BAE Systems Receives Adaptive Radio Frequency Contracts From DARPA
08 April 2021 - 1:00AM
Business Wire
BAE Systems will design mechanisms for the U.S. Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that protect emerging wideband
receivers from interference, enabling their use in contested and
congested environments. DARPA awarded two contracts to BAE Systems
totaling $5 million under the Wideband Adaptive RF Protection
(WARP) program which is designed to develop wideband adaptive
filtering and signal cancellation architectures to safeguard
emerging wideband receivers against both external and
self-interference.
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DARPA awarded two contracts to BAE
Systems totaling $5 million under the Wideband Adaptive RF
Protection (WARP) program which is designed to develop wideband
adaptive filtering and signal cancellation architectures to
safeguard emerging wideband receivers against both external and
self-interference. Image credit: BAE Systems
Within the Department of Defense, radio frequency (RF) systems
must operate within an increasingly crowded electromagnetic
spectrum and contend with mission-compromising interference from
friendly and hostile sources.
“The ability to control signal strength across the
electromagnetic spectrum is critical to the robust operation of
wideband RF electronics,” said Chris Rappa, product line director
at BAE Systems’ FAST Labs™ research and development organization.
“WARP signal filters and cancellers will sense and adapt to the
electromagnetic environment through the intelligent control of
adaptive hardware.”
The technical areas of the program focus on enhancing electronic
warfare technology to improve adaptive control of electromagnetic
spectrum – enabling allied forces to freely operate while denying
that advantage to adversaries. Specifically, Technical Area 1 is
focused on mitigating external interference and Technical Area 2 is
focused on mitigating self-interference from co-located
transmitters to enable same-frequency simultaneous transmit and
receive, also known as STAR.
The WARP awards add to the advanced defense electronics and
electronic warfare research and development portfolio and are based
on many years of investment on various programs including T-MUSIC,
CONverged Collaborative Elements for RF Task Operations (CONCERTO)
and Radio Frequency Field Programmable Gate Arrays (RF-FPGA).
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