Simulation of Tactical Electronic Environments, Collection, and Data Processing for Systems Evaluation

A tactical environment data simulator has been developed which provides realistic tactical simulated electronic data derived from multiple airborne collectors. Large volumes of pulse measurement data (millions of pulses per collector) as seen by an intelligence processing system, or simulated system intercept data (estimated radar location and signal parameter observations derived from processing of pulse measurement data) can be generated. The simulated pulse measurement data and/or the system intercepts can be utilized to test and evaluate a variety of tactical intelligence processing systems. These include automatic systems which perform the following functions: 1) Order of battle determination 2) Threat assessment and evaluation 3) Detection of new or improved weapons systems 4) Mobile radar system tracking 5) Detection of imminence ,of hostilities The data simulator provides a coordinated multiflight data generation capability. All physical processes modeled are continuous over the interval of time between flights over the area of interest. This includes collector dynamics, target dynamics, radar emissions, and antenna dynamics.