By: Mark Pomerleau
The Army has published its formal electronic warfare strategy document inwards answer to broader strategy shifts inwards the Department of Defense.
The Pentagon released the National Defense Strategy inwards Jan 2018 to focus to a greater extent than on the so-called keen mightiness contest together with countries such equally Red People's Republic of China together with Russian Federation together with focus less on the counterterrorism mission. The Department of Defense, a twelvemonth earlier, released a novel electronic warfare strategy, which led the Army to develop its own. The document was formally signed the Army G-3/5/7 on Aug. 23.
“The objective of the USA Army Electronic Warfare Strategy is to operationalize EW capabilities equally a forcefulness multiplier supporting seat down commanders,” reads a one-page document provided to C4ISRNET. “The strategy enables the epitome shift to cyberspace electromagnetic activities yesteryear addressing EW capabilities together with capacities that let the Joint Force to compete, deter, together with win inwards this environment.”
The Army strategy includes 5 areas of effort: edifice the workforce, operations, capability development, educating together with grooming the force, together with partnerships.
For years, the Army has been intensifying a years’ long receive to non solely integrate cyber together with EW capability together at the tactical border but besides to restore EW capability at all echelons together with levels of the battlefield all the agency upwards to the strategic marking inwards answer to like sophisticated capabilities exhibited yesteryear Russia.
The Army is maturing several concepts, capabilities together with units to bear tactical cyber, electronic warfare, news together with data operations to back upwards brigade commanders.
The 1 page document points to how the National Defense Strategy identifies threats to seat down commanders equally increasingly transregional, multidomain together with multifunctional. The strategy notes that EW must last integrated together with synchronized across multiple domains together with throughout the depth of the battlefield.
The Army is undergoing several forcefulness pattern updates to proceed stride amongst adversaries.
“EW must accommodate inwards gild to proceed upwards amongst a apace changing, multi-domain environment,” the document states. “Land, air, sea, space, together with cyberspace superiority all depend on superiority inwards the electromagnetic spectrum. In gild to keep the Army’s battlefield superiority, it is critical for the USA Army to integrate novel technologies into well-trained formations faster than our adversaries.”
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