Modular, Adaptive, Stimulator for Training & Test (MASTT)

Current and future radars are becoming more sophisticated in order to handle the increased discrimination of more complex targets and corresponding target environments; outputs are detail-rich visual signatures. Current radars are looking for more than just detecting the target in these complex environments, they want to extract target features for classification. Radars are handling these requirements with mixed waveform modes; complex waveform suites; higher fidelity receivers and multiple beam processing. Radar stimulators for these new advanced systems have not been keeping up. These stimulators are needed for training of operators and test of the complex systems in order to realize the value provided by the radar advances. Colorado Engineering is proposing a modular stimulator system that can be distributed and configured in many forms to suit small to large radar systems.