By: Mark Pomerleau
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Some inwards manufacture believe the time to come of electronic warfare volition convey to contain a visualization capability for operators as well as commanders to amend invention effects inwards a non-physical domain. The electromagnetic spectrum surround has choke increasingly complex inwards recent years. Electronic warfare as well as the jamming of radio signals was a large concern reaching dorsum to the Cold War, as well as a proliferation of emitters, jammers as well as overall devices inwards the past times few decades has made agreement as well as planning effects an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than hard work for operators as well as commanders. For that reason, around believe the time to come of electronic warfare volition require the evolution of visualization tools that conceptualize the non-physical effects inwards the electromagnetic spectrum. “We’re seeing as well as hearing nearly cases where around folks are turning dorsum as well as turning away prematurely because they merely don’t convey confidence inwards the systems on their jet, for instance,” Travis Slocumb, vice president, electronic warfare systems at Raytheon, told C4ISRNET inwards an interview. “They don’t empathise them adequately as well as the globe of EW is non kinetic. You can’t run into what’s happening.”
These complications convey led around to pursue depicting the electromagnetic spectrum equally a maneuver infinite akin to the physical domain. However, given the diversity of frequencies beingness used past times systems as well as emitters, the struggle to dominate the electromagnetic spectrum as well as enable operations inwards the physical globe is no longer platform versus platform, solution versus solution, or a province of affairs where a one-size-fits-all tool that tin hold upward used.
“There’s no unmarried platform capability that tin choke create the upshot nosotros ask as well as the form of threat laydown environments that nosotros anticipate seeing,” Slocumb said. “The entirely agency you’re going to hold upward able to larn the effects nosotros desire is to convey around score of collaboration betwixt all the assets inwards theater, non merely a duo of [EA-18G] Growlers.”
For example, the Navy is modernizing its legacy jammer, the ALQ/99, to what is beingness termed the Next-Gen Jammer (to hold upward mounted on EA-18G Growlers), but the terminal production volition final result inwards non ane but iii jamming pods roofing low, mid as well as high frequencies.
Rick Diamond, senior managing director of electronic warfare occupation concern evolution at Lockheed Martin, told reporters inwards November that piece Growlers could wing amongst all iii pods, typically what volition locomote on is at that spot volition hold upward several aircraft flight amongst unlike configurations addressing unlike missions, hence equally non to charge downwardly the aircraft also much.
Adversaries are increasingly making purpose of advances inwards electronic warfare technology. How is the U.S.A. taking like payoff piece trying to counter adversarial use?
However, inwards social club to figure out as well as empathise how to execute the maneuver as well as concepts, command-and-control as well as real-time determination aides of these unlike platforms, a visualization tool that tin invention as well as create create volition hold upward foundational, Slocumb said.
Raytheon is currently on contract amongst the Army for a ground-based solution called the Electronic Warfare Planning as well as Management Tool (EWPMT) that provides spectrum management as well as tin fifty-fifty plot courses of activity for commanders.
“You convey to source amongst beingness able to at to the lowest degree develop a invention for the day, y'all ingest information overnight, y'all know where the threat assets are, y'all know the upshot y'all desire to brand happen, y'all lay it out, y'all invention it, as well as then y'all create create it,” Slocumb said.
“The management business office is where it gets interesting … past times Definition inwards whatsoever functioning things are going to change. EW is all nearly counter-countermeasures as well as telephone telephone as well as response. There are things that are going to locomote on y'all didn’t anticipate, how create y'all create create through that?”
He noted that the existent challenge, afterward the initial planning as well as resourcing of assets for sure enough threats, is adapting to an surround that is capable of rapid alter infinitesimal to minute.
“That’s where the EW community needs to choke … everybody I beak to who’s thinking nearly this work volition say y'all the exact same thing,” Slocumb said of a planning as well as management solution.
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