Principal Accomplishments

  • Lincoln Laboratory conducted a comprehensive assessment of options for U.S. Air Force airborne electronic attack against foreign surveillance radars. This assessment included systems analysis of various proposed options, development of detailed models of threat surveillance radars and their electronic protection systems, and testing of various electronic attack systems and surveillance radars. A major focus was development of a system for implementing advanced electronic protection on an older surveillance radar. This system is currently undergoing initial testing.
  • mutlichannel signals intelligence receiverThis multichannel signals intelligence receiver offers low noise figure, wide bandwidth, and direction-finding capability.
    The Laboratory completed development of an advanced signals intelligence receiver designed for counterterrorism applications. The multichannel receiver is unique to this application in its use of adaptive beamforming to suppress interference sources and to preserve receiver sensitivity. The receiver system, along with a custom-built antenna array, was flight tested. The Laboratory is now working with the user community to transition this technology to theater as a quick-reaction capability.
  • The Laboratory conducted initial flight testing of a new pod on the Airborne Seeker Test Bed with three infrared missile seekers. These seekers were tested against a variety of targets, including business jets, helicopters, and fighter aircraft with and without countermeasures.
  • A number of assessments were performed examining the impact of exporting advanced military systems. These assessments were used by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and by Congress as part of the decision-making process for a number of major export programs.
  • Countermeasures to several counterinsurgency threat devices were assessed and tested. Threat devices were measured and analyzed to understand their behavior and to determine exploitable characteristics. A number of exploitation approaches were laboratory tested, and the results of these tests were used to assess the viability of concepts of operations employing these approaches.
  • Lincoln Laboratory is supporting a number of air traffic control–related efforts for the U.S. Air Force. As part of these efforts, the Laboratory is developing a prototype collision-avoidance system for the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This system will be based on a dynamic simulation facility developed by Lincoln Laboratory to model system performance over a wide range of encounter situations.

 

 

 

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