House Impatient With Air Force’s and Navy’s Electronic Warfare Progress
Sept. 3, 2021 | By John A. Tirpak
The House of Representatives’ version of the National Defense Authorization Act would call on the Air Force and Navy to provide a report next spring on how they’re going to accelerate the use of adaptive and cognitive electronic warfare capabilities.
The House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee added language to the draft 2022 NDAA saying members are “concerned with the pace of development of true cognitive electronic warfare capabilities,” referring to those that incorporate machine learning or artificial intelligence into capabilities such as jamming communication signals.
The amendment recognizes that the Air Force’s Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Strategy states that “anticipatory cognitive systems and platform-agnostic applications” form the core of the Air Force’s EW modernization plan; and that while the Navy hasn’t yet finished its own EW roadmap, the service is studying adaptive EW technology.
https://www.airforcemag.com/house-impatient-with-air-force-and-navys-electronic-warfare-progress/
