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Overview

Kittyhawk Week 2010
Electronic Warfare for the Next Decade -- Evolving the EW Enterprise

There has been a gradual, but relentless evolution from the traditional self-protection and stand-off jamming to integrated jamming. The OSD sponsored Airborne Electronic Attack Analysis of Alternatives introduced the concept of a broad ranging comprehensive approach to conducting air operations in an advanced integrated air defense environment. The result has been an implicit recognition of EW as an enterprise. It is not just coordinated or dispersed or cooperative EW. It is an enterprise of sensors and electronic attack techniques operating under a strategy that incorporates the total combat objectives and mission plan. It is an enterprise encompassing traditional EW capabilities as well as Command and Control (C2), Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), and Information Operations (IO) with a focus on achieving the combatant commander’s (COCOM) objectives.

EW can no longer be thought of as systems developed and employed in a platform centric environment. EW must evolve as an enterprise whose success is a function of many parts working together. More than ever before, EW requires the contributions of a wide range of systems and capabilities. The Air Force Research Laboratory has been building a solid technical base to support an effective EW enterprise. Over the next decade, research into new and improved technologies will continue. More importantly, AFRL is building an EWresearch program for the EW enterprise focused on the COCOM objectives of the future.

Kittyhawk Week is focused on bringing together all the stakeholders in the EW enterprise to help develop the technology for insuring relevant future capability to support the warfighter. The conference opens with a snapshot of today’s EW enterprise capability and AFRL’s ongoing technology programs. The next session provides an overview of the challenges facing the combat air forces (CAF). The final session covers the planned research programs in AFRL.

 

 
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