EW SPECTRUM

MANAGEMENT

November 2014

aselsan

aselsan

CONTENTS What Is The Problem?

Common Picture? (EW Spectrum)

Area of Interest

Preemptive Operations

EW Spectrum Management

Steps For EW Spectrum Management

Planning, Perception, Fusion & Dominance

SIGINT, SOJ and SP Systems

Some Remarks

2 UNCLASSIFIED

aselsan

What Is The Problem? Peace time

Air Dominance Keep DOMINANCE

War time

Air Superiority Keep SUPERIORITY

Where ?

Space

Air

Land

Sea Above-water

Under-water

UNCLASSIFIED 3

aselsan

Common Picture (CoPi)? Recognized All Picture (RAP)

All means: Interest of things in space, air, land & sea

Recognized EM Spectrum (REMS)

Both peace time & war time

Common Picture = RAP + REMS

Could we call common picture as a EW Spectrum or EM Operational Environment ?

UNCLASSIFIED 4

aselsan

Area of Interest (AOI)? The nearly real-time presentation of EW

Spectrum on screen

Use some filters and/or clusters to generate EW Spectrum of area of interest or given operational area

defined user zone

UNCLASSIFIED 5

aselsan

Preemptive Operations (PROP)? Why do we need PROP?

To keep DOMINANCE / SUPERIORITY

Also for protection of all assets including platforms

At the end to Management of EW Spectrum in the electromagnetic battle space

PROP at least needs

SIGINT

Attack

Protection

systems and supporting infrastructure

UNCLASSIFIED 6

aselsan

EW Spectrum Management Symmetric and asymmetric warfare becomes more complex

Vulnerability of military assets are increasing in multispectral threat environments

Need to have full situational awareness and nearly real time mapping of EM Battle space for the decision makers

Dominance on full spectrum and appropriate systems required Requires know-how on threats, sensor systems, fusion and countermeasure /

attack systems.

7 UNCLASSIFIED

aselsan

Steps

EW Spectrum Management needs

Planning

Perception

Fusion

Dominance

UNCLASSIFIED 8

aselsan EW Planning Key To Success Getting “READY” For EW War

Operations & mission planning

Analysis of awareness intelligence

Preparation of dominance techniques

Manage Threat Database?

Use simulators, emulators, real threats for training

Trials, de-briefings, quick updates of plans

9 UNCLASSIFIED

aselsan Perception: Awareness of EW Spectrum

The “eyes” of the EW are the sensors,

Captures the full spectrum environment in terms of different characteristics (de-fusion of EMS)

Search for, intercept, identify, locate or localize intentional

and unintentional EM energy (global backgroung EM envi.)

For immediate threat recognition (ESM etc.) or long-term operational

planning (ELINT etc.)

General systems requirements: Keep silent, wide spectrum -

bandwidth - dynamic range, accurate AOA/geo-localization,

recording, real time analysis…

10 UNCLASSIFIED

aselsan Fusion: Understanding the EM Battle Space

Needs:

Fusion of the de-fused information from the sensors

Creating and understanding the EM operational

environment (EMOE)

Threat recognition, targeting, planning

Threat avoidance and homing within the

radar and communication spectrum

Communication

Management of information flow

Sensors Decision Makers Actuators

11 UNCLASSIFIED

aselsan Dominance: Management of the EM Battle Space

12 UNCLASSIFIED

The “arms” of the EW are the actuators

Dominance on all the EM spectrum is required

Preserve some windows of EW Spectrum for friendly

forces

Use the electromagnetic energy to attack for degrading,

neutralizing or destroying enemy combat capability

Dominance in the peace time leads to superiority in the

war time

aselsan Today SIGINT Systems: Airborne Awareness

13 UNCLASSIFIED

PROP

Nearly Real Time

Support both

perception and fusion

aselsan Airborne SOJ: Full EW Spectrum Dominance

14 UNCLASSIFIED

Support dominance

/ superiority

aselsan Self Protection Systems: Airborne & Full Spectrum

15 UNCLASSIFIED

CHAFF/FLARE DISPENSING SYSTEM (CMDS)

Suite Central

Management Unit

Pilot Control and

Display Unit

Pilot Control

Panel

LASER WARNING RECEIVER (LWR)

RADAR WARNING RECEIVER (RWR) RF JAMMER (RFJ) EW SPS MANAGEMENT

PLATFORM INTERFACES

INERTIAL NAVIGATION UNIT

MISSILE WARNING SYSTEM

(MWS)

DIRCM

Real time into the cockpit (RTIC):

Situational Awarenes (SA)

aselsan Self Protection Systems: Naval & Full Spectrum

16 UNCLASSIFIED

SENSORS COUNTERMEASURE

ELECTRONIC SUPPORT MEASURES

INERTIAL NAVIGATION UNIT

DECOY LAUNCHER AND EXPENDABLE ACTIVE RF DECOY

RF JAMMER

PLATFORM INTERFACES

EW SUITE MANAGEMENT

EW CONSOLE EW CENTRAL PROCESSING

UNIT

IR SEARCH AND TRACK SYSTEM (IRST)

LASER WARNING SYSTEM

aselsan

Some Remarks There are new rules of EW spectrum management

or EM battle game

To support the battle managers

Future systems of systems (SoS) architectures which team unmanned and manned systems / platforms

shall operate within a dynamic coordination,

should support both integrated coordination and de-conflicting methodology,

shall operate in uncertain and restricted communication environments

SIGINT collection, processing and exploitation process by using advanced techniques should be provided with automation (no more man in the loop systems)

UNCLASSIFIED 17

Thank You

www.aselsan.com

aselsan

Keys AOI : Area Of Interest

EMA : Electromagnetic Agility

EMS : Electromagnetic Spectrum

EMOE : Electromagnetic Operational Environment

EMW : Electromagnetic Warfare

SOI : Signal Of Interest

“please do not jam all the EM environment while you were trying to jam only the signal of interest (SOI) with your non-directive antenna, because some SIGINT guy still collecting and sharing the data at the same area of interest for next operation within the hour”

UNCLASSIFIED 19