SOFIC NEWS: SOCOM Boosting Offensive Electronic Warfare Investments
5/18/2021
By Meredith Roaten
The Special Operations Command's top science and technology official said SOCOM plans to double funding available for offensive electronic warfare weapons research.
The "next-generation effects" funding category will see major growth as SOF moves away from precision strike research to capabilities that will help maintain dominance in future contested environments, said Lisa Sanders, director of science and technology, at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference May 18.
SOCOM budgeted about $16 million for this focus area in fiscal year 2021 and will boost funding to about $35 million in the next fiscal year, according to slides from the event.
“Current gaps in this portfolio are force protection at the edge [and] anything in the nonkinetic area — information operations, electronic warfare and cyber effects. … We're looking for projects coming to us that have those kinds of capabilities,” Sanders said.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/5/18/sofic-news-socom-boosting-investments-in-electronic-warfare-research
