Naval sensors to surveil and attack in the modern battlespace
These expeditionary systems provide new layers of defense against evolving threats and enable non-kinetic attack.
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LCS-10 to be first ship this year suited with lethality, survivability upgrade
The Navy's budget documents indicate two more Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships are slated to get the upgrade this year.
Satellites at the center: Inside the Pentagon’s next-gen space architecture
From emerging data networks to missile tracking and cyber resilience, Breaking Defense’s latest eBook brings together essential reporting on the evolving role of satellites in national security.
Japan to get US Navy’s Lockheed-made EW system in first international sale
The first international sale of SEWIP is to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Lockheed prepping to demo ‘scaled EA’ capability at RIMPAC
The company is trying to show it can bring the capabilities of SEWIP Block III to a larger array of ships.
Disrupting the ‘critical linkage’: What is the Navy’s SEWIP?
After troubling Pentagon tester report, prime contractor Lockheed Martin says its working closely with the Navy to address the issues.
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Distributed Maritime Operations: A Resilient Force Structure Enabled By JADC2
The Marine Corps’ Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) and the Navy’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 program enable DMO.
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Voyager is fortifying the U.S. Defense supply chain
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
Northrop Exploring How SEWIP Can Feed Into Project Overmatch
“We were able to … create new software and put new communication waveforms through the system and demonstrate a class a wave forms it could be critical to the Navy as they look at Project Overmatch," said Mike Meaney, a Northrop Grumman official.
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.
2019 Forecast: Hard Choices On Invisible Warfare
There are real signs of a renaissance in electronic warfare. Now comes the hard part: translating new strategies and concepts into doctrine, requirements, and systems in the field.
Navy’s New Jammer Passes Critical Design Review: SEWIP Block III
[UPDATED with Bryan Clark comment] The Navy and Northrop Grumman just took a major step forward on defending ships from enemy missiles. Northrop announced this afternoon it had passed a Critical Design Review (CDR) for a new jamming and spoofing system for Navy warships, Block III of the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP, rhymes with Cool-Whip). […]
Navy Forges Ahead With New Surface Ship Electronic Warfare: SEWIP
NAVY YARD: American warships are about to get much harder to kill. Armed with new electronic warfare systems, the US Navy “is taking back the spectrum,” Capt. Doug Small says. The great advantage of American warships has long been their ability to absorb punishment and to keep fighting. In the modern era, however, the best defense is electronic: […]
47 Seconds From Hell: A Challenge To Navy Doctrine
WASHINGTON: Someone shoots a cruise missile at you. How far away would you like to stop it: over 200 miles out or less than 35? If you answered “over 200,” congratulations, you’re thinking like the US Navy, which has spent billions of dollars over decades to develop ever more sophisticated anti-missile defenses. According to Bryan […]
Obama’s Shift-to-Asia Budget Is a Hollow Shell Game
If you take the Administration’s word for it, the most recent defense budget represents a sober-minded and far-thinking strategic shift from the Middle East to Asia, creating a smaller, high-tech force oriented increasingly towards inter-state conflict and deterrence. Many are even comparing the Pentagon’s current vision with that of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, […]