Electronic Attack Jamming Assessment Visual Cues
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current aircrew decision aids for Electronic Attack (EA) aircraft are inadequate in providing real-time situational awareness and optimizing jamming approaches against advanced threat emitters, leading to increased workload and ineffective jamming due to the inability to fuse threat emitter performance with EA capabilities and protected entity positions.
Innovation Solution
A software program generates real-time Jam Acceptability Region (JAR) and Jam Assessment Strobe (JAS) visual cues, processing EA and protected entity positional information along with threat emitter characteristics to optimize jamming effectiveness by determining the best geometric positioning of the EA relative to threat emitters.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual incorporation of PE position and manual determination of optimum EW countermeasure are performed, then aircrew can control jamming operations, but aircrew workload increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically calculates and presents the optimum EW countermeasure and geometric positioning based on integrated sensor data and threat emitter characteristics, allowing the jamming system to serve itself without requiring manual analysis and decision-making by the aircrew
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors PE position, threat emitter characteristics, and jamming effectiveness, then feeds this information back to automatically adjust and optimize the jamming approach in real-time, reducing the need for manual re-evaluation and decision-making
2Reliability
If current text and rudimentary visual cues are used to depict EA position, then display complexity is low, but situational awareness and decision-making effectiveness are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple data sources including PE position, threat emitter characteristics, geometric relationship analysis, and jamming effectiveness assessments into a single integrated display format, providing comprehensive situational awareness through one cohesive visual representation rather than multiple separate indicators
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from simple text and rudimentary visual cues to a multi-dimensional graphical representation that incorporates spatial geometry, threat susceptibility areas, and real-time positional relationships, enabling the aircrew to perceive complex situational parameters through visual intuition
3Productivity
If fusion of threat emitter performance with EA capabilities and PE position is performed, then jamming effectiveness is optimized, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a universal integrated processing architecture that handles multiple functions including threat emitter characteristic analysis, PE position tracking, geometric relationship calculation, and jamming effectiveness assessment within a single cohesive system, avoiding the need for separate specialized systems for each function
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AI summary
The invention generally relates to the field of computer software particularly to an improved method of providing aircrew decision aids for use in determining the optimum placement of an Electronic Attack (EA) aircraft. The core of the invention is a software program that will dynamically provide the EA flight crew situational awareness regarding a threat emitter's coverage relative to the position of the EA aircraft and to the position of protected entities (PE). The software program generates information to provide visual cues representing a Jam Acceptability Region (JAR) contour and a Jam Assessment Strobe (JAS) for display via designated aircraft cockpit processors and devices. The JAR and JAS will aid the EA aircrew in assessing the effectiveness of a given jamming approach.