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U.S. Air Force researchers are surveying industry for companies able to develop sensing,\u00a0electronic warfare (EW), and cyber warfare capabilities for future offensive and defensive uncrewed aerial combat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Officials of the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y., issued a request for information (FA875025RB010) last Thursday for the Modern Unmanned-warfare Systems Environment (MUSE) project.<\/p>\n

Researchers want to develop a framework to blend commercial sensors, aircraft, and command and control (C2) designs in new offensive and defensive\u00a0uncrewed aircraft<\/a> capabilities. The project seeks to demonstrate cooperative uncrewed aircraft prototypes that work autonomously and develop enabling technologies to defeat several enemy uncrewed aircraft simultaneously.<\/p>\n

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Signals intelligence<\/h3>\n

The U.S. must develop technologies to detect and counter uncrewed aircraft and uncrewed aircraft swarms, researchers point out.<\/p>\n

Research will involve information exchanges and interfaces; adapters and translators; messaging, queueing, and transformation middleware; electronic warfare (EW);\u00a0cyber warfare; EW-enabled cyber warfare against uncrewed aircraft communications links; low-collateral-damage EW and cyber warfare; anti-tamper technologies; near-real-time battle damage assessment; and cyber intelligence and surveillance.<\/p>\n

Researchers plan to use an Air Force-developed counter-uncrewed aircraft architecture called Small Unmanned Aircraft Defense System (SUADS) to help develop and integrate counter-uncrewed sensors and weapons.<\/p>\n

Air Force researchers also are interested in human-machine teaming; rules of engagement for automated systems; mass and swarm attacks; integration with higher-level command and control; cooperation and de-confliction among cyber warfare systems; air traffic management; integrating raw sensor feeds with meta data; artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms; detect-and-avoid technologies; and enclosures like pods and hives to deploy interceptors.<\/p>\n

Counter-uncrewed sensors<\/h3>\n

Sensors of interest include acoustic, radar and light detection and ranging; unintended radiated emissions; and signature and effects libraries; and ways to store cyber warfare effects and index their capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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