Radar Waveform Diversity

To obtain spectrum dominance the U.S. Army needs to make use of all the Radio Frequency assets on their Size Weight and Power constrained platforms. Thus, it is critical that the radar apertures can also perform other tasks such as communications and ESM. To do so efficiently requires the multiplexing of multiple modes onto the aperture, overcoming radar-hardware limitations such as the use of non-linear power amplifiers and determining the system architectures that can best achieve this. The proposed Phase II Radar Waveform Diversity effort will continue the maturation of the techniques analyzed, chosen and developed in Phase I embedding them in realistic radar, communications, ESM and other RF modes and using Software Defined Radio and larger testbeds to experimentally validate their performance and demonstrate their utility.