AGI Technology for EW and AD Dominance

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1 AGI Technology for EW and AD Dominance Singapore 2015

2 Content Overview of Air Defense Overview of Electronic Warfare A practical example Value proposition Summary

3 AMD - a multidisciplinary challenge Geography and geodesy Threats (Missiles, mortars, UAVs and UCAVs) Detection (Radar, EO/IR) Communications, C2 and ECM Interception possibilities Interception effectiveness Collateral damage Joint operations Defensive Layers (Point, regional, theater) Legacy and new systems

4 Electronic Warfare an invisible challenge Geography and geodesy Threats (static and mobile) Detection (Radar, Communications) Non-lethal Electronic Attack, Electronic Protection and Electronic Support Highly skilled staff Relatively new area Evolving: ECM, ECCM, ECCCM? Very strict rules of engagement

5 A practical example Air to ground mission (Strike, ISR, CAS, SEAD) Offender Fighter aircraft with ECM Weapon, delivery platform, route, EW, Nav Defender Air Defense Network with ECCM Sensors, EW, C2, Weapons

6 Challenging and contested environment Detection Primary Platform Weapons Navigation Physical Environment Terrain Obscuration

7 Two perspectives Offensive Navigate Surprise factor Clean Strike/Collection Safe exit Defensive How to detect? How to respond? Electronic: EW, FCR Kinetic: Missile How to coordinate?

8 Decision flow Attacker EW battle Kinetic battle Defender

9 Plan for best mission performance How best to execute mission Routes, best place to locate assets, coordination, navigation, goals Mission Metrics : Coverage/sensor/weapon on target Threat/detection zone intervals COMMS availability and interceptability Enemy response times Effectiveness Stealth EA EP ES Optimum platform, sensor and weapons use (in a matter of minutes)

10 An AD and EW engagement

11 Benefits End Users Needs Development Procurement & Selection Test & Acceptance Operations & Data Analysis Requirements Def. Analysis of Alternatives. CONOPS Selection Customer Demonstrations Platform Integration T&E Simulation T&E Rehearsal Real-time 4D comparison Mission Planning. Mission optimization Situational Awareness. Data processing After Action Reviews. AGI software used across the Program Lifecycle

12 Benefits Industry BD/Marketing & CONOPS, Requirements, Architecture Development Integration, In house testing,v&v Intuitive 3D vis Analysis of Alternatives/trade studies Detailed design Collaboration Optimization Upgrades Rapid prototyping Implementation HITL Testing T&E Simulation T&E Rehearsal Real-time 4D vis AGI software used entire Systems Engineering V Lifecycle

13 Summary Supporting Air Forces and Air Defense Forces throughout entire AD and EW program Supporting Industry across the entire Systems Engineering lifecycle Foundation for success Platform for effective communications Fuse multiple disciplines into one technology: Nav/EW/Comms/Radar/Acoustic Better decisions, faster Enhanced Situational Awareness Minimum risk/maximum outcome better chance of system/mission/program success

14 Questions?

15 Backup slides

16 Case studies

17 What is Air Defense Air and Missile Defense: the means, techniques, and organizations devoted to preventing or minimizing the effects of attack by enemy aircraft or guided missiles Long, Medium and Short range Active : aircraft, guided missiles, AA guns Passive: deception, dispersion or protective construction

18 What is Electronic Warfare, anyways? Electronic warfare : any military action involving the use of electromagnetic and directed energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum or to attack the enemy

19 EW Divisions Electronic Attack (EA) Focus EM energy to degrade, neutralize, or destroy enemy combat capability Lethal and non-lethal Examples: Jamming (wide and narrow), deception, spoofing, AR Missile Electronic Protection (EP) Passive or active protection from any friendly or unfriendly effects that degrade, neutralize, or destroy friendly combat capability Examples: Shielding, filtering, stealth, DIRCM, Chaff, DRFM Decoys and Flare, Emission Control Electronic Support (ES) Search for, intercept, identify, and locate or localize sources of intentional and unintentional radiated electromagnetic Threat recognition, targeting, planning and conduct of future operations Threat warning, Direction Finding, Collection Finding

20 ITT Exelis Airborne MASINT Mission Planner Problem: Multi-sensor mission planning complex and time-consuming; existing system not operationally relevant. Solution: Build Airborne/MASINT Mission Planning (AMMP) Tool using AGI software. Outcome: Delivered AMMP for flight test in 90 days; mission planning reduced from 2 days to 2 hours. 24X process improvement / operationally effective

21 Lockheed Martin Missile Defense Analysis Challenge: Evaluate effectiveness (Pk, LAD, DAF) of overhead IR Cuing to support Missile Defense Solution: Leverage STK engine to visualize & model threats, interceptors, sensor inviews while integrating with custom algorithms. Result: Completed +8 week est. effort in LT 2 weeks, analyzed +20,000 cases and can now rapidly modify and analyze additional scenarios 4x improvement in engineering analysis effort Exceeded trade study effectiveness expectations 21

22 Enhanced and improved Mission Planning Intelligence preparation of the battlefield Multi source Data fusion and reporting (COMINT, SIGINT, GEOINT) Realistic threat profiles (Radars, Weapons, etc) DEM/Maps/Imagery Weather Load aircraft(s) and signature Create flight(s) plan Check Comms connectivity/vulnerability Flight rehearsal Analyze results in a matter of seconds 3D animation Reports and graphs Determine courses of action Decrease all the mission risk/maximize success Assets, sensors and weapons From 4x to 24x improve in prep time 10,000 ft MSL

23 The Electromagnetic Environment Natural degradation Rain, clouds, fog, terrain, etc. Man-made degradation Urban Terrain Other emitters Intentional and unintentional

24 Modeling Environmental Noise Sun Noise Troposphere Loss and Noise Polarization Rain Loss and Noise Desired Signal Earth Noise