Army Reorganizes, Accelerates EW: Synergy Or Hostile Takeover?

Army Reorganizes, Accelerates EW: Synergy Or Hostile Takeover?
Army Reorganizes, Accelerates EW: Synergy Or Hostile Takeover?

ARLINGTON: Outgunned in the airwaves by Russian jammers, the US Army has a new plan for electronic warfare. The Army hopes to rebuild the long-neglected EW branch more quickly — in part, paradoxically, by partially submerging it in other branches, namely military intelligence and cyber. There’s both an equipment aspect and an organizational one. First…

Army’s New Rapid Capabilities Office Studies Electronic Warfare Boost

Army’s New Rapid Capabilities Office Studies Electronic Warfare Boost
Army’s New Rapid Capabilities Office Studies Electronic Warfare Boost

PENTAGON: The brand new Army Rapid Capabilities Office is studying proposals to spend between $50 and $100 million on urgently needed electronic warfare gear, Breaking Defense has learned. The options include sensors to detect radar and radio signals, and jammers to block them, mounted on ground vehicles, soldiers’ backpacks, and drones. Where will the money come…

Marines Aim For Jammers On ‘Every Airplane’

Marines Aim For Jammers On ‘Every Airplane’
Marines Aim For Jammers On ‘Every Airplane’

WASHINGTON: With the rise of high-tech threats from Russia and China, the Marine Corps plans a major increase in its forces devoted to jamming, hacking, and deceiving enemies. That includes: putting new sensors and jammers in everything from ground units to drones to V-22 Osprey tiltrotors and KC-130 transports, despite a tight budget; adding 1,000 to…

Army Electronic Warfare Investment Lags Russian Threat

Army Electronic Warfare Investment Lags Russian Threat
Army Electronic Warfare Investment Lags Russian Threat

There is a great disconnect in the Department of Defense. Leaders at the highest levels realize we are falling behind — or have already fallen behind — Russia and China in electronic warfare, the invisible battle of detecting and disrupting the radar and radio transmissions on which a modern military depends. Even in the traditionally lower-tech…

Maps & Jammers: Army Intensifies Training Vs. Russian-Style Jamming

Maps & Jammers: Army Intensifies Training Vs. Russian-Style Jamming
Maps & Jammers: Army Intensifies Training Vs. Russian-Style Jamming

HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: After two decades of largely ignoring the danger, the Army is seriously training for a scary scenario: What if GPS, our satellite communications and our wireless networks go down? It’s hardly a hypothetical threat. Russian electronic warfare units locate Ukrainian troops by their transmissions and jam their radios so they can’t call for help, setting them…

Army’s Electronic Warfare Cupboard Is Bare: No Jammer Until 2023

Army’s Electronic Warfare Cupboard Is Bare: No Jammer Until 2023
Army’s Electronic Warfare Cupboard Is Bare: No Jammer Until 2023

PENTAGON:  The US Army is struggling to fund the increasingly crucial capabilities it fields for electronic warfare, which it largely abandoned after the Soviet Union fell. The Army has over 32,000 short-range defensive jammers to stop roadside bombs, but on current plans, it won’t have an offensive jammer until 2023. “Can that be accelerated? Yes,” said…