DSAC report ‘specification and measurement of radar performance’ - have we fully exploited its findings?

The report ‘Specification and Measurement of Radar Performance’l [1] was commissioned by the Defence Scientific Advisory Council (DSAC) and summarised in a presentation to Radar 2002 by Professor Simon Watts. There have been some significant developments in the way projects are specified and managed in the 5 years following the report. So what has changed and what can still be learnt? The paper presents some advances, particularly in the area of synthetic test environments as a tool in support of through-life capability management (TLCM) that allow real-world trials to be reduced and focussed on the really difficult-to-simulate issues.