An electronic warfare-saturated battlefield is upon us, Omer Sharar, co-founder and CEO of infiniDome, told Breaking Defense, and small drones and munitions are going to need protection.
“Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran have reasons to confuse GPS-guided weapons used by their adversaries in the region and any of them could be behind these incidents,” one expert told Breaking Defense.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
The four companies chosen for the GPS augmentation program are Astranis, Axient, L3 Harris, and Sierra Space.
The ADF statement carefully notes that these "are key objectives under AUKUS Pillar II," but it does not claim that they are being done as part of the second pillar, which focuses on a range of advanced technologies, including quantum, artificial intelligence and autonomy.
Space & Missile Defense Command has been pushing to make space a formal "military occupation specialty" for enlisted personnel wishing to specialize, and has submitted a proposal to that effort to Army personnel leaders to that effect.
Breaking Defense previously reported on increased GPS jamming in the country, and experts said then that the disruptions were most likely related to Israel’s effort to disrupt Hezbollah attacks.
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.