Foundational Research for Electronic Warfare in Multi-Domain Operations

Project Summary

Adversaries can intercept radar waveforms and try to trick or spoof sensing systems. We propose to protect radar waveforms through obfuscation and post quantum capable cryptographic waveform coding schemes. We propose the development of novel technologies to protect radar waveforms, while implementing portions of the technologies already validated at Northern Arizona University in partnership with Lockheed Martin, described as follows:

• The protocol includes the injection of electronic noise to hide and protect radar waveforms, which are within the ability of the detection mechanism.

• We will incorporate tamper resilient physically unclonable functions with ternary states for authentication.

• We will also investigate post quantum cryptographic (PQC) schemes for coded waveforms.

The first two years of the research program will mainly focus on the development phase and the delivery of prototypes validating the approach. The last two years will focus on the implementation of the technology with our industrial partners. 

Publications

1. Bertrand Cambou, Saloni Jain, Amisha Bagri, Tuy Tan Nguyen, Jeff Hoffstein, "Template-less Object Recognition with Challenge-Response-Pair Mechanism," US Patent, Nov. 2023. (Submitted)

2. Tuy Tan Nguyen, Quoc Bao Phan, Truong X. Nghiem, Carlo daCunha, Michael Gowanlock, and Bertrand Cambou, "A Video Surveillance-Based Face Image Security System using Post-Quantum Cryptography," SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2023, vol. 12544, pp. 125440N, Orlando, Florida, USA, 30 Apr.–4 May 2023. (Paper Link)