Multi-Mission Waveform Design

Existing surveillance platforms are expensive to operate and limited to a single mission area (GMTI, AMTI, SAR). Radar technology supports the development of systems capable of addresing multiple missions. However, existing waveform design approaches donot permit the accomplishment of these multiple tasks at the same time. This Phase II efort will apply the evolutionary computation approach for waveform optimization to a diverse set of multi-mission concepts. Evolutionary computation searches the solution space through the use of simulated evolution. The fittest individuals (waveform suites) tend to reproduce and survive to the next generation, thus improving successive generations. Multi-mission radar concepts are possible addressing some or all of the following missions: (1) AMTI search, track, identification and handoff to interceptor, (2) GMTI search, track, target recognition, and handoff, (3)Ballistic missile defense,(4)Radar imaging and FOPEN. This evolutionary computation approach will optimize waveforms for any multi-mission radar concept.