ELECTRONIC WARFARE & PLANNING ANALYSIS SUPPORT

PROJECT OBJECTIVES: 1) PROVIDE THE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS AND COST/BENEFIT/RISK ASSESSMENTS NEEDED TO DEFINE THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS OF MEETING EXISTING AND NEXT-GENERATION EW SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS; AND 2) DEVELOP AN EW PLANNING AND ANALYSIS SUPPORT CAPABILITY WHICH WILL ENABLE THE PLANNING PROCESS TO BE PERFORMED MORE FREQUENTLY, AT LESS COST, AND WITH MORE CONSISTENT AND OBJECTIVE RESULTS. APPROACH: 1) ANALYZE THE PROCESSING INVOLVED IN THE EW PLANNING AND ANALYSIS EFFORT; 2) DEFINE STANDARD METHODS AND PROCEDURES FOR OBJECTIVELY PERFORMING THE PLANNING AND ANALYSIS PROCESSES; 3) DEFINE PROCESS DATA REQUIREMENTS, PRODUCTS ANDINTERFACES; 4) SPECIFY, DESIGN AND DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED SETOF COMPUTER MODELS, DATA BASES AND DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS FOR EW ARCHITECTURE/SYSTEM DEFINITION AND EVALUATION; 5) UTILIZE THE EW PLANNING AND ANALYSIS CAPABILITY TO: IDENTIFYEW REQUIREMENTS; DEFINE ALTERNATIVE EW ARCHITECTURES, SYSTEMS AND CAPABILITIES FOR MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS; AND EVALUATE AND RANK THE ALTERNATIVES. WORK PLAN: THE PHASE I EFFORT FOR THIS PROJECT WILL ENCOMPASS ALL OF THE FIRST THREE STEPS OF THE APPROACH OUTLINES ABOVE. ADDITIONALLY, THE CAPABILITIES AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PLANNING AND ANALYSIS SUPPORT CAPABILITY WILL BE SPECIFIED. THE PHASE IIEFFORT WILL PRODUCE THE SPECIFIED CAPABILITY AND UTILIZE IT TO DEFINE EW REQUIREMENT AND EVALUATE ALTERNATIVE METHODSOF MEETING THOSE REQUIREMENTS.