SBIR-STTR Award

The demand for electronic warfare (EW) is increasing with the proliferation of advanced radar systems and wireless communications and triggering devices. There is a growing number of target sets from increasingly effective integrated air defense systems and in the urban battle space. Our limited electronic attack (EA) assets will better fulfill the many demands if there are effective resource management schemes. OR Concepts Applied has teamed with AEA, Inc. to supply the USAF with a simulation environment that includes models of electronic warfare assets and optimization schemes that build on the expertise of frontline EW operators. Data driven models will be used to represent stand-off and stand-in jamming resources hosted on manned, unmanned, and expendable platforms. The software will facilitate the invention and analysis of dynamic EA resource management strategies. The analysis will address impacts on both the EA assets and the supported entity missions. Ultimately, we see providing this capability to the AFRL Virtual Combat Laboratory.

America’s limited number of electronic attack assets will soon be enhanced with a new generation of platforms and sensors creating new airborne EA systems. This creates an opportunity to explore new ways to employ EA assets not only singly but also as networks of weapons. It is more cost effective to analyze and optimize airborne electronic attack methods in simulations than in combat. By marrying a dynamic mission planning and execution tool (i.e., OPUS) with EA models and resource optimization schemes, we will create an EA Planning Tool that can also demonstrate a variety of concepts and assess the effectiveness of different potential EA assets. OR Concepts Applied (ORCA) has put together a team of experts to build tools for modeling and managing EA effects. Not only will tools be available in a stand alone PC-based simulation environment, we will also integrate the technology into the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Virtual Combat Laboratory’s software environment.

Keywords:
Opus, Airborne Electronic Attack, Mald, Ea Simulation, Ew Planning Tool