Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

Clearance Requirements: SECRET and/or TS//SCI
Please note, all attendees must be US citizens.

Course Dates: June 23-25, 2026

Course Location: Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, TX 78238

Description: This course will highlight how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in electronic warfare (EW). AI enables EW systems to respond more quickly and effectively to battlefield conditions with complex and novel emitters. The course will describe how AI-enabled systems are different from cognitive systems and present the implications of this capability on system performance and test and evaluation requirements. It will briefly introduce AI techniques for electronic support (ES), electronic protect (EP), electronic attack (EA), and electronic battle management (EBM). The course will describe how to design and train a cognitive EW system that can be tested, including operation considerations and the role of humans. It will present how to collect and curate data, model it, and manage it on embedded devices. The course will describe how to evaluate a system that learns how to handle novel environments, including the role of trust and risk, challenges, and methods for learning assurance. The course will conclude with a discussion of projects, tools, and datasets. The course will include three Python programming modules: clustering, classification, and decision-making. The presentation is based on the book by Karen Haigh and Julia Andrusenko: Cognitive Electronic Warfare: An Artificial Intelligence Approach (second edition). This book is optional and not required to attend this course.

SwRI’s cognitive EW engineers will provide technical instruction on the actual implementation of cognitive EW at the end of each day.