Introduction to Cognitive Radar and EW

his presentation will discuss the history and development of Cognitive radar (CR) and electronic warfare (EW). These systems did not happen overnight but were the result of a technological tipping point that has been years in the making. Until the early 2000s, advanced radar/EW were incremental advancements in adaptive signal processing such as adaptive beamforming and space-time adaptive processing, more powerful digital embedded real-time computing, and enabling RF electronics (digital front ends). However, these systems were based on sample statistic-based methods that have their roots in the 1950s. Beginning with the DARPA/AFRL KASSPER project, and related classified projects, a new knowledge-aided (KA) architecture was developed that could arguably be said to be the first integration of the modern “information age” into advanced adaptive radar/EW. The first book on cognitive radar was published in 2010, which incorporated the last piece of the cognitive system: its ability to proactively “probe” and learn on the fly to update and augment its radar channel knowledge base. In addition to providing an overview of CR’s historical development, this webinar will provide details of the current state-of-the-art and its relationship to other CR methods such as those that discuss mimicking certain biological systems such as the sonar bat described by S. Haykin in 2006.

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