OneSAFElectronic Warfare EW SAIC IR

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OneSAF-Electronic Warfare (EW)SAIC IRD Project
Overview

• 2008 OneSAF Users Conference
• April 10, 2008
• For more information
• Eric Root
• Phone [phone]
• Email eric.d.root_at_saic.com

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OneSAF-EW IRDGeneral Overview

• Real-time EW in a simulated complex urban
  environment
• High-fidelity RF propagation and geolocation in
  urban areas
• Integrated with OneSAF
• Targets analysis, training, and operational
  purposes in DoD and intelligence agencies

• Leverages OneSAF, ERC, and EMPIRE interface and
  models
• Targets commodity HPC, GPU, and multi-core
  hardware
• IRD team has expertise in OneSAF, high-fidelity
  urban RF propagation models, and HPC
• IRD team is seeking input from OneSAF user
  community

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OneSAF-EW IRDObjectives

• Objectives
• Develop high-fidelity urban indoor and outdoor RF
  propagation models
• Develop algorithms for geolocation of RF
  transmitters in indoor and outdoor urban areas
• Provide solution for multiple domains such as
  training, analysis, experimentation, and
  operational purposes
• Leverage existing software and commodity HPC
  technologies
• Support real-time (11) simulation execution
• Serve a broad area of users needing varying RF
  propagation model fidelity
• Develop architectural approach for providing
  federation-wide EM environment simulation
• Opportunities for application of OneSAF-EW
  capabilities
• Accurate RF propagation modeling for
  communications, sensors, jammers
• Accurate impact of threat electronic attack such
  as RF jamming
• RF propagation accuracy required for remote
  control of unmanned vehicles
• RF propagation accuracy required for
  representation of radar operation
• RF propagation accuracy required for COE and
  alternative means of communication
• Accuracy necessary for RF jamming in
  Counter-Remote Control IED (C-RCIED)
• Accuracy for determining optimal RF sensor
  placement
• Simulation and operational RF geolocation
  technologies
• Others

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OneSAF-EW IRDApproach

• Approach
• TIREM (Alion Science and Technology) integration
  with OneSAF (already completed)
• EMPIRE integration with OneSAF
• Environmental Runtime Component (ERC) queries on
  HPC
• Urban RF propagation on HPC with OneSAF
• Urban RF geolocation on HPC with OneSAF

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OneSAF-EW IRDOneSAF and EMPIRE

• Electromagnetic Propagation Integrated Resource
  Environment (EMPIRE)
• EMPIRE is a joint DoD program that provides a
  GOTS software solution for uniform interface to
  Radio Frequency (RF) propagation models
• EMPIRE supports thirteen standard RF propagation
  models and two suites of ultra-high fidelity
  models models support frequencies in the range
  100 kHz to 300 GHz
• Primary sponsors for EMPIRE are the Naval
  Intelligence Warfare Activity (NIWA), the Naval
  Research Laboratory (NRL), and the Air Force
  Intelligence Warfare Activity (AFIWC)
• Benefits
• Provides use of multiple standard and
  high-fidelity model suites in OneSAF, broad
  applicability to OneSAF users
• Provides support for commercial high-fidelity
  urban RF propagation models
• Integration approach
• Develop OneSAF-EW system component as interface
  to EMPIRE
• EMPIRE source will not be integrated into OneSAF
• Develop ERC (Environmental Runtime Component)
  terrain queries to retrieve ground and building
  data for use by EMPIRE models

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OneSAF-EW IRDOneSAF User Input

• The OneSAF-EW IRD team is seeking input from the
  OneSAF user community
• Seeking feedback on applicability of the IRD to
  user requirements and suggestions for additional
  areas of pursuit to address related customer
  requirements
• Contact Us
• Eric Root (Primary POC)
• Phone [phone]
• Email eric.d.root_at_saic.com
• Paul Hayes
• Phone [phone]
• Email paul.t.hayes_at_saic.com