By: Valerie Insinna
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WASHINGTON — Big changes to the Air Force’s electronic warfare capabilities may endure coming inward 2019. The service’s yearlong EW study is drawing to a close, amongst a terminal study expected inward mid-January, Gen. Stephen Wilson, the Air Force’s vice main of staff, told reporters Wednesday.
“We’re almost 2 months away from having the results of that,” he said.
Recognizing that futurity wars volition non endure alone fought on ground, body of body of water together with air, the USA Air Force is kicking off a third-study on how it plans to purpose electronic warfare (EW).
Wilson announced the EW study inward belatedly 2017. Then, Brig. Gen. David Gaedecke, the Air Force’s manager of cyberspace operations together with warfighting integration, was tapped before this twelvemonth to Pb an “enterprise capability collaboration team” that would explore novel ways to perform electronic warfare together with how to integrate those capabilities across the service.
Gaedecke volition brief the results at the Weapons together with Tactics Conference held Jan. xvi together with 17 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Wilson said. H5N1 populace study is expected to follow inward the months afterward.
While Wilson didn’t preview whatsoever of the report’s recommendations, he said that the findings brand clear that the Air Force may endure falling behind inward the sphere of electronic warfare.
“We haven’t been paying attending to what I would telephone band spectrum dominance,” he said.
“Almost everything nosotros produce inward the military machine goes through the spectrum when y'all intend almost it, across whatsoever force. I’ll purpose an story [as an example.] An story uses GPS, it uses information links, it uses communications, it uses radars. Its weapons all larn through the spectrum. If y'all don’t dominate the spectrum, y'all rapidly resort to a World War II Army or Navy or Marine Corps or Air Force.”
Although few details almost the ambit of the study convey emerged, a Jan 2018 asking for information stated that it would position close together with long-term capability gaps, from financial years 2018 to 2040, amongst an emphasis on threats that would conduct house inward a highly contested environment.
“Particular areas of interest” include the radio, visible, infrared, ultraviolet together with millimeter moving ridge portions of the spectrum, equally good equally space, cyber together with directed energy, the RFI said.
Over the course of pedagogy of the study, the squad contacted experts, industry, together with the other services for feedback, Wilson said. It besides brought inward ruddy teams to assist isolate vulnerabilities.
The electronic warfare study follows 2 before efforts, known equally Enterprise Capability Collaboration Teams, that explored air superiority together with multi-domain command together with control.
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