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Objective: | Develop techniques for low and/or high -frequency radar systems (e.g. VHF, UHF, L, and/or KU bands) that could be incorporated into a current or future SAR system to mitigate the effects of unintentional radio frequency interference (RFI) or intentional electronic attack (EA).
| Description: | Counter Concealment Aerial Sensors (C-CAS) that are currently being developed by the Army such as TRACER, ARTEMIS and FORESTER, and other future enhanced systems, operate at VHF, UHF and or L-band frequencies. These radars must operate in environments in which there can be a significant amount of unintentional RFI and possibly intentional EA. The RFI and EA, which are received through the systems receive antenna’s mainlobe, sidelobes, and/or backlobes, could significantly degrade the image quality and or adversely affect system capability. This effort will develop one or more EP techniques to mitigate the effects of RFI and/or EA.
| | PHASE I: The feasibility study shall investigate one or more innovative EP concepts and will show through analysis and/or a basic simulation how the proposed technique(s) would improve target detectability in a C-CAS SAR system and add system capability protection in the presence of strong RFI and/or EA emissions.
| | PHASE II: The contractor shall develop a prototype consisting of detailed software simulation to demonstrate how well the proposed EP techniques(s) would perform in a complex EA and RFI environment. Also, the contractor will apply the techniques developed under Phase I to available test data provided by the Army system or conduct a data collection to obtain such data.
| | PHASE III: The contractor shall work with PM RUS, I2WD-RA and/or the radar manufacturer to integrate the solution into a Counter Concealment Aerial Sensors (C-CAS) radar system for military applications or similar Department of Homeland Security application to decrease vulnerability to RFI and/or Electronic Attack of radar systems.
| References: | ichard Dubroff, S.V. Marshall, & G.G. Skitek. "Electromagnetic Concepts and Applications". New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc; 1996. Print.
Merrill Skolnik. "Introduction To Radar Systems". New York: McGraw Hill; 1980. Print
L.A. Bessette and S. Ayasli, “Ultra-Wideband P-3 and CARABAS II Foliage Attenuation and Backscatter Analysis,” IEEE 2001 Radar Conf., Atlanta, GA, May, 2001.
| | Keywords: | Counter Concealment Aerial Sensors, Penetrating radar, Optimal waveform |