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Gen. Tad Clark, director of the Air Force\u2019s electromagnetic spectrum superiority directorate, said modern wars will increasingly involve electromagnetic warfare, particularly to shape the battlefield when conflicts begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dave Tremper, director of electronic warfare for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, pointed to SpaceX\u2019s ability last month to swiftly stymie a Russian effort to jam its Starlink satellite broadband service, which was keeping Ukraine connected to the Internet. SpaceX founder Elon Musk steered thousands of Starlink terminals to Ukraine after an official sent him a tweet asking for help keeping the besieged country online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe next day [after reports about the Russian jamming effort hit the media], Starlink had slung a line of code and fixed it,\u201d Tremper said. \u201cAnd suddenly that [Russian jamming attack] was not effective anymore. From [the] EW technologist\u2019s perspective, that is fantastic \u2026 and how they did that was eye-watering to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government, on the other hand, has a \u201csignificant timeline to make those types of corrections\u201d as it muddles through analyses of what happened, decides how to fix it and gets a contract in place for the fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to be able to have that agility,\u201d Tremper said. \u201cWe need to be able to change our electromagnetic posture to be able to change, very dynamically, what we\u2019re trying to do without losing capability along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Redundancy is also critical so the U.S. could keep operating on another system if an EW attack succeeded at knocking one out, Tremper said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. needs to think a lot more innovatively when it comes to building new EW equipment, Clark said. It won\u2019t be enough to just buy upgraded versions of legacy systems, he said \u2014 the U.S. has to come up with new systems that allow for much greater resilience and speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This includes incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning into next-generation systems to be able to respond faster, he said. 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