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Land and Airborne Systems

COMINT Capabilities

SwRI offers a variety of COMINT and geolocation products and solutions for mobile applications. Systems for land and airborne applications provide a powerful capability into a reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) form factor. SwRI can provide the full hardware suite, or integrate SwRI software and firmware libraries into third-party hardware.

Direction Finding antenna arrays can be tailored to covertly conform to the platform exterior or fit into a platform's inner cavities. The SwRI arrays for mobile platforms are lightweight and low-cost and capable of being applied across multiple platforms with a single DF calibration.

Capabilities include:

  • Tactical and strategic missions
  • Frequency coverage 2 MHz – 6 GHz 
  • Direction finding (DF)
  • Time difference of arrival (TDOA)
  • Frequency difference of arrival (FDOA)
  • Targeting accuracy geolocation & fixing
  • Automatic active channel detection
  • Automatic signal recognition, demodulation, and decoding
  • Rich suite of operator displays, including frequency scan schedules, mapping, streaming and waterfall spectrums, audio, post-facto signal analysis, etc.

Platforms

SwRI designs, deploys, and supports COMINT/DF systems on a variety of platforms including:

  • Man-transportable/man-pack
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
  • Manned fixed wing aircraft
  • Helicopters
  • Commercial vehicles
  • Military vehicles