Threat Air Defense Laboratory

Threat Air Defense Laboratory (TADL) provides realistic closed–loop simulations of threat air defense systems to stimulate aircraft's Electronic Warfare (EW) systems during developmental and operational testing in order to provide hardware–in–the–loop countermeasures effectiveness data. The TADL is one of many laboratories in the ECSTIM Branch that supports EW testing in the Advanced Systems Integration Laboratory (ASIL). Each laboratory in this facility has the capability of interfacing with a System Under Test (SUT) located in the anechoic chamber and other facility assets via Radio Frequency (RF) to fiber networks.

TADL has the capability of running either stand–alone or in joint scripted scenarios by interfacing with the virtual warfare environment and other laboratory assets. The TADL provides test assets to verify the functionality of radar warning receivers, defensive electronic countermeasures, jamming decoys and standoff jamming against man–in–the–loop threat surface–to–air missile and early warning acquisition radar simulator systems.