1st-Ever Electronic Warfare Strategy Headed For SecDef’s Desk

1st-Ever Electronic Warfare Strategy Headed For SecDef’s Desk
1st-Ever Electronic Warfare Strategy Headed For SecDef’s Desk

WASHINGTON: With Russian jammers blasting Ukrainian radios off the air, the US Defense Department’s racing to regain its edge in electronic warfare. But there’s been no comprehensive strategy to guide all the armed services’ efforts — until now. The first Defense Department-wide electronic warfare strategy is “basically finished” and headed to Secretary Ashton Carter’s desk…

DoD CIO Says Spectrum May Become Warfighting Domain

DoD CIO Says Spectrum May Become Warfighting Domain
DoD CIO Says Spectrum May Become Warfighting Domain

WASHINGTON: Pentagon officials are drafting new policy that would officially recognize the electromagnetic spectrum as a “domain” of warfare, joining land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace, Breaking Defense has learned. The designation would mark the biggest shift in Defense Department doctrine since cyberspace became a domain in 2006. With jamming, spoofing, radio, and radar all covered under…

AC-130 To Get Laser Guns & Air-Launched Drones: Heithold

AC-130 To Get Laser Guns & Air-Launched Drones: Heithold
AC-130 To Get Laser Guns & Air-Launched Drones: Heithold

WASHINGTON: Lt. Gen. Brad Heithold, the head of Air Force Special Operations Command, wants to make the AC-130 a kind of flying aircraft carrier, launching mini-drones mid-flight to scope out threats and targets. Oh, and he wants the AC-130 to have a laser cannon as well. Speaking to the Association of Old Crows’ annual conference on electronic…

Electronic Warfare: We Have The Technology – But Not A Strategy

Electronic Warfare: We Have The Technology – But Not A Strategy
Electronic Warfare: We Have The Technology – But Not A Strategy

WASHINGTON: Our regular readers already know the bad news about electronic warfare. Russia and China are rapidly catching up to the US in jamming, spoofing, and electronic eavesdropping. Senior Pentagon officials say the technological gap between them and us is shrinking, especially on those technologies that have made the biggest difference: GPS, drones, smart weapons,…

US Jammed Own Satellites 261 Times; What If Enemy Did?

US Jammed Own Satellites 261 Times; What If Enemy Did?
US Jammed Own Satellites 261 Times; What If Enemy Did?

WASHINGTON: Russia and China are investing heavily in cyber and electronic warfare, but they’re not shutting down US satellite downlinks yet. Instead, we have met the enemy and he is us — we think. “In 2015 thus far, we have had 261 cases where we have been jammed from getting information from our satellites down…