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“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.”
Gainey noted that the MOS 40D mission area will include operating the service's expanding ground-based electronic warfare arsenal for disrupting adversary space and counterspace systems.
The Navy should drop manned aircraft and pivot the majority of surface vessels to drones, argues John Ferrari of AEI.
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The upgrade allows existing radar warning receivers to analyze unfamiliar signals in real time — fast enough to warn the pilot if it’s an enemy radar locking on. “It could go on any kind of F-16” or a wide range of other aircraft, Raytheon Vice President Michael Baladjanian told Breaking Defense.