electromagnetic Operations NATO and UK Perspectives Session 11 – Technical Session EW/Cyber Exhibit Hall Open Networking Lunch in the Exhibit Hall Symposium – Concurrent Sessions Session 12 – International Perspectives on Warfighting Operations in the EMW Session 13 – Technical Session - Spectrum Awareness Closing Session and Keynote Speaker

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Pole/Zero Pole/Zero introduces new voltage-tuned filters (VTF) with center frequency ranges extending up to 20 GHz for EW and Radar applications. The VTFs meet extremely fast tuning requirements of under 150 ns with high selectivity, low loss and power handling up to +10 dBm in bandpass and notch configurations. These Rx-oriented filters complement Pole/Zero’s existing high power Tx tunable bandpass and notch offerings for EW environments.

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Symposium Agenda As of October 14. Subject to change.

Tuesday, November 29 General Session 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Vice Admiral Charles A. “Chas” Richard Deputy Commander, USSTRATCOM

Session 1 - Moving to EMSO

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10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations represents a profound shift in operations by imposing deep integration of warfighting and management responsibilities across the EMS. Bringing EMSO to fruition will require institutional shifts in organization, industry, acquisition, and collaboration. The foundational importance of the EMS, reliable access to it, and operational control of it for all modern capability across all other domains is the key focus of this session which will provide U.S., international, and industry perspectives. Brig Gen Edward Sauley, USAF Deputy Director of Operations for Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations, and the Mobilization Assistant to the Director of Operations, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska DoD EMSO Perspective Ms. Susan J Thornton, SES USAF SAF-AQ NATO EMSO Perspective Mr. Rick Yuse Vice President, Raytheon Company, President, Space and Airborne Systems U.S. Industry SAS Perspective Mr. Asif Anwar Strategy Analytics International Industry EMSO Perspective

Session 2 – Building EMSO: Core Stakeholder Perspectives 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations reflects the necessary and inevitable convergence of Electronic Warfare (sense, protect, and attack) with Spectrum Management operations for the purpose of generating reliable and measurable control of the battlespace. As such, EMSO is not being built from the bottom upward as in legacy Electronic Warfare and Spectrum Management efforts, but it is instead begin conceived and constructed from the top down, in a durable and comprehensive enterprise-level approach. The distinguished members of this panel lead organizations and efforts at the core of this evolution. Our speakers will tie together the foundations of this new mission area by defining EMSO; describing current developmental efforts; explaining key operational concepts; outlining enterprise level implications; and discussing joint warfighting requirements.

Symposium Agenda As of October 14. Subject to change.

Col Jeffrey Aldridge USAF, Director, Joint Electronic Warfare Center, USSTRATCOM Joint Operations Mr. Thomas Taylor, GS15 Deputy Director for Policy, Technology and Operations; Spectrum Policy and International Engagement Office of the Secretary of Defense Chief Information Officer

Session 3 – Technical Session – Electronic Support Measures (ESM) 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Precision ESM systems of the future must operate in a dense environment of agile emitters. Speakers will address innovative technologies, concepts of operations and insight into the research and development (R&D) of advanced passive electronic warfare systems to include prototype design, and operational deployment of ESM systems/subsystems. Topics include spectrum mapping, Digital Receiver Design and Implementation, Advanced Digital Signal Processing, Precision Direction Finding (PDF) Techniques, Precision Passive Geolocation Techniques, Miniaturized ES Payloads for Unmanned Platforms, and RF Designs and capabilities at the system level. Mr. Jim Kilgallen COMINT Consulting Signals Identification for SIGINT, EW and Cyber Dr. Haruko Kawahigashi Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan Effect of Jammer Location in Wireless Networks Mr. Darren McCarthy Rohde & Schwarz Evolution of the Modern Receiver in a Crowded Spectrum Environment Mr. Walt Schulte Keysight Technologies Uncertainty in Simulating Angle-of-Arrival for EW Receiver Test

Session 4 – U.S. Service Perspectives on Achieving EMS Capability Superiority 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Continuation of addressing Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations from an International perspective. Speakers representing the combatant commanders and our international community from Europe will address their regional perspectives on Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations providing an overview of their operational environments and addressing capabilities and challenges regarding EMSO to include: how EMSO is defined; how the concept is viewed and approached; policy; doctrine; procurement; training and joint or coalition operations. Capt James Gardner, USN Director, Electronic Warfare, OPNAV N2N6 US Navy EW Perspective Col Jeffrey Church, USA Division Chief, Electronic Warfare, HQ Army G3/5/7 Operations Directorate US Army EW Perspective Col Hans Palaoro, USAF Division Chief, Electronic Warfare Requirements, HQAF A5RE Combined Service EMS Management Perspective LtCol Jeffrey Kawada, USMC Deputy Director, Information Warfare Integration Division, HQ Marine Corps Capability Development Command US Marine Corps EW Perspective

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Session 5 – Technical Session – Electronic Support 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Session five continues to address Electronic Support Measures (ESM). Information will be presented that address innovative technologies, concepts of operations and insight into the research and development (R&D) of advanced passive electronic warfare systems to include prototype design, and operational deployment of ESM systems/subsystems. Topics will include spectrum mapping, Digital Receiver Design and Implementation, Advanced Digital Signal Processing, Precision Direction Finding (PDF) Techniques, Precision Passive Geolocation Techniques, Miniaturized ES Payloads for Unmanned Platforms, and RF Designs and capabilities at the system level. Dr. Alan Rosenwinkel Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories Challenges Related to Application of Machine Learning to Military Problems Mr. Thomas Roeder Rohde & Schwarz New Techniques for Testing RWR Using COTS Radar Signal Generation Mr. Lars Ohliger PLATH GmbH New HF Signal Products in a System Environment Mr. Jason Nelsen Raytheon The Modern Threat Environment Demands Fully Digital Radar Warning Receivers

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Wednesday, November 30

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General Session 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Professor Steve Roberts Leonardo, Visiting Professor in EW Systems, Cranfield University and the Defence Academy of the UK Third Offset Strategy

Mr. Neil Kacena VP Technology Innovation and Strategic Pursuits, Raytheon Third Offset Strategy US Industry Perspective

Session 6 – Current and Future EMSO - a Global Perspective 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations from an International perspective. Speakers representing the combatant commanders and our international community from Asia will address their regional perspectives on Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations providing an overview of their operational environments and addressing capabilities and challenges regarding EMSO to include: how EMSO is defined; how the concept is viewed and approached; policy; doctrine; procurement; training and joint or coalition operations. Brig Gen Robert Spalding Defense Attaché Designate to China PACOM EMSO Perspective

Symposium Agenda As of October 14. Subject to change.

Rear Admiral Yuki Sekiguchi Defense Attaché, Embassy of Japan Japan EMSO Perspective AIRCDRE Gary Martin Australian Air Attaché Australia EMSO Perspective

Colonel Marinus Moerland, RNLAF Deputy Director, NAEW&CF HQ, Netherlands Netherlands EMSO Perspective AIRCDRE Madelein Spit Assistant Commander NATO Joint Air Power Competence Centre (JAPCC) NATO EMSO Perspective

Session 7 – Technical Session – Electronic Attack 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. New generation of advanced radio frequency (RF) jammer technologies, commercial electronics, custom hardware development, novel machine-learning cognitive electronic warfare approaches, and enabling technologies for future EW systems. Topics of interest include improvement in the performance of FPGAs and microprocessors, directed energy capabilities to include lasers and high powered microwave, EA from unmanned air systems (UAS) and expendable decoys. Mr. Gianfranco Baccarelli Elettronica SPA Multispectral On-Board Off-Board Jamming Techniques Coordination: The Future is Now Mr. Andy Hogben Chemring Countermeasures Increasing Maritime Mission Capability with Countermeasures Mr. Paulo Correa Empower RF Systems Multi-Use, Interoperable Power Amplifiers for EW Mr. John O’Hara NSA A History of Radio Frequency Weapons Development and Their Potential Uses Dr. Daniel Kilfoyle and Dr. Matthew Markel Raytheon Cognitive Electronic Warfare: It’s Not Just About Machine Learning Ms. Daniela Pistoia Elettronica SPA Advanced Networking Operation for Solution of Mutual Protection: Performing Difficult Tasks in Critical Environment Colonel Rotem Yaniv Israel MOD Israel EW Challenges and Roadmap

AOC Annual Banquet 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Mr. Bryan Clark Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

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Dr. Jung Pyo Kim & Dr. Kwang III Lee (invited) Agency for Defense Development South Korea EMSO Perspective

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Thursday, December 1 Session 8 – EMSO from a European Regional Perspective 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Continuation of addressing Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations from an International perspective. Speakers representing the combatant commanders and our international community from Europe will address their regional perspectives on Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations providing an overview of their operational environments and addressing capabilities and challenges regarding EMSO to include: how EMSO is defined; how the concept is viewed and approached; policy; doctrine; procurement; training and joint or coalition operations. Mr. Chris Chang USEUCOM Command EWO USEUCOM EMSO Perspective Colonel Petro Kulbida Commander CEW units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ukrainian EMSO Perspective Major General Luca Goretti, ITAF Defense Attaché, Italian Embassy Italian EMSO Perspective Major Erik Bamford and Major Per-William Bertelsen Royal Norwegian Air Force Norway EMSO Perspective

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Session 9 – Technical Session – Electronic Protect

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8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Electronic Protection (EP) involves actions taken to protect personnel, facilities, and equipment from any effects of friendly or enemy use of the electromagnetic spectrum that degrade, neutralize, or destroy friendly combat capability. Session will discuss technology advancements and new concepts for electronic protection. Topics of interest include high power microwave and laser hardening, interference mitigation, surge suppressors, processor hardening, spread spectrum technologies, EMissions CONtrol (EMCON), null steering adaptive antennas and low probability of intercept technology. Ms. Daniella Pistoia Elettronica SPA An Advanced Concept for a SWAP Direct Infrared Countermeasure System Mr. Kevin Gopaul Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Countering the Infrared Guided Surface-to-Air Threat – A South African Perspective Mr. Josef Schroefl Military Strategy Division/MOD Small But Smart – The Austrian Way to Defend Its Cyber-Space Mr. Paul “Heywood” Vavra DRS Training & Control Solutions EW Threat Range Modernization – Why Is It Necessary and What Should It Include?

Session 10 – EW & Electromagnetic Operations (EMO) – NATO and UK Perspective 10:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. NATO recognized the EM environment/domain as an operational manoeuvre space on a par with the other physical environments – Land/Sea/Air/Space back in 2007. Subsequently NATO Nations, like the UK, have been implementing the consequential changes across military lines of development. The Session will examine some of these changes and look at concepts, operations, capability, policy, doctrine and operational support, both nationally and within the Alliance and further-afield.

Symposium Agenda As of October 14. Subject to change.

Wg Cdr John Clifford OBE RAF (Retd), President AOC UK Chapter, UK Dr. Jim Wickes (invited) Senior Principal Survivability, Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory, UK Dr. Robert Pearson Product Line Director – Land, Marine & Technology, Cobham Antenna Systems, UK

Session 11 – Technical Session – EW/Cyber 10:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. The use of electromagnetic energy to attack an adversary’s electronics or access to the electromagnetic spectrum with the intent of destroying an enemy’s ability to use data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures. Session will address the synchronization of Cyber and Electronic Warfare and situational awareness of the cyber and electromagnetic environment (including through systems, networks, signals and electromagnetic spectrum analysis), reliable and resilient cyber and EW systems (including through trustworthy information and communication technology, survivable communications networks, and systems integration), and effective operations (including through computer network defense, and threat detection, warning and electronic countermeasures). BG (P) Patricia A. Frost, USA Director of Cyber, HQDA G-3/5/7 US Army Perspective LtCol Johannes N. Naumann (Ret.) Director, Red Baron Roost Chapter, Germany How to Protect Critical Infrastructure from CYBER DISASTER! Mr. Jordan Scott Boecore Inc. EW in Defensive Cyber Operations Mr. Andrea Pompili Elettronica SPA Vulnerability of High Value Platforms to Cyber Attacks Throughout the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Session 12 – International Perspectives on Warfighting Operations in the EMS 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations from an International perspective. Speakers representing the combatant commanders and our international community from the South and North Americas will address their regional perspectives on Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations providing an overview of their operational environments and addressing capabilities and challenges regarding EMSO to include: how EMSO is defined; how the concept is viewed and approached; policy; doctrine; procurement; training and joint or coalition operations. Brigadier General Roberto Mazzolin Canadian EMSO Perspective CSIR Representative South African EMSO Perspective Mr. Richard (Rich) Birchenall Leonardo, UK

Session 13 – Technical Session – Spectrum Awareness 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Emerging and highly innovative electronic and photonic component technologies for situational awareness and spectrum mapping technologies with high operational impact. Speakers will address spectrum awareness techniques for cognitive radio oriented wireless networks, energy detection, waveform sensing, spectrum common operating picture, spectrum perception and understanding, full spectrum staring and awareness, and spectrum analysis tools and techniques.

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Mr. Dustan Hellwig Chesapeake Technology International Enterprise to the Edge (E2E) Mr. Joseph Evans and Dr. Mark Tracy DARPA and LMCO Advanced RF Situational Awareness, DARPA RadioMap Mr. Alexander Gruchmann PLATH GmbH Knowledge-Driven Intelligence ‘The Intelligence Prism’ Alternate Briefing Mr. Jon Roe ESROE Radar ESM Everywhere – Networking with Miniature Automatic Radar ESM Equipment

Closing Session 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Dr. William Conley, SES Deputy Director, Electronic Warfare, OUSD(AT&L)/A/Tactical Warfare Systems

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Friday, December 2 and Saturday, December 3 Course - Electronic Countermeasures - Theory and Design* 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. The goal of this course is to educate the participants in the field of Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) and Electronic Attacks (EA). This includes the complete countermeasures development cycle from analysing threat systems, to developing jammer techniques, and finally confirming their effectiveness. Kyle Davidson Tactical Technologies Inc.

*Additional registration fee required. Register at crows.org or on-site at AOC Central.

Course – EW Against New Generation Threats – UPDATE COURSE* 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Recent upgrades to legacy threats and a new generation of threats present significant challenges to Electronic Warfare equipment and tactics. We simply cannot continue doing things the way we have been doing them, with significant success, for decades. This is a practical, hands-on course which covers 2016 threats and the new equipment capabilities and Tactics required to meet the new threat challenges. Mr. David Adamy Writer, Journal of Electronic Defense magazine

*Additional registration fee required. Register at crows.org or on-site at AOC Central.

Exhibitor Guide (as of October 3) subject to change

30 Hoglan Ave BLDG 1030 Edwards AFB, CA www.edwards.af.mil/ units/772ndtestsquadron BAF provides a comprehensive EW, antenna and RF T&E infrastructure and capability in the largest anechoic chamber ensuring weapons system survivability and mission effectiveness for the DoD Industry and our allies.

4DSP, LLC – Booth 232 3101 Bee Cave Rd. Suite 350 Austin, TX 78746 www.4DSP.com 4DSP is a leading supplier of state-of-the-art FPGA based digital signal processing technology from I/O to systems, all with a COTS platform approach.

Airbus DS Electronics & Border Security – Booth 509 Woerthstrasse  85 89077 Ulm GERMANY www.airbusdefenceandspace. com Airbus DS Electronics and Border Security offers a broad array of advanced sensor solutions to its customers in the homeland security and defense markets.

Air Force Research Lab – One RY Range – Booth 244 2241 Avionics Circle WDAFB, OH 45433 Anchoic Chamber, RF, Radar Antenna target positioning, multi-static, Bi-static S-Band, L-band, X-Band,

AKON – Booth 231 2135 Ringwood Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 www.akoninc.com 36 years of experience in providing Complex Microwave Integrated Assemblies/ Components. Synthesizer (100 nanoseconds), Tuners (60 dB SFDR), Up/Down Converters, Filters, Switches,

Cognitive Systems Corp. – Booth 342

Digital Attenuators, DLVAs and Amplifiers covering 0.5 to 40 GHz.

Analog Devices, Inc. – Booth 420 3 Technology Way Norwood, MA 02062-9106 www.analog.com From MMICs to Solid State High Power Amplifiers (SSHPAs) Analog Devices offers customers the broadest portfolio of  RF/uW products combined with over 50 years of system level knowledge can deliver complete end-to-end solutions for the next generation of advanced Electronic warfare platforms. No matter your design needs or challenges ADI has the products and in house expertise to make your EW design a reality.

Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. – Booth 531 190 Admiral Cochrane Dr. Suite 130 Annapolis, MD 21401 www.annapmicro.com Annapolis Micro Systems is the leader in FPGA-based superhigh-performance systems utilized for data acquisition, storage, and signal processing applications.

ApisSys – Booth 515 Archamps Technopole, 60 rue Douglas Engelbart, Building ABC1-A 74160 Archamps France www.apissys.com ApisSys is “The Partner” dedicated to deliver best in class, very high speed data conversion and signal processing solutions for Electronic Warfare and Radar applications. The ApisSys’ range of OpenVPX COTS products as well as customs solutions provides customers with leading edge technologies for wideband ESM, DRFM or 3D radar applications

PLATINUM SPONSOR BAE Systems – Booth 201 P.O. Box 868 MER24-1216 Nashua, NH 03061 www.baesystems.com BAE Systems, the third largest defense company in the world, delivers a full range of Electronic Warfare products and services to include 5th Generation Integrated EW Suites, Digital Receiver Technology, Directable Countermeasures, Fiber Optic Towed Devices and Advanced Platform Integrated EW/IO Systems for air, land and naval forces.

BEEcube – Booth 316 39465 Paseo Padre Pkwy Fremont, CA 94538 www.BEEcube.com The next generation of wireless communications technology is being developed on BEEcube platforms.

Chemring Group PLC – Booth 445 121 N. Commerce Drive Chester Township, PA 19014 www.chemring.co.uk Chemring Group represented by Chemring Countermeasures USA (Alloy Surfaces, Kilgore Flares), Chemring Countermeasures and Chemring Technical Solutions-Air/ Naval countermeasures and Electronics Engineering

Cobham – Booth 207 305 Richardson Road Lansdale, PA 19446 www.cobham.com Electronic Warfare

560 Westmount Rd. N. Waterloo, ON N2L0A9 Canada www.cognitivesystems.com EW and ISR - on a single integrated circuit (IC). Go beyond mere spectrum towards cognitive systems for the Third Offset Strategy. Vertically-integrated RF Sensor-Actuator Networks for Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations; High-Performance, UltraLow-SWaP Cognitive Radio on a chip; True softwaredefined waveform processing, demodulation and forward error correction - on chip.

Comtech PST – Booth 208 105 Baylis Road Melville, NY 11747 www.comtechpst.com Custom Designer and Manufacturers of RF & Microwave components and integrated assemblies including solid-state high power broadband RF/MW amplifiers, High Power PIN Diode Microwave Switch Assemblies and RF & Microwave Limiters for Receiver Protection; specializing in all COMJAM & EW RADAR applications.

Covariant Solutions – Booth 538 5724 Industry Ln Frederick, MD. 21704 www.CovariantSolutions.com Covariant Solutions is an engineering centric business dedicated to providing reliable and rugged mixed signal embedded products and solutions for demanding wireless applications.

CPI – Booth 423 811 Hansen Way Palo Alto, CA 94304 www.cpii.com CPI is the world’s leading manufacturer of microwave tubes, generators, power grid devices and components, including TWTs, CCTWTs, klystrons, microwave windows, couplers and filters.

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412TW EWG Benefield Anechoic – Booth 443

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Exhibitor Guide Crane Aerospace & Electronics – Booth 614

Defense Engineering Corporation – Booth 242

Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT – Elisra – Booth 330

16700 13th AVE West Lynnwood, WA 98046 www.craneae.com Power conversions for AESA and RF components + subsystems

4027 Colonel Glenn Hwy Suite 315 Beavercreek, OH 45431 www.defengcorp.com DEC provides high quality engineering and product development services to customers and collaborators in the DoD and industry specializing in advanced sensor and processing technologies for unmanned systems and selfprotection applications

29 , Hamerkava Street Holon, Israel www.elbitsystems.com/elisra Five decades of leading combat proven comprehensive electromagnetic spectrum warfare solutions for air, ground and naval application, providing survivability, situational awareness and targeting to dozens of forces and agencies  in more than 30 countries and 5 continents through thousands of systems deployed on over 70 platform-types world-wide.  

CRFS Ltd – Booth 630 4230 D Lafayette Center Drive Suite D Chantilly, VA 20151 www.CRFS.com RF distributed spectrum intelligence systems for spectrum management, RF geolocation and EW Countermeasures.

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Meiring Naudé Street; Brummeria; Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa 0001 www.csir.co.za [email protected] The CSIR is one of the leading science and technology research, development, evaluation and implementation organisations in Africa. The CSIR’s radar and electronic warfare capability has a long heritage extending back to 1939.

Curtiss-Wright – Booth 131 20130 Lakeview Center Plaza Suite 200 Ashburn, VA 20147 www.curtisswrightds.com Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions is a long established technology leader in the development of rugged electronic modules and embedded systems for defense applications.

dB Control – Booth 522 1120 Auburn Street Fremont, CA 95119 www.dBControl.com Designs and manufactures reliable high-power TWT Amplifiers, MPMs, transmitters and power supplies for EW, radar electronic countermeasure (ECM), communication and instrumentation applications.

Dixie Crow Chapter – AOC – Booth 338 c/o Lisa K. Fruge-Cirilli BAE Systems 1000 Corporate Pointe Warner Robins, GA 31088 www.crows.org/chapters/dixiecrow-home-page The Dixie Crow Chapter of the AOC hosts monthly membership meetings, social events, and publishes a monthly newsletter. It also hosts the annual Dixie Crow EW/IO Symposium

DRS Technologies – Booth 431 100 N. Babcock Street Melbourne, FL 32935 www.drs.com RF Tuners; Test Systems; Antenna Couplers

Empower RF Systems – Booth 621 316 West Florence Ave. Inglewood, CA 90301 www.EmpowerRF.com Empower plays a major role in Force Protection and National Security by providing cutting edge, compact, ultra broadband power amplifiers for counter IED systems, CREW IED jammers and next generation intelligent EW for airborne, shipboard, and land mobile applications.  

Epiq Solutions – Booth 130

8 Inverness Dr., Suite 250 Centennial, CO 80112 www.d-ta.com D-TA Systems Inc. caters to the EW/ISR markets with systemlevel COTS solutions that drastically cut the deployment time, cost & risk.

165 Commerce Drive, Suite 204 Schaumburg, IL 60173 www.epiqsolutions.com EPIQ Solutions designs and builds state of the art, SWaP optimized, reconfigurable radio systems for mission critical applications. We are experts in RF, system design, and 2G/3G/4G cellular systems. We provide turnkey products for: Cellular survey, RF wide-band collection, spectrum monitoring and wireless Cyber security.

DynamicSignals LLC – Booth 637

ETL Systems – Booth 122

D-TA Systems –Booth 631

900 N. State Street Lockport, IL 60441 www.dynamicsignals.com Real-time spectrum analyzer recording systems with frequency range to 27GHz, BW to 500MHZ, 8 to 16-bit A/D resolution, sampling rates to 3GS/s, storage to 76TB.

Coldwell Radio Station Madley, Hereford, HR2 9NE UK www.etlsystems.com Specialising in custom build solutions, ETL Systems design and manufacture RF equipment for the military sector including; RF power amplifiers for frequency jamming applications.

e2v – Booth 636

Evans Capacitor Company – Booth 438

765 Sycamore Drive Milpitas, CA 95035 www.e2v.com e2v aerospace and defense, Inc. (e2v a&d) is a leading provider of RF power, imaging and hi-rel semiconductor solutions to the North American aerospace and defense industry.

72 Boyd Avenue East Providence, Rhode Island 02914 www.evanscap.com Advanced Capacitors for Demanding Applications

- Inventors, Designers and Manufacturers of the most power dense capacitors in the marketplace.

EW Europe – Booth 138 Bedford House, 69-79 Fulham High Street London, England SW6-3JW www.eweurope.com EW Europe provides a unique platform to view the latest equipment and systems from the world’s defence and security industry, as well as presenting an opportunity for visitors to develop international relationships and generating new business opportunities.

FEI-Elcom Tech, Inc. – Booth 432 11 Volvo Drive Rockleigh, NJ 07647 www.fei-elcomtechcom Synthesizers, Tuners, Receivers to 40GHz

G3 Technologies, Inc. – Booth 539 10280 Old Columbia Road Columbia, MD 21046 www.g3ti.net  G3T provides innovative solutions in wireless system engineering, network protocols, signal processing, RF propagation and other advanced technologies optimizing success for our customers.

General Dynamics Mission Systems – Booth 233 12450 Fair Lakes Circle Fairfax, VA 22033 www.gdmissionsystems.com General Dynamics Mission Systems provides the capabilities to quickly detect, identify and track a wide range of signals in the electromagnetic spectrum.

Georgia Tech Research Institute – Booth 336 250 14th Street, NW Atlanta, GA 30318 www.gtri.gatech.edu Georgia Tech Research Institute provides the U.S. and international military communities systems engineering and technical solutions for current and future EW and Cyber Warfare requirements.

Exhibitor Guide IW Microwave Products Division – Booth 215 SILVER SPONSOR Giga-tronics Incorporated – Booth 221

Harris Corporation – Booth 407 77 River Road Clifton, NJ 07014 www.harris.com Harris technology provides our customers with a penetrating view of the threat landscape, protection against sophisticated, ever-changing threats and the ability to harness the spectrum for a persistent tactical advantage. From multi-spectral situational awareness and highly accurate threat warning to sensor fusion and countermeasures capabilities, Harris EW provides the critical edge that saves lives, protects equipment and enables mission success.

Interface Concept – Booth 237 3 Rue Felix Le Dantec 29000 Quimper www.interfaceconcept.com Interface Concept develops and manufactures highperformance COTS boards and systems (embedded Ethernet switches, SBCs, DSPs and FPGA processing boards) for MilAero, Defence, and industrial markets. Interface Concept has 30 years’ experience in standard and custom products (MCOTS). IC products offer unmatched processing power, flexibility and performance.

iRF - Intelligent RF Solutions – Booth 337 14600 York Road, Suite B Sparks, MD 21152 www.irf-solutions.com iRF Solutions is the partner of choice, providing RF & Microwave receiver solutions for the intelligence community for use in defense of our nation’s interests against global threats.

IZT – Booth 616 Am Weichselgarten 5 Erlangen Germany D-91058 www.izt-labs.de The product portfolio includes equipment for signal generation, receivers for signal monitoring and recording, transmitters for digital broadcast, digital radio systems, and channel simulators.

SILVER SPONSOR Keysight Technologies – Booth 100 1400 Fountaingrove Parkway Santa Rosa, CA 95403 www.keysight.com Keysight Technologies (formerly Agilent) delivers core platforms such as signal analyzers, signal sources, network analyzers, and high-performance oscilloscopes and is expanding into new form factors with modular and hybrid systems. It also offers the most comprehensive EDA portfolio and the widest range of measurement application software.

Kratos General Microwave – Booth 117 227A Michael Drive Syosset, NY 11791 www.Kratosmed.com For over 50 years, Kratos General Microwave designs and manufactures high quality microwave products, high performance control components, sources and integrated assemblies.

L-3 Communications – Booth 249 130 Constitution Dr. Menlo Park, CA 94025 www.L-3com.com L-3 is a leading defense industry provider of ECM TWTs, antennas, secure signal processing products, including C3ISR systems and specialized components for the most EW demanding environments.

PLATINUM SPONSOR Lockheed Martin – Booth 401 199 Borton Landing Road Moorestown, NJ 08057 www.lockheedmartin.com Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.

MC Countermeasures, Inc. – Booth 137 555 Legget Drive Tower A Suite 500 Kanata, Ontario Canada K2K2X3 www.MC-CM.com MCCM’s product line includes radar target generators, radar signal simulators, noise and DRFM-based jammers and realtime deinterleaving receivers with PRI/RF agility prediction for airborne, maritime and landbased applications.

Meggitt – Booth 421 9801 Muirlands Blvd. Irvine, CA 92618 www.meggitt.com Meggitt Defense Systems specializes in airborne countermeasure deployment systems, airborne pod structures, and rugged, lightweight thermal management systems, for aircraft, rotorcraft and naval platforms. Meggitt Avionics is known for battle–proven intelligent air data systems and compact flight deck instruments that enable pilots to assimilate critical information in extreme environments.

Mercury Systems – Booth 331 201 Riverneck Road Clemsford, MA 01824 www.mrcy.com Mercury Systems develops electronic subsystems for EW, SIGINT, RF countermeasures and radar testing. We provide high-performance, affordable solutions that meet your program requirements. As the suppliers of the DRFMs used by the US Navy for the Filthy Buzzard program, we will be highlighting our latest 3U

Microwave Products Group – Booth 111 2250 Northwood Drive Salisbury, MD 21801 www.dovermpg.com MPG, consisting of BSC, DowKey Microwave, K&L Microwave and Pole/Zero provides mission critical engineered electronic components and subsystems used to enable communication and signal control.

Microwave Specialty Company – Booth 133 520 E. Carmel Street San Marcos, CA 92078 www.microwavespecialty.com Microwave Specialty Company designs, manufactures, and tests antennas ranging in frequency from 100MHz- 50 GHz

Mountain RF Sensors, Inc. – Booth 633 2962 NW 60th Street Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 www.mountainrf.com Mountain RF Sensors is an advanced technology RF manufacturer engaged in the design and fabrication of specialty radio frequency (RF) products for government and military customers.

National Instruments – Booth 314 11500 N. Mopac Expwy Austin, TX 78759 www.ni.com/aerospace National Instruments provides the industry’s broadest family of Software Defined Radio platforms harnessing the most powerful and flexible technologies for the purpose of accelerating productivity and driving rapid innovation. Our solutions scale from small to massive, allowing the NI SDR platform to be used for a wide variety of applications including MILCOM, SIGINT, EW, RADAR and general wireless research.

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4650 Norris Canyon Road San Ramon, CA 94583 www.gigatronics.com For over 35 years in business, Giga-tronics has been helping solve the worlds next generation Radar and Electronic Warfare problems with state-of-the-art high speed signal generators, test and management equipment broadband switching matrices

2C Parklawn Dr. Bethel, CT 06810 www.iw-microwave.com IW Microwave provides 50 ohm low loss, phase stable cable assembly products operating to 70 GHz, with a range of connector, jacket and armor options available.

advanced DRFM product along with secure processing and data storage solutions.

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Exhibitor Guide Norden Millimeter – Booth 114 5441 Merchant Circle Placerville, CA 95667 www.nordengroup.com Norden Designs and Manufactures Products 500 MHz to 110 GHz, Amplifiers, Frequency Multipliers, Frequency Converters, VCOs, DROs, RF Switches, Switched Filters, Transceivers, Custom Integrated Assemblies

PLATINUM SPONSOR Northrop Grumman Corporation – Booth 101

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1580A W. Nursery Road Linthicum, MD 21090 www.northropgrumman.com Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, strike, and logistics and modernization to customers worldwide. Please visit www. northropgrumman.com for more information.

Novotronik Signalverarbeitung und Systemtechnik GmbH – Booth 320 Baeumenheimer Strasse 3 86690 Mertingen Germany www.novotronik.com Flexibility and effectiveness. These plus points have distinguished novotronik in the area of signal processing and system technology since the company was founded in 1994.

Ophir RF Inc. – Booth 536 5300 Beethoven Street Los Angeles, CA 90066 www.ophirrf.com Designer and Manufacturer of High Power RF Systems for Jamming, Treat Emitters and Radar

PA&E – Booth 517 434 Olds Station Rd Wenatchee, WA 98801 www.pacaero.com or global leaders in the defense, space, medical and commercial industries. PA&E specializes in custom, high-reliability hermetic DC/ RF connectors and electronic packaging. We work directly with our customers to design and manufacture packaging and interconnect products that meet the exacting standards satellite, missile, fighter aircraft, undersea and other mission-critical systems require.

Parker Aerospace – Booth 115 14300 Alton Parkway Irvine, CA 92618 www.parker.com Parker Aerospace is a global leader in flight control, hydraulic, fuel, inerting, fluid conveyance, thermal management, and engine systems and components used on the world’s fleet of aircraft and aeroengines.

Patria –Booth 437 Hatanpaan valtatie 30 Tampere, Finland FI-33100 www.patria.fi ARIS –operationally proven remote operable ELINT system for land/naval/airborne use in dense signal environments. Data links for UAS.

SILVER SPONSOR Photonis – Booth 537 1000 New Holland Ave. Lancaster, PA 17601 www.photonis.com  PHOTONIS is a world leader in the development and manufacture of high quality power and signal amplifiers, integrating patented vacuum electron and solid state technologies for reliable high-efficiency and high broadband frequency SIGINT systems.  Standard and custom models of Traveling Wave Tubes, Amplifiers, and Microwave Power Modules are available to support radar, communications and electronic warfare applications.

Physical Optics Corporation – Booth 439 1845 W. 205th Street Torrance, CA 90501 www.poc.com High powered Tunable Agile RF Filters

Planar Monolithics Industries, Inc. – Booth 615 7311-F Grove Rd Frederick, MD 21704 www.pmi-rf.com RF & Microwave Components

PLATH GmbH – Booth 320 Gotenstrasse 18 20097 Hamburg Germany www.plath.de / www.plathgroup.com PLATH GmbH is an internationally operating specialist with over 60 years of experience in the design and development of customerspecific or turnkey solutions for COMINT and C-ESM. The product portfolio of PLATH GmbH covers the entire intelligence cycle “from sensors to knowledge”. PLATH GmbH is the headquarters of PLATH Group.

including diplexing, switching, amplification, and frequency conversion. Our filters utilize lumped-element, cavity/ combline, and ceramic resonator topologies from 20 MHz to 40 GHz. A full range of packaging options are available from individual microstrip filters to fully-integrated laser-welded assemblies.

Qorvo – Booth 210 500 W. Renner Rd. Richardson, TX 75080 www.qorvo.com Qorvo products are at the core of many of the world’s most innovative products for advanced radar, space and electronic warfare systems.

QRC Technology – Booth 436 1211 Central Park Boulevard Fredericksburg, VA 22401 www.qrctech.com QRC specializes in passive and active tools for cellular systems and RF recording & playback systems.  QRC tools come in handheld, portable, rack & vehicle solutions. QRC tools cover CDMA, EVDO, WCDMA, GSM, WiMAX, LTE, WiFi, and Bluetooth. 

PROCITEC GmbH – go2SIGNALS – Booth 230 Rastatter Straße 41 75179 Pforzheim, Germany www.procitec.de; www.go2signals.de PROCITEC GmbH specialises in the development of technologies and software for the detection, analysis and interception of wireless communication. Our product line “go2SIGNALS” offers ready-to-use, “off-theshelf” available and freely configurable products and system components for signal monitoring and signal analysis, with an outstanding processing speed and user-friendliness - from a single user working position all the way to fully automated intelligence systems.

Q Microwave, Inc. – Booth 523 1591 Pioneer Way El Cajon, CA 92020 www.qmicrowave.com Q Microwave specializes in integrated filter assemblies with a variety of functions

HOST SPONSOR Raytheon Company – Booth 301 2501 W. University Dr. McKinney, TX 75070 www.raytheon.com Raytheon provides state-ofthe-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems; as well as a broad range of mission support services. For more than 50 years, our jammers, decoys and other electronic warfare products have earned a worldwide reputation for performance and reliability. Today the company is developing the Next Generation Jammer and other electronic warfare solutions, providing electronic protection, support and attack capabilities across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Exhibitor Guide Rincon Research Corporation – Booth 136

Rockwell Collins – Booth 315 400 Collins Road NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52498 www.rockwellcollins.com  Rockwell Collins is a world leader in aviation electronics & communications, including signals intelligence and electronic warfare solutions.

SRI International – Booth 109

2101 L St., NW Suite 350 Washington, DC 20037 www.saabusa.com Electronic Warfare, Radars, Sensors.

6245 Guardian Gateway Suite 114 Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005 www.sri.com Showcasing SRI developed electronic warfare tools that reduce costs, shorten timelines, and improve survivability.

Sierra Nevada Corporation – Booth 322 444 Salomon Circle Sparks, Nevada 89434 www.sncorp.com World Class Prime Systems Integrator and electronics systems provider. Known for its rapid innovative and agile technology solutions. Market leader in ELINT, Electronic Support, non-traditional cyber capabilities, open-architecture systems, and integrated EW.

Steatite Antennas – Booth 120 Barons Cross Laboratories Leominster United Kingdom, HR6 8RS www.steatite.co.uk Ultra-wideband EW & SIGINT antennas for land, sea and airborne platforms: ELINT, COMINT, ESM, RWR, spectrum management.

SPEC-Systems & Processes Engineering Corp. – Booth 248 SILVER SPONSOR Rohde & Schwarz – Booth 501 6821 Benjamin Franklin Drive Columbia, MD  21046 www.rohde-schwarz.com Test & Measurement Equipment

Rotating Precision Mechanisms Inc. – Booth 542 8750 Shirley Ave. Northridge, CA 91324 www.rpm-psi.com RPM is a woman-owned small business. RPM specializes in Antenna, Optical and Sensor Positioning Sub-Systems, including Pedestals and Rotators for EW Simulators such as; JTE, EWITR, V12/13, DTSO, EWSS, TRSS, AN/ULM-4.

S2 Corporation – Booth 632 2310 University Way #4-1 Bozeman, MT 59715 www.s2corporation.com Wideband RF spectrum processing capabilities over >40 GHz bandwidth, with >60 dB spur free dynamic range, for applications of spectrum monitoring, emitter geolocation, signal modulation detection, and signal processing. Saab 2101 L St., NW, Suite 350 Washington, DC 20037 www.saabusa.com Electronic Warfare, Radars, Sensors.

TCI – Booth 214 3541 Gateway Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 www.tcibr.com TCI International, Inc. brings comprehensive integration, advanced automation and sophisticated visualization

7050 Burleson Rd. Austin, TX 78744 www.spec.com SPEC provides turn-key EW solutions, rugged EW products, complex target generators, and embedded dynamic engagement technology to counter modern threats in diverse electromagnetic environments.

to SIGINT/EW, ISR and DF solutions for military and national security agencies worldwide.

Tektronix, Inc. – Booth 617 14150 SW Karl Braun Drive Beaverton, OR 97077 www.tektronix.com Tektronix delivers innovate, precise, and easy-tooperate test, measurement and monitoring solutions for Aerospace/Defense/ Government sectors that solve problems, unlock insights, and drive discovery

Teledyne Microwave Solutions – Booth 306 11361 Sunrise Park Drive Rancho Cordova, CA 95742 www.teledynemicrowave.com Teledyne Microwave Solutions is a global leader in research, development and manufacturing of sophisticated microwave products utilized in EW, Radar, SIGINT and Communication systems for military/homeland security applications.

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101 N. Wilmot Rd., Suite 101 Tucson, AZ 85711 www.rincon.com Leading provider of wideband FPGA-based SDRs, high-rate SIGINT recorders, and DSP software. We provide solutions with single-boards up to fully integrated systems.

Saab – Booth 243

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Spectranetix, Inc. – Booth 217 845 Stewart Drive, Suite B Sunnyvale, CA 94085 www.spectranetix.com  Spectranetix designs and builds state-of-the-art CyberEW, COMMS, SIGINT, DF, and ruggedized SDR Transceiver Systems for Government customers and the Primes.

SRC, Inc. – Booth 620 7502 Round Pond Road North Syracuse, NY 13088 www.srcinc.com SRC, Inc., a not-for-profit research and development company, combines information, science, technology and ingenuity to solve “impossible” problems in the areas of defense, environment and intelligence. Across our family of companies, we apply bright minds, fresh thinking and relentless determination to deliver innovative products and services that are redefining possible® for the challenges faced by America and its Allies.

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Exhibitor Guide TERMA – Booth 415 2461 South Clark Street Suite 810 Arlington, VA 22202 www.terma.com Total integration of EW SelfProtection Systems on all types of aircraft, including 3-Dimensional Audio Warning, Active Noise Reduction and Advanced Threat Display.

SILVER SPONSOR Textron Systems – Booth 121 124 Industry Lane Hunt Valley, MD 21030 http://www.textron systems.com/what-we-do/ electronic-systems JSECST (Joint Service Electronic Combat Systems Tester) A2PATS (Advanced Architecture Phase, Amplitude, and Time Simulator)

Times Microwave Systems – Booth 521

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358 Hall Avenue Wallingford, CT 06492 www.timesmicrowave.com Products cover militaryaerospace, shipboard and commercial wireless applications and include highperformance flexible, semiflexible and rigid coaxial cable assemblies, and flexible 50 Ohm LMR® cables, connectors and assemblies.

TMD Technologies – Booth 116

Triumph Group, Inc. – Booth 339

Ultra-Herley – Booth 321

1730 Twin Springs Rd, Suite 211 Baltimore, MD 21227 www.tmdus.com TMD Technologies (TMD) is one of the world’s foremost suppliers of high power microwave amplifiers, transmitters, MPMs, high voltage power supplies and microwave tubes for radar, EW & communications; defense & security.

540 Highland Street Frederick, MD 21701 www.triumphgroup.com/ companies/triumphthermal-systems---maryland Our primary EW/ISR products include Vapor Cycle and Ram Air Chiller Cooling Systems, Air Management Systems and Thermal Management Control Electronics for special mission aircraft and external pods.

TriaSys Technologies Corporation – Booth 430

TrustComm, Inc. – Booth 239

Ultra Electronics HERLEY CTI 9 Whippany Road, Bldg. A-1 Whippany, NJ 07981 [email protected] Herley CTI specializes in the manufacture of complex, highly integrated systems, tactical airborne integrated frequency converter assemblies, ultrafast direct synthesizers and frequency generation products for major defense and commercial OEM customers worldwide.

101 Billerica Ave Bldg. 5 Suite 104 Billerica, MA 01862 www.triasys.us TriaSys specializes in providing customers with unique signal processing applications and systems. Product Lines include specialized Electronic Warfare and Electronic Support systems for modern communications signals (RForce); Signal Analysis software, systems and training (SignalWorks); Telecommunications Monitoring and Collection (7500 and SCS); and Wireless Networks for testing and private communications (CellWorks).

800 Corporate Dr., Suite 421 Stafford, VA 22554 www.trustcomm.com Premier global provider of secure innovative satellite communication applications for Land, Sea, and Air

BRONZE SPONSOR Ultra-EWST – Booth 321 Ultra Electronics EW Simulation Technology Ltd A8 Cody Technology Park Ively Road Farnborough, Hants GU14 0LX UK www.ewst.co.uk Radar Threat Simulators, Target Generators, Flight Line Test Sets and Range Simulator

ViaSat – Booth 206 6155 El Camino Real Carlsbad, CA 92009 www.viasat.com For over 20 years, system designers have relied on ViaSat’s signal modeling expertise to help successfully launch avionics and communications systems on time and under budget.”

Wideband Systems, Inc. – Booth 107 2409 Linden Lane Silver Spring, MD 20910 www.wideband-sys.com Wideband Signal Receiving Systems

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412TW EWG Benefield Anechoic .................................. Booth 443 4DSP, LLC ....................................Booth 232 Airbus DS Electronics & Border Security ................. Booth 509 Air Force Research Lab-One RY Range.............. Booth 244 AKON..............................................Booth 231 Analog Devices, Inc. ............... Booth 420 Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc..............................Booth 531 ApisSys ..........................................Booth 515

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PLATH GmbH ............................ Booth 320

G3 Technologies, Inc. ............Booth 539

PROCITEC GmbH – go2SIGNALS .......................... Booth 230

General Dynamics Mission Systems .....................Booth 233 Georgia Tech Research Institute ................ Booth 336 Giga-tronics Incorporated .....Booth 221 Harris Corporation .................. Booth 407 Interface Concept ....................Booth 237 iRF- Intelligent RF Solutions ............................Booth 337

BAE Systems .............................. Booth 201 BEEcube ....................................... Booth 316

IZT ................................................... Booth 616

Chemring Group PLC............. Booth 445

Keysight Technologies ...........Booth 100

Cobham ........................................Booth 207

Kratos General Microwave .....Booth 117

Cognitive Systems Corp. .......Booth 342

L-3 Communications .............. Booth 249

Comtech PST ............................ Booth 208

Lockheed Martin ....................... Booth 401

Covariant Solutions .................Booth 538

MC Countermeasures, Inc. ....Booth 137

CPI ..................................................Booth 423

Meggitt ..........................................Booth 421

Crane Aerospace & Electronics ........................... Booth 614

Mercury Systems .......................Booth 331 Microwave Products Group ....Booth 111

CSIR ...............................................Booth 236

Microwave Specialty Company....................................Booth 133

Curtiss-Wright .............................Booth 131

Mountain RF Sensors, Inc. .. Booth 633

dB Control ...................................Booth 522

National Instruments .............. Booth 314

Defense Engineering Corporation .............................Booth 242

Norden Millimeter...................... Booth 114

Dixie Crow Chapter-AOC ......Booth 338 DRS Technologies ................... Booth 431 D-TA Systems ............................. Booth 631 DynamicSignals LLC ...............Booth 637 e2v ................................................. Booth 636 Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT - Elisra ............... Booth 330 Empower RF Systems .............Booth 621 Epiq Solutions ........................... Booth 130 ETL Systems ...............................Booth 122 Evans Capacitor Company.................................. Booth 438 EW Europe ...................................Booth 138

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FEI-Elcom Tech, Inc. ..............Booth 432

IW Microwave Products Division ...................Booth 215

CRFS Ltd ..................................... Booth 630

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Northrop Grumman Corporation .............................. Booth 101 Novotronik Signalverarbeitung und Systemtechnik GmbH ........................................ Booth 320 Ophir RF Inc. ............................. Booth 536 PA&E ..............................................Booth 517 Parker Aerospace .......................Booth 115 Patria............................................. Booth 437 Photonis .......................................Booth 537 Physical Optics Corporation ............................ Booth 439 Planar Monolithics Industries, Inc. ........................ Booth 615

Q Microwave, Inc. ....................Booth 523 Qorvo ........................................... Booth 210 QRC Technology...................... Booth 436 Raytheon Company ............... Booth 301 Rincon Research Corporation ..............................Booth 136 Rohde & Schwarz ..................... Booth 501 Rotating Precision Mechanisms Inc..................... Booth 542 S2 Corporation ..........................Booth 632

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Saab ...............................................Booth 243 Sierra Nevada Corporation ............................Booth 322 SPEC-Systems & Processes Engineering Corp. ................ Booth 248 Spectranetix, Inc........................Booth 217 SRC, Inc. ...................................... Booth 620 SRI International ...................... Booth 109 Steatite Antennas ..................... Booth 120 TCI ................................................... Booth 214 Tektronix, Inc. ............................Booth 617 Teledyne Microwave Solutions .................................. Booth 306 TERMA ...........................................Booth 415 Textron Systems .........................Booth 121 Times Microwave Systems.....Booth 521 TMD Technologies .....................Booth 116 TriaSys Technologies Corporation ............................ Booth 430 Triumph Group, Inc. .................Booth 339 TrustComm, Inc. .......................Booth 239 Ultra-EWST ..................................Booth 321 Ultra-Herley .................................Booth 321 ViaSat ........................................... Booth 206 Wideband Systems, Inc. ....... Booth 107

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5th Annual AOC Pacific Conference NOVEMBER 8-9, 2016 / HONOLULU, HI

Challenges and Opportunities for IO/EW/Cyber in A2/AD Environments This year’s conference will pick up the discussion from the 2015 event, which examined the conduct of Information Operations, Electronic Warfare,

K EYN O TE SPEAK ER S Gen. Robert B. Brown Commanding General U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC)

and Cyber Operations under the conditions of hybrid warfare in peacetime, and extend it into the warfighting challenges for IO in Anti-Access and Aerial

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Denial Environments that will characterize future conflicts.

Deputy Director, Electronic Warfare, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics),

The purpose of the symposium is to bring together government, military, industry, academia, small business and other stakeholders for discussions on the operational challenges facing the practitioners of these IRCs, and to

MG John Morrison Jr

explore possible technological and tactics/procedural solutions. To stimulate

Commanding General, U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence

wider interest and inquiry into these issues, the symposium and related activities and events will be open to registration by government, industry and academia representatives without regard to their AOC membership status (both AOC Members and non-members may register) except that access of foreign and any other persons may be restricted as necessary in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

BG Richard K. Sele Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command

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aval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) co-hosted the Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMW) Systems Engineering and Acquisition Conference in partnership with the Association of Old Crows at the University of Mary Washington’s Dahlgren Campus, Sept. 20-22. The event provided a collaborative environment for discussions on the challenges associated with EMW, and the capabilities being developed to address the needs of this critical warfighting approach. “This conference provides an excellent opportunity to learn and more importantly, to discuss operational challenges,” said Capt. Brian Durant, NSWCDD commanding officer as he welcomed the standing-room-only crowd. “It’s meant to help highlight the great work being done in the field, and to enable conversations to propel this capability forward.” More than 200 attendees, including experts from the Department of Defense (DoD), private industry, military and academia, were engaged in discussions covering defense acquisition, mission engineering, electromagnetic maneuver, and electronic warfare systems. Rob Wittman, U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 1st District, was the keynote speaker. “The security environment today is as challenging as it has ever been,” said Wittman. “We see many challenges well and above what we have seen in recent history, and my concern is – how do we make sure we meet those challenges?”

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Wittman emphasized that the crux of this challenge is to ensure that the U.S. continues to maintain its significant advantage in the field that the country has traditionally enjoyed. The congressman, who chairs the House Readiness Subcommittee, also expressed concern about the amount of resources being put towards readiness in the National Defense Authorization Act.

He acknowledged the dedication of the groups in the field and stressed the importance of redirecting or redesigning existing tools that are in the national arsenal to make them more effective and reach farther. Moreover, Wittman spoke to the gathering about the funding language in the NDAA as it relates to Electronic Warfare programs. He stated that the emphasis is on doing everything they can – to not only maintain the technology, but to advance it as well.

The subcommittee tasked the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition Technology and Logistics with submitting a report to both the House and Senate Congressional Defense committees summarizing current capabilities of DoD Electronic Warfare, and outlining where they believe the challenges will be in the future, and what future program elements the direction must include. “We want to make sure that they have a strategy for accelerating research, development, test and evaluation, and for

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Russia’s Army-2016 exhibition, held at the Patriot Expocenter near Moscow on September 6-11, allowed specially-selected visitors to inspect Almaz-Antey’s new Buk-M3 mobile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. The weapon was displayed in a restricted area of the exhibition to which many visitors (including journalists) had no access. Like earlier Buk-series systems, the Buk-M3 consists of a command vehicle, a target-acquisition radar vehicle, and a number of transporter/erector/launcher and radar (TELAR) vehicles. There is also a radarless 9A316M Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) armed with 12 missiles, and a 9T243M support vehicle. In 2008, Almaz-Antey reported that it was working with a new 9S18M1-3 version of the system’s centimetric band 3-D target acquisition radar (NATO reporting name “Snow Drift”) that had been developed for the Buk-M3 Each Buk-M3 TELAR is armed with six 9M317M missiles. These are stored in cylindrical launch canisters mounted in two ranks of three. The 9M317M missile is 5.180 m long, 360 mm in diameter, and weighs 581 kg at launch. Earlier missiles used by the Buk system had cruciform wings, but in the 9M317M, these are little more than vestigial fixed surfaces located near the rear of the airframe in a location just ahead of the cruciform tail surfaces.

The Buk-M3 TELAR was kept well away from prying Western eyes at the Army-2016 exhibition, but this artwork shows its basic configuration. (Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design)

The latter are folded to allow the missile to be loaded into its transporting/launching container, forming a sealed munition compatible with both the Buk-M3 TELAR and the vertical launcher of the M-22 Uragan (export designation Shtil) missile system fitted to Sovremenniy Class (Project 956) destroyers. For the naval application, the missile is coldlaunched from the ship’s vertical launcher, then uses four gas control vanes to turn to the direction of the target. First announced in 2004, the 9M317M missile was originally promoted as an upgrade for the Shtil system. According to Almaz-Antey, no customer interest had been expressed for a land-based variant, and the company did not have the money needed to pursue this as a private venture. As might be expected, the guidance system combines midcourse inertial navigation and semi-active radar terminal homing. A new solid-propellant rocket motor has a more energetic filling than that used in earlier Buk missiles, and gives a maximum speed of Mach 4.5 (1,550 m/ sec), a significant improvement over the Mach 3.0 (1,230 m/sec) of the older 9M317 missile. The warhead weighs 62 kg, and is initiated by a radar fuze with both active and semi-active operating modes. There is also an impact fuze. An 9M317A missile equipped with an active radar homing seeker was reported in 2008 as being ready for state trials. Preliminary trials of this missile had involved what was described The new 9M317M missile was originally promoted as the Buk-M1-2A system. as an upgrade for the Shtil The original Buk-M1 sys- system. This model shows tem used the 9A310M1 TELAR, the rear-mounted thrustwhose turret contained a nose- vectoring system needed for the naval role. mounted radome housing the (Miroslav Gyürösi)

On the definitive version of the TELAR displayed at Army2016, and shown in an earlier artist’s concept released by the Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design, the EO system has been repositioned to make room for a new and smaller flat-panel antenna located directly above the main antenna. Maximum range of the Buk-M3 is reported to be 70 km, while an ability to engage targets flying as low as 5 m has been claimed. Earlier Buk systems have no significant anti-missile capability, but Russian press reports credit the Buk-M3 with the ability to engage targets flying at speeds of up to 3 km/sec. The Buk-M3 is expected to enter service before the end of 2016.

IRAN IMPROVES ITS SAM DEFENCES Iran released new images of its Bavar 373 long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) system on August 21. These showed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Minister of Defence Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan standing in front of a missile transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) and one of the system’s radars. The TEL they were shown is based on a wheeled chassis, and carries two storage-launch canisters that can be raised to the vertical position. According to reports in the Iran press, each canister contains a single Sayad 3 missile. Little can be gleaned from the photographs of the radar that was displayed. The antenna is mounted on a wheeled platform and consists of at least two planar arrays. It probably performs the same role as the 64N6 (Big Bird) surveillance/detection radar of the Russian S-300PMU-1/2 system. “We did not intend to make an Iranian version of the S-300,” Dehghan told Iran’s IRNA news agency. We wanted to Iran’s president and minister of defense build an Iranian system, and we built it.” Iran claims that in stand in front of a some respects the Bavar 373 is superior to the S-300, offering missile transportererector-launcher increased mobility and reduced launch-preparation time. (TEL) from Iran’s The Bavar 373 project was launched in order to develop new Bavar 373 SAM an indigenous alternative to the Russian S-300PMU-2 (SA-20 system. (Iranian Government) Gargoyle) system, the delivery of which was suspended in 2010 due to sanctions imposed on Iran by the United Nations. The lifting of these sanctions on April cleared the way for deliveries to begin, and some system components, including radars and reloaders, took part in Iran’s National Army Day on April 17. On July 19, Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, Rapporteur of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, confirmed that part of the S-300 system had been deployed. Two days earlier, Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli, commander of Iran’s Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base, announced that the S-300 contract would be completely fulfilled by the end of the current Iranian year (i.e, by March 20, 2017). By early August, Russia had delivered half of the contracted S-300 systems to Iran. On August 25, Dehghan stated that having taken first deliveries of the S-300 system, Iran had no In this photograph, the front face of the antenna array of what is probably the Bavar 373’s surveillance and target-detection radar is plans to acquire the follow-on S-400 Triumf. a discretely turned away from the camera. (Iranian Government)

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mechanically scanned antenna of the 9S35 (Fire Dome) H/I-band monopulse guidance and tracking radar. On the 9A317 TELAR of the Buk-M2 (SA-17 “Grizzly”), this radome was replaced by a hexagonal flat panel for the electronically-scanned antenna of the new 9S36 “Chair Back A” radar. First photographs of the Buk-M3 TELAR showed that the turret had what was either a 9S36 radar or a further-developed derivative. Located immediately above this was a housing containing an electro-optical (EO) system. In Russian press reports, the EO system is described as a “tele-thermal imaging target designator” with detection and tracking capabilities.

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small EW antennas, this can be on the order of 10 dB, but for typical (larger) spacecraft and ground-station antennas, the right/left mismatch error can be more than 30 dB. This allows the link frequency to be used

POLARIZATION LOSS Another source of loss is from antenna polarization incompatibility. If the polarization of the signal arriving at the receiving antenna is the same as the polarization of that antenna, there is no polarization loss. If not, there is a polarization loss. (See Figure 1.) A complication for links between satellites and Earth stations is that passage through the atmosphere can rotate the polarization. If linear polarizations are used in link antennas, this rotation can cause several dB of loss. Therefore circular polarization is usually used in space-to-Earth-station links; the rotation of polarization through the atmosphere then causes no link loss. Circular polarization can be right-hand or left-hand. If the transmitting and receiving antennas are not the same, there can be significant mismatch loss. For

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Advanced Technology Leaders, contract for Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) division ........................ 18 AEgis Technologies Group, contract to provide evaluations of directed energy effects on aerospace systems ................ 22 Aerial Dragnet, DARPA program for wide-area surveillance of small UASs ................................................................... 15 Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), BAA for Spectrum Warfare Enduring Challenge (SWEC) efforts ........................ 15 AOC 2016 Election Results ...................................................... 66

Iraq, purchase of two Orbital ATK special mission aircraft with AAR-60 missile launch detection systems and ALE-47 countermeasures dispensers ............................ 24 Leidos, AFRL contract for passive Radio Frequency Identification Environment (PRIDE) program ..................... 18 Lockheed Martin MST, SEWIP Block 2 contract ........................ 16 Lockheed Martin, Air Force contract for spectrum sensor management as part of the Electro-Optical and Radio Frequency Sensor (RADERS) program ................................. 20 Mark Altvater, BAE Systems ................................................... 26

AOC Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMW) Systems Engineering and Acquisition Conference report .................. 57

Naval Air Systems Command, RFI for ALM-288 countermeasures test sets ................................................. 22

Australia, purchase of manpack communication electronic support measures (CESM) systems ...................................... 24 BAE Systems, AAR-57 Common Missile Warning System contract ............................................................... 20

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Armtec Countermeasures, IR countermeasures contract to meet a Joint Urgent Operational Needs Statement (JUONS) ... 22

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Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), RFP for Tactical EW Division services ......................................................... 18 Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), solicitation for EW and modeling/simulation ................................................. 18

BAE Systems, AAR-57(V) Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) ............................................................... 26

Northrop Grumman Amherst Systems, engineering support contract for test facilities, threat simulators, Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulators (CEESIM) and Advanced Multiple Environment Simulators (AMES) ............ 20

BAE Systems, Egypt purchase of AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Systems for helicopters........................................ 24

Northrop Grumman Amherst Systems, Joint Threat Emitter spares contract..................................................... 22

Boeing, Air Force contract for spectrum sensor management as part of the Electro-Optical and Radio Frequency Sensor (RADERS) program ................................................. 20

Northrop Grumman, AAQ-24(V)25 Department of the Navy Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (DoN LAIRCM) system and Advanced Threat Warner (ATW) ...................... 27

Capital Club, security speaker ................................................ 66 CAPT Laura Schuessler, PMA-272 ............................................ 27

Northrop Grumman, APR-39 radar warning receiver ................. 27

Carl Smith, Northrop Grumman .............................................. 28

Northrop Grumman, contract to study integration of counter-EA capability into Triton UAS radar ................... 20

Chemring, Resolve manpack communication electronic support measures (CESM) systems for Australia .................. 24

Northrop Grumman, engineering contract for ALQ-161A EW systems for the B-1B bomber ......................... 22

Chemring, US Navy contract for MJU-61A/B infrared decoys .... 22

Northrop Grumman, foreign military sales contract for Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) for German head of state aircraft............................................ 24

Chesapeake Technology International, contract for Joint Electronic Attack and Compatibility Office (JEACO) EW engineering services ................................................... 20

NovAtel, GPS Anti-Jam technology contract ............................ 22

Cobham, contract for ALQ-99 low-band consolidation ............. 20

Orbital ATK, AAR-47 missile warning system ........................... 27

CPI Aerostructures, Raytheon contract for Next Gen jammer air management system ........................................ 22

Orbital ATK, foreign military sales contract for conversion of HARMs to AARGM configuration for Italian Air Force Tornado ECR and IDS aircraft ............................................ 24

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), BAA for UAS detection...................................................... 15 Défense Conseil International (DCI), extension of collaboration of Thales with for EW training ...................... 24 Electronic Warfare Community of Interest (EW COI), technology interchange meeting ....................................... 16 General Dynamics Mission Systems, SEWIP Block 1B3 full rate production .......................................................... 16

Rotary-Wing aircraft self-protection systems (ASE) ................. 26 Russia, Buk-M3 mobile surface-to-air missile system, debut at Army-2016 exhibition .......................................... 60 Satellite path loss ................................................................. 63 Space EW, part 6 ................................................................... 63 Terry Thames, Orbital ATK ..................................................... 27

Harris Corp, foreign military sales contract for ALQ-214(V)4/5 jammer for Australia .................................. 24

Thales, extension of collaboration with Défense Conseil International (DCI) for EW training ................................... 24

Indra, EW combat system upgrade for Indonesian Navy corvettes ................................................................. 24 Integrated ASE (IASE) ........................................................... 30

US Army, Communications Electronics Research & Development & Engineering Center (CERDEC) Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) ...................... 26

Iran, Bavar 373 long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) system ................................................................... 61

UTC Aerospace, Laser Warning System test set contract ........... 20

UTC Aerospace, AVR-2B laser warning system for CMWS ........... 26

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