The Electronic Warfare (EW) community is witnessing the introduction of increasingly capable, phased-array-based, multifunctional, and cognitive radars in the modern scenario. This conceptual webinar approaches the perspectives and challenges related to the use of metasurfaces to enable multi-agent reinforcement-learning-capable EW drone swarms which, in turn, will be key to tackle the challenges associated with these new technologies.

In the last decades, Electronic Warfare (EW) evolved from a simple clash between static systems to a highly complex combat framework with plenty of reconfigurable systems optimizing their tasks on the fly. Today, one can consider that the platforms, which interact with electromagnetic waves, and the EW environment, which works as the communication channel, are electronically static. In this scenario, reconfigurability is essentially performed...

Fast tuning and low phase noise are typically opposing specifications for synthesizers. In this talk we will discuss modern synthesizers and how the tuning speed and phase noise coupling has been broken enabling both low phase noise and fast switching as attributes of the same synthesizer. We will discuss construction of small form factor, fast switching, low phase noise synthesizers.

Cognitive EW (CEW) is a vague term, and the reader is not enlighted when it is described as Artificial Intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) to enchance the development and operation of Electronic Warfare (EW). This webinar will address how to implement a distributed EW capability, comprised of a number of different EW receivers and jammers, as a human/machine team. To achieve AI teams, the underlying is intelligent software agents. Teame...

Join AFCEA Aberdeen for a Joint Luncheon with the Association of Old Crows (AOC) APG-Susquehanna Roost, featuring a panel discussion by representatives of Project Manager Electronic Warfare & Cyber (PM EW&C). Featured speakers include Mr. Noel H. Lynkew, Product Lead Electronic Attack (EA); LTC John P. Cross, Product Manager Terrestrial Spectrum Warfare (TSW); LTC Troy D. Merkel, Product Manager Electronic Warfare Integration (EWI); an...

The Government Accountability Office Report GAO-23-106222, “Leading Practices: Iterative Cycles Enable Rapid Delivery of Complex, Innovative Products”, has resulted in the following section in the FY 25 NDAA: Title VIII Digital Twinning for Acquisition Category 1 Major Defense Acquisition Programs The committee notes the upside to developing digital electronic systems engineering (DESE) and electronic system hardware accurate digit...

The ground is a major consideration for most airborne systems, with uncontrolled interactions normally ending badly. Airborne radar is no exception, and the effects of ground clutter are arguably the major challenge facing airborne radars. Ground clutter is visible over a wide range of directions, appears at most ranges of interest, and is moving relative to the radar. To make matters worse, antenna characteristics along with range and Doppler...

The AUKUS trilateral security arrangements between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States mark a profound step in deepening security ties between three long-standing, English-speaking democracies, but this didn't occur in a vacuum. An examination of the realm of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) in the context of Australia and its connections with the 'Five Eyes' intelligence network, is not widely understood, but goes a long way to e...

Connecting physical objects—whether machinery, wearables, or even natural elements—offers unprecedented data insights. Using AI and digital twins as tools for early decision making to acquire capabilities from the new sensor world. These could be powerful tools to use in early market research elements such as predictive modeling, design validation and other early system engineering decision making processes specifically to improve...

Effective warfighting requires processed signals intelligence to be available to decision makers in real-time. A decision maker is often the lowest level commander in tactical operations and therefore excess latency and a fractured intelligence picture is to be avoided. In reality, the latency between signals intelligence data collection, the correlation and harmonisation with an established and agreed intelligence picture and subsequent distr...