A reshuffling of House subcommittees to boost oversight of military tech February 3 The House Armed Services Committee announced the creation of a new Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems Subcommittee. (Al Drago/Getty Images) WASHINGTON The House Armed Services Committee is creating a new subcommittee for the next session of Congress as a way to focus energy on the oversight of the military’s use of digital technologies, lawmakers announced Wednesday. The new Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems Subcommittee, which will be led by Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., will cover cybersecurity, cyber operations, cyber forces, information technology and systems, science and technology programs and policy, research and development, artificial intelligence, electromagnetic spectrum policy, electronic warfare policy and software acquisition policy.
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Gen. John Hyten
WASHINGTON: As the Joint Staff develops a Joint Warfighting Concept to guide America’s new way of war, All Domain Operations, it’s becoming increasingly clear that control of the electromagnetic spectrum is key to its success, says Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten. And that means setting spectrum requirements will be key to ADO.
“We have to be able to effectively fight and win the electromagnetic spectrum fight right from the beginning that is, electronic warfare in every domain,” Hyten told the Association of Old Crows (AOC). Hyten chairs the Joint Staff’s Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Cross Functional Team, and, in addition, is the “senior designated official for EMSO, electromagnetic spectrum operations, in the Department of Defense.”
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The Association of Old Crows (www.crows.org) is kicking off its new AOC Discussions series by hosting a conversation with Gen John Hyten, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Senior Designated Official of the Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Cross Functional Team (EMSO CFT).
EMSO is an operational concept that integrates and coordinates electromagnetic warfare (EW) and electromagnetic spectrum management (SM) to enable the US and its allies to monitor and maneuver in the EMS, denying an adversary’s ability to do the same. EMSO includes mission areas such as Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA), Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and many others. The Department of Defense (DOD) has been rebuilding its EMS Enterprise over the past several years as part of the larger National Defense Strategy focused on Great Power Competition with countries such as the Pe
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Senior DOD Leaders to Discuss the Future of Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations
December 18, 2020 GMT
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (BUSINESS WIRE) Dec 18, 2020
The Association of Old Crows ( www.crows.org ) is kicking off its new AOC Discussions series by hosting a conversation with Gen John Hyten, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Senior Designated Official of the Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Cross Functional Team (EMSO CFT).
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EMSO is an operational concept that integrates and coordinates electromagnetic warfare (EW) and electromagnetic spectrum management (SM) to enable the US and its allies to monitor and maneuver in the EMS, denying an adversary’s ability to do the same. EMSO includes mission areas such as Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA), Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and many others. The Department of Defense (D