3 May 2022

New tools for electronic warfare: multispectral operations and mission-adapting sensors


Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) is usually described in terms of playing offense: the OODA loop, the kill chain, and sensors to effectors. Defense is inherent in the “C2” part of JADC2 but it’s not what comes to mind first.

To use a football analogy, it’s the quarterbacks that get the attention but it’s the teams with the best defense — against both the run and the pass — that usually make it to the championship.

In the world of electronic warfare (EW), think of the electromagnetic spectrum as the playing field and the battle playing out upon it being waged both offensively through tactics such as targeting and spoofing and defensively through what’s known as countermeasures.

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