USAF Refocusing on Electronic Warfare After Years of Counterinsurgency Operations
4/11/2019
​—John A. Tirpak
There will be a new electronic warfare czar on the Air Staff, following the Air Force’s yearlong review of its EW enterprise.
The study, which has yet to be released, also recommended grouping its disparate EW efforts together, and working to “reinvigorate†its cadre of EW professionals, Air Combat Command chief Gen. Mike Holmes said Thursday. He also said the new combined numbered Air Force that will merge USAF’s cyber and ISR functions will be up and running this summer, although major changes in what its elements do are probably a few years off.
“We’re going to combine and consolidate things that we’re doing out and around the Air Force, and reinvigorate that warrior ethos that goes with having a force†that is expert “on planning and using it,†Holmes said in an interview with Air Force Magazine at an AFA cyber conference at JB Langley-Eustis, Va.
http://www.airforcemag.com/Features/Pages/2019/April%202019/USAF-Refocusing-on-Electronic-Warfare-After-Years-of-Counterinsurgency-Operations.aspx
