Army races to research new electronic warfare tech, on offense and defense
"The electromagnetic spectrum is not officially a domain, but operations on the electromagnetic spectrum are critical in order to realize the different phases of the multi-domain operations," said one Army researcher.
By ANDREW EVERSDEN
on March 15, 2022 at 4:45 AM
WASHINGTON: As the Army revitalizes its electronic warfare systems after years of neglect, the service’s researchers at the C5ISR Center said they are developing several technologies that will make EW soldiers more effective on the battlefield, even if they can’t talk much about the tech specifically.
Instead, several Army researchers told Breaking Defense about the challenges they’re hoping to overcome: They need resilient EW systems that can stretch over greater distances to get close to enemies (or automated options if the link breaks), ways to sniff out enemy electromagnetic signatures that can reveal battlefield data and potential EW targets, and, finally, methods to know if an EW attack — generally a silent, explosion-less technical assault — did what it was supposed to do to enemy systems.
This is all in service of, and integrated into, the Army’s new warfighting concept known as multi-domain operations. The concept of MDO is how the Army plans to fight as part of the joint force against an adversary who can contest the US military across land, sea, air, space and cyber.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/03/army-races-to-research-new-electronic-warfare-tech-on-offense-and-defense/
