Air Force looking to disaggregate electronic warfare capabilities from platforms
The Air Force is taking a more holistic approach to electronic warfare across a variety of systems and capabilities.
By
Mark Pomerleau
September 24, 2024
This is part one of a two-part series exploring how the Air Force is aiming to modernize and reinvigorate electronic warfare within its capability portfolio.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Air Force is moving away from a platform-centric view of electronic warfare to more of a system-of-systems approach as it revamps its EW arsenal.
The service has been a platform-centric organization historically — meaning it has relied on systems such as aircraft to perform both its mission and contribution to the joint force — but the modern electromagnetic spectrum environment and threat landscape are demanding a new paradigm.
“Most of our electronic warfare programs are platform centric, so there wasn’t a unifying focus on this area as a whole. My own experience suggested that this is a historically neglected area that can have oversized impact, but doesn’t compete well in our internal budget battles relative to other priorities,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said last week at AFA’s Air, Space and Cyber conference.
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