Effectiveness Assessment for Electromagnetic Effectors

The Navy’s Integrated Combat System (ICS) will be responsible for coordinating and controlling the operation of defensive effectors (both hard-kill and soft-kill) for both own-ship and force-level engagements. To maximize the utility of soft-kill (electromagnetic) effectors, and hence minimize employment of limited hard-kill resources, the combat system requires a capability to assess the effectiveness of electromagnetic effectors to determine if (and when) they have neutralized a threat, so that the effector may be reassigned to the next threat. To address this requirement, Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) will develop and evaluate a real-time tactical assessment service to rapidly estimate the degree of impact that an electromagnetic effector has induced on a threat, so that reliable and timely effector reassignment decisions may be made. The PSI algorithms will support a broad range of decoys, jammers, and directed energy effectors, using a parametric approach for describing both the capabilities and the expected effect axes for each class of threat. These algorithms will be designed to continuously update the effector impact assessment as new sensor measurements are obtained. They will operate as an ensemble of real-time microservices deployed within the ICS, fully compatible with the associated architectural standards.