Budgeting for Total Signature (BTS)
Overview
BTS (Budgeting for Total Signature) is an adaptable threat-based signature reporting tool currently used for radar signatures with planned development for infrared, acoustic, visual, magnetic/pressure, and electromagnetic emissions.
Applications
BTS provides ease in communicating signature budgets in while maintaining controls and visualization that is unique to each signature type.
Benefits
- BTS is a user-friendly graphical user interface signature reporting tool for total platform RCS. It lets the user maintain a constant picture of the target/system signature and allows real-time adjustments for performing "what-if" scenarios.
- It has been successfully used across different platforms because the engine for BTS is written in the Visual Basic® development system and incorporates powerful features available in Microsoft® Access software.
Product Features
- Database reports tailored to project’s needs due to true binary database
- Database is developed in Microsoft Access software and engine is written in Visual Basic development system
- GUI pull down menus allow selection of particular signature-dependent degrees of freedom that a designer uses to define a particular scenario (e.g. platform configuration, frequency band, threat, polarization, elevation, sea state, etc…)
- Allows accuracy in signature reporting
- Multiple data processing levels that include specific threat-based algorithms
- Provides succinct output for mission operation analysis
- Allows user to maintain a constant picture of the target/system signature
- Allows real-time adjustments for performing doing what-if scenarios
- Provides a means to mitigate risk through quick isolation of principle signature components
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