Rapid Reprogramming Technologies for Electronic Warfare Training

ABSTRACT: In order to ensure current competency among pilots (for both manned and remotely piloted vehicles), there is a critical need to provide the student with training environments that train against the most current electronic threats. This proposal will address these needs by developing a process and capability for rapid integration and validation of Electronic Warfare models and supporting data that will allow training systems and supporting simulations to maintain valid, concurrent representations of evolving and reprogrammable hostile threats. Lavender Industries proposes a SysML developed process and architecture coupled with a government provided threat environment to address this problem. It is anticipated that this product will be demonstrated on the F-16C fighter aircraft flight simulator with a generic solution for multiple platforms. The results from Phase I will allow system demonstration as part of a Phase II effort. BENEFIT: A primary feature of our approach is that the process and algorithms can be used in conjunction with government assets, hence minimizing the hardware expense. This project has direct benefit for military applications by providing the ability to rapidly reprogram training simulators and supporting counter-threat training while maintaining correlation with actual threat characteristics. Technologies developed under this program can also support commercial applications (disaster response and commercial aviation simulations) by providing a similar process for training environment rapid reprogramming.