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Newton provides Electronic Warfare (EW) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) tools for air, land and naval engagements between platforms equipped with integrated defensive aid suites, a combat management or a self-protection suite defending against multiple multi-mode threats.

Using a powerful multi-domain physics-based modelling and simulation framework Newton models Electronic Attack, Protection and Support equipment enabling users to evaluate and assess both attack and protection measures and how they can be utilized during an engagement with a kinetic effector.

Employing MATLAB® and Simulink® from The MathWorks Inc., Leonardo Canada - Electronics has developed a family of Modelling & Simulation (M&S) products that simulate closed loop weapon and target system engagements. These integrated engagement simulations include a surveillance system, threat systems, the IR and RF environment, and defending platforms complete with self-protection to detect threats and dispense countermeasures and perform evasive maneuvering. Newton presents the user with data, displays, performance metrics including the miss-distance, probability of kill, and others to quantify and analyse the outcome of the engagement.

Newton is designed for:

  • Electronic Warfare Operational Support (EWOS) and Integrated Reprogramming Centers.

  • Development of sovereign countermeasures (CM) expertise.

  • EW Education Institutes and Training Academies.

  • Development of effective self-protection tactics for improved survivability.

  • Evaluating the effectiveness of EW systems.

  • Software-In-The-Loop (SWIL) Simulations.

  • OT&E support.

  • C-UAS threat assessment and planning tool.

  • Communications and Datalink modelling.

  • Reproducing EW theatre phenomena.

  • Operator Training in ESM, ECM, ECCM, or RWR systems.

  • Training in all aspects of EW involving electronic protection (EP), electronic attack (EA), electronic support (ES), avoidance, targeting, and any tactical employment of forces involving EW.

  • Threat System Designers to evaluate Counter-Countermeasure techniques and effectiveness.

Powerful

  • Newton products are mature Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products in their fifth-generation release, and are in use by users around the world, many of whom have successfully verified and validated these products in relation to weapons and hostile tactics of specific concern.

  • Newton products are fully integrated simulations that include all elements within modern platform/threat system EW combat engagements.

  • Newton products include threat weapon systems, defending platforms (the target) complete with self-protection, and the environment in between to produce survivability assessments for an infinite variety of threat engagement scenarios.

  • Newton comprises a collection of high-fidelity physics-based simulations developed entirely from traceable open literature science and engineering sources and include all the critical system non-linearities that fundamentally affect the outcome of countermeasure interactions.

  • With access to hundreds of parameters, the user can match simulated system characteristics to those of specific equipment and systems. Operational users can build engagements from pre-configured entities and scenarios available from a local database, or through interface to national databases.

  • Newton simulations natively run in their own simulation time, or can be compiled to run in real time and can be integrated into hardware-in-the-loop/software-in-the-loop test and/or training systems.

Unique

  • The entire Newton family of radar and infrared guided weapon system engagement simulations are available as commercial off-the-shelf products. The software is unclassified but is governed under Canadian Controlled Goods. The software only becomes classified if classified configuration data is used to configure a simulation.

  • The Newton simulation products are available in various versions depending on client requirements.

  • Advanced users can verify and modify the Newton simulations and to meet unique system and/or technique requirements.

  • Built in MATLAB® and Simulink®, Newton is hierarchical, extensible, and easy to customize/modify.

  • Standard test documentation features are built into the Graphical User Interface (GUI) to record user input parameters, set-up conditions and/or simulation results in a file that supports off-line analysis and a test audit trail.

Flexible

The GUI allows the user to:

  • Configure or characterize the various system models with parametric data (classified and/or unclassified), as well as store, recall and re-configure saved “systems” from an internal database or connect to a national database.

  • Provision of the ability to import and export data from data repositories.

  • Define specific engagements by selecting a threat weapon system, a target platform and a set of countermeasures from this database—then define the engagement geometry and events

  • Run a single engagement run, or batch of engagements, in which user defined input parameters are automatically manipulated from run to run using a customizable scripting utility.

  • Store and replay results for future analyse.

  • Conduct deterministic or stochastic simulation runs.

  • Vary individual parameter values incrementally or randomly to conduct Monte Carlo analysis on batch run results.

Newton options include:

  • Multi-user and customized software licenses.

  • Detailed software description documents.

  • Extended maintenance and support coverage (one year standard).

  • Customized features and capabilities.

Built for the future Battlespace

Newton is designed to support a comprehensive technology roadmap. The following capability is evolving or planned for future releases:

  • Many-on-Many Scenario Modelling where the model will be scalable to meet complex mission and multiple mission scenarios.

  • Multi-Domain Modelling within a single scenario.

  • Scalable modelling fidelity to meet run time needs of the user.

  • EW Situational Awareness and provision for EW Situational Awareness (SA) for C2-C4 use cases and predictive modelling based on the current SA.

  • Real-Time modelling for Hardware-In-The-Loop (HWIL) applications.

  • Advanced Hypersonic Weapon engagements.

  • Development engine for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Algorithm Research and Development (R&D).

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