“This [Arexis] is part of [the] Eurofighter program and Germany is now funding it, but any other Eurofighter customer, of course, could benefit from having it on board," Mikael Corp, sales director of fighter electronic warfare at Saab, told Breaking Defense.
"It is imperative that we, in concert with our allies and partners, remain committed to prioritizing our warfighters’ freedom of action and ability to achieve spectrum superiority," Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said, citing the prominence of EW capabilities in Ukraine and the Middle East.
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Numerous, redundant satellites in low Earth orbit will link the new Marine Littoral Regiments to joint commanders, allowing them to serve as the eyes and ears of the joint force in the Pacific, said Lt. Gen. Matthew Glavy.
“So I don’t think we’re mature enough in the learning that we’re doing with our multiple exercises and [we have] yet to define the problem we want to solve,” said Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler, deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare.
The new office will be led by Dave Tremper, director of electronic warfare in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment.
"There are some other capabilities that I can't talk about here, but we will look at how to build out the same type of approach Maven used for these non-GEOINT type use cases," Deputy CDAO Margaret Palmieri said.
The U.S. Army’s MAPS Gen II program of record for assured PNT provides an authoritative and reliable source of truth for combat vehicles in a highly contested battlespace.
"Each of the services is clearly working on their own services capability gap so there's a missing piece in terms of when we fight in a conflict," Shyu said. "We don't fight within a single service, we fight jointly."
"Other areas we're looking for opportunities are also out in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean, to develop new and different partnerships in space that we may not have enjoyed in other domains in the past," Gen. DT Thompson, vice chief of the Space Force, says.
"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.
The US military is rebuilding its ability to protect its radios, sensors and radars while jamming those of its adversaries. But we're still probably second or third in the world.
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
Training for electronic warfare threats is too easy, leaving troops dangerously unready for great power conflict. Scenarios are so unrealistic that one officer called them "garbage."
Impressed by tests against low-flying drones, the services are collaborating to increase both power and precision to take on tougher threats.
“We have not achieved $2.3 billion in budget growth,” Pentagon EW acquisitions director Bill Conley told me. "We are continuing to add investment (and) we are addressing the most pressing gaps."
The JSDR database won't just keep American communications officers from mistakenly scrambling each others' signals, either. By providing a comprehensive baseline of what friendly transmissions look like, the mega-database will make it easier for Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Electronic Warfare (EW) troops to hone in on enemy transmissions.