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Measuring and characterizing the response of airborne electronic warfare systems during flight is an important part of preparing for modern electronic combat. Improved performance can mean the difference between survival and loss of a vehicle and crew. As part of an Air Force effort to characterize the response of airborne electronic warfare systems, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) provided integration and test services to produce two mobile Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) tracking systems.
These tracking systems, which are updated four times every second, provide information for a cooperating aircraft, including:
This tracking information allows antenna aiming of a mobile measurement system to enable the required characterization.
The project included:
The software utilizes the track data supplied by the interrogator once every two seconds and an adaptive alpha-beta tracking algorithm to predict aircraft position at quarter second intervals.
The completed tracking system features:
The system is controlled locally from within the vehicle or remotely from the measurement system. The integrated tracking system interfaces to the measurement system as a single IEEE-488 instrument.
For more information about mobile electronic warfare system (IFF Tracker) capabilities at SwRI, or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Tom Untermeyer at tuntermeyer@swri.org or (210) 522-5040. We can offer you the best approach for solving your communications engineering problem.
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Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multidisciplinary, independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with 11 technical divisions. |
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