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NewsThe Monitor15Air Force Seeks Highly Adaptable Counter toSoftware-Defined Emitters.World Report24UK Plans new EW and Cyber Framework.

FeaturesUpgrading Fast Jet Self Protection:Europes Air Arms Look to Podsand Pylons 26Richard Scott, Luca Peruzzi

JED looks at how pods and pylons have madeinexpensive but effective electronic warfare upgradespossible on Europes legacy fighter aircraft.

Pre-emptive Countermeasures Potential Game Changer forAirborne Self Protection 46

Technology Survey:GaN Transistors

Gallium nitride (GaN) transistors have been the buildingblocks of radios and RCIED jammers for nearly adecade. GaN technology continues to evolve, findingnew EW and radar applications along the way. Thismonth, we take a closer look at these transistors andwhat they can offer.

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EDITORIAL STAFFEditor: John KnowlesManaging Editor: Elaine RichardsonSenior Editor: John HaysteadTechnical Editor: Ollie HoltContributing Writers: Dave Adamy, Luca Peruzzi,

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eputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work has placed a marker on the groundfor the EW community. His recent speeches about the long-rangeprecision-guided weapons that are entering the arsenals of potentialadversaries strongly suggest that non-kinetics (traditional electronicwarfare, directed energy and cyber attack) will be at the heart of DODsThird Offset Strategy.From the Gulf War onward, most of us have seen news footage of US bombs andmissiles hitting their targets with extreme precision. It is easy to forget that whatreally underpins the DODs entire precision-guided weapons capability is masteryof the Electromagnetic Domain. This includes much more than airborne electronicattack. Without this mastery of the EM Domain, there is no long-range space andairborne reconnaissance, no global command and control network to move information from sensors to shooters, no low-observable weapons platforms to accessthe targets, no stand-off precision targeting, no precision navigation for weaponsplatforms and no precision guidance for the munitions at the end of the kill chain.Other countries that aspire to challenge US power and become either regional orglobal powers themselves are developing their own precision-guided weapons regime, with many of the same basic elements described above. These countries willalso face the same EM Domain challenges that I like to think of as the tyrannyof distance. Yes, true, it is easier to build a long-range precision-guided-weaponscapability today compared to past decades, because the technologies needed to doso have matured. However, the US has one significant advantage in this competition. The US was discovering its own EM weaknesses and figuring out technological and operational solutions to these challenges decades before any other nation.In other words, the US has spent decades overcoming the tyranny of distance inthe EM Domain. This puts the US in a good position to recognize and exploit themany weak links in other nations precision guided-weapons strategies. As theUS knows from experience, most of these weak links reside in the EM Domain andin the Cyber Domain. (Remember that EW operators see enemy weapons systemsdifferently from the rest of the fighting force. While most soldiers may look at anS-300 surface-to-air missile system and see radars and missiles, an EW operatorsees a system with a bunch of antennas, which equate to targets and access pointsfor jamming and cyber attacks.)When I read between the lines of Bob Works recent speeches on future warfare,I see a pretty clear message: as potential adversaries seek to replicate and buildthe long-range precision-guided weapons regimes that could enable them to matchUS capabilities today, the US is looking to leap ahead once again by developingnew non-kinetic strategies that will deliver another 20-30 years of military advantage by disabling an adversarys ability to maneuver in the EM Domain and launchcoordinated salvoes of precision-guided munitions. Ill admit, thats a mouthful.Perhaps its easier to say (with a wry smile), Welcome to the tyranny of distance. J. Knowles

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ilitary historians have noticed one peculiarity of the American polity one that has cost them dear war fatigue. We seem to marginalize, after a resounding operational victory, the greater part of theadvantages we gained in that struggle. It was true in Viet Nam, inDesert Storm, and in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation EnduringFreedom. For the AOC, it is our national investment and attentionin Electronic Warfare (EW) activities, technologies and operations. EW is a majorPentagon focus area now due in large part to the recent Deputy Secretary of Defensememorandum (dated 17 March 2015) on the establishment of an Electronic WarfareExecutive Committee and the timely Defense Science Board Study on EW. There is aclear awareness in both efforts that as a Nation we have lost our dominating positionin deploying and modernizing EW systems.Although we still maintain an EW advantage across most of the ElectromagneticSpectrum (EMS), that lead is rapidly diminishing and is being compromised by adversaries harvesting significant amounts of EW information from unclassified contractornetworks and the global availability of high-end electronic technologies. These latterrealities allow adversaries to avoid or minimize R&D investments and cut both technology development and acquisition cycle times. The DOD tends to focus on traditionalweapons platforms and not the subsystem capabilities that allow those platforms tosurvive and dominate in a contested and congested electromagnetic domain. While wefocus on deterring or defeating a specific threat, our adversaries go after our integrateddecision making centers of gravity, networks and data. In short, EW has been overlooked,underfunded and taken for granted with harmful consequences.A robust EW capability ensures the US/coalition warfighter has freedom of operationsin land, maritime, air and space domains by detecting, denying, degrading, destroying,deceiving and shaping adversaries use of the electromagnetic spectrum. Today, in theAir Force alone, there are more than 70 unique EW system types that use 35 differentlanguages on 23 different platforms. We can, and must, do better from an exaggeratedneed to sustain so many different systems. The DODs new EW Executive Committeeis long overdue, and it will focus on EW at the programmatic and strategic level, andshould recreate the mechanisms needed to develop EW strategies, synchronize programs,and advise the Secretary of Defense on vital EW matters. The International AOC fullysupports this initiative.There are three major lessons we have learned. First, our EW advantage has beendeclining and,without a rapid response from the community at large, we will fall behind.Second, we initially failed to recognize that spectrum dominance requires synchronization of EW, cyber, IO, and stealth. Finally, we have taken too long to appreciate our totalreliance on and the fragility and vulnerability of the wireless connectivity thatenables space, net-centricity, ISR, and precision navigation and timing (PNT). Theseare precious years the locusts have eaten. Maj Gen Ken Israel, USAF (Ret.)

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AIR FORCE SEEKS HIGHLY ADAPTABLE COUNTER TOSOFTWARE-DEFINED EMITTERSThe Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Sensors Directorate, Aerospace Components and Sub-Systems TechnologyDivision (RYD), (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH), has issued aBroad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the ReconfigurableElectronics for Multifunction Agile RF (REMAR) program.REMAR is intended to develop and demonstrate leapahead agile RF front-end systems with multi-functiontransmit/receive technology using reconfigurable RF andmixed-signal components to enable integrated radar, communications and EW suites within a single platform, according to the BAA. The ultimate goal is to provide ahighly-flexible, advanced sensor system capable of adaptable On-The-Fly (OTF) multi-sensor functionality and tocounter digitally programmable/software defined radar, radios and EW systems, together with major reduction in Cost,Size, Weight and Power (CSWAP) requirements.As outlined in the BAA, systems with fixed RF operatingperformance metrics are no longer able to counteract newand agile threats posed by the advent of software-definedradios and highly flexible communication and radar systems. Even systems that employ an agile digital backendarchitecture (enabled by reconfigurable digital componentssuch as FPGAs) and adaptive digital signal processing algo-

rithms will ultimately be limited in their ability to adapt ifthey employ a fixed RF front end architecture.The primary requirements of proposed solutions are operation/coverage over a very wide frequency range (0.1to 40 GHz); detection, identification, tracking and countering of agile and software defined waveforms capableof rapidly changing polarization, operating frequency,power, and pulse modulation characteristics (from modeto mode, from coherent processing interval (CPI) to CPIand potentially from pulse to pulse); handling increasednumbers of simultaneous signals; and limiting co-site, intentional, and unintentional interference. Critical performance goals include: ultra-wide bandwidth, high dynamicrange, low phase noise, environmental compensation, onchip calibration to enable autonomous adaptation, andprecise bias control.In total, the program is expected to be a 3.5-year effortwith an 18-month baseline phase and a 24-month optionphase. The Air Force plans to award two $3.2 million contacts (basic $1.2 million, option $2 million) in August ofthis year. Proposals are due by May 12.The solicitation number is: BAA-RQKSE-2015-0006.The primary point of contact is: Trisha Buddelmeyer,(937) 713-9969, e-mail: [email protected] J. Haystead

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DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE:SEQUESTER POSES VERY REALTHREAT TO US TECHNOLOGICALSUPERIORITYRecently, Deputy Secretary of Defense, Robert Work, spoke at theMcAleese/Credit Suisse Defense Programs Conference in Washington DC onthe Presidents FY2016 defense budgetrequest. His unexpected discussion ofthe DODs Third Offset Strategy andpotential non-kinetic countermeasuresto the threat of guided munitions salvos, appropriately generated great interest from the EW community as didhis announcement of the formation ofa new high-level Electronic Warfare Executive Committee.But, perhaps overshadowed by thesehighlights, was his at-least-equallyimportant assertion that, The Serviceshave been forced in some cases to divertresources from modernization unable tofully fund both capacity and capability,and that the bottom line is that, becauseof the budget uncertainty and restrictions imposed by Congress, and becauseof our unrelenting focus on the readiness

of forward deployed forces, weve beenchronically under-investing in new weapons and capabilities. As a result, Worksays that, Today we see our potentialcompetitors developing capabilities thatchallenge us in all domains that put ourspace assets at risk, as well as our globalcommand and control system.In particular, Work called attention tothe impending damage to US technological superiority posed by sequester. Letme tell you, the return to sequestrationlevel funding, no matter how you cutit, is a very real threat to the department and its overall strategy and overallfundamental premise of technologicalsuperiority that I consider to be one ofthe most dangerous things that you canimagine. As Secretary Carter testifiedtwo weeks ago, if confronted with thesequestration-level budgets, quote, Wedhave to change the shape, and not justthe size of our military, significantlyimpacting parts of our defense strategy. And the parts that I worry aboutmost are our technological superiority,dominance and readiness. Those are thethings that I worry about the most.

Big picture, Work observed that, Theglobal demand for US forces remains unrelenting, particularly for deployableheadquarters units, ISR assets, missiledefense, naval, and aerospace forces; andthat the strategic priorities identifiedin the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review(QDR) strategy remain sound rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific region; maintaining a strong commitment to security andstability in Europe and the Middle East;sustaining a global counterterrorism campaign; strengthening key alliances andpartnerships; and prioritizing key modernization efforts. Though he says theforce planned in the 2014 QDR remainsbroadly sufficient to need, he pointed toheavy ISR use as one key exception areawhere need continues to outstrip supply. Specifically, Work pointed to threatssuch as, new and advanced anti-ship andanti-air missiles, new counter-space, cyber, electronic warfare, undersea and airattack capabilities.Recognizing and stating the requirement, however, is very much different than meeting it and, accordingto Work, the Department needs to see

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1-3 percent real growth per year to keepits program in balance, but that the lastthree years have (instead) seen essentially flat budgets. Nevertheless, Work saysthat DOD is now moving ahead aggressively to redress long-deferred modernization, pointing to additional fundingin the budget of about $21 billion inadditional requirements over the FYDPto make targeted investments in spacecontrol and launch capabilities, missiledefense, cyber, and advanced sensors,communications, and munitions.


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In fact, he says DOD is focused on addressing the erosion of US technological superiority across the board citingthe Defense Innovation Initiative (DII),which is aimed at identifying, developing and fielding breakthrough technologies and concepts, and the Long RangeResearch and Development PlanningProgram (LRRDPP) which he noted wascentral to the effort and will form theDNA of the third offset strategy.Research and development is not avariable cost, asserts Work. When we

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cut funding for R&D, it doesnt mean wewill have less of something, it means wewont have those things at all. Workidentified a number of fantastic, potentially game-changing new technologiesthat will be invested in over the FYDPincluding $149 million in unmanned undersea vehicles; $77 million in advancedsea mines; $473 million in high speedstrike weapons; $706 million in rail guntechnology; $239 million in high-energylasers; and a new Aerospace InnovationInitiative to develop a wide range of advanced aeronautical capabilities to maintain our air dominance. He also notesthat the FY2016 budget request includesa reserve account to resource futureprojects which are expected to emergefrom the DII over the coming years.Notably, Work identified the electromagnetic spectrum as another big area,for renewed and increased attention,noting that Electronic Warfare (EW) isoften regarded as a combat enabler, butthat more and more, it is at the actualforefront of any conflict. Moreover, compared to the platforms we put the EWsuite on, it is a relatively small investment, but it has the potential to havea very high payoff. Our potential competitors seek to contest the EW space, anarea where we retain a decided lead, butthat lead is tenuous, and we believe thatthere has been insufficient focus on EWacross the Department.Ultimately, Work says the modernization challenge can only be met byCongress and the public coming together behind a long-term budget approach that dispels sequester once andfor all and provides the Departmentflexibility in making needed cost savingreforms. If not, he predicts continuedsequester will result in further delaysin modernization; increased weaponsystem procurement costs; higher coststo maintain aging legacy platforms; aless ready force with delayed responsetimes; and a smaller force that providesfuture Presidents far less flexibility. J. Haystead

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The Air Forces UPL called for:$68.2 million for Miniature AirLaunched Decoy-Jammer (MALD-J)procurement. This funding enablesthe Air Force to raise MALD-J production to its maximum level in FY2016 inorder to offset procurement shortfallsin previous years.$10millionforALE-70decoyprocurement to address the F-35 IOC requirements shortfall. The Air Force alsorequested $2.8 million for cartridgesfor the ALE-70 decoys.$10 million for sustainment of JointCounter RCIED Electronic Warfare(JCREW) systems.$30.3millionforrangeoperationandmaintenance (contract labor) to integrate new threat emitters, communications and fiber at Nevada and Utahtest and training ranges.

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$1.2 million to complete undisclosedSUTER cyber warfare modifications inFY2016. $10.4millionforsoftwareandfacilitiesupgrades at Electronic Warfare AvionicsIntegration Support Facility (EWAISF)to retain Electronic Warfare IntegratedReprogramming (EWIR) capability.$4.2 million for Large Aircraft IRCountermeasures (LAIRCM) systemprocurement. The Air Force wrote,Changes in employment conceptsare placing KC-135 aircraft in highthreat areas. Low altitude refueling,forward positioning, and mission setsestablishing the tanker as a commandand control relay are subjecting theKC-135 to increasingly hostile operational environments. There is nonitrogen inerting in the KC-135 fuelsystem, and old technology fuel tanksare not designed to withstand battledamage. An advanced IRCM system isneeded to counter MANPADS threats;one that does not rely on pyrotechnicexpendables (incompatible with an airrefueling mission) and leverages off ofprevious government investments inlaser-based countermeasures.$7.3milliontosupportintegrationofmissile warning systems into the Pylon Integrated Dispenser System Universal (PIDSU) pylon on F-16s. Eachmodified pylon doubles the numberof self-protection chaff and flare cartridges that can be carried and willgreatly increase survivability, the AirForce explained it its request.$13millionforALR-69Aradarwarningreceiver upgrades on F-16s.$11.6 million for development andintegration efforts for the F-15 EaglePassive/Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS). The programoffice estimate (POE) called for$179.5 million and the FY2016 Budget Estimate Submission (BES) onlyrequested $167.9 million. The UPL request for $11.6 million closes this gap.$135.1 million for Compass Call aircraft. This includes $60 million forEC-13OH Compass Call modernizationand Special Purpose Emitter Array(SPEAR) Generation 3 procurementfor Baseline 2 and Baseline 3 aircraft. That Air force also requested$75.1 million for EC-130H divestiture

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buyback, which would prevent theplanned retirement of seven EC-130Haircraft in FY2016.$27.4 million for legacy threat modernization R&D and procurement. Thisfunding would provide $18.5 millionto develop the Common Electronic Attack Receiver (CEAR) for integrationinto legacy threat emitters. It also includes $8.9 million for CEAR procurement for modernization of selectedlegacy threat emitters and doubledigit threat emitters.$5 million to provide additional R&Dfunding for the Advanced RadarThreat System (ARTS), versions 1 and2. The Air Forces FY2016 budget requested $6.9 million for ARTS R&D.$0.9 million for B-2 simulator radarand EW concurrency upgrade.

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The National Guard Bureaus UPLincluded:$375millionforprocurementandinstallation of LAIRCM systems on AirNational Guard KC-135, C-130 and EC130J aircraft.$700.7millionforprocurementofsensor, radar warning receiver and defensive system upgrades on F-15 and F-16aircraft.In total, the Services requested approximately $17.9 billion in their UPLs.Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, inhis cover letter accompanying the UPLrequests, said he did not endorse anyof the unfunded priorities unless enacted funding exceeds the amount requested in the Presidents Budget (PB)for 2016. The DOD wants to avoid ascenario in which the Congress fundssome, or all, of the UPL items with offsetting cuts in the Service budgets.House and Senate appropriators areexpected to begin marking up their respective defense budget bills later thismonth. J. Knowles

FUTURE VERTICAL LIFT DRIVESRFI TO MEET FUTURE AIRCRAFTSURVIVABILITY GAPSThe US Armys Information WarfareDirectorate (I2WD), (Aberdeen ProvingGround, MD), has released a Request forInformation (RFI) to address expectedthreat-based capability gaps in aircraft

survivability in the 2025-2030 timeframe. The effort is in support of themulti-service Future Vertical Lift Familyof Systems (FVL FoS).Noting that most of the Armys current aviation fleet is scheduled for retirement in the mid- to late-2030s, theRFI observes that, as it develops its nextgeneration aircraft survivability systems, the Army has the opportunity tocost-effectively leverage advanced commercial electronics and integration technologies, utilizing modular and openarchitectures that simplify integrationand enable rapid component upgrades.The RFI says potential approachesshould include both threat warning andcountermeasure systems with unconstrained requirements (i.e., without theconstraint of user requirements, fieldingfeasibility, manufacturing capability, oraffordability) and currently at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 and above.Among the topics responses shouldaddress are: Aircraft SurvivabilityEquipment (across RF/UV/EO/IR spectrums); Integrated Aircraft Survivability Solutions; Electronic WarfareCountermeasure Systems and Techniques; Advanced Threat Detection/Avoidance Components and Techniques;and Degraded Visual Environment(DVE). No solutions already fielded byany service, or any technologies lowerthan TRL2 should be submitted.The solicitation number is W56KGU15RFASR. The point of contact is Andrew Jacobs, (443) 861-4652 Responseswere due last month. J. Haystead

IN BRIEFAvarint (Buffalo, NY) has receivedan $83.7 million indefinite delivery,indefinite quantity cost-plus-fixed-feeand cost reimbursement contract formthe 412th Test Wing, Electronic WarfareGroup (Edwards AFB, CA) for Virtual Integrated Electronic Warfare Simulations(VIEWS) II. VIEWS II supports continuing efforts under Air Force Digital Integrated Air Defense System (DIADS)Upgrade program and continues integration efforts under the Advanced WarfareTest and Evaluation Capability (AWTEC)program. Together, both programs aredesigned to provide an integrated EWtest capability. Under the agreement,

Avarint will develop an integrated,multi-spectral, virtual battlespace environment for test and evaluation ofadvanced sensor, fused system performance. The goal is to improve groundand open-air test capabilities that focuson sensor and avionics architecturesthat fuse information from multiplesources, such as the F-22 and F-35, tokeep up with continuous advancementsin survivability technologies. Work willbe performed in Buffalo and at EdwardsAir Force Base and is expected to becomplete by 2020.

The Air Force Research Lab, DirectedEnergy Directorate (Kirtland AFB, NewMexico), has issued a request for information (RFI) seeking capabilities for developing and packaging laser technologieson supersonic tactical platforms. Thegoal is to address or eliminate technicalchallenges encountered in the development and demonstration of airbornelaser weapons systems, specifically alaser pod. Responding companies wererequested to provide a high-level description of capabilities for developing andpackaging laser capabilities in a militarily useful configuration. The solicitation number is RFI-RVKDL-2015-0004.The points of contact are DeborahMoyer, (505) 846-2040, e-mail [email protected] and Susan Thorpe,(505) 846-3404, e-mail [email protected]. Reponses were due last month.

Naval Air Systems Command (Patuxent River, MD) has announced plans toaward a cost-plus-fixed-fee sole-sourceorder (an addition to an existing basic ordering agreement) to LockheedMartin Mission Systems and Training(Owego, NY) for non-recurring tasks forengineering and software development,logistics, laboratory testing, groundtesting and flight testing of AdvancedOff-Board Electronic Warfare (AOEW)capabilities integrated into MH-60R/Saircraft system software. This includesintegration of system software to support the AOEW carried on the left andright extended weapons stations of theMH-60S and on the left hand and righthand extended pylons of the MH-60R. a

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The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has set out plans to establish a long-termframework agreement with industry for Electronic Warfare and Cyber (EW&C)research and technology.Managed through the MODs Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl),the framework will allow for a rapid response to capability needs, strengthenlinks with the wider industry and academia community, and create a collaborative environment to realize the benefits of our collective technology, knowledgeand innovation. The EW&C framework agreement will be established for an initial period of five years, with an option to extend for up to two further years.According to the MOD, the framework agreement construct has been designedaround four core capability lots intended to deliver the external managementand development of a sustainable EW&C capability in line with MOD and wider UKgovernment priorities. These four lots comprise: engineering design, manufacture and assessment; cyber, software and modeling; sensors, sensor systems andsignature measurement; and trials and capability operation.Dstl plans to run an accelerated completion during the middle of 2015, withthe intention to award a contract by the end of September this year. The annualvalue of the contract is expected to be in the region of 50 million. In November,the MOD said Dstl was expected to spend approximately 200 million on EW&Cresearch over the next four years. R. Scott

The Government of the IslamicRepublic of Afghanistan is seeking upto 2,000 new mounted Remote ControlledImprovised explosive Device (RCIED)jammers from the US Government.Afghanistans army is currently usingthe Symphony RCIED jammer, but it hasdetermined that it cannot sustain thesesystems on its own over the long term.In order to meet its requirement, theAfghanistan Army is seeking a new IEDjammer that can be maintained and sustained without support from the originalequipment manufacturer or field support representatives. The systems willbe installed on MaxxPro MRAPs, armoredsecurity vehicles (ASVs) and HMMWVs,according to a request for informationissued by the US Army. The new jammerwill utilize Symphony antenna mountsand wiring already installed in thesevehicles, and the jammers dimensionsmust not exceed 457.2 x 558.8 x 62mmor weigh more than 100 lb. The systemcannot use any parts that form part ofan RCIED jammer currently used by theUS government. The US Army plans toissue a request for proposals in the nextfew months (Q4 FY2015), with a contractaward expected in early 2016. Deliverieswill begin in mid-2016. The point ofcontact is Mark Conrad (FMS Engineer),+1 (443) 395-7013, e-mail [email protected]. Saab Electronic Defence Systems haswon a follow-on order worth SEK740million (US$85 million) to deliveradditional units of its multispectralIntegrated Defensive Aids Suite (IDAS)for use on Indias Joint Service DhruvAdvanced Light Helicopters. The contract was awarded by Dhruv manufacturer Hindustan Aeronautic Ltd. (HAL).Saab will manufacture the IDAS systemsat its facility in Centurion, South Africa.The contract also calls for Saab to provideground support and test equipment. a

EXPENDABLE ACTIVE DECOY SUCCESSFULLY DEPLOYED FROM GRIPENSaab and Selex ES have conducted the first flight tests of the BriteCloud expendable active decoy (EAD) deployed from a JAS-39 Gripen aircraft.BriteCloud, first announced by Selex ES in October 2013, is an RF decoy featuring a small receiver and a digital RF memory (DRFM)-based jammer. Ejectedeither manually or automatically from an aircrafts chaff/flare dispenser, theEAD detects signals from a fire control radar or an incoming radar-guided missile,identifies the threat signals and then transmits a decoy signals that makes thethreat track to the decoy instead of the aircraft.In the recent flight trials, three BriteCloud EADs were ejected from the Gripens55-mm countermeasures dispenser to evaluate safe separation from the aircraft.A Saab official said, These trials successfully validated the in-flight mechanicalcompatibility of the BriteCloud EAD with the Gripens countermeasures system.Future flight trials on the Gripen will validate the decoys performance againstspecific RF threats.While these initial Gripen flight trials used a 55-mm-diameter version of BriteCloud, Selex ES has already begun development of a 218-mm (length), square variant that is compatible with ALE-47 dispensers installed on F-16 aircraft. Selex ESexpects to complete development of this new variant in the next 18-24 months.In the meantime, the 55-mm version of BriteCloud is in low-rate initial production, with initial deliveries expected in the last quarter of 2015, said a SelexES spokesperson. Target customers include Brazil, which inked a contract withSaab to buy 36 Gripen NG aircraft in October 2014. Selex ES is also working tofully integrate the BriteCloud with the companys latest generation EW sensors,the SEER RWR and SAGE ESM, although the self-contained EAD can work withany system providing a cueing and triggering sensor. L. Peruzzi and J. Knowles

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So-called 4.5 generation fighters withintegral, fully integrated electronicwarfare/defensive aids suites are nowproliferating across many European airarms, with a fifth generation in thelow-observable shape of the F-35 Lightning II fast approaching.However, there are still going to bemany legacy fourth-generation fast jetsaround for years to come, notably Tornados and F-16s. And when it comes to updating the self-protection suites in theseaircraft, there are inherent attractionsto introducing podded or pylon-mounted defensive aids solutions, rather thanembodying fits internal to the airframe.The list includes the reduced cost, complexity and time associated with thequalification of an external load onexisting hardpoints; relatively leanintegration with other aircraft systems; interchangeability between aircraft without the need for whole fleetairframe modifications; and the latentflexibility to modify pods or pylons toaccept technology insertions so as tomeet future requirements. Pylons bringthe additional advantage that enhancedplatform protection is provided withoutloss of weapon stations.Rapid integration and qualification isperhaps the key attraction. Recent operations Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq have reaffirmed the need to be able torapidly appraise, and respond to, threatchange as it affects the survivability oftactical aircraft. For example, the proliferation of more advanced infrared seekersassociated with the latest third-generation MANPADS confers them a capabilityto acquire and approach from the frontalaspect (homing in on airframe radiation

rather than jet exhaust). This has driventhe need to fit IR/UV missile approachwarning systems capable of near-360degree spherical coverage in order to automatically cue countermeasures, and ithas driven commensurate requirementsto increase magazine capacity for expendable countermeasure devices giventhe need to dispense pre-emptive flarepatterns and more complex decoy cocktails (including forward firing flares).Nor has the RF threat gone away.NATOs Operation UnifiedProtector over Libya in2011 provided a sharp joltto those who assumed that radarguided surface-to-air missile threatshad all but disappeared with the end ofthe Cold War. Almost overnight, offensive air elements were required to dustoff the tactics, techniques and procedures required to evade, counter andexploit in an RF threat environment.And Libya pales when compared to someof the advanced integrated air defencesystems now being fielded by variousstates of concern.

BOZWith these challenges to fast-jet survivability emerging, industry has beenquick to respond to front-line needs.Saab for example, can boast a long pedigree in podded self-defense solutions,having introduced the ubiquitous BOZ100 series countermeasures pod to market back in the 1980s. It later developedthe widely sold BOL countermeasuresdispenser, the elongated shape of whichhas been designed to facilitate integration with a range of missile launchers.(See Pre-emptive Countermeasures

Potential Game Changer for AirborneSelf Protection, on p. 46.)In 2006, Saab introduced an updatedBOZ pod in the shape the BOZ-EC (Enhanced Capability) system. While retaining the aerodynamics of the existing BOZshell, this latest instantiation essentially repackages Saabs own CIDAS 100integrated defence aids suite compris-

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ing the MAW-300 ultraviolet (UV) missileapproach warning system, an electronicwarfare controller (EWC) and BOP-L-39pyrotechnic dispensers to provide anintegrated self-protection capability, including an extended pre-emptive flaredispensing capacity, missile warningand flare cocktails). Mass and centre ofgravity remain within the clearance tol-

erances of the baseline BOZ design, andthe existing aircraft interfaces (electrical, mechanical and data) are retained.The MAW-300 system consists offour staring optical sensors, mountedin the aft section, each with a 110 degconical field-of-view, plus a processingcard embedded in the EWC. These sensors report the azimuth, elevation and

amplitude characteristics of the mostprominent UV sources for processingin the EWC; tracks are formed from thesensor data and are evaluated based ontheir temporal irradiance and spatialmodulation characteristics.The EWC-100 controller performs defensive aids control, missile approachwarning analysis and decoy dispensing

management (the latter consists ofdedicated hardware and software functions that interface to and manage theBOP dispensers).BOZ-EC is configured with fiveBOP-L-39 countermeasures dispensers,each accommodating standard 8-inchpayloads. A single BOP-L-39 magazineis fitted forward, oriented with a depression angle of 40 degrees to firedownward/forward.The remaining four BOP-L-39 dispensers, which can be adjusted for 90-degree

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The Luftwaffe has acquired Saabs BOZ-EC selfprotection pod to fulfill its requirement for aFuture Dispenser/Missile Warner system forthe Tornado. This BOZ-101EC variant is fittedwith the MAW-300 missile warning system.(Airbus photo)

sideways dispensing related to the downwards reference, are fitted in the midsection of the pod. The two furthest forwardare oriented as a pair to fire sideways ordownwards, with the firing angles setpre-flight in increments of approximately 7.5 degrees. The rear part of the midsection contains the other two BOP-L-39units, oriented as a pair to fire sidewaysor downwards, again in pre-set increments of approximately 7.5 degrees.Both the UK Royal Air Force (RAF)and the Italian Air Force (AeronauticaMilitare) participated in BOZ-EC flighttrials in October 2006. The latter service went on to become the launch customer for the system, contracting Saabin February 2009 to provide a quantityof BOZ-EC dispenser pods to equip Tornado Interdictor Strike (IDS) aircraft.This addressed an urgent operationalrequirement to enhance the self-protection capability of an Italian detachmentof reconnaissance-configured IDS Tornados operating over Afghanistan.Under this contract, Saab re-workedexisting Italian BOZ-102 pods to theBOZ-102EC standard. Development andproduction activities were split betweenSaab facilities in Jrflla, Sweden, andCenturion, South Africa. The first podwas delivered in late August 2009, withremaining pods delivered through to theend of that year.In late 2013 Saab announced that ithad received three orders, aggregatingto a total value of about SEK 100 million,


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Saab has developed the ESTL pod to provide fixed-wing aircraft with an adaptableself-protection system interfacing through a standard AIM-9 or AIM-120 missileinterface. The system was flight tested on the Gripen in 2014. (Saab photo)

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ENTER ESTLBuilding on the legacy of the BOZ andBOL lines, and leveraging its wider pedigree in aircraft self-protection systems,Saab has now brought its next-generation ESTL modular self-protection pod tomarket. Previously known as BOH, ESTLhas been developed as a private ventureto provide fixed-wing aircraft with anadaptable self-protection system interfacing through a standard AIM-9 orAIM-120 missile interface. The systemis configured using a series of mix and


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match building blocks combiningmissile approach warning sensors andcountermeasures dispensers with anEWC section to suit specific missionprofiles and threat sets, providing covert sustainable pre-emptive dispensing, missile warning, forward firing offlares, and cocktail dispensing.In its baseline ESTL-300 version, thesystem incorporates a MAW-300 UV missile approach warner (with two sensorsheads fitted in the head of the pod toprovide fore and aft coverage), a forward-firing BOP pyrotechnic dispenser,and an aft-mounted BOL chaff/flare dispenser. The EWC, located in the centreof the pod assembly, hosts library andcontrol functions.Other configurations can be assembled according to customer needs, withoptions to incorporate additional MAW300 sensor heads. Integration of theLWS-310 laser warning system into ESTLis a further option offered by Saab.According to Saab, ESTL can be integrated with aircraft avionics systemsvia standard MIL-STD-1553B or RS-485data links. Mass and aerodynamicsare similar to those of an AIM-9 airto-air missile form factor in order tosimplify integration and certificationrequirements.Saab is initially targeting the ESTLself-protection pod at Gripen, F-16 andF/A-18 platforms. The company in June2014 completed a first flight test of theESTL self-protection pod on board a JAS39 Gripen C fighter aircraft.

FAST JET MCPSaabs principal rival in the fast jetself-protection pod market is DenmarksTerma. Like its Swedish rival, Termasome years ago recognized the increasedsophistication of the MANPADS threat.Accordingly, the company began engineering development work on a genericModular Countermeasures Pod (MCP)that integrated missile warning deviceswith countermeasures dispensers in amodular and self-contained installationcontrolled through its cockpit-mountedAN/ALQ-213(V) EW management system.Termas initial success came in theprovision of add-on self-protection forlarge tactical aircraft and helicopters,but in the mid-2000s it saw opportunities

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developing for fast jets as a number ofair forces raised requirements to replaceexisting bulk countermeasures dispensers such as BOZ and Phimat. Seeing thepotential to capture new market share,with users of the Tornado foremost inmind, the company decided to re-engineer the MCP so that it was shaped andstressed for the speeds and loadings associated with carriage on a supersoniccapable platform.This new variant, generically marketed as MCP-T at the outset, retainsthe core modular architecture of earlierMCP systems but is reconfigured aerodynamically with suitably modified noseand aft sections (modeled on those in

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MCP-8F variant delivered to meet theESB SDS requirement featured a total ofeight magazines: two fixed downwardlooking magazines; and a further sixmagazines configured as pairs in threebarrel modules able to rotate in 15-degree increments to fire sideways or atany downwards angle and achieve theoptimum flare pattern according to thethreat conditions.In the case of the Luftwaffes SDS fit,the MCP-8F pods were hybrids employing a standard MCP centerbody matedwith nose and aft sections removedfrom legacy BOZ pods. Furthermore, although the pod was provisioned for theintegration of missile warning sensors,


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Termas MCP-8.5 pod was adopted to meet the needs of the RAFs Tornado Advanced Infra RedCounter Measures (AIRCM) programme. The system visible here on the Tornado GR.4s port outerpylon is fitted with six sensor heads for the AN/AAR-57 CMWS, plus eight countermeasuresdispensers. (Terma photo)

the existing BOZ pod) and fitted with astrongback for the aircrafts structuralinterface. It can accommodate up toeight dispenser magazines and its modular design enables the integration ofother DAS components, such as a multisensor MWS or a towed decoy.The Luftwaffe had the most urgentrequirement, raising a short-notice requirement for a bulk flare dispenserto equip a detachment of six Tornadoaircraft from Aufklrungsgeschwader51 Immelmann being deployed intoAfghanistan to fly reconnaissance missions. In 2007 Terma was contracted tosupply its MCP-8F pod to meet this socalled Einsatzsofortbedarf Special Dispenser System (ESB SDS) requirement.Controlled via Termas own ALQ213(V) EW management system, the

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there was no requirement in this specific case for a missile warner.The SDS system was developed andtested (in cooperation with EADS andthe WTD 61 Bundeswehr Technical Center for Aircraft and Aeronautical Equipment) inside three months during thesecond half of 2007. Over 10 pods weredelivered in total.In late 2007, a UOR was raised toequip Harrier GR.9 aircraft of the UKsJoint Force Harrier (JFH) with an automated and fully integrated DAS capability. At this time, eight Harriers fromJFH a combined RAF/Royal Navy force were deployed to Kandahar as part ofOperation Herrick, primarily to performclose air support.With the credentials of Termas MCPpod already established within the RAF


(a version having been introduced forthe Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft),an MCP-H variant tailored specificallyfor the Harrier, and known internallyby Terma as MCP-8.2, was conceived ina very short timeframe to meet the UOR.As well as having eight Advanced Countermeasures Dispensing System (ACMDS)magazines (two forward-firing and threelateral pairs in barrel modules), the MCPH was also to be configured with a BAESystems Electronics Systems AN/AAR-57Common Missile Warning System (CMWS)

incorporating five sensor heads (angledto cover each quadrant and downwards).BAE Systems would also undertake software development to support pod controland DAS integration into the aircraftavionics system.While Terma took responsibility forengineering the MCP-H pod and the associated EW management system andtactical data unit, aircraft integration(including electrical and mechanicalinterfaces and cockpit integration) wasled by BAE Systems (the aircraft design

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authority) in the UK. A first test-flightwas successfully completed in May 2008.MCP-H capability was delivered tothe front line in two phases. Phase 1,deployed in theatre from September2008, comprised a manually-operatedMCP-H without the CMWS installed; thefull Phase 2 configuration, fielded fromearly 2009, delivered Phase 1 functionality but additionally incorporated theAN/AAR-57 CMWS fit and auto-dispensing of countermeasures.The success of the accelerated MCPH development and fielding laid thegroundwork for a follow-on UOR addressing a podded self-protection fitfor RAF Tornado GR.4 aircraft deployedinto Afghanistan. Terma began work onthis embodiment in the third quarter of2008; once again, the implementation ofthe improved self-protection capabilitywas led by BAE Systems as aircraft design authority.In this case, the MCP-8.5 variant better known as the Tornado AdvancedInfrared Counter Measures (AIRCM) programme adopted an aerodynamic configuration essentially identical to thatof the German SDS pod, but with the addition of six sensor heads for the AN/AAR-57 CMWS and two forward-firingcountermeasures dispensers.The complete AIRCM fit for the Tornado GR.4 comprises the MCP-8.5 pod(featuring two forward-firing and sixradial-dispensing ACMDS magazines,plus the CMWS), the AN/ALQ-213(V) EWmanagement system and a tactical dataunit located in the cockpit. Flight-testand integration activities began in thefirst quarter of 2009 from BAE SystemsWarton airfield; an initial three systemswere delivered in just six months, withthe AIRCM capability deployed into theatre with No.12 (Bomber) Squadron inJune 2009.Although the AIRCM pod was procured specifically for operations in Afghanistan, the system has remained inRAF service subsequent to the end ofOperation Herrick. Indeed, the systemhas been observed on Tornado GR.4 aircraft deployed to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus,in support of the UKs contribution tocoalition air operations against ISIL.Terma believes that the MCP conceptoffers further scope for development.

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modifications of the F-16 Standard WingWeapon Pylon.PIDS grew out of a Royal Danish AirForce (RDAF) requirement to modifywing weapon pylons to house additionalchaff dispensers and new dispenserelectronics, and was subsequently adopted by the air forces of Denmark, theNetherlands, Norway, Belgium, Jordan,Portugal, the United Arab Emirates andthe United States. ECIPS was developedfor the RDAF to accommodate the AN/

Termas PIDS+ pylon integrates the AN/AAR60(V)2 MILDS-F system into the F-16 pylonson wing stations 3 and 7. Each pylon receivesthree missile warning sensors, with sufficientspace remaining for two countermeasuresmagazines. (Terma photo)

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ALQ-162(V)6 self-protectionjammer, with antennas installed fore and aft; it waslater also purchased by Norwayfor its F-16 fleet.PIDS and ECIPS have subsequentlybeen brought up to Pylon IntegratedDispenser System Universal (PIDSU) andElectronic Combat Integrated Pylon System Universal (ECIPSU) standard. PIDSUand ECIPSU introduce a MIL-STD-1760weapons interface.Work to integrate a Missile WarningSystem (MWS) into the PIDSU/ECIPSUpylon infrastructure can be traced backto 1998, when European F-16 users andthe US Air National Guard conducted afeasibility program to evaluate if a pylon-mounted missile warner system installation could perform satisfactorily ina fast jet environment. The conclusionwas positive from both the perspectivesof performance and cost effectiveness.In late 2004 the Danish Air Materiel Command contracted Terma forthe integration of the EADS (now Airbus Defence and Space) AN/AAR-60(V)2MILDS-F system into the PIDSU and

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The ECIPS+ pylon, in service withthe RDAF and RNoAF, hosts boththe AN/ALQ-162(V)6 self-protectionjammer (with antennas installedfore and aft) and three sensors forthe AN/AAR-60(V)2 MILDS-F missilewarner system. (Terma photo)

ECIPSU pylons so as to confer Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF)F-16s with improved self-protection against the MANPADSthreat. In these so-called PIDS+ and ECIPS+ configurations,the pylons on wing stations 3 and 7 are each fitted with threeUV missile warning sensors, giving near 360-degree sphericalcoverage. At the same time, sufficient space remains for twocountermeasures magazines in each pylon.As well as the integration of the MILDS hardware in the pylons, Terma was additionally tasked to develop a countermeasures signals processor for correlation and threat declarationof signals from the six sensors, and for the control softwarefor the ALQ-213 EW management system (including the associated advanced threat display and 3D audio warning). The RDAF


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began flight testing of the AN/AAR-60(V)2 MILDS F MWS onPIDS+ in late 2007.In 2010 Terma was contracted to supply the PIDS+/ECIPS+pylon system, again incorporating the AAR-60(V)2 MILDS-Fwarner system, for installation on Royal Norwegian Air Force(RNoAF) F-16 fighters. Again, the full embodiment has includedthe integration of MWS hardware in the pylons, introductionof the countermeasures signals processor, new system controlsoftware for the AN/ALQ-213(V) EW management system, and anew full-color advanced threat display in the cockpit.Certification of PIDS+/ECIPS+ for F-16 MLU aircraft wascompleted by the Seek Eagle Office in 2013, at which pointthe pylons were declared operational. F-16s typically carrytwo PIDS+ pylons, or one PIDS+ (on station 7) and one ECIPS+(station 3); both installations have been used on the frontline by the RDAF and RNoAF during recent operational F-16deployments. While the PIDS was originally designed for chaffdispense, Terma has developed a Flare-Up field upgrade kit comprising special magazines and a modified breech plate for PIDS variants. The Flare-Up kit was developed in late 2009and was certified by the Seek Eagle Office in 2013; contractnegotiations have commenced with several potential customers, according to Terma.

SON OF SKYSHADOWA re-awakening to the RF threat has seen the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) contract Selex ES for the accelerated development, test and qualification of a new CommonJamming Pod (CJP) to equip the RAFs Tornado GR.4 fleet.Based on the re-capitalization and re-architecture of existing Skyshadow-2 pods, the CJP program addresses an Urgent Capability Requirement to restore and sustain the RFself-protection capability of the Tornado GR.4 through to itsplanned 2019 out-of-service date.The requirement for the CJP was first identified in 2012,with the total approved value of the project put at 50.9 million. The program was one of a number of priority capabilities added to the MODs core Equipment Plan as part of AnnualBudget Cycle 2013.CJP has grown out of a Skyshadow sustainment feasibility study awarded to Selex ES in 2012, the outputs of whichprovided the MOD with the necessary evidence to establish an Initial Gate business case. An initial contract worth3/4/15 7:18 PM

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