AEWC benefits in store

THE Air Force’s Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control system is likely to benefit from a five-year research program between the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and the US Air Force Research Laboratory.

The research is part of the Project Arrangement 35, which will include modelling and simulation of radars as well as radar detection performance prediction in a variety of environments.

Dr Len Sciacca, Chief of DSTO’s Electronic Warfare and Radar Division, said the results of the research were likely to be critical to long-term radar support and the development of future phased array radars.

“A variety of current Australian Defence projects will benefit directly from the research, including the Wedgetail airborne early warning and control system being developed for the Royal Australian Air Force,” Dr Sciacca said.

The research into sensor scheduling and adaptive radar signal processing already underway at DSTO’s Centre of Expertise in Networked Decision and Sensor Systems, at the University of Melbourne, will be part of the program.

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