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Technology Survey:
News RWR/ESM/ELINT Systems 49
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The Monitor 16 JED offers a detailed look at specifications for more
B-52 Jamming Variant than 40 RWR/ESM/ELINT receivers available from
Again Seeks DOD Blessing companies worldwide.
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Book Review 58
Washington Report 26 Stormjammers: The Extraordinary Story of
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Ups and Downs for EW In HASC FY08 Electronic Warfare Operations in the Gulf War
Defense Budget
World Report 28 Departments

Thales Captures UK Sub Work;
Terma to Equip Dutch Chinooks 6 The View From Here
8 Calendar
Features
12 From the President
Interview 30
Gérard Christmann, General Manager of 14 Letters
Electronic Combat Solutions, Thales Aerospace
56 New Products
Who’s Who in European EW 34
Gábor Zord 60 EW 101
After a period of market correction, European
companies have reorganized, reformed
65 AOC News
and emerged with a new spirit of regional
collaboration. JED takes a look at the varied
landscape of European EW programs and the 69 JED Sales Offices
European companies that support them.
69 Index of Advertisers
Interview 46
COL Laurie Buckhout, Chief, Electronic Warfare 70 JED Quick Look
Division, Army Asymmetric Warfare Office
Cover photos courtesy Eurofighter GmbH, Dassault Aviation, Gripen International
KB, Northrop Grumman, Eurocopter and Rheinmetall Landsysteme.
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DESTINATION EDITORIAL STAFF

June 2007 • Vol. 30, No. 6
PARIS Editor: John Knowles

Managing Editor: Elaine Richardson
Senior Editor: Glenn Goodman
Assistant Editor: Marianne Kunkel
Technical Editor: Ollie Holt
Washington Editor: Kernan Chaisson
Contributing Writers: Dave Adamy, Gábor Zord
Marketing & Research Coordinator: Allie Hansen
T
his month, most of big players in the defense market will descend on Sales Administration: Esther Biggs
Paris for a week of serious business. At Le Bourget, on the northern
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
edge of the city, the trade halls will be brimming with exhibitors and Roy Azevedo
attendees, while the bigger deals will be discussed in the corporate Deputy, Tactical Airborne Systems, and Manager,
EW, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems
chalets that overlook the flight demonstrations. Mr. Edward Bair
In keeping with JED tradition, our cover story this month is about PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, USA
Mr. Chris Bernhardt
Europe. I hope you enjoy reading Gábor Zord’s article about “Who’s Who” in Euro- President, ITT Electronic Systems
pean EW – a different spin from our previous feature stories about the region. Brig Gen Bruno Berthet
General Engineer of the Armament, DGA, French Air Force
European EW is going through an interesting period in its history. As with COL Laurie Buckhout
the United States, many European militaries are gaining a new appreciation for Chief, EW Division, Army Asymmetric Warfare Office, USA
CAPT Bill Chubb
EW. This is typical in any sustained military operation, where the enemy has the Program Manager, ATAPS Program Office
time and opportunity to locate and exploit weaknesses. Improvised explosive (PMA-272), NAVAIR, USN
Mr. Björn Erman
devices (IEDs) and IR threats are the major worries for European forces deployed President, Saab Avitronics
to Afghanistan and Iraq. In response, there has been significant investment in Mr. Gabriele Gambarara
General Manager, Elettronica S.p.A.
missile warning systems and flares for aircraft, as well as IED jammers for ground Mr. Hal Gershanoff
forces. Past Publisher, JED
Mr. Tony Grieco
While Europe’s EW spending is stronger today than it has been since the end Former Deputy for Electronic Warfare, OSD
6 of the Cold War, I wonder if these experiences will affect the way European gov- Mr. Walt Havenstein
President and CEO, BAE Systems Inc.
ernments view EW in their future strategic planning. Will EW achieve the level COL Gary Hopper
of importance it held during the Cold War? Or will EW planning fade into the Deputy Director, AFRL Sensors Directorate
Mr. Jay Kistler

background once these conflicts are over? Technical Director, Air Warfare OUSD (AT&L), OSD
In some areas, European countries still retain very strong EW capabilities. CAPT Steve Kochman
Commander, EA-6B Program Office (PMA-234), US Navy
France, for example, has one of the best-equipped air forces in the world in terms Rep. Joe Pitts (Honorary Member)
of EW self-protection. Compared with the US, Europe is also very strong in the US Congress, Founding Member, EW Working Group
Mr. Kai Poulsen,
naval EW arena, as well as in ground vehicle self-protection. Chief of Business Area – Fighter Aircraft, Royal Danish Air Force
In the post-Cold War era, however, European EW manufacturers have thinned Lt Col Richard C. Stockton
Deputy Commander, 53rd Electronic Warfare Group, USAF
down and concentrated their EW product offerings. How many companies in
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REGULAR DIRECTORS
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or many the month of June is the finish to another academic year. For
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those who have chosen to enter our high technology field, I welcome each Hal Gershanoff
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REGIONAL DIRECTORS
Military electronics is more digital than it ever has been, and has the promise Northeastern: Nino Amaroso
to provide systems that have what it takes to be truly multi-functional. In the near Mountain-Western: Ronald Poland
future, the difference between a radio, jammer or even a radar, will only be a matter Mid-Atlantic: Harvey Dahljelm
International I: René Kaenzig
of what the software or firmware is doing at that particular slice of time – it will be International II: Vacant
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With the advances in digital technology, today’s Young Crows will be able to de- Northern Pacific: Joe Johnson
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operationally suitable than the systems on which many Old Crows cut their beaks. In APPOINTED DIRECTORS
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systems be connected to not only to each other, but also to reachback capabilities, Carole H. Vann
such as real-time operation and reprogramming. Today’s UAV operators can literally Director of Administration
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their control. Therefore, it is conceivable that in the future Young Crows will remotely Director, Convention and Education Programs
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the heritage of Crows to rise to technical challenges and to solve the hard problems. Jennifer Bahler
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CONSIDERING CROSS-EYE JAMMING because during war operations thousands of decoys may be
I read with a great interest the article “Airborne Towed De- necessary. CE jamming has a negligible life cycle cost: once
coys” in the JED issue of December 2006. installed it will work forever.
In the past I was involved in the “competition” between the In the past the competition was won by Towed Decoys because
“Cross-Eye” (CE) and the “Towed Decoy” Jamming techniques. I Cross-Eye appeared much too risky. In fact, we have to admit
can summarize the comparison in the following lines: that the Towed Decoy functioning principles are much easier to
1. Miss distance: Naturally, the Towed Decoy can provide understand than that of Cross-Eye jamming. And though Towed
better miss distance in beam directions, where, unfortunately, Decoys may limit aircraft maneuvering performances, Cross-Eye
very few missiles can operate due to the poor clutter-target dis- jamming required the implementation of advanced technology.
crimination (target and clutter will have the same Doppler!). On Fortunately, the Italian Air Force had a chance to demon-
the contrary, Cross-Eye will provide the maximum miss distance strate both the feasibility and the effectiveness of the CE jam-
in the front/rear sectors where mostly missiles are. ming technique by flying successfully with an MB-339 equipped
2. Applicability: Repeater type Towed Decoys are practically appli- with a prototype of an ECM capable of Cross-Eye jamming.
cable only to CW waveforms and therefore only to semi-active missiles. The JED article was asking why the business around Towed
Better chance to be valid against Pulse Doppler radar will exist for Decoys is decreasing: Can it be because operators are beginning
Fiber Optic Towed Decoys, when they will be ready with enough ERP. to understand that there are other more effective jamming
On the contrary, Cross-Eye jamming can be applicable against all the techniques? (In the article itself, it is mentioned that some
practical threats, including semi-active missiles (last CE generation). improvement to Towed Decoys can come from Cross-Eye!).
Moreover it should be noted that, where the Towed Decoy It appears that the CE jamming performances are superior
will not tell you if it will work, CE jamming provides immediate to that of Towed Decoys. From the industrial point of view, the
tell-back if the threat has been engaged. cost of CE could be less than that achieved with Towed Decoys.
3. Acquisition cost: Towed Decoy systems can be cheaper Is it the appropriate time to discuss seriously, without preju-
(depending on the number of decoys) than CE jamming, which dices, the opportunity to adopt Cross-Eye jamming?
requires two transmitters. Filippo Neri
4. Life cycle cost: Towed Decoys can be very expensive, President, Virtualabs srl.
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Evaluation (PA&E) within the Office of the Sec- SIGINT SYSTEM ON TRACK
retary of Defense was slated to brief the Deputy The Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP) successfully
Advisors Working Group (DAWG) on May 23. The completed its sensor and aircraft calibration flight tests on the Air
DAWG is chaired by the deputy secretary of de- Force’s high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance aircraft in late April and
fense and includes each service’s vice chief of began full SIGINT performance testing. Flight testing of ASIP, the
staff. The Air Force hoped to gain the body’s next-generation SIGINT system for the Air Force’s “high-fliers” (U-2
support for launching the B-52 CCJ develop- and Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle), began on the U-2 last
ment effort, currently an unfunded priority, in December. Northrop Grumman Missions Systems-ESL (Sacramento,
FY09 or FY10. CA) is the ASIP prime contractor and is delivering five develop-
A few years ago, the Air Force committed it- ment systems. The bulk of these will enter operational service next
self to provision of a manned stand-off jamming year with the U-2 fleet, which the Air Force now plans to retire
(SOJ) aircraft (as a key piece of the DOD’s planned completely by FY13. Production systems, to be ordered initially in
airborne electronic attack (AEA) “system of sys- FY09, will be fielded on the Global Hawk beginning in 2012. The
tems”) after the Navy retires its carrier-based first of nearly a year of ASIP flight tests on the first new RQ-4B
16 EA-6B Prowlers in 2012 and fields new EA-18G Global Hawk Block 30 SIGINT variant, currently being assembled by
Growlers dedicated only to Navy missions. B-52s Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems (San Diego, CA), is sched-
fitted with long-range jamming pods have been uled in December of this year. The Air Force plans to buy 24 ASIP
the Air Force’s preferred solution, but its first at- systems for the Global Hawk.
tempt at starting a program was cancelled in 2005 On April 24, the Air Force issued a pre-solicitation notice an-
because its projected cost was unaffordable. The nouncing its intention to award Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
subsequent B-52 CCJ proposal featured stripped- a sole-source contract to develop scaled-down versions of ASIP, called
down requirements and a halved price tag. Last ASIP 1C and 2C, respectively, for its MQ-1 Predator and larger MQ-9
October, an AEA briefing to the DAWG by a PA&E Reaper (Predator B) UAVs.– G. Goodman
official that supported the B-52 CCJ plan was tor-
pedoed unexpectedly by the then-vice chief of
naval operations, ADM Robert Willard. As a result,
the DAWG directed PA&E to reexamine the SOJ SIGINT AIRCRAFT DO YEOMAN’S WORK
requirement and to report back in the spring. In testimony before the House Armed Services Air and Land Forces
A summit of the Navy and Air Force chiefs, Subcommittee April 19, Air Force and Navy flag officers touted the criti-
which will include discussions of each service’s cal roles being played by their respective signals intelligence (SIGINT)
contribution to meeting the DOD’s AEA require- aircraft. Lt Gen David Deptula, the Air Force’s first deputy chief of staff
ments, was scheduled in late April but has been for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, noted that his ser-
put off indefinitely. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen vice’s RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft are operating at “above max surge”
Michael Moseley plans to ask Chief of Naval Op- levels and require a sustained investment to keep their sophisticated
erations ADM Mike Mullen for his interim help capabilities effective in the global war on terrorism (GWOT).
in meeting expeditionary AEA requirements “Spiral modernization of the Rivet Joint SIGINT fleet is necessary,”
post-2012 with the new EA-18G Growlers he said, “to keep pace with the wide-ranging and continu-
until the B-52 CCJ can be fielded in FY15 or ously evolving threat, particularly in light of advancements
FY16. – G. Goodman in commercially available per-
sonal communication systems.”
He said the spiral mod-
ernization will entail a
series of incremental base-
continued on page 18
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line upgrades, which will ensure that the RC-135 “does not require recapitalization AARGM CONTINUES LIVE-FIRE
until 2023 and, with relatively minor service-life extensions, will remain a viable FLIGHT TESTING
platform until 2040.” The US Navy’s Advanced Anti-
The Rivet Joint also will receive the Network-Centric Collaborative Targeting Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) sys-
(NCCT) capability, which links multiple intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance tem development and demonstration
(ISR) aircraft, such as RC-135s and U-2s. The platforms rapidly exchange and correlate (SDD) program, which began in June
disparate multi-INT sensor data “machine-to-machine” to pinpoint the locations of 2003 and has Italian air force partici-
enemy forces and emitters in seconds. Deptula said the Rivet Joint also is gaining a pation, was set to begin live-fire flight
reachback capability, which allows it to send a portion of its collected signals intel- tests from F/A-18C/D fighters as this is-
ligence to ground-based worldwide analysts who can help process the data. sue went to press in late May.
Rear ADM Bruce Clingan, deputy chief of naval operations for air warfare, told AARGM reuses the warhead, wings,
the subcommittee that the Navy’s EP-3E Aries II SIGINT aircraft has flown more than fins and rocket motor of the current
8,000 mission hours in support of maritime component commander and regional Navy-Air Force AGM-88 High-Speed
combatant commander GWOT missions worldwide. The joint Army-Navy Aerial Com- Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) and
mon Sensor (ACS) development program was slated to provide an EP-3E replacement adds a new multi-mode guidance seek-
for the Navy, but the two services went their separate ways two months ago. Clin- er section, a GPS/Inertial Navigation
gan revealed that a DOD-directed joint ISR study, completed prior to the Army-Navy System and other improvements. The
split, had “reexamined the multi-INT requirements that were the core of the ACS new missile is designed to improve le-
program, and considered potential manned and unmanned solutions. [It] validated thal suppression of enemy air defenses
the need for a manned, multi-INT platform to meet the tactical commander’s direct- (SEAD), particularly those that shut off
support ISR needs and highlighted the specific attributes required to be effective their radars to foil HARM’s ability to
in this regard.” passively home in on radar emissions.
The Navy is fully committed to sustaining the EP-3E airframe and keeping its AARGM is scheduled to enter low-rate
mission systems effective until its replacement, now called the EPX, is fielded, initial production by ATK Missile Sys-
Clingan said. The service plans three spiral upgrades to the mission system and in- tems in the third quarter of FY08 and
stallation of Special Structural Inspection Kits, which will carry the EP-3E through to achieve an initial operational capa-
2019. – K. Chaisson bility in late FY09. Production of 1,750
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modified missiles for the Navy and Air onstration, as well as three Quick Bolt JED WELCOMES NEW
Force is planned. Advanced Concept Technology Demon- ASSISTANT EDITOR
The new seeker section has a more stration firings. Seven live firings of Marianne Kunkel has joined JED
sensitive digital anti-radiation homing engineering development model (EDM) as an assistant editor. She recently
(ARH) receiver and an active millime- missiles will occur in FY07, and an Op- received her master’s degree in Eng-
ter-wave (MMW) radar, which is used erational Assessment with two more lish from the University of Florida in
after launch for terminal guidance live EDM firings employing realistic Gainesville and has served as an edi-
when a radar shuts down. The GPS/INS operational scenarios is slated in early torial intern for the University Press
is added to the HARM control section. 2008. An independent Operational Eval- of Florida, and as both a writer and
Navy CAPT Larry Egbert, program man- uation with 11 firings of production- editor for the magazine Gainesville To-

ager of the Direct and Time-Sensitive representative AARGMs is planned in day. Marianne received her bachelor’s
Strike Program (PMA-242) at Naval Air FY08-FY09. – G. Goodman degree from Auburn University.
Systems Command, Patuxent River, MD,
told JED, “The improved ARH receiver
will provide more accurate geolocation
information to the missile on the air-
craft and in flight. The guidance algo-
rithm will fuse inputs from the ARH,
MMW and GPS to find and destroy air
defense units even when they employ
countermeasures such as the shutdown
tactics. When a threat radar shuts
down, the GPS/INS will be used to
keep AARGM driving toward the radar’s
last known position. During terminal
guidance, the MMW radar will actively
search the target location area to find
the target.” Thus, AARGM will trans- 19
form HARM into a true destruction of
enemy air defenses (DEAD) weapon.
A national intelligence broadcast
receiver is also added to the seeker
section, which allows the AARGM-
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prior to impact, relaying missile and
target position information for battle
damage assessment purposes.
Captain Egbert noted, “With the in-
troduction of the GPS/INS, AARGM can
be used as a precision point-to-point
weapon. AARGM’s real improvement in
destroying nontraditional targets is
when the GPS is coupled with the MMW
radar. This will make AARGM a point-
to-area weapon, allowing it to be used
when a target’s exact location may not
be known or when the target is mobile
and likely to leave a known location.”
The AARGM technology has had
seven previous live-fire tests – four as
part of an Advanced Technology Dem-
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UAV TURF FIGHT BOILS OVER

Gen Deptula also told the House subcommittee (see page 16) why the Air Force be- TALIBAN CAN’T HIDE
lieves it should be made the executive agent for all medium- and high-altitude UAVs During an April 27 teleconference
– those that fly above 3,500 feet. That proposal, pushed by Air Force Chief of Staff piped into the Pentagon from Af-
Gen Michael Moseley, has raised the ire of the other services. Moseley signed a memo ghanistan, Royal Netherlands Army
to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the combatant commanders on March 5 detailing the Maj Gen Ton van Loon, Commander
proposal, under which the Air Force would oversee the development, procurement, of NATO’s International Security As-
integration and operation of those categories of UAVs, as well as their logistics and sistance Force Regional Command-
training. In early April, JCS vice chairman Adm Edmund Giambastiani referred the South, noted that while the Taliban
proposal to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, which he chairs. “were well aware of [our] surveil-
Deptula said the proposal would streamline UAV acquisition, employment and lance, given the vast array of video
overall mission effectiveness. He cited the Army’s ongoing procurement of Warrior and SIGINT assets available, there
UAVs, which are essentially the same as the Air Force’s existing Predators; both are is not much they can do about it.”
built by General Atomics. Deptula noted that the Marine Corps and Navy also now He said that the Taliban have moved
plan to buy similar UAVs. “We want to work in a unified fashion when purchasing away from large-scale attacks, which
these systems,” he told the subcommittee. “Doing so would be more cost-effective, have proven disastrous to them,
freeing up funds for other programs across all the services.” He said it also would pro- and are using smaller asymmetric
vide an opportunity to create and harness multi-service synergies that would build attacks, including improvised ex-
on each service’s strengths. “It works best when a joint commander can reach out and plosive devices (IEDs) triggered by
utilize all of the options at hand.” pressure plates or suicide bombers
He emphasized that the proposed executive agency would not be solely an Air rather than by remote electronic de-
Force operation, but would include participation by the other services and would vices. – K. Chaisson
leverage the work being done by the Joint Unmanned Aircraft System Center of Excel-
lence and the Army UAV Center of Excellence. On April 13, the Army, Navy and Marine
Corps declined to send representatives to an Air Force-hosted meeting to discuss the NAVY MODERNIZING SURFACE
issue, although the Joint Staff and the Joint UAS Center of Excellence did, according SHIP SLQ-32
to Jane’s Defence Weekly. – G. Goodman A Milestone B decision to begin de-
20 veloping a second set of upgrades to
the SLQ-32 electronic warfare systems
INTRODUCING on the US Navy’s surface ships under
the surface EW improvement program

THE SIDC SERIES (SEWIP) is slated to be made this month
or soon after.
The service’s program executive
office for integrated warfare systems
(PEO-IWS) at the Washington, DC,
Navy Yard will ask Dr. Delores Etter,
Elcom’s Ultra-Broadband assistant secretary of the Navy for re-
Downconverter / Tuner/ Receiver search, development and acquisition,
329372 to approve the start of a system de-
Outstanding • Frequency range: 0.5 up to 40 GHz
Performance •Elcom Technologies
Dynamic range: OIP3 > 25 dBm velopment and demonstration phase
for Block 1B SLQ-32 enhancements.
Features: • Phase noise
1/3sqperformance: < 0.5˚ RMS Block 1A SLQ-32 upgrades are in full-
• Bandwidth: 500 Mhz, 1.2 GHz CF IF output
• Selectable IF BW from 0.5 to 80 MHz rate production and have achieved
• Selectable IF output: 70/140/160 MHz initial operational capability.
pg 20 SEWIP is an evolutionary, incremen-
• Sweep and scan functions: up to 512 Ch/sec.
Applications: • 1 U 19 inch rack standard, VME optional tal series of enhancements to the fleet’s
• Synthetic Instrumentation SLQ-32(V) systems, which entered pro-
• SIGNIT • SATCOM • ATE • EW duction by Raytheon EW Systems, Go-
leta, CA, in 1977 and were introduced
ELCOM TECHNOLOGIES
11 Volvo Drive in the fleet in the early 1980s. The
Rockleigh, NJ 07647 SLQ-32 (“slick-32”) has provided the
www.elcom-tech.com capability to passively detect threat ra-
dar emissions, particularly those from
201-767-8030 radar-guided anti-ship cruise missiles,
and to classify the type of radar. About
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half of the fleet’s SLQ-32s, predomi-

nantly those on larger ship classes, also
have an active radar jamming capabil-
ity. SEWIP grew from the SLY-2(V) Ad-
vanced Integrated EW System (AIEWS)
development effort for an entirely new
surface ship EW system, which was can-
TRACE ESM
celled in 2002 due to cost and schedule
overruns. The SEWIP systems integra-
tor is General Dynamics Advanced In-

formation Systems (formerly Digital
System Resources) in Fairfax, VA, and
Northrop Grumman PRB Systems (Hol-
lywood, MD, and Goleta, CA) is a key
Block 1A subsystem supplier.
Block 1A provides improved control
and display (ICAD) technologies, built
on the Navy standard UYQ-70 display
console manufactured by Lockheed Interception
Martin (Eagan, MN), and a new signal-
processing computer. These allow the Reconnaissance
SLQ-32 to more quickly identify threats
and better correlate and display signal Intelligence HF/VHF/UHF/SHF
intercepts to the operator. The new com-
mercial off-the-shelf signal-processing 329303
computer, built by Northrop Grumman,
is called the electronic support enhance-
TRACEPlath
ESMGmbH
is a flexible modular
reconnaissance system for monitoring,
ment (ESE). Its hardware and software 2/3v
direction-finding and locating of conventional
21
development was led by the Naval Sur- and LPI radio signals. It can be configured
face Warfare Center, Crane, IN. according to individual needs on various
SEWIP Block 1B will integrate a pg 21
platforms for land, air or marine applications.
stand-alone AN/SSX-1 Small Ship Elec-
tronic Support Measures (SSESM) sys- N Scalable monitoring and direction-finding units
tem, already in production at General
Dynamics Information Technology, with
N Extendable for jamming by TRACE ECM
the SLQ-32, adding a specific emitter
into a complete EW system
identification capability. Another spe- N Flexible master-slave configuration in which
cialized capability to be developed com- each platform can act as master
petitively under Block 1B is a High-Gain N Data export from integrated database
(antenna)/High-Sensitivity (receiver) of each platform
(HGHS). The Naval Research Laboratory N High speed communication links by
in Washington, DC, did the early de- WLAN available
velopment work for SSESM and HGHS.
Block 1B also will include further ICAD
enhancements to reduce operator work-
load. Block 1C will integrate ICAD/ESE
on aircraft carriers and the other ships PLATH GmbH
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CDR Doug Small, assistant program 20097 Hamburg
manager for EW systems within PEO- Germany
IWS, said the Navy is working on a plan Tel. +49 40 237 34-0
for SEWIG Block 2 development that Fax +49 40 237 34-173
will be briefed to Dr. Etter in the near info@plath.de
future. Block 2 will lay the ground- www.plath.de
work for more significant improve-
ments than Block 1, whose upgrades
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are being layered on top of the SLQ-32’s do for SEWIP Block 2 is essentially go- IN BRIEF
1970s-vintage RF technology. (Block 2 ing to be the same technology that will Northrop Grumman Integrated
improvements are expected to include go on those ship classes, with the pos- Systems (El Segundo, CA) said May 16
a major receiver upgrade to improve sible exception of the Littoral Combat that it had delivered the center/aft fu-
system sensitivity and provide precise Ship.” He said his office has been work- selage section for the first production-
measurement of threat signal angle ing with the future ship program man- configured development model of the
of arrival, according to a Navy budget agers to define their EW requirements Boeing EA-18G Growler. The EA-18G is
document.) based on their ship’s planned missions. an airborne electronic attack (AEA) de-
The Block 2 plan also will outline A future SEWIP Block 3 phase will sig- rivative of the US Navy’s new two-seat
the way ahead in EW for future ship nificantly improve the electronic at- F/A-18F Super Hornet and will begin
classes, including the planned DDG- tack capabilities of the SLQ-32, while replacing the service’s EA-6B Prowler
1000 Zumwalt-class guided-missile de- Block 4 envisions adding an infrared jamming aircraft in 2009. Northrop
stroyer, Small said, adding, “What we jamming capability. – G. Goodman Grumman previously delivered that sec-
tion for two Growler flight test aircraft,
and the latest delivery is the first of
four under the system development and
demonstration phase of the program.
The Navy’s current plan is to buy a to-
tal of 84 EA-18Gs. Northrop Grumman
(Bethpage, NY) is the Growler’s AEA
system integrator.
✪ ✪ ✪
Army Brig Gen Anthony J. Tata was

named deputy director of operations
for the DOD’s Joint IED Defeat Organiza-
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tion in Arlington, VA. Tata has been the deputy commanding

general (support) with the 10th Mountain Division (Light) in
Fort Drum, NY.
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The Air Force announced May 8 that Raytheon Missile Sys-

tems (Tucson, AZ) is being awarded a $14.6 million cost-plus-
incentive-fee modification to its Miniature Air-Launched De-

coy (MALD) contract to perform risk reduction through March
2008 for the MALD-Jammer (MALD-J) variant. The contract in-
cludes ground and captive flight testing. The 328th Armament
Systems Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, FL, is the contracting
activity. Raytheon selected Tecom Industries (Thousand Oaks,
CA) May 16 to develop and manufacture the mid- and high-
band transmit and receive antennas for MALD-J.
✪ ✪ ✪
Naval Air Systems Command, in a May 2 pre-solicitation

notice, said it intends to award a sole-source, indefinite de-
livery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to Northrop Grum-
man Defensive Systems Division (Rolling Meadows, IL) for
up to 155 AN/AAQ-24(V) Directional Infrared Countermeasure 328627
(DIRCM) systems, primarily for Marine Corps CH-53E heavy-lift
helicopters. The IDIQ contract includes a base year plus four
Aselsan
option years. The DIRCM system includes AAR-54 missile warn- 1/2lv 23
ing sensors.
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Raytheon Electronic Warfare (Goleta, CA) received a Naval
Air Systems Command contract May 2 that marked the first in-
ternational sale of its state-of-the-art ALR-67(V)3 digital radar
warning receiver (RWR). The contract includes 24 systems for
the Navy and 55 for the Royal Australian Air Force. The ALR-
67(V)3 is used on new Navy carrier-based F/A-18E/F fighters
and will now be installed on RAAF F/A-18A+ aircraft as part
of Australia’s Hornet Upgrade program. Deliveries under the
contract will begin in October 2008 and be completed by March
2010. (The RAAF also has ordered 24 F/A-18F fighters that will
come equipped with the ALR-67(V)3.) The contract represents
the ninth full-rate production lot awarded to Raytheon; more
than 400 of the RWRs plus spares have been ordered.
✪ ✪ ✪
EDO Corp. (New York, NY) was selected by Lockheed Mar-

tin to provide its ALR-95 electronic support measures (ESM)
surveillance system for seven Navy P-3C maritime patrol air-
craft. The ESM system enhances the aircraft’s survivability by
detecting, identifying and locating hostile radar signals. The
contract is valued at more than $8 million, with deliveries be-
ginning in mid-2008. As prime contractor to Naval Air Systems
Command, Lockheed Martin is the mission system integrator
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for upgrading the P-3C aircraft’s mission jammed by the aircraft’s ALQ-99 system. sole-source IDIQ contract on July 23 to
avionics. The test took place on the Atlantic Test L-3 Communications’ Titan Systems
Range near the Naval Air Warfare Center, (Mount Laurel, NJ) for engineering,
✪ ✪ ✪ Patuxent River, MD. ARINC and its sub- technical and programmatic support
contractor, Porter Technical, developed services for maintaining and updating
ARINC (Annapolis, MD) said May 1 test procedures, drafted the flight and simulations and intelligence databases
that a team of its engineers had played a directed the flight test for the Navy. for the Airborne Electronic Attack/EA-
key role in the Navy’s first live electronic 6B Prowler Integrated Product Team
attack mission of a Boeing EA-18G devel- ✪ ✪ ✪ located at the Naval Air Warfare Center
opment aircraft in January. The Growler’s Weapons Division at Point Mugu, CA.
ALQ-218 receiver successfully detect- The Naval Air Warfare Center Weap-
ed, identified and located a simulated ons Division at China Lake, CA, said May ✪ ✪ ✪
threat emitter, which was subsequently 2 that it intends to award a two-year
LaBarge (St. Louis, MO) said May 2
that it had received contracts valued at
$2 million from BAE Systems (Nashua,
NH) to produce ruggedized circuit card
assemblies for the AN/AAR-57 Common
Missile Warning System. The CMWS,
deployed on a variety of Army, Navy,
Marine Corps and Air Force aircraft, de-
Because tomorrow’s fends military helicopters and transport
platforms… and tactical aircraft from heat-seeking
missiles by detecting and warning crews
of missile threats and cuing counter-
measures. The electronic assemblies,
built by LaBarge in Tulsa, function in
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UPS AND DOWNS FOR EW IN Overall, the Army picked up some extra dent Bush on May 1. The appropriators in
HASC FY08 DEFENSE BUDGET money in R&D: $2 million for electromag- both houses fully approved the Pentagon’s
On May 17, the House Armed Services netic geolocation development; $5.23 mil- JIEDDO supplemental request for an addi-
Committee passed the FY2008 Defense Au- lion for electronic warfare development on tional $2.4 billion beyond the $1.9 billion
thorization Bill, and though EW programs the advanced threat infrared countermea- already provided for FY2007. However,
survived the process mostly unscathed, sures (ATRICM) system; and $8 million for language in their respective bills reflected
the committee’s markup still resulted in IED defeat technology development. the lawmakers’ frustration with the con-
some ups and downs for some EW and SI- But, citing $250 million spent on tinuing fatalities suffered by US troops
GINT programs. failed Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) pro- in Iraq and Afghanistan from roadside
On the up side, the HASC recognized grams along with the recent decision by bombs despite the more than $6 billion in
the importance of installing the Large Air- the Army and Navy to go separate ways funding they have provided the JIEDDO
craft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) on the program, the committee noted a since late 2004.
system on Air Force Special Operations lack of “definition” for the ACS program, The House version expressed concern
Command’s AC-130 gunships. In its report stripping the Army of $5 million and the over the “lack of fiscal discipline” within
on the bill, the Committee noted that the Navy of $4 million from the FY08 request JIEDDO. It urged the DOD Comptroller
LAIRCM request made the Air Force’s top (leaving the programs at $21.4 million to provide better oversight and prevent
10 list of FY2008 unfunded priorities. It and $12.6 million, respectively). duplication of projects between individ-
added another $5 million to the $26.9 mil- Other highlights: The Navy received ual services and JIEDDO. Despite its con-
lion already allotted for LAIRCM system another $4 million for development of cerns, the House directed the JIEDDO to
upgrades on the AC-130s. the TADIRCM high-power fiber laser- fund all additional Joint Counter Radio-
26 The committee also added $3.9 million based pod. Special Operations Command Controlled IED Electronic Warfare (CREW)
to fund a request by Warner Robins Air received an additional $4 million for the jammer requirements.
Logistics Center to complete qualification Joint Threat Warning System (JTWS); The Senate version of the supplemen-
of an updated processor for the ALQ-213 Georgia Tech saw $8 million more for ad- tal focused on the development of a stra-
EW Management System. The upgrade vanced SAM hardware simulator develop- tegic plan for JIEDDO, and it directed the
program had received no funding in the ment; $5 million extra was allotted for DOD to finalize the JIEDDO strategic plan
initial bill. tactical SIGINT technology development, no later than August 17, 2007. The Senate
Air Force SIGINT programs also emerged while development of advanced pack- also directed JIEDDO to provide a staff-
with mixed results. The HASC allotted aging and direction finding for JTWS ing report to the congressional defense
$6 million for research and development netted an additional $2.3 million. The committees by May 18, 2007.
(R&D) to continue growth of the Rivet PATENT HAMMER next-gen SIGINT sensor A report by House-Senate confer-
Joint Network Interface Program, which received an extra $1 million in devel- ence members that accompanied the
supports in-theater network geolocation opment funds. – E. Richardson subsequent compromise supplemen-
collaboration. And the C-130 Senior Scout tal contained even stronger language.
program received an additional $7 million CONGRESS WANTS The lawmakers said they “remain con-
for production of a fourth roll-on/roll-off BETTER RESULTS FROM cerned with the organization’s finan-
shelter for the SIGINT aircraft. In its bud- COUNTER-IED FUNDING cial management practices, including
get submission, the DOD had requested The Defense Department’s its continued failure to provide a plan
$3.9 million to upgrade the three existing Joint Improvised Explosive De- for obligation and expenditures for pre-
Senior Scout shelters. vice Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) viously approved and for currently re-
However, the committee cut $10.9 was the target of criticism from quested funding,” and believe that the
million from the Airborne Signals Intel- Congress for the first time in the JIEDDO “is not effectively managing its
ligence Enterprise – specifically for the House and Senate versions of the resources to deliver effective counter-IED
Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial System FY2007 wartime supple- solutions to theater.” The report warned
– indicating the amount duplicated fund- mental funding bill that that without changes, the program may
ing requested elsewhere. was vetoed by Presi- not receive full funding. – G. Goodman
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THALES CAPTURES UK SUB WORK IN BRIEF
The UK Royal Navy has awarded a £21 mil- m Australia’s Department of Defence awarded BAE Systems Australia a
lion contract to Thales UK (Crawley, Sussex) to $76.1 million contract on May 14 to supply an upgraded electronic sup-
upgrade the radar ESM systems for its Trafal- port measures (ESM) system for the nation’s AP-3C Orion maritime patrol
gar-, Vanguard- and Astute-class submarines. aircraft. The contract requires BAE Systems to replace existing sub-
Awarded as part of the Submarine Ad- systems and associated ground support systems. The upgraded system
vanced RESM Technology (SMART) program, will enter service in 2011. The ESM contract is part of a series of AP-3C
the contract calls for the company to update upgrades worth up to $600 million that are anticipated over the next
the submarines’ existing ESM systems with an seven years.
open architecture and digital receivers. The
SMART system leverages MINERVA and PALAN- m New Zealand’s Cabinet on May 2 approved awarding L-3 Communica-
TIR signal processing used on the Navy’s Type tions SPAR Aerospace (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) a $21.2 million con-
45 frigate ESM systems. tract to design, integrate and install a new EW self-protection system on
The Royal Navy operates seven Trafalgar- the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF’s) five C-130 aircraft. The con-
class nuclear attack subs, which entered ser- tract is an add-on to the six-year Life Extension Program for the C-130s
vice in the 1980s; four Vanguard-class ballistic awarded to L-3 SPAR in December 2004 by the New Zealand Ministry of
missile subs; and it is building four Astute- Defence, which entails comprehensive avionics, mechanical and struc-
class nuclear attack submarines. The program tural refurbishment. SPAR previously installed the same self-protection
28 will help to establish radar ESM commonality suite on Canada’s C-130s. In 1998, the Three of New Zealand’s C-130s were
across the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet and equipped with a self-protection capability comprising a radar warning
provide greater interoperability with surface receiver, a missile warning system and a countermeasures dispenser.
ships, like the Type 45. But improved self-protection is deemed essential due to the increasing
In other company news, Thales France has sophistication and availability of ground-based anti-aircraft missiles in
won a contract to retrofit new radar ESM on locations such as Afghanistan. SPAR’s system also will be fitted on New
the French Navy’s six Rubis-class nuclear at- Zealand’s new NH90 helicopters.
tack submarines. – J. Knowles
m The Indian Navy is installing indigenous electronic warfare systems on
its surface ships and other platforms as part of a modernization drive,
TERMA TO EQUIP DUTCH CHINOOKS india-defense.com reported last month. The new Sangraha EW system
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has tapped was jointly developed by the Indian Navy and DRDO’s Electronics Re-
TERMA (Lystrup, Denmark) to supply EW sys- search Laboratory. It comprises a family of electronic support measures
tems for its Chinook helicopters. Under the (ESM) suites for different platforms that can detect and classify emis-
Chinook Aircraft Survivability Equipment sions from pulsed, continuous-wave, PRF-agile, frequency-agile and
(CHASE) program, the company will deliver a chirp radars. The system’s modularity facilitates deployment on a broad
variant of the Apache Modular Aircraft Surviv- array of platforms, including small ships and helicopters. Certain San-
ability Equipment (AMASE) pods installed on graha-fitted platforms also have electronic countermeasures capabili-
the stub wings of the RNLAF’s Apache helos. ties, employing multiple-beam phased-array jammers for simultaneous
The CHASE suite will comprise the AAR- handling of multiple threats.
54 missile warning system from Northrop
Grumman, the AAQ-24 Directional IR Coun- m Singapore announced that it has decided to replace its four US E-2C
termeasures (DIRCM) system from Northrop Hawkeye airborne early-warning aircraft by 2010 with US Gulfstream
Grumman and Selex, a chaff and flare dis- 550 long-range twin-engine business jets equipped with the Phalcon
penser, and Terma’s ALQ-213(V) EW Manage- phased-array radar system and other Israeli-made electronics. Singa-
ment System. The components of the CHASE pore will receive its first Gulfstream 550 later this year. The Israeli air
suite were evaluated during flight tests ear- force last year fielded its first similar Gulfstream 500 jet equipped with
lier this year at the country’s Vliehors range. the Phalcon conformal radar and signals-intelligence equipment. It also
– J. Knowles has six older Boeing 707 Phalcon aircraft. a
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GÉR A RD CHRIST MANN,
G ENER A L M A N AGER OF ELECT RONIC CO MBAT
SOLU TIONS, THALES AEROSPACE
When he was named to head Thales’ RF EW business line in early 2005, Gérard Christmann had already garnered decades of experience
in EW, missile and communications programs within the company. After graduating from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Télécom-
munications (SUP TELECOM) in Paris, he joined the Telecomunication Division of Thomson-CSF in 1975 as a technical engineer. He was
appointed director of the division’s EW department and then promoted to marketing and sales director of the division. In 1993, he was
appointed Vice President of Thomson-CSF’s International Department. He then joined the company’s Detection and Missile Systems Group
as director of the medium-range missile systems business. In 2000, he became Director of the Missile Electronics Business Unit within
Thales Airborne Systems before being named Director of Electronic Combat Solutions, within the newly formed Thales Aerospace division.
In the month before the Paris Air Show, JED Editor John Knowles interviewed Christmann for his unique perspective on the EW market.
With so many business lines and so warning receivers, directed IR counter-

many international customers, how measures and flare dispensers. So we
does Thales approach its customers, have three different teams to cover all
especially its EW customers? of the electronic warfare market. How-
Thales is organized in a matrix ever, when we need to combine and
structure between what we call our integrate the three activities, it is the
multi-domestic organizations and our radar electronic warfare team, under
business lines. The multi-domestic ap- my responsibility, that takes charge
proach means a local presence in the of the systems approach. For example,
country, which brings Thales access when the program is to deliver a SI-
30 to a greater number of domestic mar- GINT aircraft, we are the prime and we
kets. The company has successfully subcontract the COMINT to the division
pursued its multi-domestic strategy responsible for COMINT within Thales.
to emerge as the largest defence con- When we have to deliver a self-protec-

tractor in France, Australia, Korea and tion system for a helicopter, we are in
the Netherlands, and has achieved an charge of the global system combining
exceptionally strong position in the the radar warning receiver, the missile
United Kingdom, where it is the sec- detection receiver and so on and so on.
ond largest supplier to the Ministry of Defence. The business We are the systems integrator.
lines – each of which is an international worldwide organiza-
tion – are in charge of one business. Each business line has a So, although your French and UK business units are
centralized management structure that is in charge of research developing and manufacturing EW systems, there are limits
and development, production, marketing strategy, and busi- as to what information can pass between them without a
ness development. Our domestic organizations in France, the government-to-government agreement?
UK, the US and so on, are responsible for pursuing local busi- It is a priority for us to respect international and national
ness opportunities in their markets. So Thales France handles security regulations. For example, we have a great deal of co-
business opportunities in France, Thales UK handles business operation between France and Italy on the FREMM [Frégate
opportunities in the UK, Thales North America handles US cus- Européenne Multi-Mission] program. Our UK business does not
tomers. This type of business requires proximity to the cus- participate in the program. Nevertheless, our duty is to orga-
tomer, and a team of people of the same nationality, in order to nize synergies from an industrial point of view. It is clear that
respect the national security regulations of the customer. we rationalize, so as not to duplicate the investment. And that
I should also mention that electronic warfare is supported means that we try to develop common technologies. But only
across three structures within the Thales Group, each with its technologies.
own specificities and particular expertise. Our organization,
within Thales Aerospace, works on radar electronic warfare Are you able to realize synergies between the UK and French
systems. This is closely tied to our radar business. The second business units in export cases?
EW organization deals with COMINT and is part of Thales’ Land Yes. For the export market in the Middle East and Asia for
and Joint Systems division, as is the third EW activity, Op- example, we have developed a unique family of products. For
tronics, which is responsible for missile warning systems, laser naval applications, for instance, our newest family of ESM/
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ELINT systems is named VIGILE. VIGILE was co-developed be- to organize European cooperation, and we expect to be able
tween France and UK. When there is no security issue, we can to launch something – an actual program – in the following
offer products such as these. years. This is based not only on technologies demonstrated
under CARBONE, but on those technology demonstration proj-
What are some of the EW projects that Thales is working on ects that were contracted to us after CARBONE. The French Air
right now? Force is very interested in obtaining a support jammer. The
As I mentioned, we are developing a new system for the operational requirement is clear, and we expect the program to
FREMM. In the UK, we have just won a contract for the ret- begin in France within the next few years.
rofit of radar ESM [Submarine Advanced Radar ESM Technol-
ogy – SMART] on the Royal Navy’s submarines. This contract Would other nations become involved in the cooperative
is important for us and represents confirmation from the UK development of a support jammer or would you be looking
MoD, in the face of open competition from the world’s major to develop this strictly within France?
EW suppliers, of Thales’ position as the predominant naval EW It would be a European collaborative program. It could
supplier in Europe. There will also be a competition within the be developed and bought between two or three European air
next three years for the replacement of the electronic warfare forces.
systems on all of the surface ships of the British Royal Navy.
And, we have developed the VIGILE family for export oppor- What are some of the new product areas that Thales is
tunities such as Greece, Indonesia, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar and pursuing in the EW market?
so on. For combat aircraft, we don’t have a generic system to UAVs are a new requirement we are following, mainly for
offer. payloads – SIGINT payloads. And there is a need to protect
them. So, for instance, we are looking into development of
How is Thales approaching the airborne EW market? small jammers. We are also developing for France the payloads
In France, we provide the self-protection systems for Mirage for the ELISA [Electronic Intelligence Satellite]. It is a black
2000 and Rafale aircraft. But we are not “the” supplier for the program. Of course, this is not for the export market.
British platforms. For the export market, we have developed
32 CATS [Compact Airborne Threat Surveyor]. The first CATS sys- At the technology and component level, do you feel that
tems were made for slow-moving aircraft like transports, he- Thales is very competitive with the other top companies in
licopters and UAVs. We are now offering a version for fighter the market?
aircraft. For the retrofit market, we have developed a podded Yes. It is not possible to be competitive if you do not have
jammer PAJ. It is very small – say close to the size of an infra- the right technology. And part of our main activity is to
red missile – and it can fit easily on many different fighters. In integrate the components more and more, to be able to put
addition to CATS and PAJ, we have integrated suites for more more functions in the same size and to lower the price for the
advanced aircraft. The best example is the EW suite for the equipment.
Mirage 2000-9. The customer wanted something very similar or
better than the F16 Block 60. On what areas does Thales focus its research and
development dollars these days? Do you focus more on the
Within the radar technology area, are you looking at AESA software expertise or in the component technology?
radars that can perform EW functions? Both. Of course, we feel that the performance is linked to
Absolutely. In fact, for the active radar we have developed the technology – the receiver and so on. But more and more,
a European technology within a European company, which is the performance is also linked to the algorithms that run the
UMS [United Monolithic Semiconductors]. UMS is a joint ven- EW systems. And as you know, increasingly the performance
ture between Thales and EADS, and we have developed the of a self-protection system onboard an aircraft is the result of
technologies to provide an RF system that be perform radar data fusion between different sensors.
functions, as well as ESM and jamming. So we have developed
the right knowledge and have a European source for the tech- As a final question, what is the strategic objective of your
nology, so we are not dependent on the US. Some AESA proto- EW business in the near future?
types are already flying, and this type of technology is going We represent the merger of Thomson-CSF and RACAL and
to be used on the French RAFALE. Dassault Electronique, and our target is clearly to take advan-
tage of our experience in the EW market. Our goal is to main-
Is Thales developing a support jamming system? In the past tain our market share and, if possible, to increase our market
there has been a project CARBONE. share. We are in a very strong position in the market. And
CARBONE was started by the Air Force to enable the devel- our goal is to take advantage of that position and to continue
opment of a support jammer. An arrangement has been made building on it. a
Threat ID
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In last year’s July issue, JED assessed the state of Eu- The Euro Hawk program reached a milestone in Feb-
ropean EW. After a decade of intense consolidation, ruary when EADS and Northrop Grumman (together Eu-
Europe’s EW industry has reshaped itself to be more roHawk GmbH) signed a €430 million contract for the
competitive within Europe and abroad. The interna- development, test and support of this high-altitude UAV
tional makeup of EW companies, such as Saab Avitron- system. The platform itself is a derivative of the lat-
ics, Selex, Thales and EADS, also has helped perpetuate est RQ-4 Block 20 aircraft. However, it will be equipped
cooperation among European governments on many EW with an indigenous, EADS-developed SIGINT payload
programs. The result is a stronger European EW industry capable of performing standoff ELINT and COMINT. The
that can support the needs of its domestic customers European consortium, which integrates all relevant EW
and effectively compete in international programs. This capabilities under the roof of EADS Defence Electronics,
month, JED is taking a look at “who’s who” in European also will provide ground stations that will receive and
EW – European companies and the European EW pro- analyze the “take” from the aircraft.
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INT satellite, the German Euro Hawk program is Europe’s support due to Germany’s replacement of Atlantique
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importance. It’s a step in the right direction to make fan Zoller, a member of the EADS Executive Committee
the common European Security and Defence Policy for Defence & Security Systems, welcomes the program,
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This standard is being retrofitted under ity is one reason why EADS officials see The UK Serious Fraud
the R2 program to all previous Tranche a huge potential in the implementation Office suspended in-
1 aircraft as well, making them air-to- of AESA technology. vestigations into the Saudi deal (po-
ground capable, but without self-des- The RAF will stand QRA with Typhoon tentially up to 70 aircraft), but political
ignation (see similar limitations for F2 aircraft in the Southern UK sector pressure to renew the investigations has
Rafale below). In March, NETMA signed this summer. The RAF independently not ceased. This pressure could prompt
the Phase 1 enhancement contract for directed early CAS capability because of the Saudis to carry out their threat to
Tranche 2 (P1-T2), which will focus on the withdrawal of the Jaguar fleet and, withdraw from the procurement.
air-to-ground capabilities, just as the more importantly, the increasing likeli- In Austria, the first Typhoon pi-
first Tranche 2 aircraft entered final as- hood of a Typhoon deployment to the lots have finished training, a training
sembly last October. Although the RAF Afghanistan theatre, currently served simulator has been installed at Zeltweg

will receive TGP capability next year for by Harriers. According to RAF plans, the airbase and the first aircraft have un-
Tranche 1, it will become available for first squadron will be ready to deploy to dergone flight tests. However, deliveries
others only with P1-T2. Eurofighter de- Kandahar in the summer of 2008. may not take place later this year, as
signers are already working on a propos- Encountering commloss airliners and planned. The current Austrian govern-
al for P2-T2, which will include standoff lost general aviation traffic over Europe ment, which won the election last year
weapons integration (Storm Shadow and during QRA duty does not put much on an anti-Eurofighter ticket, seems to
Taurus). strain on the DASS, but Afghanistan op- have found a way out of the contract
In May, the fifth development air- erations may test whether EW engineers amid allegations of wrongdoing by the
craft (DA5) was used to test-fly the have done their homework. The ESM sys- chief AF officer during the selection
AESA antenna-equipped E-scan CAPTOR tem and the towed decoys will not be in process. Legal debates are ongoing, al-
radar, built by the Euroradar consortium high demand there, but the active Mis- though the Eurofighter consortium is
of EADS Defence Electronics, SELEX, sile Approach Warner (MAW) and laser still confident that the 18-aircraft order
Galileo Avionica and Indra. EADS offi- warner may be tested when the aircraft cannot be cancelled.
cials agree that one of the advantages flies in the MANPADS envelope.
of AESA technology is the user’s ability While the Typhoon is gaining momen- Gripen
to exert several functions, such as radar tum in the countries that developed it, The year 2006 was a significant one for
tracking and EW, at once. This versatil- export orders still remain in jeopardy. Gripen, as deliveries for the Hungarian air
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force (HuAF) began, and South Africa re- Red Flag-Alaska event also carried the at Saab Microwave Systems, improved
ceived its first aircraft for in-country test- full system, while engaging double-dig- functions are currently being consid-
ing. The Swedish air force participated in it threats and threat simulators on the ered for EWS 39, including integration
last year’s Red Flag-Alaska exercise, and range with success. Some aircraft of the of MAW, interferometric antenna arrays
it’s increasingly likely that the aircraft will Czech air force, which were delivered in for improved direction finding and geo-
soon deploy on operational missions under 2005 without EWS 39, received the sys- location, improved jammer performance
the European Union umbrella, assuming tem last year. and dispensing capability.
that it receives permission from the tradi- While the European operators have Hungary could not resist BOL dis-
tionally careful Swedish government. a seemingly common configuration, pensers and signed a deal for them
The HuAF aircraft were the first to pictures of South Africa’s single test last summer. They will be installed
be delivered to an operational unit with aircraft reveal a different arrangement in the Sidewinder/AMRAAM-capable
a working EWS 39 integrated EW suite, of wingtip units (WTU), which include Common Rail Launchers (CRL) of the
manufactured by Saab. The aircraft of quadrant RWR antennas. According to Hungarian Gripens to supplement fu-
the mixed Swedish contingent at the Kenneth Svensson, product manager selage-installed BOP/C dispensers, thus
significantly increasing expendables
capacity. According to Svensson, final
BOL integration is ongoing on Austra-
lian F/A-18 aircraft. BOL technology
also is in the new BOA dispenser aimed
for civilian aircraft (special purpose
transport, VIP, etc.), as well as in a
modified version of the BOZ pod.
Meanwhile, Saab recently committed
itself to investing in an ambitious de-
velopment program to upgrade the Grip-
en airframe to fulfill both foreign and
future Swedish requirements. In April,
Norway, still undecided on whether to
40 invest in the F-35, Typhoon or Gripen,
announced its plan to aid this effort. A
Swedish parliamentary decision is ex-
pected by this summer. Informed sources

say a two-seater production aircraft will
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Comtech PST demonstrator aircraft. While high-pro-
file changes will take place on the air-
1/2v frame and engine, it is highly likely that
this platform also will be used to test
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rations will utilize experience gained
in recent years with the Not Only Radar
(NORA) and Multifunctional Integrated
Defensive Avionics System (MIDAS) de-
velopment as part of the multi-sensor
integration 39 (MSI39) effort.
For the past three years, Saab
Microwave has been evaluating the
NORA AESA radar’s potential to perform
EW functions. The NORA can op-
erate in either a con-
ventional mono-pulse
conf igurat ion
or multi-
channel
configu-
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ration. “We have had very good experience with very high reli-
ability on all units,” said Svensson. “This has been particularly
noticeable with the specially-developed AESA antenna by Ray-
theon and the newly-developed multi-channel exciter/receiver
unit based on compact receivers by Saab Microwave Systems.”
The program also has been evaluating the multi-channel sys-
tem for detection and suppression of multiple jammers. Tests
have been performed in a compact antenna test range (CATR)
using mobile radar jammers.
The MIDAS is a concept for new EW systems with simulta-
neous ESM, ECM and communication capabilities. It was run

as a demonstrator program, and mainly funded by Sweden’s
Defence Material Administration (FMV) to demonstrate new
capabilities and technology for next-generation EW systems
in fighter aircraft. FMV flight tests were performed on MIDAS-
equipped Sabreliners from 2002-2004, and the program con-
cluded in 2005.
Rafale
The French government’s Rafale program reached an impor-
tant milestone this past March, when the aircraft underwent
its “baptism of fire” over Afghanistan. Although Rafales saw
this theatre in 2002, during the early stages of the coalition
operations, the basic F1 standard Marine aircraft only per-
formed combat air patrol missions and did not provide close
air support (CAS) for ground forces. This time, the air force’s 317588
1/7 squadron, based in Provence, deployed to Tajikistan with
three F2 standard aircraft cleared to carry typical stores: GBU-
Crane Aerospace & Electronics
12 and -22 laser guided bombs. Operating simultaneously on 1/2lv 41
the Arabian Sea, the air wings of carrier Charles de Gaulle re-
ceived three F2 Marine versions, complementing nine F1s al-
ready deployed. pg 41
Besides modern RF detection and jamming modules, which
employ interferometric AOA techniques with an accuracy of
1 degree and have phased array active antennas that provide
compatible narrow beamwidth, the Spectra system from Thales
and MBDA also comprises optronic and laser warners. The DAL
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and 90 degrees elevation coverage against laser range find-
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fin, providing 360 degree azimuth cov-
erage. The DDM-NG
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production for new
F3 standard aircraft
and retrofits from
2008 to prevent parts of
the original DDM from becom-
ing obsolete. The DDM-NG also will pro-
vide new capabilities, like full-sphere
detection and high angular resolu-
tion, which are compliant with future
DIRCM installation.
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Marketed as an “omnirole fighter” 310 NH90s for Germany, France, Italy, control and management of EW suites.
by manufacturer Dassault Aviation, the the Netherlands and Portugal. In Janu- It has formed an essential part of EW
Rafale is likely to fill an escort/support ary of this year, the Spanish government suites’ upgrade programs, as well as new
jammer role in the future. For this role, signed orders to buy 45 TTH versions, procurements, from F-16 mid-life up-
Thales has drawn up a new electronic at- which will be assembled in-country at a date programs to C-130Hs and J models,
tack concept centered on a pod-mounted new Eurocopter facility. AS-532 helicopters and more. The com-
standoff jammer with digital receivers, pany also has introduced a number of
an active phased array transmitter and EWMS upgrades to the system, including 3-D
“multi-bit” DRFM techniques. The con- Because of its success with the ALQ- warning, new tactical threat displays
cept and involved technologies were 213 EW Management System (EWMS), and a recording capability.
first evaluated a few years ago in a Fal- Terma of Denmark deserves mention

con 20-based CARBONE demonstration in this “Who’s Who” list. Following its Expendables
program and, eventually, they may find introduction to the market in the mid- Many European countries are sup-
their way into European UAVs. 1990s, the ALQ-213 has simplified the porting the Global War on Terror (GWOT),
Tigre and NH90

As with fixed-wing programs, the
long-running European rotary-wing
developments are finally coming to
fruition, both operationally and commer-
cially. The Tigre attack helicopter first
entered service with the German and
French armies. Its EW system is built in
cooperation by Thales, EADS and MBDA.
Called TWE (Threat Warning Equipment),
it comprises of a direct wideband recep-
tion RWR that works in the E-K band with
instantaneous frequency measurement
(Thales), and band I-II laser detectors 43
mounted on the stub wing-tips (EADS).
Saphir-M dispensers capable of holding
two NATO-standard 32-cartridge pods
(MBDA) provide IR countermeasures. On
German aircraft, TWE is supplemented
330086
with AN/AAR-60 MILDS missile warners, Wallop Defence
and it is not unlikely that designers of
the French equivalent, the ALAT, will
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look for a similar capability to make
their aircraft more survivable in today’s
UNRIVALLEDpg 43
PROTECTION
environment. Wallop Defence Systems is the world's foremost producer of MTV
The NH90, which shares a similar Infra-Red Decoy Flares, Dual-Spectral Decoy Flares, Radar
Countermeasure Chaff, Naval Decoy Systems and Pyrotechnic
EW suite with Tigre, reached some im-
Signalling Systems. Our UK facilities are on the leading edge of
portant milestones this past year. Last design, development and manufacture of countermeasure products
summer, Australia announced that it for military application.
bought another 34 NH90s (locally called
MRH90s) besides the 12 it signed for in
2005, and the first helicopter destined
for Australia made its maiden flight
in March of this year. Soon after, New
Zealand announced its purchase of nine
Tactical Transport Helicopter (TTH) ver-
sions. At the end of 2006, the German
army received its first TTHs as part of Wallop Defence Systems Ltd, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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especially through deployments to Af- SIGINT station with a self-deployable specific transmitted power, fast reac-
ghanistan and Iraq. The nature of these antenna system capable of “on-the- tion, multi-threat engagement capa-
operations has highlighted the risks move” operations. The Force Protection bilities and complete programmability
that low-flying aircraft, especially he- Jammer (FPJ) is a communication jam- of coherent and noncoherent jamming
licopters and wide-body transports, face mer that works in the 20-50 MHz and techniques, due to the implementation
from MANPADS. While some of these 800-2500 MHz bands to cope with radio- of multiple broadband DRFM units.
aircraft can rely on DIRCM systems to controlled IEDs or communications net- Thales officials say the company is
protect them, most depend on flares. works designed to set up an ambush – a focusing on active phased array tech-
Two UK flare manufacturers that have common scenario facing troops in GWOT nologies for jammer applications for its
increased production to meet these operations. naval EW and other programs. The EW
needs are Chemring Countermeasures, system for the French ships is Sagem’s
owned by Chemring Group PLC, and Wal- Horizon New Generation Dagaie System (NGDS)
lop Defence Systems, owned by Esterline On the seas, a few programs dem- decoy launcher, which contains a pair
Technologies Corporation in the US. In onstrate the naval EW capabilities of of two-axis launchers with 12 IR, RF or
addition to manufacturing NATO-stan- the European industry. The Sigen Con- acoustic decoys. Italian ships, on the
dard Magnesium Teflon Viton (MTV) sortia from Thales and Elettronica is other hand, will employ Oto Melara/
flares, these companies also manufac- the EW system for the Horizon frig- Selex SCLAR-H decoy launchers for chaff
ture more advanced dual-spectral flares. ate. The system, which developers call and IR decoy rounds. According to Tha-
The demands of long-term operations “groundbreaking,” is characterized by les, trials are under way. Testing also
mean that both companies have healthy latest-generation architecture and the includes the Falcon 20 aircraft-based
order books. implementation of new digital and mi- ARPEGE NG EW testing system, which
crowave technologies. According to can simulate anti-ship missiles.
Ground EW Thales, the radar ESM (RESM) compo-
On land, the French armed forces re- nent will feature very high sensitivity FREMM
cently began to field two important EW and accuracy direction finding, as well FREMM, the future French-Italian
systems from Thales. “Station d’Appui as broadband digital receivers. The radar frigate project, which builds on the ex-
Electronique de Contact” (SAEC) is a jammer is based on phased array solid perience gained from Horizon, will po-
VAB-armored, vehicle-mounted tactical state technology and will feature high tentially include up to 27 units. The first
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deliveries are expected in France in 2011 once associated with European EW have EW manufacturers are pursuing innova-
and in Italy in 2012. Systems include changed. GEC-Marconi, Racal, Dassault tions such as digital RWRs, AESA jam-
Thales’ Artemis Infrared Search and Electronique, Thomson-CSF, DASA and mers, laser-based DIRCM systems and
Track (IRST) system, which is based on CelsiusTech are all gone. These “nation- new flare materials. While it is unclear
medium-wave staring focal plane arrays al” EW manufacturers have been replaced how some programs, such as the Joint
and uses multiple static sensor heads with transnational companies that keep Strike Fighter, will impact the European
rather than mechanical scanning. As a one eye on domestic programs, while le- EW market, the future of these compa-
multi-role sensor, it is capable of detect- veraging the corporate resources needed nies is much brighter than it was just a
ing incoming missiles as well. Like the to reach an international market. Yet decade ago. a
Horizon, French ships will receive NGDS throughout this period of change, the
Photos courtesy AgustaWestland, BAE Systems,
decoy launchers. technological progress of these compa- Dassault Aviation, Eurocopter, Eurofighter

nies has remained constant. Like their GmbH, Gripen International, Northrop
Type 45 US and Israeli counterparts, European Grumman and Rheinmetall Landsysteme.
The Royal Navy’s equivalent of the
Horizon, the Type 45, also has Thales’
sensor equipment onboard. The com-
pany was awarded a contract by main
contractor BAE Systems to supply three
Radar Electronic Support Measure
(RESM) systems for the second batch of
the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers. The
RESM is developed from Racal’s Outfit
UAT, but with new signal processing and
emitter identification technology. The
vessels will have the Royal Navy’s Outfit
DLH active naval offboard decoy system,
which includes the Siren decoy, an ex-
pendable radiating decoy against radar-
guided missiles from BAE Systems. The 45
destroyer also will be fitted with a Sha-
man Communications-band Electronic
Support Measures (CESM) system. The
Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) open
architecture Shaman systems are being
326080
developed by BAE Systems C4ISR Net- IAI ELTA Systems
worked Systems & Solutions (NS&S).
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Submarine EW
Another important naval EW devel- pg 45
opment is the Submarine Advanced Ra-
dar ESM Technology (SMART) program
for the Royal Navy, which the Navy
will utilize on its Trafalgar, Vanguard
and Astute class submarines. In April,
the company also received a contract to
upgrade RUBIS, the radar ESM used by
the French navy’s nuclear attack subma-
rines. Informed sources say the package
includes technology from FREMM with
“superior capability in detection and
signal analysis,” and will serve until the
next generation of submarines, called
Barracudas, enters the service.
An EW Company by Any Other Name...

After a decade of industry consoli-
dation, most of the company names
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interview
COL L AURIE MOE BUCK HOUT,
US ARMY CHIEF, E W DIVISION, ASYMME TRIC WA RFARE
OFFICE DEPU T Y CHIEF OF STAFF FOR OPER ATIONS (G -3)
Recent operations in Iraq, particularly the difficult mission of countering insurgents’ successful use of deadly improvised explosive
devices (IEDs), helped convince US Army leaders that they needed to reinvigorate electronic warfare across their service. The Army had
allowed its EW capabilities to atrophy over the years. The other services, particularly the Navy, had to come to the Army’s rescue in early
2006 by deploying hundreds of qualified EW officers (EWOs) to Iraq and Afghanistan to help coordinate the electronic jamming of IED
triggering devices by US ground forces using vehicle-mounted, counter radio-controlled IED EW (CREW) systems, which were interfering
with friendly communications and command-and-control systems. May marked the first anniversary of the creation of a new EW Division
under Colonel Laurie Buckhout within the Army Asymmetric Warfare Office. In creating the new organization a year earlier, Army Vice
Chief of Staff Gen Richard Cody directed it to make EW an enduring Army core competency, and to include establishing EWO career paths
and horizontally integrating the service’s EW capabilities. The new office also was tasked with defining an Army EW end-state vision and
force structure, and replacing the joint-service EWOs overseas with trained Army EWOs by March 2008. COL Buckhout, a career Signal
Corps officer who has commanded the 32nd Signal Battalion in Iraq and served on the Joint Staff, sat down with JED Senior Editor Glenn
Goodman at the Pentagon on the day of her EW Division’s birthday.
What is your organization’s charter? that doesn’t offer upward mobility and
Our EW Division is the Army’s career progression. It’s looking very
central focal point for coordinating promising for the final development
and synchronizing all things involv- of that MOS. We also expect to have a
ing EW. Our job is to formulate EW more in-depth training school for non-
policy, validate and prioritize EW commissioned officers in place by the
requirements, allocate resources and end of this year.
integrate EW missions, functions We also want to leverage more of
46 and materiel solutions. The rest of the existing joint EW courses and EW-
our charter is to fulfill the vision of related competencies within the other
the chief of staff and the vice chief services. One of our directives from
to make EW something every soldier the vice chief is to keep our EW efforts
– from initial-entry privates all the joint. The Army realizes that EW is not
way up to senior officers – is familiar something it does on its own; like most
with. They all will eventually receive missions today, we are closely tied to
some level of EW training. the joint services. So we want to capi-
talize on their EW training and educa-
What were some of your EW tion, materiel and operations so we all
Division’s accomplishments during its first year? can work together in a seamless joint EW environment.
One of the major things we’ve done is establish training
for Army EWOs to perform ground EW missions. With the help GEN Cody directed that you operationalize Army EW as a
of Army Training and Doctrine Command [TRADOC], we estab- form of “fires.” Why is this the right place to put it?
lished training courses for Army EWOs. We currently have a For decades, EW has largely been hidden from the opera-
three-week tactical course at Fort Huachuca, AZ, for EWOs at tional warfighting Army, whose soldiers are out there deliver-
battalion level and below, and a six-week operational course at ing lethal effects on the enemy. They haven’t known much
Fort Sill, OK, for EWOs at the brigade level and higher. about EW because it has been hidden in security classifications
Leader training is significant and a big pillar we have to where the primary warfighters can’t necessarily access it, so
achieve. In order to really use the EWOs in the right way, lead- EW has been very mysterious to them. I believe what the vice
ers need to understand the value they bring to the organiza- chief wants to do is to demystify it and put EW in the hands
tion and the fact that they have to be smart, highly motivated of the combat warfighters – the commanders of brigade combat
and trusted individuals. We are working on developing a func- teams and divisions – so they can understand what effects EW
tional area qualification course so that officers and warrant can provide non-kinetically and sometimes non-lethally, and
officers can get a more intense, more in-depth, longer period thus [EW] might be more effective and less risky than using
of EW training. TRADOC is working on establishing an MOS kinetic weapons systems in some situations. That’s a big sea
[military occupational specialty] for enlisted personnel. That change for Army EW because we’ve run it largely as an intel-
takes time to develop all the job tasks and to do the analysis ligence-based operation for so long. EW will provide a new set
that goes into it. What we don’t want to do is build an MOS of capabilities in the maneuver commander’s tool kit.
int e r v iew | COL Laurie Moe Buckhout
What is the role of the Army Proponent for EW in TRADOC’s partment of the Army and joint-services level. On the bat-
Combined Arms Center [CAC] at Fort Leavenworth, KS? tlefield, however, military intelligence still plays a very
That office builds the Army’s EW requirements and assesses large role in EW in terms of performing electronic recon-
them. It also is responsible for developing EW DOTMLPF [doc- naissance and surveillance to find targets, and has power-
trine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and educa- ful capabilities that we’re going to leverage. The integrator
tion, personnel and facilities] solutions for ground EW. [It is] for all those capabilities on the battlefield is really going
building our new EW force structure, including the EWO billets to be the fire support coordinator, who understands the
at different levels with personnel of different ranks, from bat- targeting process and the integration of fires, as well as
talion on up. [It is] doing the painstaking analysis and legwork their effects. Two Navy Captain EWOs in Iraq integrated

required to do that. themselves into an EW Coordination Center [EWCC] under
We expect to have a validated force structure by March the Fire Support Coordination Center within the Multi-Na-
2008. What we will not have at that point, given the time and tional Force-Iraq, forging a concept of operations for how
training required, are people filling all those jobs in that MOS we plan to operate with our EWOs. We’re considering creat-
or that Functional Area or that warrant officer specialty, being a fires cell for nonlethal effects in our brigade combat
cause that takes time. Billets will be in place for those per- teams. So we are bringing different EW elements together,
sonnel, and then we’ll go through the personnel qualification not necessarily physically by bringing them together to
process to fill them. one location to train, but organizationally by integrating
The G-3, LT GEN [James] Lovelace, directed that every Army their effects to achieve a much better synergy of effort.
unit deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan since January of this
year must have an Army-trained EWO at battalion level and One of your office’s mandates is to integrate materiel
higher. That directive applies to transportation, supply, com- development and management for all EW systems. People in
munications and intelligence units as well, not just combat the EW community say this will be your toughest challenge.
arms. What’s your view?
That’s going to take some time. The good news is that the
Do you have enough EWOs to do that? senior Army leadership understands the need for that inte-
We’re taking them out of hide right now until we can finish gration and supports me and our EW community in making
filling out the new EW force structure institutionally. Each it happen, which is the first step. It’s very hard to bring re- 47
commander selects someone from his unit to fill that duty, and sources to bear on a problem when you don’t know the scope of
that individual completes the three-week and/or the six-week the problem; that’s what we’re in the process of defining right
course prior to deploying. now. Where is everything in the Army? We don’t have many
robust EW programs in the Army, but we do have some. We
How many total new EWO billets does the Army plan to need to look at our programs holistically and do a capabilities
create? gap analysis, so I can apply resources where they are needed.
That has not been determined or finalized as yet. Right In what areas are we missing capabilities, and where should we
now, I would say we will be adding several thousand EWO bil- have more that we don’t?
lets. That’s the kind of force structure target we’re shooting It’s not going to be easy to do, but we need to have a holis-
for. We’re a modular Army, so we want to make sure that all tic acquisition strategy that addresses Army EW at large. We
the brigade combat teams are well-equipped with EWOs. But we need to move beyond stovepiped systems. We need to have an
don’t want to ignore the support units that also go in harm’s integrated, networked set of capabilities that will be interop-
way in the overseas theater. Transportation units and commu- erable and compatible with our Future Combat Systems com-
nications units, for example, spend a lot of time on the road munications and battle command systems. In 10-15 years, my
in convoys. We’re going to provide one or more EWOs to every successors shouldn’t be dealing with small acquisition battles
type of Army unit, including aviation, that deploys to the the- – whether to buy this or that. Our systems should be linked as
ater. The challenge is to ensure that we can have a sustainable part of an overall strategy because they are all spectrum us-
career progression for those who enter this exciting new EW ers and they all help the warfighter to achieve effects on the
career field, while having enough EWOs to support the deploy- enemy. That’s what we need to work toward.
ing organizations. TRADOC is working on those issues. We need not only to integrate Army ground and aviation EW
acquisition programs, but also to bring other promising pro-
The Army’s EW systems have been scattered across its grams, such as those for directed-energy systems, under our
military intelligence, aviation, signal and field artillery units. EW umbrella. Right now, they exist in pockets in the Army, and
Is this changing? the leaders of those small development programs are coming to
Some of the areas of Army EW are still physically sep- me and asking to be under our umbrella because they under-
arated, but they are becoming well-integrated now. At a stand the synergy that’s behind it and believe their systems
strategic level, the CAC is really our EW integrator in the can offer us some powerful capabilities if given the greater
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TECHNOLOGY SURVEY
SAMPLING OF RWR/ESM/ELINT RECEIVERS
By Ollie Holt
F
ollowing our March 2007 survey on anten- quency range than the typical RWR, and they serve a
nas, this month’s survey continues the pro- slightly different purpose. The ELINT receiver usually

gression by covering radar warning receivers has an operator who can aid in the selection and analy-
(RWRs), electronic support measures (ESM) sis of the signals observed in the environment. The op-
systems and electronic intelligence (ELINT) erator can be cued to a certain signal by other external
receivers. information or he can chose to observe signals he has
Many technology advances have occurred since JED detected in the RF environment. The ELINT receiver does
conducted a survey on RWR, ESM and ELINT receivers not have the same real time identification and intent
back in 1995. The availability of higher sampling speed determination requirement of an RWR, so it can dwell
analog-to-digital (A/D) converters has made the concept on a signal for a longer period of time, and it can collect
of digital receivers a reality. Today we see RWR, ESM and a larger quantity of information on a signal for operator
ELINT receivers configured with digital technology. This or post mission analysis. RWR designers can analyze this
has enabled manufacturers to design systems that of- collected data to gain insight in support of better iden-
fer reduced weight and power, better measurement ac- tification techniques.
curacy and lower system and life-cycle cost. In fact, Referring again to that 1995 JED survey, it listed
these performance improvements, driven by the desire some new technologies that appeared promising but saw
for real-time situational awareness, have broken down a short life, as digital receivers became available and
many of the distinctions that once separated RWR and provided similar capabilities at lower cost. Technologies,
ESM systems. such as surface acoustic wave (SAW) channelizers and
The generation of RWR receivers listed in the 1995 sur- acoustic-optical (AO) channelizers, showed much po- 49
vey tended to have fewer RF paths to meet weight, power tential at the time. But they were quickly abandoned
and cost requirements and therefore tended to provide as digital technology became faster, denser and more
only coarse amplitude-based DF and range information economical. Today we can purchase multi-channel, VME-
to the pilot. In addition, that generation of RWRs was form-factor, digital receiver modules with 500 MHz in-
essentially designed to detect the lethal radar emissions stantaneous bandwidth and a field programmable gate
that were closely related to imminent missile launch. array (FPGA) farm that can be programmed by the user
And the problem was simplified, because most of these to perform the desired detection function. With the an-
lethal signals were persistent and easy to detect. Today, ticipated availability of 1-GHz instantaneous bandwidth
in order to provide more accurate situation awareness cards, all that is needed to create a digital receiver is an
to the pilot, better DF or precision DF (PDF) and range RF tuner, along with some control and signal processing
information is required, while also desiring detection of software.
not only the lethal signals but the early warning and ac-
quisition radar signals so the pilot can make engage and RWR/ESM/ELINT Sampling
avoid decisions well beyond the range at which the radar The RWR/ESM/ELINT survey was sent to 45 compa-
system can detect the ingressing platform. The desire for nies. The responses had to address RWR/ESM/ELINT
PDF and range drives the RWR toward multiple channels, receivers that make up a stand-alone systems and sub-
so a differential phase technique can be used to obtain systems. Only information supplied by the survey re-
precision DF and range measurements. In addition, the spondents was used in this compilation.
expanded threat list drives the RWR to more frequency
coverage and faster scanning techniques in order to pro- Next Month’s Survey
vide an unambiguous identification with less data. With Our next survey will cover communications electronic
the introduction of the digital receiver into the RWR, support (comms ES) receivers, communications intelli-
these additional functions can be added into the same gence (COMINT) receivers and communications direc-
footprint with little change in weight, power or cost. tion-finding (DF) systems. E-mail editor@crows.org to
The ELINT receiver tends to cover a larger total fre- request a survey. a
Detailed survey tables begin on page 50

MODEL TYPE FREQ INST SENSE TDR INSTDR
Applied Signal Technology, Inc., Allen, TX; (214) 547-4700; www.appsig.com

Pegasus wideband CHNLZ / DIG 500 MHz to 40 GHz 500 MHz -76 dBm to -92 dBm 73dB 60dB
Argon ST, Fairfax, VA; (703) 259-7357; www.argonst.com

NBS-2500 ELINT System Up to 4 nband 2-18 GHz wband: 500 MHz wband: -84 dBmi 60 dB to *
or wband receivers. (extnd 0.5-2 GHz 250 KHz - 80 MHz 80 dB
narrowband:
& 18-40 GHz)
WBR-2000 ESM System IFM 2-18 GHz * -65 dBm 60 dB *

(extnd 0.5-2 GHz
& 18-40 GHz)
EADS Deutschland GmbH, Ulm, Germany; +49 (731) 392-0; www.eads.com

Airborne Surveillance SHet / CHNLZ / 0.5-40/42 GHz up to 16 GHz -80 dBm 90 dB up to 60 dB
Intelligence System (ASIS) DIFM / DIG (Rx dep) (config dep)
EDO Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems, Morgan Hill, CA; (408) 201-8000; www.edorss.com
ES 3701 Tactical Radar Phase DF / AutoHet 2-18 GHz * -65 dBm 60 dB 60 dB
ESM and Surveillance
System
AN/SLD 4 (V) 1 Tactical 14-bit, 2-18 GHz DIFM 2-18 GHz 50 MHz -65 dBmi 60 dB 60 dB
Radar ESM and
Surveillance System
Elbit Systems, Haifa, Israel; 972 4 8315315; www.elbit.co.il

Timnex II IFM / DFD 2-18 GHz * * * *
50 Elettronica S.p.A., Rome, Italy; +39 06 41541; www.elt-roma.com

ALR_733 family IFM C to J wide open high * high
SEAL family IFM / SHet / DIG C to J wide open & very high * very high
selectable SHet BW
ELT/160 family IFM E to J & K wide open medium * medium
ELT/740 family IFM / SHet C to J wide open & high * high
2 selectable BW
ELT 888 family multiband SHet / DIG B to J many selectable very high * very high
SHet BW
Elisra Electronic Systems Ltd., Bene Beraq, Israel; +972 3 6175522; www.elisra.com
AES-210 IFM .5-18 GHz * * * *
NS-9003A-V2 IFM / DIG * * * * *
SPS-65V-5 DIG * * * * *
SPS-1000V-5 IFM .5-20 GHz * * * *
Era Corporation, Alexandria, VA; +1 (703) 914-1430 / +1 421 461 004 150; www.erabeyondradar.com
VERA-RL SHet / CHNLZ / IFM / DIG 1-18 GHz 250/20 MHz -81/85 dBm 80 dB 60 dB
VERA-UHF/SIF SHet / CHNLZ / IFM / DIG 380-1000 MHz 16/4 MHz -86/88 dBm 80 dB 60 dB
and 1090 MHz and 28 MHz and -86 dBm
M/A-COM SIGINT Products, Hunt Valley, MD; (410) 329-7914; www.macom.com/sigint

SMR-3822 Wideband SHet sweeping 0.5-20 GHz 500 MHz -102 dBm, >90 dB *
Microwave Receiver extnd to 40 GHz
SMR-5550i Low Cost SHet set-on 0.5-20 GHz 100 MHz -80 dBm 60 dB *
Microwave Receiver extnd to 40 GHz
SMR-5800 Extended SHet set-on 0.5-40 GHz 100 MHz 0.5-18 GHz, -97 dBm 60 dB *
Tuning Range 18-26.5 GHz, -95 dBm
Microwave Receiver 26.5-40 GHz, -94 dBm
TU-3840 Wideband SHet sweeping or set-on 0.5-20 GHz 500 MHz -101 dBm ≥90 dB *
Microwave Tuner extnd to 40 GHz
TU-6401 Microwave SHet 0.5-18 GHz 500 MHz -99 dBm >90 dB *
VME Tuner extnd to 40 GHz
DF CHNL PWR SIZE PLATFORM WEIGHT
Various config: AZ/EL Mono-Pulse scalable 6 to 24 90W (config dep) config dep air/grd/shp/sub 60-160lbs
Phase Interferometers to Phase/ (config dep)
Amplitude all TDOA capable
System as defined with a spinning * * Processor chassis grd/shp *

antenna. Can use amplitude, phase can be mounted in
and interferometer antennas. standard 19-inch
rack enclosure.
Amplitude, phase and interferometer * * 10.5 x 17 x 22 grd/shp/sub 75lbs

Amplitude, phase and time up to 4 150W per channel Arinc 600 stnd air/grd/shp/sub config dep
2 degree DF accuracy, circular 2 600W (system) Equipment rack grd-fix/shp/sub rec: 39 kg

interferometer, measures bearing (fits rec, sig proc server sig proc: 25 kg
angle, frequency, PRI, pulse width, & UPS): 43 x 22 x 32
amplitude, time of arrival, scan rate/
period, scan type & illumination time.
DF accuracy is 3 to 5 degrees; 2 280W (system) sig proc: shp sig proc: 40 kg

amplitude monopulse system 12.2 x 19 x 20
yes 8 * * shp *
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Amplitude monopulse (4 to 8 antennas) * * 2 ATR air 46-71kg
Amplitude monopulse (4 to 8 antennas) * * n/a shp *
& TDOA
Amplitude monopulse (4 antennas) * * 1 ATR air 15-20kg
Amplitude monopulse (4 antennas) * * 2 ATR air 55kg
Steerable, monopulse & TDOA * * n/a grd/shp *
IFM * * * air/shp *
* * * * shp *
yes * * * air *
* * * * air *
TDOA 5 50W 168 x 87 x 89 grd/shp 15kg
TDOA 2 8W 168 x 87 x 89 grd/shp 8kg
Amplitude only 1 (exp) 185W 3.5 x 8.5 x 22.5 air/grd/shp/sub 27lbs
Amplitude only 1 (exp) 100W 1.75 x 17 x 20.16 air/grd/shp/sub 20 lbs
Amplitude only 1 (exp) 100W 1.75 x 17 x 23d air/grd/shp/sub 21lbs
Amplitude only 1 (exp) 160W 3.5 x 8.5 x 19 air/grd/shp/sub 24 lbs
Amplitude only 1 (exp) 65W VME 2 wide 6U h air/grd/shp/sub <7 lbs

MRCM GmbH, Ulm, Germany; (+34) 91 480 70 46; http://www.mrcm.net/

MRGR-ELINT-FD SHet / DIG 0.5 to 18 GHz 500 MHz -85 dBm / 55 plus 55 dB
pulses: 40 dB att.
-80 dBm,
-65 dBm
MRGR-800-STDMB218 DIG 2 to 18 GHz 16 GHz -65 dBm 60 dB 60 dB
RAFAEL Ltd., Haifa, Israel; 972 4 8793858; www.rafael.co.il

C-PEARL-DV DIG .5-40 GHz .5-40 GHz -65 dBm 80 dB 60 dB
Raytheon, Goleta, CA; (805) 879-2041; www.raytheon.com/ew

ALR-67(V)3 SHet / CHNLZ * 1.3 GHz * * *
Countermeasures
Receiving Set
ALR-69A(V) DIG CHNLZ C/J * Threat detection * *

beyond lethal range
Rockwell Collins, Richardson, TX; (443) 489-9255; www.rockwellcollins.com/ewsigint

CS-6040 Microwave SHet / DIG 0.1-20 GHz 500 MHz @ 1 GHz IF / Better than 125 dB 65 dB
Receiver 100MHz @ 160 MHz IF -90 dBm using built in
typical step attenuator
CS-5998 Ultra- SHet 0.5-18 GHz 2 GHz @ 3 GHz IF / Better than > 110 dB > 50 dB
Broadband Tuner 500 MHz @ 1GHz IF / - 90 dBm (band dep)
100 MHz @ 160 MHz IF typical
CS-6070 IFM Receiver IFM 2-18 GHz 2-18 GHz Better than 65 dB 65 dB
52 - 90 dBm
typical
Wideband Digital Receiver DIG 1 GHz 500 MHz Better than 70 dB 55 dB min
- 90 dBm
typical
CS-5111/RC-5800 SHet 0.4-18 GHz 500 MHz @ 1GHz IF / Better than 80 dB 80 dB
VME Microwave Tuners 85 MHz @ 160 MHz IF - 90 dBm
typical
Saab Avitronics, Järfälla, Sweden; +46 8 580 840 00; www.saabgroup.com

BOW – Radar SHet / IFM 0.7-2, 2-18, 2-18 GHz IFM / -68 dBmi SHet / 70 dB 55 dB
Warning System 18-40 GHz 100 MHzm SHet -52 dBmi IFM
HES21 SHet / IFM / DIG 0.7-2, 2-18, 18-40 100 MHz SHet, 2-18 -68 dBmi, 70 dB 55 dB
GHz (SHet and IFM), GHz IFM / 500 MHz SHet and IFM /
2-18 GHz digital in 25 channels, digital -75 dBmi digital
Saab Avitronics, Centurion, South Africa; +27 12 672 6000; www.saabgroup.com

ESP – Electronic SHet 0.5-18 GHz 100 MHz / 1 GHz -60dBmi 75 dB 60 dB
Surveillance Payload
IDAS – Integrated IFM 0.7-40 GHz 4 GHz -54 dBmi 55 dB 40 dB
Defensive Aids Suite
Telemus, Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; ++1 (613) 592-2288; www.telemus.com

EAGLE/ALR-508/OLR-14 wband SHet / DIG 0.5 to 18.25 GHz stnd / Pre-D IBW: 3, Better than 100 dB Log: Better
70 MHz to 40 GHz extnd 10, 25, 50, 100, -75 dBm than 70 dB /
500, 1000 MHz + Lin: Better
custom IBW than 50 dB
S-EAGLE/ULQ-508 wband SHet / DIG 0.5 to 18.25 GHz stnd / Pre-D IBW: 3, Better than 100 dB Log: Better
70 MHz to 40 GHz extnd 10, 25, 50, 100, -90 dBm than 70 dB /
500, 1000 MHz Lin: Better
+ custom IBW than 50 dB
TN-100 Series ES/ELINT wband SHet 0.375 to 20.00 GHz stnd / Pre-D IBW: 3, Better than Better than 70 dB
Receiver/Tuners 70 MHz to 40 GHz extnd 10, 25, 50, 100, -75 dBm 70 dB
500, 1000 MHz
+ custom IBW
Amplitude only 2 2300W SHet rec: 238 x shp rec: 36kg /

550 x 290 (mm) / proc: 120kg
sens proc: 962 x
628 x 800 (mm)
Time 7 (1 omni 2000W ESM module: 250 x shp ESM Module: 42kg /
+ 6 goniometric) 387 x 632 (mm) / Console: 200kg
Console: 1600 x
628 x 1100(mm)

Phase (circular interferometer, opt multiple * One LRU cPCI format air/shp *
linear phase) and time (DTOA option),
mono-pulse phase interferometer
Amplitude (growth to phase/time 4 270W dig rec: 3.7 x 11.3 x air 79 lbs
DF planned) 13 / proc: 7.6 x
4.8 x 13.5 / quad
rec 6.2 x 1.7 x 7
Amplitude phase and time 4 100W 4 radar rec: 1.72 air 42 lbs
x 6.7 x 7.5 / 1 sig proc:
5 x 7.63 x 14.6
Amplitude, time 1 285W max 3.5 x 8.5 x 21.5 air/grd/shp/sub 25 lbs max
Amplitude 1 110W nominal 3.5 x 8.5 x 21 air/grd/shp/sub 18 lbs (8.2 kg)
no 1 30W 2 slot 6U VME air/grd/shp/sub 1.5kg

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Amplitude only, phase, time 1 100W Single slot 6U VME air/grd/shp/sub 5lbs
Amplitude only, phase, time 1 120W 2 slot 6U VME air/grd/shp/sub 6.7lbs
Amplitude only 4 600 VA, * air *

whole system
Amplitude only, SHet and 4 700 VA, 300W * air *

IFM / Phase, digital for whole system
Phase 1 140W 13.5 x 7.6 x 3.4 air 16kg
Amplitude only 4 205W 13.5 x 7.6 x 5.0 air *
Spinning DF/Monopulse/ 1-8 (config dep) <1.0 kW for rec rec sys: 10.5 (6U) x air/grd/shp <110kg
Scanning Amplitude sys / <0.5 kW for 19 x 24 / ELINT server:
ELINT server 1.75 (1U) x 19 x 24 or
3.5 (2U) x 19 x 24
Spinning DF/Monopulse/ 1-8 (config dep) <1.0 kW for rec rec sys: 10.5 (6U) x air/grd/shp <100kg
Scanning Amplitude sys / <0.5 kW for 19 x 24 / ELINT server: entire sys
ELINT server 1.75 (1U) x 19 x 24 or
3.5 (2U) x 19 x 24
n/a 1-4 (config dep) <1.0 kW for rec rec sys 1U (1.75”) h air/grd/shp <15kg
sys / <0.5 kW or 2U (3.5”) h x 19
for ELINT server x 20-22”
THALES, Elancourt, France; +33 (0)1 34 81 75 93; www.thalesgroup.com

CATS (Compact Airborne IFM / SHet + DIG / E-J band / * -50 dBmi / 50 dB / 50 dB /
Threat Surveyor) Opt: Intrapulse / CHNLZ Opt: K, D, CD -80 dBmi 80 dB 80 dB
(w/ dig rec) (w/ dig rec) (w dig rec)
PETREL SHet / DIG C-J band various config -80 dBm 70 dB 60 dB

RESM / FREMM SHet / IFM / DIG C to J * 65 to -80 dBmi * 60 dB
VIGILE SHet / IFM / DIG C to J * -65 dBmi to * 60 dB

-75 dBmi
Wide Band Systems, Rockaway, NJ; +(973) 586-6500; www.widebandsystems.com

DFD #1 DFD #1 500-2000 MHz 2048 MHz -60 dBm * 70 dB (inst)
DFD #2 DFD #2 2000-18000 MHz 16384 MHz -60 dBm * 70 dB (inst)
IFM #1 IFM 50-500 MHz 512 MHz -60 dBm * 70 dB (inst)
IFM #2 IFM 2000-18000 MHz 16384 MHz -58 dBm * 70 dB (inst)
Superhet SHet 500-18000 MHz selectable * * *
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TECHNOLOGY SURVEY
SURVEY KEY – RWR/ESM/ELINT RECEIVERS

MODEL DF • grd-fix = ground, fixed
Name of product, product family or Does it support DF (direction finding) and • grd-mob = ground, mobile
model number what technology? • shp = shipboard
• amplitude only • sub = submarine
TYPE • phase • subs = subsurface
Type of antenna: • time • sp = space
• Superhet = SHet • TDOA (time difference of arrival)
• channelizer = CHNLZ • other WEIGHT
• IFM = IFM Weight in oz/lb or kg
• digital = DIG CHNL
• other Number of receiver channels (RF paths) OTHER ABBREVIATIONS USED
to create a complete system • config dep = configuration dependent
FREQ • extnd = extends
Operating frequency: PWR • nband = narrowband
kHz, MHz or GHz Power dissipated in Watts per channel • wband = wideband
• rec = receiver
INST SIZE • proc = processor
Instantaneous Bandwidth, if different Antenna size in inches indicated by height • dig rec = digital receiver
from the Operating Frequency range. x width x length, or diameter: • sig proc = signal processor
• h = height • sens proc = sensor processor
SENSE • w = width
Typical Installed Sensitivity • stnd = standard
• l = diameter • opt = option
TDR • m = meters • TDOA/DTOA = time or direction of
Total Dynamic Range • d = diameter arrival
INSTDR PLATFORM * indicates answer is classified, not
Instantaneous Dynamic Range • air = airborne releasable or no answer was given.
• grd = ground, mobile and ground, fixed
Amplitude only / Opt: Phase / multiple 144W Receiver Controller air 10kg
Time / Geolocation (basic config) Unit (RCU): 194 x 157 (basic config)
x 318 mm / Radar
Sensor Unit (RSU):
100 x 100 mm
Phase, time 2 (addtl opt) 600W (2 ch) 550 x 780 x 600 mm air/shp 50kg
Amplitude and Phase * * * shp 250kg
comparison DF
Amplitude and Phase * * compact air/grd/shp/sub 60kg (air) to
150kg (shp)
comparison DF

n/a n/a 27.5W max ~7.4 x 6 x 1.25 * 5 lbs max
n/a n/a 27.5W max ~10 x 6 x 2 * 8 lbs max
Amplitude only 1 omni, up to 35W max (no DF) / 10.4 x 6.6 x 4 (no DF) / * 12 lbs max (no DF) /
5 DF channels 75W max (w/ DF) 12 x 7 x 8 (w/ DF) / 30 lbs max (w/ DF)
3U chassis opt
Amplitude only 1 omni, up to 35W max (no DF) / 10.4 x 6.6 x 4 (no DF) / * 12 lbs max (no DF) /
5 DF channels 90W max (w/ DF) 12 x 7 x 8 (w/ DF) / 30 lbs max (w/ DF)
3U chassis opt
* * 150W max 19 x 20 x 5.5 * 40 lbs max
(3U chassis)
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August 2007 Product Survey: Expendables and Decoys

This survey will cover expendables, flares, decoys and their dispensers. Please e-mail editor@crows.org to request a survey.
OTHER COMPANIES
This reference list includes websites for additional companies in the field that were unable to provide survey information due
to security constraints or publication deadlines, or that declined to participate.
Company Name Website
Aeronix ........................................................................................................................ www.aeronix.com
Altera ........................................................................................................................... www.altera.com
AR Worldwide ............................................................................................................... www.arww.com
Avalon Systems ............................................................................................................. www.avalon.com.au
BAE Systems ................................................................................................................. www.na.baesystems.com
Bharat Electronics ......................................................................................................... www.bel-india.com
Coherent Systems .......................................................................................................... www.coherentsys-newtown.com
DRS .............................................................................................................................. www.drs.com
IAI Elta ........................................................................................................................ www.iai.co.il
Eonic ............................................................................................................................ www.eonic.com
General Dynamics AIS ................................................................................................... www.gd-ais.com
ITT Electronic Systems .................................................................................................. http://es.itt.com
Lockheed Martin Systems Integration ............................................................................ www.lockheedmartin.com/si
Mid-Atlanta RF Systems ................................................................................................. www.midatlanticrf.com
Mikes ........................................................................................................................... n/a
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems ........................................................................... www.es.northtropgrumman.com
Selex SAS ..................................................................................................................... www.selex-sas.com
Sierra Nevada ................................................................................................................ www.sncorp.com
Syracuse Research Corp ................................................................................................. www.syrres.com
Tadiran Electronic Systems ............................................................................................ www.tadsys.com
new
products
AES-256 DATA ENCRYPTION RECORDING SYSTEM DR8100 PORTABLE DATA RECORDER

The AES-256 Data Encryption Recording System adds to the The DR8100 from Rising Edge Technologies is a dual drive,
VMETRO series of data recording and playback systems. Based portable recorder. It is designed with analog and digital I/O re-
on VMETRO’s Vortex Open Data Recording platform, the AES- cording and playback systems, and can record up to 100 MB/s.
256 is designed Its high-speed recording technology and compact size allow for
for ELINT and use in SIGINT/EW applications. The recorder features a remov-
general EW appli- able, 600 GB disk pack, a GUI browser and an internal clock
cations. AES-256 that dictates the rate at which signal files play back to users.
encryption allows Rising Edge Technologies, Herndon, VA, www.risingedge.com.
for data to be en-
crypted during GALLIUM NITRIDE POWER AMPLIFIER
storage, thereby protecting classified data against unauthor- Aethercomm has introduced a broadband, Gallium Nitride
ized use. The recording system collects data over an I/O PMC, power amplifier that operates from 0.5-3.0 GHz. It offers high
then can either encrypt and record it to JBOD or RAID storage power over a multi-oc-
devices, transmit it to a workstation, or play it from storage tave bandwidth, and is
to a workstation with AES-256 decryption. Other features in- designed for broadband
clude a Web browser, providing a single interface for multiple jamming and commu-
actions, and software available in source code. VMETRO, Inc. nication systems in
Houston, TX, www.vmetro.com. military environments.
The amplifier has a base
D5000 SERIES WITH MODULAR SIGNAL plate temperature of 85C
INTERFACING and a 10.0 dB typical
The single-box D5000 Series data system includes inter- noise figure, with 35 dB
changeable cartridges and multiple interfaces. It is designed of RF gain and a minimum of 50 Watts of RF output power. It
for sensor data acquisition in both airborne and mobile envi- is housed in a 7.0” x 9.0” x 1.5” package with SMA connectors,
56 ronments. The recording/reproducing system has a 256 Mbit/s and other connectors can be added for airborne operations.
total data rate, and offers three media storage options, tape, Aethercomm, San Marcos, CA, www.aethercomm.com.
disk and solid state drive. It has three high-speed interfaces,
a standard SCSI, a FireWire and a Gigabit Ethernet, which ECHOTECK ECV4-2

download and distribute collected data. The D5000 main- The ECV4-2 is the latest in the Echotek series of mixed-sig-
frame includes three signal module slots, and displays up to nal modules. Powered by a Virtex™-4 based wideband digital
75 channels at once for SIGINT/EW operations. Other features receiver in a PMC/XMC form factor, it detects analog signals
include automatic self-monitoring software, a 10 MHz refer- and digitizes and converts them, maintaining their original
ence clock, an IRIG time code reader/generator and a remote quality as required in radar, SIGINT and ELINT communica-
control. Zodiac Data Systems, Inc., Belmar, NJ, www.zds-us.com. tions. In the ECV4-2 family, there are more than a dozen vari-
ants; each is equipped with I/O connectivity and specific A/D
WIDEBAND FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER or D/A converters. ECV4-2 also includes an input clock capa-
Wide Band Systems bility up to 1.5 GHz, and modules available in air-cooled or
has introduced a wide- conduction-cooled versions. Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.,
band frequency synthe- Chelmsford, MA, www.mc.com.
sizer that is aimed at
the SIGINT/EW market. SIGNAL ANALYSIS TOOL/GRAPHICAL USER
It operates from 2.0-18 INTERFACE (SAT/GUI)
GHz, with a 3-micro- Rockwell Collins has introduced the Signal Analysis Tool/
second tuning time, and Graphical User Interface (SAT/GUI), a modern, flexible inter-
has a volume of 334.3 face specifically designed for ELINT operations. The interface
cc. The synthesizer re- is intended for easier navigation, as it allows its users to re-
quires 18 Watts of DC position and resize database windows, and save and quickly
power and produces a clean, accurate RF output spectrum. Its restore window arrangements. The SAT/GUI supports both
high accuracy and fast acquisition time, made even faster by manual and automatic operation modes. With the interface,
its switching speeds, allow for efficient receiver tuner collec- users can manually conduct data identification or statistical
tion of emitter signals. The unit is also useful as a local oscilla- analysis, and it automatically provides situational awareness
tor (LO) in SIGINT missions. Wide Band Systems, Inc., Rockaway, through data collection. Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA,
NJ, www.widebandsystems.com. www.rockwellcollins.com.
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STORMJAMMERS:
The Extraordinary Story of
Electronic Warfare Operations
in the Gulf War
W
e Crows are familiar with the EC-130H Compass Call and its impressive ability to jam enemy com-
mand and control systems, and we know EC-130s have participated in every significant combat
operation US forces have been involved in for nearly two decades. Now, thanks to a book by
former Compass Call “crew dog” Robert Stanek, readers can ride along with Stanek and his Grey
Lady Compass Call crew during 32 combat missions from January to March 1991, during Opera-
tion Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.
Based on the author’s daily diary, Stormjammers: The Extraordinary Story of Electronic Warfare Operations in
the Gulf War, published in 2006, allows the reader to experience the hours of boredom punctuated with moments
of terror that are typical of combat flying. Although the many of the stories
are somewhat repetitive, this is what Compass Call life is like, and
the book quickly becomes hard to put down. Even though the reader
58 can anticipate what a mission will be like, the tedium gives over to
an adrenalin rush of anticipation when things begin to happen. It is
impossible not to share the relief and pride of the individual crew mem-
bers when the attack missions they protect exit Iraq safely because the
Iraqi air defenses command and control nets were completely defeated
by Compass Call’s powerful, targeted jamming.
Stanek, whose Gulf experiences are given credit for launching his
successful career as an international writer, bookends his story by relat-
ing a gut-wrenching experience many of us can relate to, telling one’s
wife that you are off to war. He shares arriving in Turkey to temporary
quarters (old military classrooms) that “quickly began to smell like an
old sweat sock,” getting to the showers before the hot water runs out, as
well as the joy of finding out that the commissary got a shipment of real
steaks and trying to coordinate a mission to get there while they last.
Another side of the book lets the reader ride along when Stanek’s EC-
130H has two engines quit in the war zone, and just when bailing out
seems a certainty milking the hobbled airplane back to base only to have
to argue with the tower over who has the worse emergency, Grey Lady or
the aircraft critically low on fuel just ahead of it. There are also the mis-
sions when AWACS, the key to Compass Call’s protection, had to bug out
because of maintenance problems, and the entire crew gives a thumbs-up
to stay on station and continue their protective mission even though the
risk is much, much higher. Stanek also talks about what it is like to listen
in, from his unique radio-monitoring position, and hear the final screams of
the enemy as they are attacked by missions made possible by the Compass
Call. – Kernan Chaisson
Stormjammers, by Robert Stanek, is an RP Books Regent Press book published by Virtual Press, Inc., in 2006.
ISBN 1-57545-083-6.
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EW101
Communications
Electronic Warfare
Part 1
By Dave Adamy
E
lectronic Warfare (EW) is mitter and receiver are generally (but antenna is called the effective radiated
the art and science of deny- not always) in the same location, with power (ERP) in dBm. Note that the use
ing an enemy the benefits transmitted signals reflecting from tar- of dBm units is not really correct; in fact
of the electromagnetic spec- gets. In communications systems, the the signal at this point is a power den-
trum while preserving those transmitter and receiver are in different sity, properly stated in μv/m. However,
benefits for friendly forces. locations. The purpose of communica- if we were to place a theoretical ideal
This, of course, means the whole spec- tion systems of all types is to take in- isotropic antenna next to the transmit
trum. In this series, we will be focusing formation from one location to another. antenna (ignoring the near field issue)
on part of the spectrum most commonly Thus, communication uses the “one- the output of that antenna would be
used for tactical communications. We way” communications link as shown in the signal strength in dBm. Using the
take tactical communication to be more Figure 1. artifice of this assumed ideal antenna
than military point-to-point radio com- The one-way link includes a trans- allows us to talk about signal strength
munication; it also includes command mitter, a receiver, transmit and receive through its whole link in dBm without
and data links between base stations antennas, and everything that happens converting units, and is thus commonly
60 and remote military assets, broadcast to the signal between those two anten- accepted practice. The EW 101 in the
transmissions to multiple receivers and nas. Figure 2 is a diagram that repre- January 2007 JED has the formulas to
remote detonation of weapons. sents the one-way link equation. The convert back and forth between signal
We will start with a brief review of abscissa of this diagram is not to scale; strength in dBm and field density in
radio propagation in VHF, UHF and low it merely shows what happens to the μv/m.
microwave bands. Then, we will cover level of a signal as it passes through the Between the transmit and receive
some principles and examples of elec- link. The ordinate is the signal strength antennas, the signal is attenuated by
tronic support (ES), electronic attack (in dBm) at each point in the link. The the propagation loss. We will talk about
(EA) and electronic protection (EP) in transmitted power is the input to the the various types of propagation loss in
those bands. transmit antenna. The antenna gain is detail starting next month.
shown as positive, although in practice The signal arriving at the receiving
One Way Link any antenna can have positive or nega- antenna does not have a commonly used
The most dramatic difference be- tive gain (in dB). It is important to add symbol, but we will call it PA for conve-
tween EW against radars and EW against that the gain shown here is the antenna nience in some of our later discussions.
communications is that radars typically gain in the direction of the receiving Because PA is outside the antenna, it
use two-way links – that is the trans- antenna. The output of the transmit should really be in μv/m, but using the
same ideal antenna artifice, we use the
units dBm. The receiving antenna gain
is shown as positive, although it can be
INPUT
either positive or negative (in dB) in real
XMTR
INFO world systems. The gain of the receiving
antenna shown here is the gain in the
direction of the transmitter.
OUTPUT
The output of the receiving antenna
RCVR INFO is the input to the receiver system in
dBm. We call it the received power (PR).
The one-way link equation gives PR in
Figure 1: A one-way communication link includes a transmitter, a receiver, two antennas and
everything that happens between those antennas. terms of the other link components. In
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PROPAGATION RCVR PR = P T + GT – L + GR
PATH Where: PR = the received signal power
ERP in dBm
GT
P T = the transmitter output power in
Signal Strength (in dBm)
PT
dBm
GT = the transmit antenna gain in dB
L
L = the link loss from all causes in
dB
PR = the transmitter output power in
PR
dBm
In some literature, the link loss
GT
is dealt with as a “gain,” which is, of
PA course, negative (in dB). When this no-
tation is used, the “Propagation Gain” is
added in the formula rather than sub-
Figure 2: The one-way link equation calculates the received power as a function of all other link tracted. In the EW 101 columns, we will
elements. consistently refer to loss as a negative
number in dB, and therefore subtract
loss in link equations.
k
cept Lin In linear (i.e., non-dB) units, this
Inter formula is:
Gain Toward INTERCEPT PR = (P T GT GR) / L
Intercept Rcvr
RCVR The power terms are in Watts, kilo-
Gain Toward
Xmtr watts, etc – and must be in the same
units. The gains and losses are pure
62 XMTR (unitless) ratios. Because the link loss is
Gain Toward Gain Toward
Desired Rcvr Xmtr in the denominator, it is a ratio greater
than 1. In subsequent discussions, the
loss formulas both in dB and in linear

Des DESIRED form will consider loss to be a positive
ired RCVR
Link number.
Figures 3 and 4 show important in-
stances where one-way links are used
in electronic warfare. Figure 3 shows a
Figure 3: When a communication signal is intercepted, there are two links to consider; the
transmitter to intercept receiver link and the transmitter to desired receiver link.
communication link and a second link
from the transmitter to an intercept re-
ceiver. Note that the transmit antenna
gain to the desired receiver and to the
Des
ired intercept receiver may be different.
DESIRED Link Figure 4 shows a communication link
XMTR Gain Toward Gain Toward and a second link from a jammer to the
Rcvr Desired Xmtr
receiver. In this case, the receiving an-
tenna may have different gain toward
the desired transmitter and the jammer.
Gain Toward RCVR Each of the links (in both figures) has
Rcvr Gain Toward
Jammer the elements shown in the diagram of
Figure 2.
JAMMER
ing Link What’s Next
Jamm Next month, continuing our discus-
sion of communications EW, we’ll cover
propagation losses. For your comments
Figure 4: When a communication signal is jammed, there is a link from the desired transmitter to and suggestions, Dave Adamy can be
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Johnson (Army and
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Index
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JED, The Journal of Electronic Defense AAI Corporation ................................................... www.aaicorp.com........................................ 9
(ISSN 0192-429X), is published monthly
by Naylor, LLC, for the Association of Old Acqiris ................................................................. www.acqiris.com .......................................38
Crows, 1000 North Payne Street, Suite
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Electronic Defense, is sent to AOC
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Subscription rates for paid subscribers

are $160 per year in the US, $240 per Aselsan Inc. ......................................................... www.aselsan.com.tr ...................................23
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$25 elsewhere.
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JED, The Journal of Electronic Defense,
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Offices EDO Reconnaissance & Surveillance Systems ....... www.edorss.com ........................................29
Naylor, LLC – Georgia
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Direct: (770) 810-6969
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Details Page # Details Page #
AARGM, live-fire flight tests ............................................ 18 MBDA, Expendable Dispenser System ................................ 38
AC-130, LAIRCM funding increase ..................................... 26 Mercury Computer Systems, Echotek ECV4-2 receiver.......... 56
Aerial Common Sensor, Army and Navy program cuts ......... 26 MQ-1 Predator ................................................................. 16
Aethercomm, power amplifier .......................................... 56 MQ-9 Reaper (Predator B) ................................................. 16
Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) system of systems.......... 16 Network-Centric Collaborative
Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP) flight tests ... 16 Targeting (NCCT) for RC-135 ......................................... 18
ALQ-213, additional budget funding for ............................ 26 Northrop Grumman, ASIP testing ..................................... 16
ARINC, EA-18G electronic attack mission .......................... 24 Northrop Grumman, DIRCM for CH-53E helicopters ............. 23
B-52 Core Component Jammer .......................................... 16 Northrop Grumman, EA-18G Growler fuselage delivery ....... 22
BAE Systems, ESM for Australian AP-3C Orion.................... 28 Northrop Grumman, SEWIP Block 1A subsystems ............... 21
CAPTOR Radar ................................................................. 39 Phalcon phased-array radar system for
Singapore Gulfstream 550s .......................................... 28
Chemring Countermeasures .............................................. 44
Raytheon, ALR-67(V)3 for US Navy and RAAF .................... 23
COL Laurie Buckhout, US Army ......................................... 47
Raytheon, MALD-J risk reduction contract........................ 23
Cross-Eye Jamming .......................................................... 14
Raytheon, SLQ-32 ............................................................ 20
Deputy Advisors Working Group (DAWG)............................ 16
EADS, AAR-60 ................................................................. 43 RC-135 Rivet Joint, need for fleet modernization ............... 16
EADS, Defensive Aids Subsystem (DASS) for A400M ........... 38 Rising Edge Technologies, data recorder ............................ 56
EADS, EuroDASS .............................................................. 38 Rockwell Collins, signal analysis tool................................ 56
EADS, SIGINT payload for Euro Hawk................................. 35 RQ-4B Global Hawk Block 30 SIGINT variant ...................... 16
EDO Corp, ALR-95 ESM for Navy P-3C patrol aircraft............ 23 Saab Avitronics, EWS 39................................................... 40
70 Saab Microwave Systems, MIDAS ...................................... 41
Elettronica, EuroDASS ..................................................... 38
European EW industry ..................................................... 35 Saab Microwave Systems, NORA ........................................ 40
European Security and Defense Policy .............................. 35 SAEC SIGINT System ........................................................ 44
Force Protection Jammer ................................................. 44 Selex, EuroDASS .............................................................. 38
FREMM EW ...................................................................... 44 Stormjammers, book review .............................................. 58
General Dynamics, AN/SSX-1 Small Ship ESM ..................... 21 Surface Ship EW Improvement Program (SEWIP) ................ 20
General Dynamics, SEWIP integration ............................... 21 Terma, ALQ-213 EWMS ..................................................... 43
Gérard Christmann, Thales Aerospace ............................... 30 Terma, CHASE ................................................................. 28
Horizon Frigate EW.......................................................... 44 Thales and EADS, Multicolor Infrared
Alerting Sensor (MIRAS) ............................................. 38
House Armed Services Committee, FY2008 Defense
Authorization Bill ....................................................... 26 Thales, CARBONE ............................................................. 43
Indian Navy, Sangraha EW system .................................... 28 Thales, Spectra ............................................................... 41
Indra and EADS, ALR-400 radar warner ............................. 38 Thales, submarine ESM contracts ...................................... 28
Indra, EuroDASS .............................................................. 38 TWE, for Tigre ................................................................. 43
JIEDDO, Congressional criticism for................................... 26 US Air Force, sourcing for medium-
L-3 Communications, EA-6B Prowler support services ......... 24 and high-altitude UAVs ............................................... 20
L-3 Communications, EW self-protection for US Navy, EP-3E replacement ............................................. 18

New Zealand C-130s ..................................................... 28 VMETRO, AES-256 Data Encryption Recorder ...................... 56
LaBarge, Common Missile Warning System circuit cards ..... 24 Wallop Defence Systems ................................................... 44
Lockheed Martin, UYQ-70 ship display .............................. 21 Wide Band Systems, wideband frequency synthesizer ........ 56
MBDA, DDM NG ................................................................ 41 Zodiac Data Systems, data recorder................................... 56
With more than 50 years of electronic warfare experience,

BAE SYSTEMS is pleased to sponsor the JED QuickLook.
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seriously, and so do we.
Protecting the lives of warfighters — it’s the driving force behind all that we do at Raytheon. And our electronic warfare
systems have been doing it for over 50 years. From decoys and jammers, to radar warning receivers and new digital
technology, our comprehensive range of products enables today’s pilots to detect and defeat the threat. But what
separates us from the others is our commitment to program execution. We deliver combat-proven performance you
can count on, where you need it and when you need it. Because we’re just as serious about his successful mission as
we are about our own.
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