{"id":25295,"date":"2021-08-18T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/08\/18\/army-must-overcome-these-two-primary-electronic-warfare-challenges\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:04:49","slug":"army-must-overcome-these-two-primary-electronic-warfare-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2021\/08\/18\/army-must-overcome-these-two-primary-electronic-warfare-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Army must overcome these two primary electronic warfare challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AUGUSTA, Ga. \u2014 The U.S. Army has worked to rebuild its electronic warfare arsenal in recent years, growing new forces to operate it. There are two critical challenges ahead as the Army looks to maintain or, in some cases, gain parity with adversaries: delivering systems and soldiers on time and affording its plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is \u201cstill on the clock\u201d to get forces and capabilities to the tip of the spear, Col. Daniel Holland, Army capability manager for electronic warfare, said during an Aug. 17 presentation at TechNet Augusta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second challenge Holland outlined is that the Army won\u2019t be able to afford all the capabilities electronic warfare forces will need. As a result, he wants to articulate the Army\u2019s emerging requirements so that when senior leaders need to make a funding decision, they are informed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a problem, in my opinion, defined by technology, range, altitude, target sets, wave frequency and other technical variables,\u201d Holland said. \u201cWe need your help, industry\u2019s help to identify not only what\u2019s possible but what technical approaches most effectively and efficiently enable electronic warfare and information advantage on tomorrow\u2019s MDO [multidomain operations] battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He jokingly referred to a time when EW was not called electronic warfare, but pejoratively called \u201cextra worker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSomeone who is highly trained, has a top secret security clearance but lacks the equipment to train and fight with, so they end up working in the operations shop, the intel shop, any other shop wherever the commander needs an extra body,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/electronic-warfare\/2021\/01\/01\/army-shares-details-on-new-electronic-warfare-units\/\" target=\"_blank\">New units include<\/a> cyber and electromagnetic activities cells of personnel in the staff section at the echelon to which they\u2019re assigned. They act as planners and managers of their disciplines for the commander. They\u2019ll primarily use a system called Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool that will allow them to command and control assets within the electromagnetic spectrum and conduct planning in this nonkinetic domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also includes forthcoming electronic warfare platoons and a separate signals intelligence network support team that will each be resident within brigade combat teams. These forces will use the Terrestrial Layer System Brigade Combat Team, the Army\u2019s first integrated electronic warfare, signals intelligence and cyber platform. The Army plans to build electronic warfare companies at the division and corps level. These forces will use the TLS-Echelons Above Brigade, for which the Army anticipates releasing a request for white papers in fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army units that have aviation forces, such as division combat aviation brigades will use the Multi-Function Electronic Warfare Air Large, the Army\u2019s first airborne electronic warfare jamming pod mounted on an MQ-1C Gray Eagle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of these systems, however, are still mostly being developed. 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