Airborne EW: Dominating the spectrum to win battles
It takes a layered defense plan to be survivable, which means jammers to disable, deceive, and disrupt, along with onboard self-protect and off-board decoys.
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Everything, everywhere, all at once: 5 space stories from 2023
There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in space, from Geneva to Washington to Colorado Springs to Los Angeles.
‘Game on’: Raimondo calls for beefing up tech export controls to counter China
"We're taking a very aggressive, innovative approach" to combating China's tech strategy, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said at the Reagan Forum.
ITU rules meeting: Geopolitical ‘fireworks,’ DoD spectrum challenges
Disputes over spectrum use by mega-constellations in low Earth orbit, such as SpaceX's Starlink, also carry heavy political baggage at the 2023 World Radio Conference that starts tomorrow in Dubai.
‘Silent Swarm’: US Navy seeking electromagnetic spectrum tech crossed with unmanned
The Navy wants to play with early-stage tech with capabilities relating to distributed electromagnetic attack, deception and digital payload delivery.
International meeting could imperil Pentagon’s radar, intel-gathering systems
The month-long World Radiocommunications Conference in Dubai will decide whether to change how spectrum use is allocate among various users - including spectrum needed by DoD planes and ships operating abroad.
Navy’s first ‘space summit’ focuses on shoring up Space Force support for maritime mission
Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler, deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told the Navy League's annual Sea Air Space summit that the meeting was "step one" to better coordination with the military's newest branch.
NORTHCOM chief: Homeland defense could be imperiled by commercial spectrum sale
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on March 5 sent a letter to Congress endorsing a plan for sharing the disputed 3.1-3.45 spectrum band — but also opening the possibility that DoD could vacate it entirely, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Say It With Lasers: $45M DoD Prize For Optical Coms
PENTAGON: Live by the radio, die by the radio — unless, maybe, you switch to lasers, which are much harder to detect and interfere with. That’s why the Defense Department recently awarded a three-year, $45 million grant to a tri-service project for a laser communications system. “This is basically fiber optic communications without the fiber,” […]
DARPA Picks BAE’s Smart Handheld EW Sensor
BAE Systems has been awarded a DARPA contract that may help address one of the most pressing threats the US Army has identified — Russia’s increasingly impressive and powerful use of Electronic Warfare on the battlefield. The technology for a new handheld tactical sensor that soldiers can easily carry to monitor and analyze the electro-magnetic spectrum […]
Jammers, Not Terminators: DARPA & The Future Of Robotics
WASHINGTON: Robophobes, relax. The robot revolution is not imminent. Machine brains have a lot to learn about the messy physical world, said DARPA director Arati Prabhakar. Instead, DARPA sees some of the most promising applications for artificial intelligence in the intangible realm of radio waves. That includes electronic warfare — jamming and spoofing — as […]
VCJCS Mulls Newest Domain: Electromagnetic Spectrum
WASHINGTON: The Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is taking a “very serious” look at to making the electromagnetic spectrum a formal “domain” of military operations, a top aide to the Pentagon’s chief information officer told me this morning. The move would elevate the ethereal realm of radio waves and radar to the same […]