Geolocation Simulation Environment Toolset (GEOSET)

The Phase I research will address AEF/MAF RF detection, situational awareness and counter-measure concepts and techniques through an integrated simulation and modeling environment. Identification of critical technology challenges, synthesis of advanced methods, and concept feasibility analyses leading to assessment technologies for geolocation and EA concepts are addressed. The research will outline new parametric simulation capabilities and leverage maximum reuse of government and corporate simulations, algorithms, tools and HIL interfaces to explore and evolve ES and EA concepts as applied to specific platforms and generic Radar Warning Receivers (RWR). Phase I will develop system requirements for a real-time software simulation platform consisting of medium and high fidelity multiple aircraft type navigation data geolocation, Pulse Data Word generation, geolocation algorithm solution models, distributed CORBA/DDS data publisher / subscriber and hardware interfaces. A goal of the system is to leverage existing work with new developments, combined with other efforts that integrate essential system components to physical hardware and HIL environments. Phase I of the proposed effort will examine previous developed products, including existing AFRL tools and simulators, existing receiver hardware, situational awareness software, advanced detection, tracking and geolocation algorithms and existing EA/ES/EP techniques. BENEFIT: The proposed research will establish requirements for a digital simulation associated with electronic warfare attack, protection, and support of large MAF/AEF mobility operation aircraft. Synthetically generated, as well as measured PDW data combined with real-time geolocation solution models, distributed EOB, OOB, ELINT database resources and advanced distributing messaging methods will provide the Government with a unique capability to explore EA/ES/EP Systems of System concepts for MAF/AEF aircraft operations. The simulations and real-time solutions / messaging method software may have the potential to be used with commercial hardware as the framework of new EW products.