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06 May 22. AOC Europe 2022 zeroes in on integrated electromagnetic effects. AOC Europe reunites the electromagnetic effects community in Montpellier, France on 10-12th May 2022, to collaboratively progress understanding of the issues and technology that underpin the electronic warfare (EW) capabilities in today and tomorrow’s battlespace.
The event brings together world-leading experts from the military, government, academia and industry to share knowledge and network under the common theme of ‘integrating electromagnetic effects across all domains’.
“With the control of the electromagnetic spectrum now a fundamental requirement in modern warfare across all domains – land, sea air, space, information and cyber – systems operating in these domains must be able to communicate, make decisions, share information and take actions in a coordinated, controlled and effective manner using the electromagnetic spectrum,” Bob Andrews MBE, AOC Director Global Conferences, said. “To achieve and maintain this dominance, electronic warfare, radar, navigation, situational awareness and other information and communication systems require significant levels of integration and interoperability across all types of platforms and in all domains.”
The 2022 event will consider four main sub-themes across the three-day conference agenda: ‘Technologies and solutions for integration of EM effects across all domains’, ‘Emerging technologies that will make a significant difference in advancing all domain effects’, ‘Multi-domain training, test and evaluation’, and ‘Future trends in multi-domain EW’.
The conference will begin with the return of the Plath Intelligence Workshop, opening with the Chairman’s Welcome from Professor David Stupples, Professor of Electronic and Radio Systems, City University London; and continuing with a discussion of topics including ‘The contribution of ELINT/ESM intelligence to the motto “win the war before the war”’, ‘Innovative sensor technology for the protection of armoured vehicles’, and ‘From sensor to decider – next generation intelligence exchange’.
On day two of the conference will open with the keynote opening address from Air Commodore Hugh Smith, Deputy Director, European Air Group. He will be followed by speakers including Col USAF (Ret’d) Powder Carlson, President, Association of Old Crows; Major Dan McCormack, Officer Commanding, 223 Signal Squadron, 14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare), British Army; and Mr Alasdair Gilchrist MBE, Above Water Systems Programme Manager, Dstl and Chair NATO EW Policy & Doctrine Panel.
Day three will open with a special panel session on ‘Next-Generation Air Survivability’ chaired by Mr Mark Threadgold, Electromagnetic Protection Group, Dstl; before moving onto a consideration of topics including ‘Ensuring Future Freedom of Access and Manoeuvre in the Electromagnetic Environment through Innovation’, ‘Tackling Cognitive EW Challenges with SEI’, and ‘Future Trends for Multi Domain EW’.
The conference will be supplemented by the largest AOC Europe exhibition to date, where more than 80 exhibitors will present their latest technology solutions designed to support operators in achieving and sustaining dominance across the EW spectrum.
“I look forward to welcoming the EW community in Montpellier to consider the innovative integrated systems requirements, applications and enabling technologies – from intelligence data gathering, analysis and data fusion through to the deployment of countermeasures and other actions that use the electromagnetic spectrum – so that we might share knowledge and collaborate on how best to address today’s requirements and ensure we continue to maintain EW dominance in tomorrow’s battlespace,” Andrews said.
To register and attend AOC Europe 2022 visit: https://www.aoceurope.org/register
25 Apr 22. Why is reuniting at AOC Europe 2022 this year more important than ever? The recent turbulences in defence and national security, have brought to light the need for advanced electronic warfare technology more than ever before. To make sure you are informed on the latest developments and challenges in electromagnetic spectrum operations, AOC Europe have invited a panel of EW specialists who will discuss their fields of expertise and share their valuable insights at the upcoming conference. So, why not join them?
Here’s a sneak peek at the top sessions:
Day 1: Wednesday 11 May
Keynote Opening Address
►Air Cdre Hugh Smith RAF, Deputy Director, European Air Group
Russian EW Meets Reality: Electronic Warfare Successes and Failures During Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
► Dr Tom Withington, Editor, Armada International
Glenn “Powder” Carlson, Lt Col, USAF (Ret’d), AOC President – US DoD Superiority Strategy and Its Implementation
Training And Terminology Matter
► Alasdair Gilchrist MBE, Above Water Systems, Programme Manager, Dstl and Chair NATO EW Policy & Doctrine Panel
Digital Transformation in T&E in New EMSO
► Mr Raffaele Fiengo, Business Development Manager, National Instruments Germany
► Dr. Ing. Massimo Sciotti, Elettronica GmbH
Day 2: Thursday 12 May
Special Session – Next Generation Air Survivability
► Mark Threadgold, Dstl Fellow, Electromagnetic Protection Group, DSTL
Decision Making for Unified EMS Effects
► Dr Karen Haigh, Independent Consultant and author of Cognitive Electronic Warfare: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, USA
Lightweight EW payloads for UAV – A game changer in the electromagnetic battle space
► Mr Nicolas Fovet, Head of Department – Air & Naval Electronic Warfare Communications Projects, THALES
AI & EW: The revolution of multi-domain warfare
► Mr Matt Driskill, Director of Strategy and Growth, Modern Technology Solutions Inc, USA
To register for the event, please visit: https://www.aoceurope.org/battlespace-2022
05 May 22. Patria at AOC Europe. Patria attends AOC Europe exhibition on 10-12th May 2022 in Montpellier, France. Patria stand is located at G9, where Patria showcases its wide range of Intelligence and Surveillance products and services.
Patria ARIS is an ELINT (electronic intelligence) system for gathering strategic information on radars, their location and their operational tactics, as well as building, updating and validating the emitter databases storing knowledge of radar waveforms.
ARIS-E is an ESM (electronic support measures) system providing real-time tactical
situational picture by intercepting, recognizing, geolocating and tracking radar platforms.
ARIS and ARIS-E together deliver a complete solution for both strategic and
tactical ELINT/ESM operations mastering the most modern signal environment.
Patria MUSCL is a passive radar system providing resilient, covert and easily deployable air surveillance in standalone mode as well as in networked mode using multiple MUSCL stations. The system provides affordable area and point surveillance for various applications such as military air surveillance, border control, critical infrastructure protection and drone detection.
Patria CRAWLR is an OSINT software product providing targeted and discrete information gathering from a wide range of sources, including websites, social media, and the dark web. It also offers a variety of search and filtering tools, image recognition and categorization, and machine translation capabilities to support data analysis.
Patria CANDL provides a single data link solution for communications requiring high reliability, such as UAS payload data and C2. It enables air-to-air and air-to-ground Ad Hoc Networking as well as relaying for BLOS capability, thus enabling capabilities such as MUMT – Manned Unmanned Teaming – and LVC – Live Virtual Constructive – training.
Patria SONAC DTS is an ASW Sonar system offering both active and passive modes of operation with two separate wet-end sub-systems, VDS and TAS, which can be used simultaneously.
Patria SONAC ACS acoustic mine sweep is specially designed for sweeping influence mines with advanced acoustic triggering. Its compact, lightweight size is designed for use with unmanned craft.
The materials in Patria material bank are available here https://patria.contenthub.fi/AOC
03 May 22. BIRD Aerosystems will present its advanced EW solutions including the SPREOS DIRCM at the AOC Europe conference.
BIRD Aerosystems’ innovative electronic warfare solutions integrate Electromagnetic and Electro-optic Effects to ensure optimal platform protection.
BIRD Aerosystems, a global provider of innovative defense technology and solutions that protect the air, sea, and land fleets of governments and related agencies, will present its AMPS Airborne Missile Protection Systems, including the SPREOS DIRCM, the most advanced and lightweight DIRCM solution available today, and the MACS Missile Approach Confirmation Sensor, at the AOC Europe conference in Montpellier, France.
Protecting hundreds of aircraft operating worldwide in the most dangerous arenas, BIRD Aerosystems’ innovative electronic warfare solutions integrate Electromagnetic and Electro-optic Effects to ensure optimal platform protection in the most effective way. BIRD Aerosystems’ unique technology enables the use of a Semi-Active Doppler Radar as a secondary detection sensor tasked with interrogating the approaching threat detected by the primary optical Missile Warning Sensors (MWS), and confirming that it is a real missile and not a false alarm. At the same time, it precisely assesses the nature of the particular threat, tracking it and cueing an advanced QCL dual-band laser to defeat the threat.
Ronen Factor, Co-CEO and Founder at BIRD Aerosystems: “As the recent conflict in Ukraine demonstrated, MANPADS are an extremely effective weapon that poses a real threat to military and civil aircraft and can prevent either side from obtaining air supremacy. In order to mitigate this risk and ensure the safety of aircraft and crew, the AMPS system is uniquely able to alert and confirm of an incoming threat with zero false alarms. Using the SPREOS DIRCM and optionally flares, it provides the most enhanced protection tailored for the specific threat”.
BIRD’s SPREOS (Self Protection Radar Electro-Optic System) is an advanced DIRCM system that provides enhanced protection against different types of MANPADS, including the most advanced ones, for a wide range of airborne platforms ranging from small helicopters to large transport aircraft and enables the most effective jamming response.
25 Apr 22. How is digitalization transforming the new EMSO? Find out at AOC Europe 2022. The EW industry has seen significant developments since our previous conference. One such key area that has evolved exponentially is ‘Multi-domain test, evaluation and training’. What other aspects of electromagnetic spectrum operations will continue to evolve?
To help you better understand the latest solutions and address the challenges faced by the EW community, AOC Europe has invited renowned speakers at AOC Europe 2022 including, Dr. Karen Haigh, world expert in AI and Cognitive EW, and the author of Cognitive Electronic Warfare: An Artificial Intelligence Approach.
Why attend AOC Europe 2022?
The event will be heading to Montpellier, France for the first time to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the French Lafayette AOC chapter. Don’t miss out as the EW community reconvenes together again to discuss new advances and future challenges in electronic warfare.
In addition, attendees will have the chance to view the latest technology solutions for electromagnetic spectrum operations from over 85 specialist suppliers, at the free-to-attend exhibition.
To register for the event, visit: https://www.aoceurope.org/battlespace-2022
19 Apr 22. APITech Announces Participation at AOC Europe 2022. APITech™ (API Technologies Corp.), a leading provider of capabilities that Protect, Power, and Process critical RF and electronics applications is pleased to announce our participation at AOC Europe 2022 in Pérols, France. Held at Parc des Expositions de Montpellier on May 10th-12th, 2022, APITech will be exhibiting at Booth B19.
AOC Europe gives us a unique opportunity to meet with new and existing customers to talk about our products and technologies supporting Electronic Warfare applications, said Michael Schwarm, vice president, worldwide sales and marketing for APITech. “We are uniquely positioned to help our defense customers address current and emerging challenges from the component-level to highly integrated subsystems and assemblies.
APITech will be showcasing our advanced solutions for Electronic Warfare including broadband amplifiers, RF/EMI filters, multi-function RF modules, limiters & attenuators, and RF distribution switches.
Later in 2022, APITech will be attending IMS in Denver in June, and AOC US in Washington, DC in October.
For more information on APITech’s trade show program, go to: https://info.apitech.com/events
About APITech
APITech™ (API Technologies Corp.) is an innovative designer and manufacturer of high-performance subsystems, modules, and components to Protect, Power, and Process critical RF and electronics applications. A high-reliability technology pioneer with over 70 years of heritage, APITech’s products are used by global defense, industrial, and commercial customers for critical applications including electronic warfare, Radar, C4ISR, Space, missile defense, commercial aerospace, wireless communications, medical, oil and gas, and harsh environments. (Source: PR Newswire)
04 May 22. WORK Microwave Showcases World-Class RF Technology for Defence Applications at AOC Europe 2022. WORK Microwave, a leading European manufacturer of advanced defence and satellite communications equipment, will demonstrate its latest best-in-class RF technology for defence applications, including radar, SIGINT and COMINT, and advanced GNSS simulation at AOC Europe 2022.
Key highlights at the show will include:
High-End Radar and Other RF Components
WORK Microwave will showcase its Radar Synthesizer at AOC Europe 2022. The company’s fast-hopping synthesizer modules support fixed, mobile, and man-portable radar systems from the D- to X-band. The synthesizer includes a master oscillator with very low phase noise.
In addition, WORK Microwave will demonstrate its Radar Converter for up/downconversion. The dual-conversion, frequency-agile solution supports the IF- to X-band, including the L-band and Ka-band, and offers ultralow phase noise and spurious performance, high gain stability, and optional Tx or Rx Cal modes.
SIGINT and COMINT Devices for Intelligence Gathering
WORK Microwave’s Integrated Wideband Downconverter will be on display at AOC Europe 2022. Covering the full spectrum up to 40 GHz, the wideband frequency downconverters can be deployed indoors and outdoors or can be integrated as OEM modules for a wide variety of demanding SIGINT and COMINT applications.
WORK Microwave will also bring its Quad-Channel V-Band Block Upconverter to AOC Europe 2022. As one of the industry’s first satcom solutions to support the full V-band spectrum, the customized outdoor unit supports IP67 and Fit, Form and Function (3F).
Additionally, WORK Microwave will demo its Dual-Channel Ka-Band Block Converter Module with an internal reference and integrated output combiner. Beyond the Ka-band, the converter module is available for the C- to Q-band.
04 May 22. AOC 22 Session 1.
The ELINT revival
ELINT is back! During the past years the operational continuum for EW has changed tremendously. Due to vast technology advances in both military and civilian radar technologies, modern functional services for EW – across both congested and contested signal EM environments – need to achieve and maintain superiority in the EM spectrum.
Modern sophisticated radar threats are particularly complex, frequency-agile and highly-mobile – replacing old mechanical antennas with active electronic scanning arrays, making them difficult to detect, identify and analyze. Modern multi-mode radars and low power solid state LPI radars operating in vast frequency ranges, from HF to SHF and beyond, can also be operated in frequency ranges associated with civilian communication.
ELINT is back! Now more than ever! As the radar and communication signal environments converge, especially in urban and littoral areas, the technical evolution of modern ELINT systems have to adapt and evolve into ELINT/R-ESM applications, which provide high dynamic range, de-interleaving of pulsed and FMCW signals, time/frequency domain analysis and interpulse/intrapulse analysis in order to keep up with the latest developments in highly-integrated, highly-mobile weapon systems. This session emphasizes the technological advances and the impact on platform considerations; in addition it gives an outlook on operational challenges and future drivers and trends in modern automatic intercept systems, with maximum user operability.
“In the next two decades, the EM environment may become our most critical warfighting arena. Control of information – much of it through the EM spectrum – is already growing more important than control of territory in modern warfare. Future conflicts will be won in a new arena – that of the electromagnetic spectrum and cyberspace. We must merge, then master those realms.”
Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, CNO
Today’s missions call for `intelligent´ systems that address multiple threats simultaneously, are highly adaptive, multifunctional and can be operated on various platforms (air, land, sea) with reduced size, weight and power. All following presentations will emphasize this revival.
Session 2
COMINT – benefit from new technologies across different platforms
Technology in the communications segment develops steadily and rapidly. The market expects yearly progress is expected by the market to keep solutions continously up-to-date and able face the increasing demand on bandwidth, security, comfort and improved operational outcomes.
The impact on the intelligence domain seems obvious. However, a deeper look into specific technological developments shows that upcoming challenges in communication means are only one part of the issues that have to be considered in future.
Looking on the bright side, this continuous development cycle enables new COMINT methods and opportunities; particularly when taking different platforms, uses cases and multi-domain operations into consideration.
The combination of new platform possibilities with such new technologies, along with interconnection and data fusion, enable cost-efficient holistic COMINT system approaches.
As an example, Primoco UAV SE presents the high-performing UAV One 150 in combination with multiple, high-precision optical and COMINT sensors, resulting in an unprecedented situational awareness, including secured data distribution to each key participant in intelligence scenarios. This session is complemented by addressing new COMINT possibilities and requirements which result from human factors and the technological development of mobile phones. These technologies can unveil additional tactical relevant information without the need to decode military PTT radio communications. The intercepted information can also be used to enrich the Target Knowledge Base and to support CESM systems in subsequent missions and across different platforms.
The use of innovative sensor technology for the protection of armoured vehicles increases situational awareness and leads to increased initiative as well as to enhanced protection. This sensor technology is presented by PLATH Signal Products GmbH & Co. in the final presentation within this session. SESSION 3
The evolution of the intelligence domain
The biggest challenge facing the intelligence sector today is not only collecting data, but also identifying and extracting relevant information for targeted data distribution. Technological improvements enable us to teach machines and create artificial intelligence that supports optimised and efficient data analysis.
In times when collaboration and multilateral partnerships are accepted as the gold standard operating model, is it still necessary for every party to collect data for their own purposes?
In contrast, the growing use of the commercial cloud for information sharing purposes poses challenges of its own, including the need for enormous bandwidth at all levels, and classification and security issues that are difficult to solve in this critical environment.
But what if there was a solution somewhere in the middle that enabled data exchange specifically for the intelligence sector? The focus must be primarily on the effective provision of relevant and high-quality data as well as the rapid and targeted dissemination of information, while also meeting classification and data sovereignty requirements.
This session touches on a sensitive topic: Industry already has technologies that enable cross-border, cross-domain and supranational information sharing. But most national intelligence units are still operating with locked data silos, which stands in the way of the efficient and rapid “give and take” of information.
In addition, today’s infrastructure consists of heterogeneous interfaces with partially networked systems and inhomogeneous data models.
The added value of future cross-border information sharing could be revolutionary, especially for scenario prediction and earlier crisis detection. But what other difficulties and limitations might impact this approach? What are the promising ways to solve these problems? And what might the future look like?
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