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About Advanced Electronic Warfare

This four-day course builds on the information in Fundamentals of EW (or equivalent) courses. The principles learned in the fundamentals course will reviewed and then applied to new types of radars (mono-pulse, pulse Doppler etc.) with advanced electronic protection (ultra low side lobe, side lobe canceller and blanker, etc.) new types of communications threats (Low probability of Intercept) and new EW tools (Direct Digital Synthesis, Digital RF Memory, etc.) Special attention will be given to resources available to EW professionals: textbooks and authors, periodicals, journals, organizations, etc. This will be run like a typical graduate seminar course with much class participation.

The intended audience is working professionals in EW or related fields who have engineering degrees or the equivalent ability to use analytical tools. However, dB equations and physical explanations of concepts will be an integral part of the course.

Course Topics

• Electronic Warfare and Information Warfare: operational inter­relationships between the various subfields; basic strategies for EA, ES and EP in modern warfare;
• Radio propagation models
• Receiver system design: advantages/disadvantages of various receiver types, dynamic range/sensitivity tradeoffs, Digital receiver system design tradeoffs;
• Advanced radar threat: Phased array radars, SAR and ISAR, ES challenges, EP challenges;
• Low probability of intercept signals;
• ES: Modern signal processing challenges; ES against LPI signals;
• Modern EA architectures:
  • EA against modern radar systems
  • EA against LPI signals
  • Expendables and Decoy Systems
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Stealth: Stealth technology; EW vs. stealth

Course Texts

Two hardcover text books are supplied for this course: EW 101 and EW 102 by Adamy (Artech House ISBN: 1-58053-169-5 and 1-58053-686-7). Also supplied are a 296 page course syllabus, a special (newly available) Antenna and Propagation Calculation slide rule, and other handout booklets.

For further information please contact:
Anne-Marie Eliseo
Industry Education Manager
phone: +61-8-8302-3928
email: industryeducation@nicta.com.au