TACTICAL FORCES C3IEW SPACE SURVEILLANCE COUNTERMEASURES

POTENTIAL ADVERSARIES USING COMMERCIALLY-AVAILABLE, SPACE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS CAN POSSIBLY CIRCUMVENT OTHERWISE EFFECTIVE FORCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES. AN EVALUATION OF SUCH SPACE SYSTEMS IS PROPOSED, ALONG WITH DEVELOPMENT OF A MEANS TO EQUIP COMMANDERS WITH THE READY CAPABILITY TO EFFECTIVELY COUNTER SUCH SYSTEMS. THE PROPOSED STUDY LOOKS AT THE TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES AND OPERATIONS OF NON-MILITARY, SPACE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS, AND EVALUATES THESE SYSTEMS WITH RESPECT TO CORPS OF DIVISION UNIT/EQUIPMENT SURVEILLANCE-RELATED PARAMETERS, EMISSION SPECTRA AND TIME-SENSITIVITIES. THE STUDY THEN ASSIMILATES INFORMATION ON U.S. AND CERTAIN FOREIGN COUNTERMEASURES AND CCD CURRENTLY EMPLOYED TO FRUSTRATE SURVEILLANCE AND SIMILAR TECHNICAL SYSTEMS. THIS ALLOWS THE QUICK GAIN OF A VALIDATED BASELINE OF COUNTERMEASURES CONCEPTS, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS. AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME, CURRENT TARGET-SIGNATURE DATABASES ARE SURVEYED TO GAIN TECHNICAL INSIGHT INTO PARAMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF DEPLOYED UNITS AND EQUIPMENTS AND TO SCOPE THE APPLICABILITY OF COUNTERMEASURESCONCEPTS. ALL GATHERED INFORMATION IS CORRELATED TO DETERMINE SPECIFIC IMPACTS ON CRITICAL FORCE OPERATIONS AND TO DEVELOP BEST CONCEPTS FOR COUNTERING SURVEILLANCE. THE RESULTS ARE THEN APPLIED TO AN ALREADY-EXISTING COMPANY CAPABILITY WHICH PROVIDES, AS A SPECIAL CONTRACT END-PRODUCT ITEM, THE RAPID-PROTOTYPING AND DEMONSTRATION OF A LOW-COST WORKSTATION-BASED TOOL AVAILABLE FOR USE AT ALL LEVELS IN THE FIELD TO GUIDE SURVEILLANCE COUNTERMEASURES APPLICATIONS.