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Electronic Combat System Integration

(ECSI)

Many (IMOM) Engineer

software application

• the Distributed Information Warfare Constructive

Environment (DICE)

simulation software,

• IMOM server products;

i.e. stand-alone Application Programmer Interface

(API) libraries, and

• IMOM web-based

technology.

IMOMPlanner

IMOMPlanner visually displays

the complex interaction of

multiple ground-based radar

systems being acted upon by

multiple airborne Electronic

Counter Measures (ECM)

aircraft. IMOMPlanner models

the detection capabilities of

radar effects, the effects of

Stand-Off Jamming (SOJ)

platforms, and the effects of

Self-Protection Jamming

(SPJ) platforms. IMOMPlanner

is capable of loading a

Background

The Electronic Combat

System Integration (ECSI)

project at Idaho National

Laboratory (INL) supports the

missions of the Air Force

Information Warfare Center,

453rd Electronic Warfare

Squadron (EWS) located at

Lackland AFB, San Antonio,

Texas. The primary focus of

the ECSI project is to develop

software that enhances the

threat analysis capabilities of

the 453rd EWS.

Initiated in June of 1989, the

ECSI project has been

involved with the development and enhancement of

several radar, weapon and

communications threat

software models.

These include:

• the Improved Many-OnMany (IMOM) Planner

software application,

• the Improved Many-Ondetailed Order of Battle (OB)

for virtually any geographic

region of the world, add the

effects of terrain masking and

ECM on the OB, exploit the

results to perform a variety of

analyses. IMOMPlanner models

virtually any type of ground

or airborne radar system,

virtually any type of jamming

system, and any airborne

platform.

IMOMEngineer

IMOMEngineer is primarily a

reconnaissance (signal

collection) and communications analysis tool.

IMOMEngineer has a variety of

modes to analyze a scenario

from an Electronic Support

(ES) or an Electronic Attack

(EA) perspective. IMOMEngineer

predicts how well a receiver

can collect an emitter’s signal

within a geographic area.

IMOMEngineer’s route analysis

indicates the ability of the

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government and DoD

organizations by developing

software solutions for

modeling radar, weapon, and

communications systems

including jamming.

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receiver platform to detect an

emitter from points along a

planned flight route.

IMOMEngineer also has four

communication analyses

modes: Network Analysis,

Link Analysis, Transmission

Radial Analysis and Route

Analysis. Network analysis

shows the potential capabilities of a communication

network within an OB, with

or without a jammer present.

Transmission Radial or rings

analysis graphically depicts

jammer effectiveness on the

communications coverage of

a transmitter(s). Link analysis

shows jammer effectiveness

on a given communications

link as the jammer is moved

within a specified area of

interest. Route analysis

indicates the ability of an EA

platform to affect a communications network from points

along a planned flight route.

IMOMEngineer analyzes the

detection/location ability of a

network of passive detection

(PD) sites against airborne

emitters placed in the OB.

IMOMEngineer has a variety of

analysis modes to analyze a

scenario. These include a

radial analysis, a route

analysis, and a grid analysis.

The radial analysis depicts

how well a receiver site can

detect a target emitter’s signal

within a geographic area. The

route analysis indicates the

ability of a receiver group to

detect and locate an emitter

platform from points along a

planned flight route. The grid

analysis indicates a receiver

group’s ability to detect and

locate an emitter platform

over a specified area of

interest. The route and the

grid analyses use both DOA

(direction of arrival) and

TDOA (time difference of

arrival) algorithms in determining location capability of

the receiver group.

DICE

DICE is a Distributed Mission

Training (DMT) tool that

allows analysts to quickly

develop an order of battle

(OB) and inject computer

generated entities into a realtime synthetic battlefield.

DICE has been integrated into

the CV-22 simulator and the

EA-6B simulator. DICE

supports multiple roles in

numerous

exercises,

including the

Expeditionary

Forces Exercise

(EFX), ROADRUNNER, Joint

Suppression of

Enemy Air

Defenses

(JSEAD), BLUE

FLAG (BF), and

the Air Defense Experiment

(ADX). These roles may

include Ground Air Defense,

Offensive and Defensive Air

Operations, Electronic

Warfare, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance,

Command and Control (C2),

and Ground Targets. .

Summary

The ECSI software has been

integrated into a wide variety

of Air Force and Joint programs including

• Contingency TACS

Automated Planning

System (CTAPS),

• Theater Battle Management Core Systems

(TBMCS),

• the Global Command &

Control System (GCCS)

Integrated, Imagery and

Intelligence (I3) program,

and

• Portable Flight Planning

System (PFPS) program.

In addition, AFIWC continues

to support stand-alone users

of the models worldwide.

Validation of our models and

the software algorithms has

been conducted and are

available upon request from

the AFIWC.

Mike Snyder

(208) 526-2624

Mike.Snyder@inl.gov

Steven Hartenstein

(208) 526-1967

Steven.Hartenstein@inl.gov

Sample IMOM Screen

Cv22 Simulator