Mobilizing for the ‘invisible war’
The new Vice Chairman can lead the fight for sensing and sensemaking by harnessing the Pentagon’s non-kinetic arsenal, Bryan Clark argues in this op-ed.
The new Vice Chairman can lead the fight for sensing and sensemaking by harnessing the Pentagon’s non-kinetic arsenal, Bryan Clark argues in this op-ed.
Northrop is looking to rapidly field 72 IVEWS systems to support urgent operational need in the Middle East.
Lockheed Martin will serve as the primary contractor for the modernization effort, valued at approximately $3.8 billion, and will partner with local supplier Military Aviation Works No. 2 in Bydgoszcz to perform the upgrade work in-country.
Those in charge of outfitting EW capabilities are on the hook for finding a modular solution with little to no details about what it may be placed on.
"The biggest opportunities that I see are from a modularity and platform independence standpoint," Lt. Gen. Maria Barrett, the commanding general of Army Cyber Command, said.
“The intent behind this is to provide for a deployed soldier an enhanced capability so that they can easily provide an RF [radio frequency] waveform and provide some of that reprogramming at the edge," Eric Bowes, the program officer of ARAT, told Breaking Defense.
Following a decision by Swedish political leadership in 2019 to improve the country’s military capabilities, weapons procurement has surged, said Brig. Gen. Lars Helmrich.
“We feel like this acquisition moves us in some certain sub-elements of offensive cyber about 18 months forward on what we would have been able to do with our organic investment,” President of Leidos National Security Sector Roy Stevens told Breaking Defense.
“NATO relies heavily on US EW capabilities,” said Bas Nieuwenhuijse, chair of the NATO maritime EW organization. “This is a luxury we can and may no longer [be able to] rely on."
In light of unprecedented changes in conflict, to the extent that “we have never seen things before like you see now,” Nico Scharfe, Plath managing director urged industry and military decisionmakers to “change faster” and find a “new chain” of “intelligence and acquisition possibilities.”