Identifying and Characterizing Cognitive Sensor Systems in Tactical Environments

Vadum will continue research into cognitive electronic protection capability development by extending the Adversary Logic Exploitation System (ALES) algorithms developed in Phase I. The objectives of the Phase II research are to more fully explore both the technical capabilities and tactical implementations of ALES. The Phase I effort demonstrated the utility of the ALES concept of modeling adversary decision logic in order to exploit that logic to support electronic protection decisions. The Phase II program will extend this work to improve and characterize the two critical components of the ALES system (Decision Logic Characterization and Radar Waveform Selection) and to evaluate potential implementation impacts of the ALES system. The result of the Phase II research and development effort will be a comprehensive set of tested jammer emitter decision logic characterization algorithms driving blue force electronic protection decisions.