The Army Electromagnetic Environmental Test Facility Program

The ever-increasing problem of electromagnetic interference and the consequent possible deterioration of communication channels has led the Army to create a field facility to investigate the interference problems which an army corps would encounter during combat. The present facility is able to reproduce the electromagnetic environment of the 12,000 transmitter devices in an army corps. Military transmitters are used to generate the actual combat environment. Various items of electronic equipment are placed into this environment and the amount of degradation in performance created by or affecting this equipment is then measured.