Mark Pomerleau
WASHINGTON — The Army’s recently released request to industry for broad electronic warfare capabilities could reshape ongoing programs and change the way the service outfits units with emerging technology, a service official revealed this week.
In the past, the Army limited itself to some degree, outlining specifications to capabilities for which industry would design bespoke and exquisite solutions. But many of the technologies in electronic warfare, to also include signals intelligence, are software and radio-based, meaning a solution for one capability could have applicability elsewhere, according to Joseph Welch, Program Acquisition Executive for Command and Control (C2)/Counter C2.
Now, Welch told Breaking Defense the Army is trying to take advantage of these technological similarities and populate them across the force, which could have implications for existing programs and capabilities.
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