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Enabling a Decisive Advantage Through Signal Reconnaissance |
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AST’s solutions derive intelligence from signals
associated with mobile communications and weapons systems, which provides
robust collection capabilities for both strategic and tactical missions.
With the United States facing an ever-growing challenge from both military
and terrorist threats, our collection capabilities have the electromagnetic
spectrum covered. AST’s electronic support measures (ESM), electronic
intelligence (ELINT), and communications intelligence (COMINT) solutions
provide numerous opportunities for government and military intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions and homeland defense
applications. |
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Finding the Enemy Anywhere |
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AST’s investment in internal research and development
(IR&D) has led to new advancements in the survey, collection, geo-location,
and exploitation of radio frequency (RF) communication systems, including
today’s most modern wireless signals. Our systems provide real-time
direction finding and geo-location regarding a wide variety of signals
by using technologies such as adaptive beamforming, coherent channel
processing, and other techniques. |
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AST’s unprecedented electronic warfare equipment
analyzes the command and control signals associated with weapons systems,
scans their radar bands, and identifies their type and precise location.
Coupled with AST’s advanced COMINT systems, U.S. troops are now
better equipped to detect all battlefield emitters and provide enhanced
situational awareness while improving force protection across all domains. |
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Flexible Systems to Fit Any
Platform |
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AST has significant experience in
low size, weight, and power (SWAP), scalable payloads for both manned
and unmanned vehicle platforms. We also have expertise in system integration
and overall system engineering for use with a variety of strategic
and tactical mission applications. Our systems are built in an open
architecture, allowing integration with other commercial-off-the-shelf,
government-off-the-shelf, and custom solutions. Additionally, our system
architectures are designed to expand the supplemental collection capabilities
within any platform, while making little or no change to it. |
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Products and Systems
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Capabilities to detect, identify, geo-locate, and
track mobile communications and weapons systems |
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Wideband digital systems that utilize signal processing
technology to deliver superior performance against conventional, modern,
and low-power signals (HF through Ka band) |
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Low SWAP and scalable solutions |
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Active and passive network exploitation |
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Direction finding and geo-location capabilities |
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Mitigation techniques for multi-path and co-channel
interference |
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Signal processing algorithms for advanced wireless
signals |
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Metadata exploitation and signal analysis |
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Easily upgradeable software-defined radio architectures |
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Product Lines
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Model 570X SIREN – man-portable, airborne (manned
and unmanned), remote/unattended, and system-level solution for both
strategic and tactical COMINT emitter location missions |
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Model 635 REAPER – Wideband signal surveillance
and collection system for both conventional and modern signals |
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Model 650 ROGUE – man-portable signal surveillance
system for threat warning and collection of both conventional and modern
signals |
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Model 680 RAIDER – 3G-capable signal surveillance
system specifically designed for ground-based tactical operations and
ISR applications |
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TITAN – reconfigurable multi-channel receiver
with adaptive beamforming, direction finding, survey, and collection
capabilities for airborne COMINT missions |
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HYDRA - low SWAP adaptive beamforming and direction
finding survey system intended for airborne COMINT missions |
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PEGASUS – next-generation, all digital ESM/ELINT
system for both ground-based and airborne ISR applications |
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CLEARWATER – embedded software application with
integrated graphical user interface and advanced signal exploitation
algorithms |
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Services
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Exploitation, processing, and analysis of modern signals
from unique environments |
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System engineering and integration services for airborne
and ground-based platforms |
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Flight test planning and data analysis |
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On-site customer support |
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Training and lifecycle support |
