X-Com Systems LLC, Reston, Va., won a $3,500,248 federal contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., for mobile and transportable radio frequency recording and direction finding system and eight fixed site spectrum monitoring and geo-locating system.

X-COM Systems LLC introduced Version 3.0 of its RF Editor Graphical RF Editor software, the industry's most advanced tool for modifying and building custom RF signal waveform files for use in defense, commercial, and system verification applications. RF Editor Version 3.0 is more intuitive, faster, and adds useful features that expand its capabilities. RF Editor is used in both military and commercial applications. Typical examples include modifying captured radar, jammer, and communications signals to create simulated threat scenarios, using custom waveform sequences built in RF Editor as stimulus signals to verify the performance of communications, electronic warfare, and radar systems, evaluating satellite and terrestrial wireless voice and data equipment, and for civilian and military spectrum monitoring. The software runs on a Windows 7 PC and uses .xiq and .tiq (I&Q) files captured by X-COM's IQC-2110 RF Capture and Storage System, spectrum and signal analyzers from Agilent Technologies, Rohde & Schwarz, Tektronix, and other manufacturers, or waveform segments created in MATLAB and other third-party scientific programming languages. RF Editor is also integrated with X-COM's Spectro-X signal analysis and visualization software. Spectro-X is the most comprehensive commercially-available software for simplifying the process of identifying RF or microwave signals amongst thousands of others in signal captures covering broad swaths of spectrum and up to days in length. Together, Spectro-X and RF Editor make it possible to quickly find, identify, analyze, modify, and create complex waveforms and waveform sequences in far less time than with any other tools. RF Editor lets the user make many types of modifications to a spectrum file and create new ones by moving segments or broader "slices" of spectrum to any location along 10 parallel time domain tracks. Waveforms can also be precisely located in time, repeated, or stretched in duration. Frequency domain editing allows recorded waveforms to be filtered, interpolated, decimated, and shifted in frequency before placement in the time domain. Once the edited waveform segments are in place, a new waveform file is built with a single mouse click and is immediately available for viewing and analysis in Spectro-X. A powerful feature in RF Editor Version 3.0 is the Advanced Modify window, which allows multiple operations to be performed sequentially and automatically, such as frequency shifting, file decimation, applying filters with bandwidths as narrow as 10% of the signal sample rate, and adjusting occupied bandwidth.

X-COM Systems LLC introduced Version 3.0 of its Spectro-X software, the industry's most comprehensive tool designed to search for signals of interest within long-duration recordings of signal activity in the RF and microwave spectrum. The new features in Spectro-X Version 3.0 include a ‘zoom’ function that lets users more easily focus on a specific point in time and frequency, and integrated pulse search and analysis capability that allows long pulse trains to be identified based on key signal characteristics. These enhancements complement the software's existing carrier, wireless standard and arbitrary waveform search capabilities. The company has also made numerous enhancements to the software's user interface and has automated key functions to speed post-processing of large data sets. Spectro-X software is designed exclusively for finding and analyzing signals of interest within recordings of signal activity captured ‘over the air’ using signal analyzers and X-COM's IQC-2110 with bandwidths up to 110 MHz, by X-COM's Wideband Acquisition Record and Playback (WARP) system over bandwidths as wide as 6 GHz, or in custom spectrum files created in MATLAB or other third party software. Using its four discrete search engines, Spectro-X lets the user ‘home in’ to specific regions of these files in frequency, time, or both to find either standards-based signals (such as GSM, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc.) or arbitrary waveforms. The results in both frequency and time are graphically displayed simultaneously, eliminating the need to switch between domains. Tools within Spectro-X can then be used to further narrow the region of interest. The new zoom-box function lets the user focus on a specific point to find signals that, for example, are hidden beneath a legitimate signal.