1st-Ever Electronic Warfare Strategy Headed For SecDef’s Desk
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on December 02, 2016 at 12:55 PM
EC-130 Compass Call electronic warfare aircraft, used for an experimental cyber attack
EC-130 Compass Call electronic warfare aircraft, one of a handful in the Air Force.
WASHINGTON: With Russian jammers blasting Ukrainian radios off the air, the US Defense Department’s racing to regain its edge in electronic warfare. But there’s been no comprehensive strategy to guide all the armed services’ efforts — until now.
The first Defense Department-wide electronic warfare strategy is “basically finished” and headed to Secretary Ashton Carter’s desk for his signature, along with major plus-ups to EW spending for 2018, Pentagon official Bill Conley said Thursday afternoon. What’s more, defense contractors, foreign allies, and perhaps even the press are going to get to see it. While the sensitive specifics will be in two secret annexes — an implementation plan and a “roadmap” of desired future capabilities — the broad strategy itself will be unclassified.
“The base strategy document is very deliberately an unclassified document,” Conley told the Association of Old Crows EW conference, “and the reason for that is it allows us to share it broadly on the industry side, with our partners, with our allies, and say this, no kidding, (is) where we are going with our investments into electronic warfare.”
http://breakingdefense.com/2016/12/1st-ever-electronic-warfare-strategy-headed-for-secdefs-desk/
