The U.S. Army’s acquisition community is rapidly modernizing its suite of Electronic Warfare (EW) technologies in order to keep pace with rapidly emerging battlefield threats, develop an organic EW capability within Brigade Combat Teams and deploy new systems with improved offensive and defensive capability, service officials said.
This multi-faceted effort spans a wide range of activities, including ongoing upgrades to existing fixed-site, vehicle-mounted and Soldier-worn EW technologies for dismounted units, rapid development and fielding of next-generation systems designed to address near-term battlefield threats — and a longer-term, broader strategic effort to engineer an agile, modular suite or family of EW capabilities able to effectively counter a host of current and anticipated future threats, said Michael Ryan, Deputy Project Manager, Electronic Warfare, Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors (IEW&S).
Since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the emergence of the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) or roadside bomb as a major threat, the Army has succeeded in fielding a host of technologies able to thwart or “jam” the incoming signal from a Radio-Controlled IED (RCIED), thus delaying or preventing detonation and potential injury to Soldiers. Read more
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