Defense facilities in NY
16 facilities · 6 categories
Communications
Communications in NY →Advanced Ka Band SATCOM Test Facility
Rome, NY
The facility comprises a fixed ground station with a 1.8 meter dish, connected via optical fiber to the inside of Building 3. Current activities include the development of a small tracking antenna capability for mobile applications, and the fabrication of more compact terminal hardware for man-portability.
Newport Antenna Research and Measurement Facility
Rome, NY
Antennas and antenna systems can be evaluated in three ways: "free space" performance, radiation pattern changes due to airframe effects, and a measurement of antenna-to-antenna isolation (coupling). The facility, located 26 miles east of AFRL's Rome Research Site consists of two hilltops (Irish and Tanner) with six data gathering locations and ten measurement ranges with complete fiber optic connections at the facility ranging from 7250 foot far field range to shorter ground reflection ranges covering the frequency bands of 60 MHz to 60 GHz. The two hills are 1.5 miles apart with a 430 foot valley in between. Transmit and receive equipment and heavy duty three-axis aircraft pedestals are located on each hilltop. Each hilltop has an airframe storage/work building, which allows airframes to be modified and prepared for measurements on site. The assets include full size F-22, F-111, F-16, F-15, A-10, F-4 airframes, Comanche Helicopter, and the forward and aft sections of the B-1B, C-130, KC-135 and B-52 along with a variety of ground planes up to 40 feet in diameter.
SATCOM Rooftop Testbed
Rome, NY
A “Rooftop” testbed ground facility provides the backbone of the SATCOM research. The testbed is equipped with an array of SATCOM systems, including the Milstar ARC-208 Airborne Command Post (ABCP) satellite terminals, various UHF/SHF/EHF subsystems and a multiple element antenna farm.
Satellite Communications Testbed
Rome, NY
A highly modified C-135 SATCOM test aircraft provides an airborne testbed. The aircraft is equipped with an array of SATCOM systems, including the Milstar ARC-208 Airborne Command Post (ABCP) satellite terminals, and various UHF/SHF/EHF subsystems. The C-135 testbed has been used to evaluate worldwide propagation problems, such as multipath fading, ionospheric scintillation fading, rain attenuation, and low-elevation atmospheric attenuation. The aircraft has also been used to evaluate the dependence of link performance on aircraft dynamics, and has accomplished extensive protocol, modulation, and interoperability testing.
Speech and Audio Processing
Rome, NY
The facility supports research, development, test and evaluation in the following speech processing technologies: Speaker Recognition, Language Translation, Signal Enhancement, Voice Transformation, Correlation, Speech Compression, Machine Interfaces, Platform Identification. The facility further supports evaluation of contractor supplied systems and/or algorithms for operational user, and database collection and analysis.
Stockbridge Antenna Measurement and Research Facility
Rome, NY
The Stockbridge Antenna Measurement Facility is located 23 miles southwest of AFRL¹s Rome Research Site. This unique measurement facility is designed to evaluate the antenna systems of full-size large airframes such as the C-130. The installed antenna patterns, system-to-system coupling and the effects of special materials, radomes and installation locations are evaluated. The facility consists of an extremely heavy-duty turntable with a 200 ft arched measurement probe system that provides hemispherical antenna coverage evaluations. Fixtures are also available to install ground wheeled vehicles on the turntable to evaluate installed antenna performance.
Computer Systems
Computer Systems in NY →ELINT Development Facility
Rome, NY
Eight work areas are located within the controlled, SECRET EDF facility for research and development efforts. Software, hardware, and engineering resources are available to develop, test, and evaluate emitter identification and processing technologies, advanced signal processing techniques, and artifical intelligence. Custom software development and integration of new techniques with existing applications is also possible. The EDF can support the collection, digitization, and storage of radar signals as well as associated post processing. Electronic support measures collection, analysis of airborne emitters, and passive tracking and ranging are near-term additions.
Embedded Systems Facility
Rome, NY
In addition, fully equipped hardware development environments support the design and test of complex digital systems. The facility supports research and development in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, collaborative engineering, and hardware/software design automation.
High Performance Computing
Rome, NY
Its mission is to support the unclassified RDT&E; efforts of all components of the Department of Defense (DoD) by providing interactive remote and local access to hardware, software, and user services with special attention to applications and missions supporting C4ISR.
Imagery Data Base Facility
Rome, NY
The Imagery Data Base Facility supports AFRL and other government organizations by providing imagery interpretation and analysis to users for data selection, imagery duplication, and scenario development. All assets are analyzed, cataloged, and compiled and multimedia data packages are prepared.
Imagery Exploitation (IE) 2000
Rome, NY
The facility allows digital image interpretation to be performed on multisensor/multispectral digital imagery using low cost soft copy workstations. The system uses geographic information, cartographic data, and intelligence database as aids to the analyst. The hardware and software provide a full range of digital image processing tools such as image enhancements, warping, image registration, mensuration, etc.
Integrated Test Bed Facility
Rome, NY
The ITB's avionics system is composed of multiple high performance processors, embedded software, and data communication systems. The avionics embedded software is a real-time implementation, in DoD standard Ada, operating across multiple processors and processor types. The ITB provides a real-time, crew-in-the-loop, full mission simulation/stimulation system. A high performance simulation host computer provides the mission environment along with several airframe models and drives out-the-window scene and sensor image generators. This provides the pilot (the avionics system evaluator) with a familiar operating environment. The system is designed to be modularly expandable and has been interfaced with an electronic warfare avionics laboratory and a communication/ navigation avionics laboratory, thus forming the foundation for a full avionics system hot-bench, Avionics Wind Tunnel.