By Lauren C. Williams
Feb 24, 2021
It s been three months since the Defense Department unveiled its new, updated electromagnetic spectrum strategy and some of the first implementation priorities expected this year will be modernizing IT tools and untangling regulatory constraints.
DOD is working on an implementation plan, expected to be completed in March, to address capability and policy challenges with a new governance body and improving spectrum tools, said Frederick Moorefield, the deputy chief information officer for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers and Information Infrastructure Capabilities. In the 2013 version, we did an implementation plan, but I would call it a soft implementation plan. There wasn t a lot of visibility. We didn t raise it up to the [defense] secretary to get signed out, Moorefield told FCW. So what we re doing differently this time is complete this implementation plan that has specific actions in there and dates and who s responsible.
“Fundamentally, we do it the same way as noise canceling headphones; we listen to what the radio transmits and inject it in reverse in the radio, so the radio thinks that it doesn’t hear itself, and it can hear everything else” Joel Brand of Kumu Networks says.
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Kelsey Atherton on February 23, 2021 at 2:08 PM
Army pursues spectrum tool to help keep post locations secret February 16 The Army is developing a tool to monitor electromagnetic spectrum emissions to help prevent adversaries from geolocating teams in the field. (Staff Sgt. Armando R. Limon/Army) WASHINGTON The U.S. Army is working on a new tool to provide a much needed visual of the signals that command posts and units leak into the electromagnetic spectrum, possibly giving away their location.
Demonstrations by sophisticated nation-states in recent years have made clear the detriment of big, static command posts or units with large electromagnetic spectrum footprints. Nation states have geolocated units based on their electromagnetic spectrum emissions alone and been either jammed or fired upon. The Russians demonstrated this to great effect in Ukraine.
Nuclear EMP Attacks Are a Threat. How Can the U.S. Air Force Defend Itself?
As the Air Force strives for EMS superiority, it should concentrate on a wide range of defensive measures, such as identifying and hardening all mission-essential elements.
Air Force Chief General Charles Brown tweeted on January 27, 2021, “Let me be clear, the U.S. Air Force is committed to providing Electromagnetic Spectrum [EMS] superior Air Forces to achieve victory in all domain competitions and conflict.” That same day he acknowledged that the Air Force has been “asleep at the wheel” for the last 25 – 30 years when it comes to operations in the EMS.
Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness 2021
SMi Group reports: Key speakers will discuss the importance of C4ISR as a key situational awareness capability at the virtual conference in April. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, February 4, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) has now become a vital tool to maintain overmatch and achieve victory in military operations. In a recent report, the C4ISR market is forecast to quickly grow to US$ 135.80 Bn by 2027. One of the major contributing factors is the increasing importance of situational awareness capabilities across the military domains on the battlefield and the rise of electronic warfare.