Sensor Architectures for Radar Combat Identification

An effective noncooperative target recognition (NCTR) system relies on the successful integration of three critical components: sensor, signature database, and classifier. These three components must be addressed concurrently and optimized in a mutually consistent manner to arrive at an effective NCTR solution. TSC proposes to develop a high-fidelity, coherent, voltage-level radar model to support the sensor component of such an analysis. This proposal describes a testbed for developing and testing potential NCTR systems, with major testbed modules representing each of these three critical NCTR components. In Phase II, the radar model will be realized in software suitable for such a testbed, validated against field data, and used in NCTR system trade studies.