Electronic Warfare Test and Evaluation Solutions

Take Your Lab to the Next Level With Keysight Technologies Electronic Warfare Test and Evaluation Solutions 

Keysight Technologies

The world’s leader in electronic measurement provides complete end-to-end solutions for designing, testing, and verifying Electronic Warfare (EW) System Under Test. We’re stepping forward as a commercial collaborator, creating and delivering the rapidly adaptable EW solutions you need to succeed far into the future. We will work with your team to ensure enhanced realism and greater confidence in test and evaluation. 

Overview

As the EW threat environment continues to evolve, confidence and reliability in EW system validation and verification is heavily dependent on the modernization and improvements of the test and evaluation process. Complex and diverse threats drive the need for EW systems to be capable of identifying and neutralizing radar threats accurately, and just as importantly, can respond with adaptive and cognitive countermeasures. The challenges of EW test and evaluation are increasing with high-fidelity complex emitters as there is a need to simulate and analyze high-density environments. The battle for dominance in the electromagnetic spectrum domain is a high priority for national defense and is driving the need for significant advancements in EW test and evaluation capabilities, methods, and solutions.

Many times EW Test and Evaluation (T&E) is performed with large, complex, expensive custom systems not widely available to EW design engineers, leaving room for potential error as they aren’t testing under the most realistic situations. To ensure consistency throughout development, testing, and deployment of EW systems, it is critical to identify when or where the error occurred. With Keysight’s full range of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) building blocks test confidently and evaluate starting with digital modeling in research and development all the way through system integration, flight tests, and fully operational systems. Use individual test and measurement blocks or engage with our team to create and deliver exceptional EW Test and Evaluation Solutions.

Reduce Risk with Simulated EW Systems Under Test (SUT)

Modern EW systems are very complex with complicated architectures. Digital modeling prior to hardware implementation of an EW System Under Test (SUT) reduces the risk of development time and high program costs. Keysight’s SystemVue Radar Modeling library helps verify and analyze EW system processing, algorithms, and countermeasures by creating digital models of the system and running simulations with environmental effects including, multi-path reflections, interference, jamming, targets, and clutter.

Keysight’s full range of COTS test and measurement equipment offers extensible testing as the system moves from a digital model into hardware prototypes during hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing. Choose from a range of arbitrary waveform generators and agile vector signal generators for signal generation and signal analyzers, oscilloscopes and digitizers for signal analysis. Use SystemVue as a platform to control hardware test setup.

Get Closer to Reality To accurately simulate radar threats and targets, an agile signal generator that can switch frequency and settle amplitude in the hundreds of nanoseconds at different frequencies is necessary. When looking for a solution to simulate your RF environment, make sure the product’s internal modulation bandwidth is sufficient to cover your threat frequencies of interest.

Record, Score, and Analyze Outputs of Electronic Attack Systems

The Radar Recorder can record and analyze pulsed signals in real time, making it the ideal multi-channel system to witness and verify the output of electronic attack systems. Using real-time measurement and PDW scoring, Keysight’s Radar Recorder quickly verifies measured pulses. It increases confidence in testing while significantly improving recorder scalability, capability, and support.