Colonel Laurie Moe Buckhout Department of the Army Chief, Army Electronic Warfare Division 2009 DOD Spectrum Symposium: Warfighter Panel Discussion Electronic Warfare: Electromagnetic Spectrum Ops 15 October 2009

Army Electronic Warfare – Establishing an Enduring Core Competency for Today’s Fight…and Tomorrow’s

Threat - Global

(Open Source)

China EW Threat • Jan 07 – Anti Satellite Weapon • UHF-band Satellite Comms Jammers • PLA is investing in electronic countermeasures, defenses against electronic attack (e.g., electronic and infrared decoys, angle reflectors, and false target generators) • • "Gaoxin Project" - Y-8 EW Aircraft series • Manpack Direction-Finding (DF) system for the Very High-Frequency (VHF) Band Portable Signal Collection System for Locating and "Fingerprinting" Radars Al Qaeda EW Threat • 2004 – Emergence of IEDs / VBIEDs • Composition: artillery, mortar shells or homemade explosive, complex explosives poured into concrete • Triggers & Methods: mobile phones, washing machine timers, pagers, garage door openers, burglar alarms, key fobs, doorbells, or remote controls for toy cars • Increase in remote detonation, command detonated, radio, cell phone, victim operated, infrared • Man portable air defense systems (MANPADS) Iranian EW Threat • Iran has an array of ground based jammers • Hizballah's Iranian systems neutralized Israeli EW • Iranian EW installed radar stations blocked the Barak anti-missile missiles aboard Israeli warships • Hezbollah's use of Iranian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) • Iran Electronics Industries (IEI) makes electro-optics and lasers, communication equipment, telecommunication security equipment, electronic warfare equipment, new and refurbished radar tubes, and missile launchers Others… • • • • _______ has high power laser operated systems, the _______ and the _____ that are designed to neutralize hostile radars and neutralize attack systems that use electronic signals.

Radio Frequency Directed–Energy Weapons Improved anti-air and anti-ship missiles with sophisticated tracking and guidance radars that incorporate EW countermeasures.

Has deployed anti-satellite weapons and is developing anti-satellite jamming weapons

Some Thoughts on Change

There is nothing more difficult to execute, nor more dubious of success, nor more dangerous than to introduce a new system of things… It is simple to convince people of something, but difficult to hold them in their conviction.

Machiavelli Victory smiles upon those who anticipate change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

Giulio Douhet

BUT!

The simplest solutions are not always the best answer!

Senior Leadership Support for EW

"We must adapt and make tradeoffs among systems originally designed for the Cold War and those required for current and future challenges. We need greater investment in advanced technology, ... like unmanned aerial vehicles and electronic warfare capabilities.“ President Barack Obama, Commander-in-Chief "One of the enduring features of any future battlefield will be determined (by) resourceful enemies attempting to undermine our will by leveraging the electronic spectrum. Building an EW structure within the Army will greatly enhance our ability to proactively counter these threats. A commitment to EW allows us to tightly integrate non-kinetic and kinetic capabilities across the Army and as part of joint operations.“ GEN Peter Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army

The Electromagnetic Operating Environment (EMOE)

• Fact: The Electromagnetic Spectrum environment has become a critical

domain within conflict at all levels. We have presumed freedom of maneuver in this domain for decades, using it for:

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Targeting Detection/Sensing Command and Control - Weapons guidance systems - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Navigation

• Assumptions: – The adversary’s use of the spectrum in the current persistent conflict and across

the entire realm of spectrum operations will not decline.

– The spectrum is a part of the today’s operational environment and the Army

needs to leverage its advantages and protect its vulnerabilities.

– An area the size of this room…

…Or is the EMOE really a Domain?

COCOM

Electromagnetic Domain

AWACS Big Crow Airborne Laser EP EA ES AEA 6B Compass Call Persistent Surveillance JSF Requirement: Train EW Professionals to plan, coordinate, synchronize and deconflict EW support to Full Spectrum Operations ES/R&SV EMDEC /UAS EW Effects • Control • Protect • Deny • Deceive • Disrupt • Degrade • Destroy EA / UAS ES/UAS Offensive Ops AEA/EP ES/UAS ES/UAS NLOS Defensive Ops HPMV AEA/EP IEWS AHPM ES/R&SV Civil Support Ops R&SV ASCC/EWCC Stability Ops JFLCC/EWCC Manpad EP EA 6B CREW DDG JFACC/EWCC

A Day without the Electromagnetic Domain

The soldiers ability to move, shoot and communicate-