Accurate sensors are critical for armor units under fire
Maneuver formations face multifaceted threats that include kinetic force-on-force and non-kinetic effects such as electronic warfare.
The multi-vendor contract for “Artificial Intelligence & Software at Pace” will divide $1 billion over 10 years into bite-sized, quick-turn task orders of $25 million or less.
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
“We had battalions and squads with UAS that had not had them in that volume or at those echelons before. We endeavored to make contact with unmanned systems first,” said Col. Jim Armstrong, the commander of 1st ABCT, 3rd ID.
“The Moroccans are fully integrated” in the exercise, said Lt. Col. Aaron Ritzema, helping hunt simulated “enemy” transmitters with high-altitude balloons and four different types of drones.
Just announced on Thursday but already quietly combat-tested in Ukraine, the palm-sized Skynode S card makes small drones much less dependent on an uninterrupted wireless link to a human remote controller.
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.
Brig. Gen. Ed Barker gave reporters a look ahead on his fiscal 2024, 2025 and 2026 priorities.
The Army is progressing in its EW portfolio "after a few solid years of investment, lots of support from the Army and from [the Defense Department]," Kenneth Strayer said.
"The loss rate for Ukrainian UAVs at the moment is about 10,000 UAVs a month," Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said. "That's the level of equipment that both sides are going through."
Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo said he was particularly impressed by the service’s adoption of the C5ISR Modular Suite of Standards program, a platform that will allow soldiers to plug in cards embedded with networking and EW capabilities
The TLS-EAB program will have five phases and total about $163 million.
Lockheed Martin will deliver three prototypes of the vehicle-mounted technology suite under the new contract.
Army systems to give soldiers EW and cyber options on the battlefield are inching towards reality.