Real-Time NCW Evaluation Test System (RTNETs)

There is a need for cost effective real-time flexible tools, methodologies, establishment of HITL interface standards to promote development, concept exploration, test and transition of digital warning receivers systems for Network-Centric Warfare operations. Integration of NCW technologies into a System of Systems (SoS) hardware-In-the-loop (HIL) environment for evaluation of receiver technologies requires a broad scope of software tools, methodologies, interfaces and technologies necessary to stimulate, evaluate and explore data synergy concepts for exploitation of geolocation technologies. A scalable and flexible SoS real-time HIL system capable of correlating EW RF with multiple inertial platform simulations / avionics and network centric data streams to other SoS components is required to explore network centric opportunities while reducing associated test costs. The Phase II project will evolve the Phase I research and technologies by adding re-useable software and EW stimulator hardware synchronization methods, scalable aircraft platform models, aircraft INS simulations, aircraft net-centric communications methods, aircraft wing antenna disturbance models, network-centric geo-based messaging from physical / virtual entities and connectivity to the WPAFB VCL. The Phase II product will consist of a real-time controller and suite of highly integrated network aware subsystems compatible with current IDAL simulators and those currently in IDAL development stages.