Army Building 1st Battlefield Cyber/Electronic Warfare Team
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on December 01, 2016 at 4:14 PM
780th MI BDE w 2-2 Cyber @ NTC - 2
WASHINGTON: This afternoon, Army generals gathered to begin designing a new kind of unit, a tactical cyber/electronic warfare detachment, whose first experimental exercise overseas could be as early as next year. For the first time since the Cold War, at least a small part of the Army could have radio and radar jamming capabilities to match the Russians, who’ve used EW to devastating effect in Ukraine. For the first time ever, it could have hackers on the battlefield.
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Brig. Gen. Patricia Frost.
“The mission analysis just starts today,” Brig. Gen. Patricia Frost told reporters this morning. “We’re doing the kickoff meeting today with all the different stakeholders”: program managers, officers from the cyber/signal and intelligence centers, and more. Frost herself heads the brand-new cyber directorate (which also covers EW) of the Army’s headquarters staff in the Pentagon.
http://breakingdefense.com/2016/12/army-building-1st-battlefield-cyberelectronic-warfare-team/
