Commercial Airborne Electronic Combat Services Program (CAECSP)
The Commercial Airborne Electronic Combat Services Program (CAECSP) was developed for the U.S. Navy as a training asset. CAECSP is a self-contained airborne EW jamming platform. Under subcontract to the Phoenix Air Group, Syndetix Incorporated developed all of the command, control, direction finding and interface systems for the program, installed all equipment in a Gulfstream G-1 airframe, and integrated all custom, COTS and GFE system elements.
Syndetix Incorporated Software Group developed drivers and interfaces for commanding and controlling CAECSP system elements. In total, the CAECSP command and control system required the integration of three different processor architectures (Intel® X86, Motorola® 68XXX and Embedded X86) executing applications and drivers written in C/C++ and native assembly language within the context of three different operating systems (Windows NT®, Syndetix Proprietary Kernel and Windows® CE).
The interfaces to the CAECSP Command and Control Computer are many and varied. The six serial interfaces required Syndetix to design an Intelligent Serial Interface Card (SISIC). This PC interface card supports ISA architecture, with on-board intelligence being provided by our own Syndetix Embedded Controller (SEC). Serial interface protocol requirements included RS-232, RS-422 and RS-485. The card provides connectivity for pedestal control, TACAN, aircraft Time, Space, Position Information (TSPI) data received from GPS units, Air Data Computer and Inertial Navigation Systems (INS). The specialized PC interface card also provided connectivity for amplifier control. Syndetix developed customized drivers to support connectivity and functional control.
Other interfaces included GPIB communication to spectrum analyzers, power meters and signal sources; PCI digital I/O for switch and jammer command and control, and a TCP/IP interface to the Syndetix Incorporated Mark V, direction-finding system.
Syndetix Incorporated developed a multi-process software user interface for commanding and controlling the CAECSP system. Major software elements included time, space, position information, direction finding, radar signature detection, pedestal control (at most five pedestals, simultaneously), jammer control (at most four jammers, simultaneously), and target management. These diversified elements required an architecture enabling highly sophisticated data sharing, communication, and synchronization.