Presented by Molahlegi Molope

To

Little Crow Conference #16 (IMT)

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A-TEMP-009 -1 ISSUE 002

Singapore EW Conference

Short Bio

B Elec. Eng (LC) in 1994, MOT Honours, ENSP, MBL, Part time Masters in Radar & ED student. Member of Inaugural UCT EBE Advisory Board since 2016. Divisional Head of Radar & IW division of Armscor. Chairperson of SARIG. Enjoy experimenting with SDRs and investing in shares.

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SCOPE• Purpose

• Statistics

• Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018

• Day 2 – 31 Jan 2018

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• Conclusion

Purpose

To give feedback about the EW Conference in Singapore I attended on 30 & 31 January 2018.

Part of ADECS – Asia Defence Expo & Conference Series (890 people from more than 40 countries)

MilSim Asia – Military Training & Simulation

UDM Asia – Undersea Defence Technology

EW Asia – Electronic Warfare (24 presentations)

Maritime Patrol Asia

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Statistics

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PARAMETER SINGAPORE SOUTH AFRICA

Size 721.5 km2 (176th) – PTA (687.54 km2) 1 221 037 km2 (24th)

Population 5 612 300 55 653 654

GDP (PPP) Per Capita $98 014 (3rd) Per Capita $13 591(90th)

Attendees EW (300) EW (250)

Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018• Keynote address: an operational commanders perspective of EW and

electromagnetic operations by Air Marshal Phillip Sturley CB MBE BSc FRAeSCCMI Conference Chairman, RAF (Retd) UK

– In Iraq & Afghanistan they used Cyber & EW : lost 130 helicopters

– Urgent Operational Requirements : Counter IEDs

– Russia & China are a serious threat. A need to match their capabilities.

– Stop worrying about EW & Cyber. They complement each other.

– Encourage nations to have own sovereign capabilities.

– Take the fight to the enemy.

– Train like you fight. Draw industry & academia into training.

– Learn how to operate in a degraded environment. Emulate the enemy’s actions.

– EW is an integral part of any mission.

– They under invest during peace time.

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Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018 Cont. 1• Opening address: advances in Chinese SIGINT capability by Professor David

Stupples Professor of Electronic and Radio Systems, Director EW Research, City, University of London, AOC At-Large Director, UK

– Project 2049: China wants to be completely dominant in EMS

– China is importing 30% of the world’s raw material to feed its manufacturing machines.

– 60% of China’s defence budget is for wages

– China spends $15b on SIGINT

– 20 000 people just on COMINT

– They have satellite interception stations in South America & Cuba. Currently aiming for Africa.

– They have advanced SONAR for detecting ships

– They developed their own YX & Y9 aircraft. 11 of them have ELINT capability and are painted in civilian colours.

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Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018 Cont. 1• Opening address: advances in Chinese SIGINT capability by Professor David

Stupples – Cont.

– They have satellites with SAR & ELINT payloads

• High revisits times

• Lots of data to process

– Cyber Intelligence: they use reconnaissance malware to collect Cyber intelligence.

• They have one of the largest cyber espionage

– Sources of SIGINT are so secretive they cannot be shared freely.

• Sharing depends on the strength of the alliance.

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Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018 Cont. 2• Full spectrum EW training by Colonel Steve Miller USAF (Retd)

Senior Research Engineer, Strategic Program Development Lead Electronics, Optics, and Systems Directorate (EOSD), Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)

– Low cost EW S/W Trainer

– VECTS : Virtual Electronic Combat Training System

– EW Course for senior officers

– EW Fratricide during coalitions

• USA is the elephant in the room and they swamp everyone.

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Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018 Cont. 3• Maritime EW and electromagnetic operations by Chief Petty Officer Jonny Keilller

EW Team Leader, HMS OCEAN

– Situational awareness is key

– EW is the same all over

– Junior operators with high academic achievements are preferred (esp. Maths)

• They go into operations within a short period.

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Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018 Cont. 4• US Army doctrinal approach to cyberspace and electronic warfare operations by

Lieutenant Colonel Chris Walls DA G3/5/7 DAMO-CY, US ARMY

– Integrate Cyber & EW

• Sense, Identify, locate & target

– Show the commanders what they look like in the EMS• Use EW capability to help commanders see themselves as the enemy will

– Have regional Cyber Centres

– Establish Cyber Protection Teams (CPT)

– Cyber capabilities can reach targets at long ranges.

– In EW, everytime you attack you make yourself visible• Use jamming in a very thoughtful way

– Effective defending of ones networks makes the enemies cyber capabilities useless

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Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018 Cont. 5• US Army doctrinal approach to cyberspace and electronic warfare operations by

Lieutenant Colonel Chris Walls DA G3/5/7 DAMO-CY, US ARMY Cont.

– Get access to enemies data via enticing emails

– Ability to diagnose that you are experiencing EA or DDOS

– They were forced to catch up on Cyber Warfare by actions of Russia

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Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018 Cont. 8• Modern electronic warfare systems: more than a system, it is an art by Alaattin

Dökmen Naval EW Program Manager, Aselsan

– National threat database

– Cooperative ESM

– Sharing of DF information for geolocation

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Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018 Cont. 9• Spectrum fusion for spectrum dominance by Dr Dipak Roy Chairman, D-TA Systems,

Canada

– Fuse raw signals: Acoustics, Radio & Radar

– Record and playback at 16 GB/s

– Use multicore server.

– Time slice the data.

– Record & process

– Processed results saved in SQL database

– Recorder centric processing

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Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018 Cont. 10Live EW training considerations - one size does NOT fit ALL: the need for live threats across the cost/capability spectrum by Paul Vavra BD Executive, Leonardo DRS, US

– Red Flag: fully integrated modern range

– SA6 of yester year is different from the one of today

– Closed loop system is the best

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Day 1 – 30 Jan 2018 Cont. 11AOC Expert Special Interest Group (SIG): The future of electronic intelligence with modern radars by Professor David Stupples

– Advances needed in ELINT to intercept new emerging Radar technologies including LPI

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Day 2 – 31 Jan 2018 • Keynote address: emerging technologies in EW by Dr Robert “Bob” Andrew MBE

AOC Foundation Adjunct Governor, UK

– In Libya counter measures didn’t work against SA6 & SA7 because they were updated versions.

– Open standards opens up competition

– S/W defined EW

– More RF engineers are needed

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Day 2 – 31 Jan 2018 Cont. 1• Investing in EW winners by Colonel Alan Blackwell British Army (Retd), UK

– Agile development

– Acquisition cycles are too slow

– Outdated technologies still in use

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Day 2 – 31 Jan 2018 Cont. 3• Co-ordinated and distributed network enabled systems for collaborative EW: the

boost of AI-based technology by Daniela Pistoia Chief Scientist, ELT Group, Italy

– Right information is required for logical deductions

– Autonomous learning of machines

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Day 2 – 31 Jan 2018 Cont. 3• Ensuring intelligence solutions are ready for the modern dynamic radar threat

environment by Andrew Owen Business Development Manager ELINT/RESM, Rohde & Schwarz

– Radar fingerprinting is required

– Old Radars using simple inter pulse modulating technique

– New Radars using complex modulating techniques

– Low power solid state Radars

– New Radars extend beyond 18 GHz

– EW is 10 years behind Radar technology

– Legacy systems were designed to mainly detect pulsed Radars

– V/UHF Radars : marketed as anti stealth Radars

– All systems need to be digital

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Conclusion

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Russia and China are a serious threat to the West

Old threats are reappearing in new forms e.g SA 6, 7 etc

EW is lagging behind Radar

Machine learning must be considered in EW