Keysight Aerospace Defense Offerings

In the dynamic and demanding world of Aerospace Defense, precision, reliability, and innovation are crucial. Defense organizations are under pressure to prepare for increasingly complex electromagnetic environments, while satellite and non-terrestrial network (NTN) systems face growing demands for secure and reliable communications.

To stay ahead, engineers, researchers, and mission planners require test and measurement solutions that surpass traditional tools. Keysight Technologies is at the forefront of providing advanced solutions that empower the industry to meet its unique challenges. Our comprehensive suite of tools and services is designed to accelerate mission readiness, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure the highest standards of performance under real-world conditions.

Radar: Precision in Detection and Resilience

Radar systems remain the backbone of Aerospace & Defense operations, enabling surveillance, targeting, and navigation across complex theaters. Yet modern radar environments are more challenging than ever. Adversaries deploy sophisticated jamming, pulse-dense interference, and stealth countermeasures, forcing programs to validate performance under conditions that mimic real-world conflict.

Keysight delivers advanced radar test and measurement solutions that simulate the full electromagnetic environment. From angle-of-arrival calibration to high-fidelity pulse train generation, our systems replicate clutter, multipath, and evolving threat signals. Engineers can scale from benchtop labs to open-air test ranges with a modular radar test architecture, ensuring continuity across the lifecycle.

By combining signal generation, phased array calibration, and wideband RF analysis, Keysight empowers defense teams to accelerate readiness. The result: radar systems that detect with greater accuracy, resist jamming, and maintain operational integrity. When the mission depends on seeing first and responding fast, Keysight’s radar test solutions deliver a decisive advantage.

EMSO: Mastering the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO) define the future of mission success. Adversaries are deploying complex electronic warfare (EW) threats across contested frequency bands, making spectrum dominance a mission-critical objective. To prevail, defense organizations need tools to simulate, emulate, and analyze dense EW environments with precision.

Keysight’s Electronic Warfare Advanced Signal Processing (EWASP) platform accelerates mission readiness with high-fidelity signal simulation, threat library import, and open, plugin-based threat libraries. Teams can replicate pulse-on-pulse signals, wideband interference, and dynamic emitters with unmatched realism. This allows programs to validate detection, classification, and countermeasure effectiveness long before deployment.

Our solutions enable seamless scaling from lab benchtop to field trials, unlocking deeper insights with advanced signal analysis and scenario validation. By combining EWASP with Keysight VXG signal generators and vector network analyzers, defense engineers gain the ability to test across the full EW spectrum.

With EMSO test environments that evolve as threats evolve, Keysight equips missions with the resilience and agility required to maintain electromagnetic dominance.

Spectrum Monitoring: Securing Situational Awareness

In contested domains, awareness of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum is as critical as radar visibility or satellite coverage. Modern battlefields and security environments generate massive volumes of RF data—interference, unauthorized transmissions, and hostile signal activity. Without real-time monitoring and analysis, mission situational awareness is compromised.

Keysight delivers end-to-end spectrum monitoring solutions that capture, analyze, and classify wideband signals with accuracy. Our test systems enable users to detect unauthorized transmissions, localize interference sources, and characterize dense RF activity across civilian and defense bands.

With advanced machine learning-based classification and high-speed, wideband capture, operators gain actionable insights in near real-time. Keysight platforms provide both portable solutions for field deployment and scalable systems for national monitoring networks.

By transforming massive RF data streams into usable intelligence, Keysight empowers defense and security organizations to secure the spectrum, protect communications, and strengthen operational decision-making. When knowledge equals advantage, spectrum monitoring is mission-critical—and Keysight leads the way.

Critical Communications: Ensuring Secure and Reliable Connectivity

For defense, security, and emergency operations, critical communications systems must perform without fail. These networks, whether tactical radios, secure mobile devices, or next-generation 5G and NTN links, require validation against interference, congestion, and evolving cyber-electronic threats.

Keysight provides comprehensive critical communications testing, enabling defense organizations to validate secure, resilient, and interoperable systems. Our solutions simulate real-world propagation environments, including urban multipath, jamming, and extreme weather scenarios. Engineers can test secure waveform implementations, crypto resilience, and multi-domain interoperability with precision.

From tactical radios to mission-critical LTE and 5G, Keysight ensures that communications stay robust in contested environments. By combining channel emulation, wideband RF analysis, and security validation tools, we deliver end-to-end confidence in connectivity.

With Keysight, mission planners can deploy networks that are reliable, secure, and resilient—ensuring command, control, and coordination in the moments when they matter most. In critical missions, communication is the lifeline, and Keysight ensures it never fails.

Space & Satellite: Advancing NTN and Beyond

The future of defense communications is extending into space. Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) and satellite systems are transforming global connectivity, navigation, and intelligence. Yet validating these systems requires replicating Doppler shifts, delay spreads, and orbital dynamics that cannot be captured by conventional tests.

Keysight’s space and satellite testing solutions enable programs to simulate and emulate real-world SATCOM scenarios with precision. Using EXata and SystemVue, engineers can model entire constellations, orbital paths, and end-to-end communication performance.

We provide WaveJudge analysis to validate NTN performance, ensuring beamforming, link reliability, and security in 5G-satellite hybrid networks. Our tools also validate phased array beam steering and calibration, critical for both satellite payloads and ground stations.

By combining channel emulation (PROPSIM), compact antenna test ranges (CATR), and digital twin modeling, Keysight helps accelerate development, reduce deployment risk, and assure mission continuity.

When global defense requires resilient space-based communications, Keysight ensures that satellites and NTNs are mission-ready for tomorrow’s connected battlespace.

Component Test: Automating Wideband RF and Digital Validation

At the heart of every radar, EW system, or satellite terminal are critical RF and digital components—wideband transceivers, high-speed converters, and integrated modules. Testing these components requires precision, scale, and automation to keep pace with digital transformation.

Keysight’s Digital Wideband Transceiver Test Solution revolutionizes component validation by combining RF, digital, and software-defined workflows. Our solution enables:

• Automated cross-domain testing, accelerating time-to-insight.
• RF-to-digital and digital-to-RF stimulus and response measurements, ensuring signal integrity across architectures.
• Wideband digitally modulated stimulus generation, replicating realistic mission traffic.
• Capture and processing of massive data volumes, validating wideband system performance under stress.

With PNA-X vector network analyzers, VXG-C signal generators, and integrated automation software, Keysight empowers engineers to future-proof component test workflows.

By accelerating design cycles, reducing errors, and ensuring consistent results, Keysight helps defense organizations deliver high-performance, mission-ready components faster and with greater confidence.