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Future Trends and Challenges in RF

Sensors Research and Technology

Rome, June 13NI Aerospace & Defense Forum 2013Dr. Ignacio Montiel-Snchez


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Contents

RF SENSORS R&T CHALLENGES

EDA >> 5

>> 16

CONCLUSIONS >> 20

SYSTEM CAPABILITY CHALLENGES

CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES

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>> 20


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Three key players

The European Parliament- voice of the peopleMartin Schultz, President ofof the European Parliament

The European Council

- voice of the Member StatesHerman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council

The European Commission

- promoting the common interestJ os Manuel Barroso, Presidentof the European Commission


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The EU institutions

European Parliament

Court ofJ ustice

Court ofAuditors

Economic and Social Committee Committee of the Regions

Council of Ministers(Council of the EU)

European Commission

European Investment Bank European Central BankAgencies

European Council (summit)


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EDA, a catalyst:from Member States to Member States

Improving Europes defence performance

The only one whose Steering Board meets at

the level of Defence Ministers Structure totally unique

Flexibility = tool at service of Member States

Head of the Agency =Catherine Ashton

Chief Executive =Claude-France Arnould

26 Member States (all EU except Denmark)+ Norway & Switzerland

~120 staff membres

The place to gofor European Defence Capabilities

& Cooperation

Catherine AshtonHead of the Agency

Claude-France Arnould,Chief Executive


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Institutional setting

European

Defence Agency

EDA Steering Board26 Defence Ministers

CHODs

Catherine AshtonHigh Representative of the

Union for Foreign Affairs

and Security Policy

Foreign Affairs CouncilForeign /Defence Ministers

EUMC

CONSULTATION

European CouncilHeads of State and

Government

GUIDELINES

REPORTS

PSCAmbassador level

EEAS


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EDA integrated way of workingManagement Board

CS

D

P

Requirements

ProjectsandInititatives


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European Defence Agency - Projects

Budget Categories

Project based fromcontributing

Member States(cMS)

Cat A (opt out)

R&T JointInvestment

Programmes

Ad Hoc Cat B (opt in)

Mainly R&T but fromnow on more

capability driven

General fromparticipating

Member States(pMS)

Functional,Operational and

Earmarked revenue

OB Studies


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RF Sensors R&T Challenges


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Defence Environment (1)

Greater diversity of military missions and unpredictability leading to arequirement for flexibility.

Changing threats

- Asymmetric

- Impact of the technological revolution


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Changing operational environment- Increased levels of RF interference and increased pressure for

commercial use of the spectrum Competing Communications vs. Radar- Increasing use of unmanned vehicles in Ground, Air and Maritime

- Platform and force protection, including operating base perimetersurveillance and protection of personnel

Courtesy ERA Technologies


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Need for more precise and reliable information-

Increasingly dominant role of knowledge in military operations.- Wide area, persistent surveillance for complete Situation

Awareness

- Non Cooperative Target identification / Automatic Target

Recognition- Exchange of sensors system information in a wide range of

operational contexts



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Shrinking defence budgets

The impact on R&T of the economic situation has to be analysed

and new ideas should be proposed : Implementation of programmes or agreements to cope with

the existing technology challenges in a cost effective way

Increased modularity and system flexibility to reduce costs Increasing the in-kind contributions projects

Close cooperation to the EU institutions dealing with dualciv-mil research

Increase cooperation and avoid duplications betweenDefence Organisations



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System Capability Challenges


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Solutions based on

Increased functionality and flexibility Adapt sensor mode to mission requirement and environment

Wide bandwidths for target identification, EPM and Multi-function RF sensors

Software re-configurable sensors / Software Defined Radar

Low mass, volume and power consumption sensors for

Small and long endurance UAVs

Unattended ground sensors

Man-portable sensorsReduced through life costs:

Procurement

Maintenance

Training Use and technology insertion.

Covert operation:

Covert surveillance

Platform survivability

Passive sensors.

System Capability Challenges (2)


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System Capability Challenges (3)Required ability to

Operate in net-centric systems

Coordinate and synchronizemultiple ESM sensors to improve

emitter geolocation andidentification

Coordinate and synchronisemultiple ECM systems in order todecrease interference to own

system

Operate in a complex EM environment:

Radar Operation in dense, unintentional RF

interference and/or operation againstsophisticated repeater jammers

Electronic Protective Measures (EPM)

Electronic surveillance Ability to detect and characterise

advanced radar waveforms and dense,complex co-channel communicationssignals

Drive towards reduced operator skills forall RF systems


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CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES (1) HARDWARE - RF, IF & DigitalAntennas

AESA high efficiency RF antennas Structurally integrated, including wideband,

lightweight and conformal.

Signal and waveform generation

Low phase noise and reduced spurious signals

Receivers

High dynamic range, wideband, low power

consumption and compact Use of rapidly tuneable and low loss RF filters

and high speed and high resolution ADC

Technologies for processing

Application of RF-on-Optics technology

New frequency bands

Exploitation of mm-wave and THz bands


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Algorithms for detection and trackingof difficult targets - TBM

High resolution imaging: SAR/ISARfor target recognition and identification

Adaptive beam-forming (especiallyfor wide bandwidths) and adaptivearray processing (e.g. STAP)

New signal and data processing tomake better use of current military andCOTS RF systems

RF sensor resource managementfor Cognitive Radar and Sensor datafusion

Compressive Sensing

High accuracy and precisiongeo-referencing.

Networks Synchronisationand communication

Bi-Multistatic configurations

CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES (2) SOFTWARE - Signal & Data Processing


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ARCHITECTURES

System architectures and conceptsdefinition.

Implementation of architectures and

interface standards for scalable modularand multifunction systems throughCOTS & MOTS.

NEW CONCEPTSApplications of MIMO and Multistaticradar

Cognitive Radar and AdaptiveSensors.

Networks of Sensors, multiplatform,multifunction.

SYSTEM ISSUES

Interference suppression of RFSystems, Frequency allocationmanagement.

Methodology for the specificationand measurement of system

performance.

Sensor calibration and signature

reduction.

Simulation and modelling

Courtesy SAAB.

CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES (3) System Level


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CONCLUSIONSWe need to give answers to these new

challenges

Identification of user needs andtechnology gaps

Share of vision, knowledge, costs, risksand lessons learned

Coordination and integration of policiesand investment at different levels

Establishment of frameworks adapted tothe current situations

Foster cooperation Consider open architectures and

standardisation to lower costs Look for new opportunities and innovativepolicies


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Thank you for your attention!

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