An Effective Approach to Evaluating Electronic Warfare Systems

There is a growing need for electronic warfare (EW) systems to counter enemy radar systems more consistently with complex & innovative techniques to successfully prevent or deceive threats and improve survivability. However, modern radar systems can detect irregularities in programmed electronic attack (EA) techniques. Ensuring that EW systems can produce these techniques without exploitable irregularities demands thorough and accurate EW test and evaluation methods. Existing methods for waveform evaluation of EW responses can be costly in both time and resources. Further, complex EA techniques require evaluation at a high resolution and fidelity that cannot be easily achieved with common laboratory tools due to tradeoffs between bandwidth and resolution. With high-performance hardware and advanced digital signal processing (DSP), engineers can digitize and process large bandwidths of congested and noisy environments. Implementation of these techniques will help secure electromagnetic dominance and save the lives of countless warfighters. This webinar will discuss methods and applications of advanced waveform analysis that enable quick, accurate, and automated characterization of critical parameters of advanced EW systems with the needed resolution for proper evaluation.