Spectrum Management: Develop capabilities that fuse and correlate battlefield information from a variety of sources and display it in an accurate and shared common operational picture. Capabilities and technologies that can ingest electromagnetic data collected from the battlespace to aid in the real time/near real-time situational awareness and planning of spectrum operations. Technologies that can support command and control of forward deployed Electronic Warfare systems used by the SOF community.
Electronic Warfare - Electromagnetic Support (ES): High bandwidth, fast tuning, high dynamic range with ultra-low receiver technologies that search, intercept, identify, and locate intentional and unintentional electromagnetic energy for the purpose of threat recognition, targeting, planning, and conduct of future operations. Topic area includes the electromagnetic detection, location, and identification of unmanned systems and improvised explosive devices. Low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP), remote, body worn, man portable, vehicle platforms, and/or expeditionary fixed site systems that conform to industry open standards with modular, scalable, hardware and software solutions. Technologies that are capable of closed loop or open-air integration/synchronization into a family of systems while maintaining interoperability and compatibility with other SOF systems. Capabilities with large dynamic range that are programmable with increased performance and capable of narrow or broad band signals of interest.
Electronic Warfare - Electromagnetic Attack (EA): High bandwidth, high dynamic range with low receiver sensitivity and low latency technologies that attack, neutralize, electromagnetically isolate, and/or destroy the enemy's combat capability and use of the electromagnetic spectrum. Topic area includes the electromagnetic detection and defeat of unmanned systems and improvised explosive devices. Low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP), remote, body worn, man-portable, vehicle platforms, and/or expeditionary fixed site systems that conform with industry open standards with modular, scalable, hardware and software solutions. Technologies that are capable of closed loop or open-air integration/synchronization into a family of systems while maintaining interoperability and compatibility with SOF systems. Capabilities that are programmable with increased performance and capable of narrow or broad band signals of interest.
Electronic Warfare - Electronic Attack for Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (CIED) Applications: Increased electronic attack and RF detect and defeat of CIED and Counter Unmanned Systems (CUxS) capabilities against emerging threats worldwide in mounted/dismounted configurations. Technologies that can reduce weight, improve performance, decrease input power requirements, decrease thermal loading, and decrease system footprints. Technologies that improve the interoperability of electronic attack systems with other SOF capabilities (i.e., communications, information operations). Antennas that improve performance across a broad spectrum of frequencies operate at higher output powers, while minimizing physical size and appearance.
Electronic Warfare - Electronic Attack for Counter Unmanned Systems (CUxS) Applications: CUxS capabilities, for various configurations (i.e., dismounted, mounted, fixed site), that can detect, track, identify, and/or defeat current and emerging unmanned threats (i.e., UAS [Group 1-3], UGV, USV, UUV). CUxS capability for a range of CONOPs (i.e., passive, low signature, overt, expeditionary, maritime) that can reduce weight, improve performance, decrease operator burden, decrease input power requirements, and decrease system signature and footprint. Technologies that improve the interoperability of CUxS with other SOF capabilities (i.e., communications, other CUxS sensors and effectors).
Electronic Warfare - Electromagnetic Protect (EP): High bandwidth, large dynamic range, low receiver sensitivity, and low latency technologies that protect personnel, facilities, and equipment from any effects of friendly or enemy use of the electromagnetic spectrum that degrade, neutralize, or destroy friendly combat capability. Topic area includes the protection of personnel and capabilities in support of counter unmanned and counter improvised explosive devices. Low SWAP, remote, body worn, man-portable, vehicle platforms, and/or expeditionary fixed site systems that conform with industry open standards with modular, scalable, hardware and software solutions. Technologies that are capable of closed loop or open-air integration/synchronization into a family of systems while maintaining interoperability and compatibility with SOF systems. Capabilities that are programmable with increased performance and capable of narrow or broad band signals of interest.
Electronic Warfare - Directed Energy (DE): Capability that relates to directed energy in support of electronic warfare solutions. Capabilities include the directed energy solutions of concentrated electromagnetic energy, atomic particle beams and/or sub-atomic particle beams.
Electronic Warfare System Sensors and Integrations: Man-portable and/or expeditionary fixed site technologies with low latency/high resolution 2d/3d radar solutions, long range optics w/multiple thermal vision features, automated slew-to-que capabilities, wired/wireless networks and/or mesh networks with self-repairing features for remote sensor nodes, wireless network protocols for system-to-system interconnect that enable LPI or LPD. Focus area also includes data export and the graphical user interface for multi-node family of systems.
Electronic Warfare System Advanced Antennas: Rugged low profile, low visibility, low observable, and/or conformal broad band antenna designs to support high bandwidth ES, EA, and EP capabilities to increase capability and performance. Areas of interest include but not limited to high bandwidth antenna technologies that are electronically beamformed/steered, support Massive Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO), multi-element DF/GEO arrays for azimuth and elevation, simultaneous receive and transmit radio heads, small-phased arrays, and capable of high-power output. Antenna technologies to support maritime, ground, and airborne threats to include improvised explosive devices and unmanned systems.
Electronic Warfare System Sub-Assemblies: Advancements in system information assurance and cyber security protocols, real time and secure operating systems, systems backplanes, ultra-wide band RF front ends, system-on-a-chip technologies, low latency, ultra-fast switching, high speed interfaces, low noise amplifiers, high bandwidth linear amplifiers, next generation processors and field programmable gate arrays, and next generation photonic technology designs.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), SW Applications: Technologies that leverage AI/ML solutions to support the Information Operations portfolio of EW, MISO, OPSEC, CNO, and MILDEC. Capabilities include threat barrage technique through protocol technique applications for ground, air, and maritime threat detection and defeat, to include but not limited to CIED, CUxS. Other technologies/features include distributed ES, EA, and or EP, receive diversity, transmit diversity, real signal of interest or signal protocol identification and/or classification (shape, null, edge, demodulation), interested in RF signal classification technologies that can perform real time identifications of signals in the surrounding software must be open and capable of importing custom files and/or signal libraries.
Military Information Support Operations (MISO) Modular, Scalable, Open Architecture Solutions: Technologies optimized for IO-MISO that leverages open standards for hardware and software solutions.
Military Information Support Operations (MISO) Advanced Techniques: Advanced multi-media communications techniques including the traditional domains (acoustic, radio, TV, print) and new media resources (sonic projection, scatterable/disposable speakers and media devices, internet, cable, satellite communications, mass cellular broadcasting [including Short Message Service, Multi-media Message Service, and voice], overt and covert holographic imaging [ground, air, space projection and, optical memory], and remotely updateable/trackable electronic paper) and the emerging social networking environment.
Operations Security (OPSEC)
Military Deception (MILDEC)
Computer/Cyber Network Operations (CNO)