As EW proliferates, Air Force Spectrum Warfare Wing speeds organic waveform development
Aiding US operations around the globe, "it's nonstop for us," Col. Larry Fenner told Breaking Defense.
Aiding US operations around the globe, "it's nonstop for us," Col. Larry Fenner told Breaking Defense.
The 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing is modeling a new approach to electronic warfare for all the services: Instead of traditional quarterly updates, the 350th can now update over 30 Air Force systems about new threats within three hours.
“We have recognized in our threat analysis that we need these capabilities in our wing in order to make our three wing missions executable,” Col. Joshua Koslov said of activating two EW squadrons. “And so that's exactly what's driving it.”
“Our mindset has to be that we use the spectrum to kill faster, not to protect things,” said Col. Joshua Koslov. “The more things we kill, the less things that can hurt us.”
“We build electronic warfare officers based on platforms ... when that's not the best way to do that," Col. Joshua Koslov said.
"We have a lot of work to do before we get there," Vice Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten says of the Pentagon's efforts to implement its new Electronic Spectrum Superiority Strategy.
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.