RAS’s expertise in Electronic Warfare systems analysis stems from our long tradition in ELINT and radar. We have extensive experience analyzing EW receiver performance for some of the most advanced aircraft in our Air Force’s fleet, including both tactical fighter aircraft and standoff collection aircraft. We have performed EW system modeling and simulation for these platforms, to include analysis of quantization errors, error propagation in digital receiver systems, down conversion, I/Q generation in digital receiver systems, and pulse sorting/correlation metrics.

We have performed advanced analysis on equalization and group delay compensation in EW receiver systems when attempting to correlate data from different receiver chains or from other aircraft. Our work in this area has resulted in significant improvements to the efficiency and effectiveness of EW collection and provides improved situational awareness for the warfighter.

Our Signal Sorting activity is perhaps our most recent contribution to the EW Enterprise. We are working closely with the US Air Force to understand the existing reprogramming paradigm and to recommend improvements to the tools and processes by which unknown threat modes are flagged for manual analysis. Our contributions will result in significant time savings for overworked operators, and improved accuracy and efficiency in reprogramming our nation’s aircraft to improve survivability.