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A self-synchronization technique for chaotic systems decodes the information at the communication receiver and reconstructs the transmitted waveform at the bistatic radar receiver. Using a nonlinear detection scheme, we show that the CBFM waveforms closely follow the theoretical bit-error rate (BER) associated with bipolar phase-shift keying (BPSK). We utilize the same nonlinear detection scheme to optimize the target detection at the bistatic radar receiver. The ambiguity function for both the monostatic and bistatic cases resembles a thumbtack ambiguity function with a pseudo-random sidelobe distribution. 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