SDR For Strategic COMINT Applications

Software defined radio "SDR" technology has been around for decades. Some of the benefits have been limited to the COMINT receiver vendors. In this presentation we focus more on the benefits for the end-user. We go through some general advantages of SDR technology and more specific benefits it brings to strategic COMINT monitoring systems. We will look at SDR enabled COMINT receiver functionality and how to combine it with a modular HW architecture to improve the reusability of the equipment for various missions. The presentation examines how to use SDR technologies with related technologies and concludes with an outlook of possible SDR enabled functionality in COMINT.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Anders Svensson is the CTO at Novator Solutions and one of the system architects behind many of Novator Solutions products. Anders has a M.Sc. in Mechatronics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Throughout his career he has always worked within the domain where software meets hardware and is the FPGA lead designer at Novator Solutions. In his architect role he designed and developed the Hugin-2000 multichannel receiver which has been deployed to numerous sites. He has also been involved in designing and developing wideband recording and playback systems.