ROGUE RIVER TECH · TEST & EVALUATION

Test and evaluation, on the record.

Rogue River Tech indexes the public record for radio-frequency and electronic-warfare test and evaluation. The methods that prove a sensor before it points at the sky, the standards that govern how it is tested, the spectrum rules that constrain a transmitting test, and the solicitations that fund the work. Primary sources, dated, with honest gaps where the record is thin. We index the field. We do not rank the vendors in it.

Explainers

Method
Hardware-in-the-loop radar testing
How a real radar gets proven against a synthetic world: range delay, Doppler, clutter, and electronic attack on a bench instead of a range.
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Methodin development
Threat emulation and the scatterer method
How synthetic targets are built, from digital playback to scatterer fields, kept neutral on the tradeoffs.
Compliancein development
RF test licensing and FCC Part 5
When a transmitting test needs experimental authorization, and when a shielded bench does not.

Tools and live demos

Teaching visual
E-RES scatterer console
An interactive console that builds a scatterer-based radar scene. A conceptual teaching visual for how physical target emulation works.
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Reference
Spectrum reference
The bands, incumbents, and proceedings that shape what a test may transmit and where.
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Calculator
Total cost of ownership
A neutral model for the lifetime cost of a counter-UAS or sensor capability, not just its sticker price.
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Search
Signal Desk
Ask the primary-source corpus a question and get an answer tied only to archived sources, or an honest signal-lost.
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Standards and rules

The bodies that define how unmanned and sensor systems are tested, and the spectrum authority that governs a transmitting test. Rogue River Tech links the primary sources and is honest that a single canonical counter-UAS sensor test standard does not yet exist.

ASTM Committee F38, Unmanned Aircraft Systems ↗
Design, performance, and acceptance-test standards for unmanned aircraft systems.
NIST standard test methods for small UAS ↗
Quantitative methods for system capability and operator proficiency, standardized through ASTM E54.09.
DOT&E, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation ↗
Department of Defense operational and live-fire test and evaluation policy.
FCC Part 5, Experimental Radio Service ↗
Authorization for transmitting tests, under 47 CFR Part 5.

The archive

The counter-UAS and SIGINT record that established the method here. Every entry cites a dated primary source, archived where possible.

Tracker
Counter-UAS law by state
Federal and state C-UAS authority, tracked from primary sources across all fifty states.
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Tracker
SIGINT and RF policy
FCC, NTIA, and DoD actions on drone spectrum, detection, and electronic warfare.
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Map
Regulatory atlas
The fifty-state picture at a glance, cross-linked by status and geography.
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Rogue River Tech curates, aggregates, and summarizes public information on RF and test and evaluation. Publication, not advice, and not an analyst service. Rogue River Tech represents test-instrumentation lines, those relationships are disclosed on the Capabilities page and never shape editorial coverage. Last reviewed 2026-06-25.