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Rome, June 13 NI Aerospace & Defense Forum 2013 Dr.

Ignacio Montiel-Snchez

Future Trends and Challenges in RF Sensors Research and Technology

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Contents

EDA RF SENSORS R&T CHALLENGES SYSTEM CAPABILITY CHALLENGES CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES CONCLUSIONS

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Three key players


The European Parliament - voice of the people
Martin Schultz, President of of the European Parliament

The European Council - voice of the Member States


Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council

The European Commission - promoting the common interest


Jos Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission

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The EU institutions
European Council (summit) European Parliament Council of Ministers (Council of the EU) European Commission

Court of Justice

Court of Auditors

Economic and Social Committee

Committee of the Regions

European Investment Bank

Agencies

European Central Bank

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EDA, a catalyst: from Member States to Member States


The place to go
for European Defence Capabilities & Cooperation
Improving Europes defence performance
Catherine Ashton Head of the Agency

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
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Claude-France Arnould, Chief Executive

Institutional setting
European Council
Heads of State and Government Catherine Ashton
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

EDA Steering Board


26 Defence Ministers

GUIDELINES REPORTS

Foreign Affairs Council


Foreign /Defence Ministers

PSC
Ambassador level

European Defence Agency CONSULTATION

CHODs

EUMC

EEAS

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EDA integrated way of working


Management Board
Requirements

C S D P

Projects and Inititatives

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European Defence Agency - Projects


Budget Categories

Project based from contributing Member States (cMS)

General from participating Member States (pMS)

Cat A (opt out) R&T Joint Investment Programmes

Ad Hoc Cat B (opt in) Mainly R&T but from now on more capability driven

Functional, Operational and Earmarked revenue OB Studies

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RF Sensors R&T Challenges

Defence Environment (1)

Greater diversity of military missions and unpredictability leading to a requirement for flexibility. Changing threats
- Asymmetric - Impact of the technological revolution

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Defence Environment (2)

Courtesy ERA Technologies

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 perimeter surveillance and protection of personnel
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Defence Environment (3)

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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Defence Environment (4)


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 dual civ-mil research Increase cooperation and avoid duplications between Defence Organisations

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System Capability Challenges

System Capability Challenges (1)


Challenging targets
Increased sensitivity and improved clutter rejection for detection of difficult targets in complex environments and strong clutter
Small boats and sea skimming missiles in the littoral Vehicles and personnel in urban environments Ground targets employing camouflage, concealment and deception (CC&D) techniques, including concealment under foliage Mobile and fleeting targets Detection and localisation of mines and IED, rockets and mortars Low Radar Cross Section (RCS) missiles and cruise missiles Inside building and buried targets
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System Capability Challenges (2)


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 sensors Reduced through life costs: Procurement Maintenance Training Use and technology insertion. Covert operation: Covert surveillance Platform survivability www.eda.europa.eu 18 Passive sensors.

System Capability Challenges (3)


Required ability to
Operate in net-centric systems Coordinate and synchronize multiple ESM sensors to improve emitter geolocation and identification Coordinate and synchronise multiple ECM systems in order to Operate in a complex EM environment: decrease interference to own Radar system
Operation in dense, unintentional RF interference and/or operation against sophisticated repeater jammers Electronic Protective Measures (EPM)

Electronic surveillance
Ability to detect and characterise advanced radar waveforms and dense, complex co-channel communications signals

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Drive towards reduced operator skills for all RF systems www.eda.europa.eu

Critical Technologies

CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES (1)


Antennas
AESA high efficiency RF antennas Structurally integrated, including wideband, lightweight and conformal.

HARDWARE - RF, IF & Digital

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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CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES (2) SOFTWARE - Signal & Data Processing


Algorithms for detection and tracking of difficult targets - TBM High resolution imaging: SAR/ISAR for target recognition and identification Adaptive beam-forming (especially for wide bandwidths) and adaptive array processing (e.g. STAP) New signal and data processing to make better use of current military and COTS RF systems RF sensor resource management for Cognitive Radar and Sensor data fusion Compressive Sensing
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High accuracy and precision geo-referencing. Networks Synchronisation and communication Bi-Multistatic configurations
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CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES (3)


ARCHITECTURES System architectures and concepts definition.

System Level

Implementation of architectures and interface standards for scalable modular SYSTEM ISSUES and multifunction systems through COTS & MOTS. Interference suppression of RF Systems, Frequency allocation NEW CONCEPTS management. Applications of MIMO and Multistatic Methodology for the specification radar and measurement of system Cognitive Radar and Adaptive performance. Sensors. Sensor calibration and signature Networks of Sensors, multiplatform, reduction. multifunction.
Courtesy SAAB.

Simulation and modelling


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CONCLUSIONS
We need to give answers to these new challenges Identification of user needs and technology gaps Share of vision, knowledge, costs, risks and lessons learned Coordination and integration of policies and investment at different levels Establishment of frameworks adapted to the current situations Foster cooperation Consider open architectures and standardisation to lower costs Look for new opportunities and innovative policies

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Thank you for your attention!

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