The Advanced RF Applications department (5376) is at the forefront of innovation, dedicated to researching, developing, evaluating, and deploying specialized RF systems for a wide range of national security applications. Our work encompasses space-based, airborne, and terrestrial RF communications, command and control (C2), remote sensing, nontraditional electronic countermeasures/electronic warfare (ECM/EW), and specialized tagging, tracking, and locating (TTL) systems.
Our team is composed of diverse skills, including RF/microwave circuit and system design, antenna design, digital signal processing, embedded system hardware and software, digital system design, operational field-testing development and support, and program/project management. We tackle important design challenges such as creating highly miniaturized electronic systems, developing advanced communication system architectures, and engineering ultra-low size, weight, and power (SWaP) hardware. Additionally, we focus on ultra-low-noise receivers and innovative signal extraction and classification techniques in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environments.
Our sponsors consist of intelligence community (IC), special operations forces (SOF), and Department of War (DOW) organizations, who count on us to deliver high-impact solutions to their evolving and most pressing national security challenges. We partner closely with other departments within the Strategic RF and Electronic Systems group (5370), the RF & Systems Electronics Center (5300), across Sandia, and with external entities.
