Keysight Technologies and SRC UK have announced a partnership aimed at advancing electronic warfare testing and simulation capabilities for defense customers. The collaboration focuses on expanding deployment of Keysight’s Electronic Warfare Advanced Simulation Platform (EWASP), a system designed to help military organizations evaluate electronic warfare technologies against realistic threat scenarios within complex radio-frequency environments. Under the agreement, SRC UK will provide engineering support, systems integration expertise, mission data services, and local in-country assistance to facilitate operational deployment of the platform. The initiative is also intended to ease the transition from legacy systems by enabling defense operators to integrate existing threat databases and older test assets into modern electronic warfare architectures with minimal disruption. According to the companies, the partnership responds to increasing pressure on defense organizations to validate more sophisticated EW systems rapidly in contested electromagnetic battlespaces. The effort also reflects the broader defense industry shift toward software-defined EW architectures capable of receiving faster updates to counter evolving threats. Keysight’s EWASP platform is designed to recreate highly complex electromagnetic environments in controlled testing conditions, allowing developers to assess how electronic warfare systems detect, analyze, and respond to hostile radar, communications, and jamming signals. Built around an open and modular framework, the platform supports testing throughout the full development cycle, ranging from laboratory-based research to mission data validation and operational verification. By simulating advanced radio-frequency threat environments, the system reduces reliance on expensive and logistically demanding field trials. Keysight Technologies has continued expanding its role in the defense EW testing sector through recent contracts. Last year, NATO selected the company to provide radar target generators and electronic warfare simulators for naval testing facilities supporting allied fleet evaluations. In addition, the company secured a major contract from the US Air Force in 2023 to supply Electronic Warfare Threat Simulators intended to model and analyze complex operational threat environments.
