New Compass Call Electronic Warfare Plane Takes To The Skies
The US Air Force is one step closer to having a new aircraft for jamming enemy communications.
Air Force Needs ‘Zealots For The Electromagnetic Spectrum’: General
"[The electromagnetic spectrum is] like the oxygen that surrounds us right now. You don't have a choice. You are in it," the Air Force's director of EMS superiority said.
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Not just selling into the kingdom, but building partnership with Saudi Arabia’s defense industry
Partnerships with outside industry are a cornerstone of the kingdom’s ambitious growth strategy.
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F-15EX: Delivering Today For Tomorrow’s Missions
Boeing’s lead in digital engineering has underpinned the F-15EX’s success, schedule and low price, and will provide rapid capability growth through open architecture and agile software development.
UK Awards Laser Weapon Experimental Contracts
Three companies will split a $100 million contract to develop test beds for directed energy weapons.
HASC NDAA Markup Adds Slew Of Cyber, IT, Spectrum Initiatives
"If there's one overarching theme of our approach this year, it's to transform where we're heading and focus on technology and innovation and how to start using that better," HASC Chair Smith said in opening remarks.
DoD Launches New Zero-Trust Security Portfolio Office; CIO Talks Priorities
The new office is slated for October, Pentagon CIO John Sherman said, while also giving updates on the Spectrum Strategy implementation plan and the cyber workforce strategy.
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How the “Doomsday Plane” contract highlights the rise of mid-tier primes
Midsized companies can offer flexibility and agility while keeping intellectual property in the hands of the government.
BAE Cuts Operating Costs Of F-35 EW System By 50 Percent
BAE has been working to convince its own suppliers to enter into performance-based logistics to cut costs and increase availability of its EW system for the Joint Strike Fighter, said Betsy Warren, BAE's director of sustainment for Electronic Combat Solutions.
IBCS Overcomes Electronic Attacks, Downs Cruise Missile
The test involved electronic attack efforts against radars while previous tests had been directed against the communications systems binding IBCS to its sensors.
DISA Seeks ‘Radical’ New Electromagnetic Battle Management System
Prototypes should provide "a radically new set of capabilities," according to DISA. "This work has never been done before within the DoD and requires a novel approach."
IT Modernization Strategy, Spectrum Plan Imminent: DoD CIO
Rep. Langevin criticized the 2022 budget overview for its brevity, opacity, and appearance as "nearly a carbon copy" of the 2021 document. "If DoD were a high school student, I would have called [the 2022 budget overview] plagiarism."
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Why enterprise IT modernization matters now – and how to “delight by design”
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
Rep. Langevin Presses SecDef On Cyber, EW Priorities
"The Department of Defense officially recognizes five domains of warfare," Rep. Langevin said. "For four of those domains, the senior civilian is a service secretary. Cyber has a deputy assistant secretary, which is four rungs lower than the other warfighting domains. Why does this make sense?"
Northrop Delivers 1st SEWIP Block 3 Jammer To Navy
The long-awaited jammer, a key defense against anti-ship missiles, will now enter land-based testing at Wallops Island, Va. But the Navy must do more, argues EW expert Bryan Clark.
US, France, UK Hammer Out Multinational Corps Warfighting
There is room for further development in areas such as electronic warfare and signals intelligence. "These 'soft' components were not as accessible in the past 12 to 15 years when we were so busy in the Middle-East; for example, there is a real drive to invest in areas such as EWSI (Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence)," Brig. Gen. Paul Tennant, the British military attache in Washington, says.
Army Modernization Budget Drops $4.2B; Budget Drops $3.6B Overall
“We have a lot of people programs and we tried to protect those. Secondly, we tried to protect readiness. Third, we tried to protect modernization,” acting secretary John Whitley says.