Air Warfare Systems Technology Development & Support

The Air Warfare Group provides support to both government and industry in the development of more survivable military air vehicles and associated enabling technologies. The Group's expertise spans the areas of aircraft/missile survivability, electronic warfare (EW) systems, mission analysis and planning, signature management tactics, anti-tamper technology, and advanced systems applications. The Group is organized around two Centers of Excellence: the Center for Tactical Air Warfare (Mr. Roy Wilson, Director), and the Center for Anti-Tamper Technologies and Information Systems (Mr. Dan McConnell, Director).

Center for Tactical Air Warfare
		This Center's staff is primarily resident in Lexington Park, MD, with a field activity located at China Lake, CA. The focus of the Center's activities is to provide technical RDT&E, systems engineering, and program support to the NAVAIR/NAWCAD organizations located at NAS Patuxent River, MD and NAS China Lake, CA. The operationally experienced team of SPC engineers specializes in jet aircraft RDT&E, aircraft survivability, aircraft avionics, weapons systems integration, combat identification systems, and smart/precision-guided weapons. The Center has supported activities on AX, JAST, and JSF new concept aircraft as well as JSOW/JDAM, and JASSM new precision-strike weapons.

Center for Anti-Tamper Technologies & Informations Systems (CATTIS)
		The focus of this Center is to provide information assurance and anti-tamper system engineering and program support to customers. The CATTIS staff includes specialists in network architecture, information assurance and avionics development.

Areas of Core Expertise
		LO/CLO technology design and development Electronic warfare systems RF/IR/EO/acoustic and materials signature technologies Physics-based engagement modeling and simulation Advanced aperture design and integration Design, development, and application of sensor systems Vehicle test and evaluation Life-cycle support Aircraft and missile survivability Weapon system integration Combat identification systems Anti-tamper technologies, plans, countermeasures, verification & validation Program protection plans, threat analysis & measures of effectiveness Information assurance, risk & vulnerability assessments Technical and financial program management support