a. Electromagnetic Compatibility
Analysis
Center
(para
18)
support is available to the Army.
b. The Electromagnetic Environmental Test Facility at Fort
Huachuca, Arizona, an Army facility operated with contractual support
by the United States Army Test and Evaluation Command, provides both
field test and analytical capabilities to support the Army
Electromagnetic Compatibility Program. Electromagnetic Environmental
Test Facility is specially designed to simulate the electromagnetic
environment-including electronic countermeasures-of Army systems and
equipment, and to test and analyze such systems and equipment in this
environment.
Four interrelated facilities are used to accomplish
these tasks: a computer-supported interference prediction model, a
field
facility,
an
instrumented
workshop,
weapon
system
electromagnetic environment simulator and a systems scoring facility.
c. The services of the Electromagnetic Environmental Test
Facility are available to commanders, scientists, program and project
managers, and developers of equipment for the United States Army and
other elements of the Department of Defense Services of the
Electromagnetic Environmental Test Facility include electromagnetic
compatibility and vulnerability tests and evaluations of Army, Air
Force, Navy, and Marine Corps communications-electronics systems,
subsystems and equipment at all levels of analysis.
Tests and
analyses required can be performed at any of all of the critical
points in the materiel life cycle.
d. For future concepts and doctrines now in the planning stage,
the
Electromagnetic
Environmental
Test
Facility
can
evaluate
potential interference.
The results of the evaluations enable the
Electromagnetic
Environmental
Test
Facility
to
make
specific
recommendations for correcting the problems encountered.
These
results and recommendations serve as bases for divisions affecting
the development of such concepts and doctrines, and the design of
equipment.
e. If a user desires to know what radio field intensities his
equipment will experience in a tactical deployment, Electromagnetic
Environmental Test Facility can conduct an electromagnetic radiation
test to determine and report the signal levels and frequencies
experienced by the tested equipment at specific geographic locations.
Should the user want to determine how well his equipment will operate
or communicate in various or specific geographical areas or
conditions, Electromagnetic Environmental Test Facility can conduct
tests involving such propagation phenomena as smooth spherical earth,
irregular terrain, jungle mixed path, skywave.
The user may desire
to establish the compatibility of his equipment within a specific
environment. For example, he might seek answers to such questions as
the following:
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