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Angry Kitten Protects Aircraft
What is it? An adaptive radio frequency jammer (the blue device, visible above, outside the cockpit) used to shield aircraft from opposing radar. Who made it? A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute including Stan Sutphin, research engineer; Roger Dickerson, senior research engineer; and Aram Partizian, senior research scientist. What inspired it? As radar systems grow more sophisticated, so do jamming systems. Rather than participate in that figurative arms race, the team sought another route. Why is it game changing? Angry Kitten is a fully adaptive and autonomous 0 2 2
system that can utilize different jamming technologies depending upon the type of radar system it encounters. Based on what it goes up against, Angry Kitten can adapt its strategy to help the aircraft better evade detection.
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