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Examine and understand the methods of electronically intercepting, contesting and protecting the information environment generated by communications systems.
At a glance
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- Dates
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- 10 - 14 Feb 2025
- DurationFive days
- LocationÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ at Shrivenham
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Cost£2,350 - Short Course for Credit fee
£2,100 - Standalone Short Course fee Concessions available
What you will learn
On successful completion of this course you will be able to:
- Identify the main electronic surveillance (ES) and electronic attack threats (EA) to a communications system and propose defensive measures to reduce the impact of these threat,
- Explain the main analysis methods employed in communications EW in the time, spectral and spatial domains,
- Analyse and evaluate the impact of electronic attack on a communications network using a power budget and quantify the effect of electronic defence measures.
Core content
- Introduction to Communications Electronic Warfare: Electronic attack, surveillance and defence.
- Electronic Attack: Jamming techniques and effects, calculation of SJNR, jamming of satellite and ground-based links, GPS vulnerability.
- Electronic Defence: ED methods (Antenna null-steering, Spread-spectrum techniques).
- Comms EW receivers: Requirements, sensitivity and dynamic range of intercept receivers; communications ESM receiver types (swept superhet, channelised, FFT-based channelised).
- Direction-finding: DF techniques (DF loop, Adcock antenna, rotary DF systems, interferometers, time difference of arrival method, pseudo-Doppler techniques, amplitude comparison methods); Commercial DF and military EW systems:; Geolocation.
- Military tactical data links: a case study of high-level EW protection applied to a military data network.
- Spectral estimation: Classical and parametric methods, eigenvector-based methods.
- Guest lectures from defence industry.
Upgrade to a professional qualification
When taken as a Short Course for Credit, 10 credit points can be put towards the Communications Electronic Warfare PgCert or the Military Electronic Systems Engineering MSc.
Find out more about short course credit points.
Who should attend
Students must have completed Communication Principles, Communication Systems, Electromagnetic Propagation and Devices and Signal Processing, Statistics and Analysis in order to take this as an Short Course for Credit. There are no prerequisites if taken as a Standalone Short Course.
Speakers
Concessions
A limited number of MOD sponsored places are available.Location and travel
Cranfield Defence and Security (CDS) is a Cranfield School based at the Ministry of Defence establishment on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire borders.
Shrivenham itself lies in the picturesque Vale of the White Horse, close to the M4 motorway which links London and South Wales. It is 7 miles from Swindon, the nearest town, which lies off the M4 at the hub of Britain’s motorway network.
Bath, Cheltenham, Bristol and Oxford are all within an hour’s drive and London less than two hours away by car.
All visitors must be pre-booked in at reception by the person they are visiting on the campus.
How to apply
To apply for this course please use the online application form.
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