This webinar will cover the history of modern codes and ciphers, with some brief reflections from an early career spent in the field. Join us to break a World War 2 German Enigma cipher message together, to get an understanding of cryptography both then and now, and to gain some insight into the modern issues in codemaking and codebreaking. We will cover the core principles of codemaking and codebreaking, look at some practical case studies up...

This one-hour webinar delivers an overview of Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS). We will look at the evolution of IADS from WWII through the Vietnamese War to current times. We will spend some time on the North Vietnamese IADS and the US reaction to it since many of the key EW technologies were developed during this engagement. We will also look at the individual components of the IADS, early warning/ground control intercept (EW/GCI) radar...

Introduction to Radar Pulse Deinterleaving Thursday, October 22, 2020 14:00 -15:00 EDT Signal Interception, classification and identification are the core tasks of radar ES systems. In order to do so, it is necessary that such systems are able to segregate the pulses arriving from the several radars that may be emitting in the environment. Thus, the system must rely on the measurements of a set of primary parameters to form digital words that...

Specific Emitter Identification (SEI) Thursday, October 8, 2020 14:00 -15:00 EDT SEI is the process of uniquely identifying an individual transmitter from the signal received by a receiver system. Unlike digital identification, where identification signals can be perfectly reproduced, SEI uses the analogue signal characteristics of the signal to generate a unique fingerprint which can be associated with each transmitter, with the result that...

The Department of Defense (DoD) operates one of the world’s largest and most complex set of networks. An ever-increasing number of users and endpoint devices connect to these defense networks, multiplying points of entry and attack. As a result, the DoD is reassessing the current method of perimeter security, considering new methods such as “zero trust.” Rooted in the principle of “never trust, always verify,” a z...

Listening to the needs and priorities of our forces and allies, IDGA’s International Fighter USA 2020 online summit is once again designed to bring cutting edge perspectives from prominent decision makers to address the leading themes in global fighter priorities from USAF, DoD and international allies and provide answers to the challenges of 4th and 5th generation integration, next generation fighters, multi-domain joint operations, mul...

Convergence of TDOA/AOA in Operational Environments Thursday, September 24, 2020 14:00 -15:00 EDT This webinar will discuss the two primary methods of direction finding: time difference of arrival (TDOA) and angle of arrival (AOA). An overview the requirements and benefits/limitations of each will be presented. The architecture of hybrid geolocation techniques will also be discussed in operational environments.

JADC2 applications will connect distributed sensors, weapon systems (shooters), and data from all warfighting domains--cyber, space, air, ground, and sea--to all forces. The development of a data infrastructure will be critical to the success of JADC2. The U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) is now the leading technical solution for JADC2. But will other military services accept ABMS as the starting point for JADC2...

High Resolution Direction Finding Thursday, August 20, 2020 14:00 -15:00 EDT Electronic Warfare (EW) systems commonly use techniques such as phase difference of arrival, amplitude comparison, and time difference of arrival to determine the angle of arrival of a signal. However, modern signal processing theory has developed a series of techniques for estimating the angle of arrival with a much higher resolution. The goal of this webinar is to...

The way we work will never be the same because of the personal, professional, and cultural changes brought by COVID-19. The Department of Defense has greatly expanded telework capability for millions of workers, deploying a variety of tools. DOD officials are creating a much more robust, enhanced teleworking capability, providing new services and collaboration tools to meet the requirements of a remote workforce. Additionally, the DOD has deve...