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Colonel Laurie Moe Buckhout Department of the Army
Chief, Army Electronic Warfare Division
2009 DOD Spectrum Symposium: Warfighter Panel Discussion
Electronic Warfare: Electromagnetic Spectrum Ops15 October 2009
Army Electronic Warfare – Establishing an Enduring Core Competency for Today’s Fight…and Tomorrow’s
Threat - Global(Open Source)
China EW Threat Al Qaeda EW Threat
Iranian EW Threat Others…
• Jan 07 – Anti Satellite Weapon• UHF-band Satellite Comms Jammers• PLA is investing in electronic countermeasures, defenses against electronic attack (e.g., electronic and infrared decoys, angle reflectors, and false target generators)• "Gaoxin Project" - Y-8 EW Aircraft series• Manpack Direction-Finding (DF) system for the Very- High-Frequency (VHF) Band• Portable Signal Collection System for Locating and "Fingerprinting" Radars
• Iran has an array of ground based jammers• Hizballah's Iranian systems neutralized Israeli EW• Iranian EW installed radar stations blocked the Barak anti-missile missiles aboard Israeli warships• Hezbollah's use of Iranian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) • Iran Electronics Industries (IEI) makes electro-optics and lasers, communication equipment, telecommunication security equipment, electronic warfare equipment, new and refurbished radar tubes, and missile launchers
• 2004 – Emergence of IEDs / VBIEDs• Composition: artillery, mortar shells or homemade explosive, complex explosives poured into concrete • Triggers & Methods: mobile phones, washing machine timers, pagers, garage door openers, burglar alarms, key fobs, doorbells, or remote controls for toy cars• Increase in remote detonation, command detonated, radio, cell phone, victim operated, infrared• Man portable air defense systems (MANPADS)
• _______ has high power laser operated systems, the _______ and the _____ that are designed to neutralize hostile radars and neutralize attack systems that use electronic signals.• Radio Frequency Directed–Energy Weapons• Improved anti-air and anti-ship missiles with sophisticated tracking and guidance radars that incorporate EW countermeasures.• Has deployed anti-satellite weapons and is developing anti-satellite jamming weapons
Some Thoughts on Change
There is nothing more difficult to execute, nor more dubious of success, nor more dangerous than to introduce a new system of things… It is simple to convince people of something, but difficult to hold them in their conviction.
Machiavelli
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.
Giulio Douhet
The simplest solutions are not always the best answer!
BUT!
"One of the enduring features of any future battlefield will be determined (by) resourceful enemies attempting to undermine our
will by leveraging the electronic spectrum. Building an EW structure within the Army will greatly enhance our ability to proactively
counter these threats. A commitment to EW allows us to tightly integrate non-kinetic and kinetic capabilities across the Army and
as part of joint operations.“GEN Peter Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army
"We must adapt and make tradeoffs among systems originally designed for the Cold War and those required for current and future challenges. We need greater
investment in advanced technology, ... like unmanned aerial vehicles and electronic warfare capabilities.“
President Barack Obama, Commander-in-Chief
Senior Leadership Support for EW
The Electromagnetic Operating Environment (EMOE)
• Fact: The Electromagnetic Spectrum environment has become a critical domain within conflict at all levels. We have presumed freedom of maneuver in this domain for decades, using it for:
- Targeting - Weapons guidance systems- Detection/Sensing - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles- Command and Control - Navigation
• Assumptions: – The adversary’s use of the spectrum in the current persistent conflict and across the entire realm of spectrum operations will not decline.– The spectrum is a part of the today’s operational environment and the Army needs to leverage its advantages and protect its vulnerabilities.– An area the size of this room…
…Or is the EMOE really a Domain?
JFACC/EWCC
Compass Call
Electromagnetic Domain
Airborne Laser
AWACS
JSF
COCOM
NLOS
IEWS
Defensive Ops
Stability Ops
Civil Support Ops
EMDEC /UAS
AEA 6B
NAV/EWCC
DDGASCC/EWCC
Manpad EP JFLCC/EWCC
HPMV
AHPM
ES/R&SV
ES/R&SV
R&SV
EA / UAS
CREW
AEA/EP
ES/UAS
ES/UAS
AEA/EP
Persistent Surveillance
• Control• Protect• Deny• Deceive• Disrupt• Degrade• Destroy
Offensive Ops
ES/UAS
Big Crow
EA 6B
EW Effects
ES
EA
EP
Requirement: Train EW Professionals to plan, coordinate, synchronize and deconflict EW support to Full Spectrum Operations
The soldiers ability to move, shoot and communicate-
A Day without the Electromagnetic Domain