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Explore DRFM device technology, including its application to electronic attack, synthetic target generation, and radar jamming. Review fundamental radar concepts to learn why DRFMs make robust and powerful jamming devices. Get up-to-date information on DRFM building blocks, including all typical components such as, frequency converters, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) controllers, Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC), and Digital-to-Analog Converters (DAC). Review radar Electronic Protection (EP) techniques available to defend systems against DRFM jamming attacks.

• Engineers, technologists, and managers involved in design, analysis, simulation, requirements definition, performance specification, procurement, and test & evaluation of electronic attack equipment utilizing DRFM devices

• Understand the theory of operation of digital radio frequency memory devices
• Understand state-of-the-art in DRFM devices
• Know the performance trade-offs of various DRFM architectures and component selections
• Explain the operating modes of a DRFM
• Program a DRFM to execute standard range-velocity deception techniques
• Write a test procedure to evaluate the most important performance requirements of a DRFM
• Select candidate electronic protection techniques to defeat a DRFM jammer

• DRFM Overview
• Radar Fundamentals
• Range and Velocity Technique Primer
• Architecture Trades
• RF Design Techniques
• Digital Kernel Design
• DRFM System Test Considerations
• International DRFM Market Review
• Advanced DRFM Topics
• Live Laboratory Demonstrations
• Component Technology Summaries
  • RF Devices
  • ADC and DAC
  • FPGA

Participants receive a notebook and CD-ROM with the class notes and slides.

A working knowledge of radar systems and electronic warfare concepts or have taken Principles of Modern Radar, Basic Radar Concepts, or Basic RF Electronic Warfare Concepts courses.

• Aram Partizian
• Lamar Gostin
• Mark H. Smith
• Roger Dickerson

Applicants must have SECRET-level clearance, need-to-know certification, and be U.S. citizens. Defense contractors may meet the need-to-know requirement by having the Need-to-Know Certification and Security Clearance form signed by a Department of Defense contracting officer or an official monitoring a classified program. Government personnel can meet the need-to-know requirement by having a supervisor sign the form.

This course is an elective for the:

• Electronic Warfare Technology Certificate
• Radar Signal Processing & Techniques Certificate
• Radar Systems Certificate