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<\/p>\n<\/b>La guerra electr\u00f3nica puede ser invisible al ojo humano, pero el Ej\u00e9rcito tiene sensores que detectan las transmisiones.\u00a0La herramienta de planificaci\u00f3n y gesti\u00f3n de guerra electr\u00f3nica, recopila datos de sensores en todo el campo de batalla, los sintetiza en un mapa inteligible, por d\u00f3nde pasan las se\u00f1ales y simula los efectos de posibles contramedidas, para que los comandantes puedan tomar una decisi\u00f3n informada sobre c\u00f3mo contrarrestar al enemigo.<\/p>\n
ARLINGTON: After\u00a0five years of development\u00a0\u2014 and urgent fielding of partial versions to\u00a0troops in Europe\u00a0and elsewhere \u2014\u00a0Raytheon\u00a0just got the contract to complete the command-and-control software for the Army\u2019s\u00a0rapidly expanding electronic warfare corps, EWPMT.<\/p>\n
The Electronic Warfare Planning & Management Tool is designed to\u00a0get emissions, analyze them and make attack recommendations. How? It scrapes\u00a0data from sensors across the battlefield, synthesizes it all into an intelligible map of where signals are getting through and where they\u2019re being jammed, and simulates the effects of\u00a0potential countermeasures\u00a0so commanders can make an informed decision on how to counter the enemy. Over the next two years, Raytheon will receive an unspecified \u201cmulti-million dollar\u201d sum to develop and field what\u2019s called Capability Drop 4, upgrading the EWPMT software to its official Fully Operational Capability (FOC) by October 2021.<\/p>\n
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Capability Drop 1 was the initial basic version for Army electronic warfare officers, Raytheon exec Niraj Srivastava told reporters this morning at a company briefing ahead of the annual\u00a0AUSA mega-conference. CD 2 added spectrum-management functions to help deconflict friendly transmissions and keep US forces from accidentally jamming each other (which happens a\u00a0lot<\/em>). CD 3, now fielded with select units in Europe and other locations the Army won\u2019t disclose, adds the capability to take in data from sensors in real-time, plus much more automation and analytics. (An early, slimmed-down version of CD was deployed under the codename Raven Claw).<\/p>\n What\u2019s next? \u201cWith the fourth capability drop, we are bringing a lot more automation and machine learning\/AI\u201d to translate raw system data into a real-time picture of signal strength and interference across the battlefield, Srivastava said.<\/p>\n They\u2019re also upgrading the software to work with a wider range of third-party sensors. \u201cWe just finished an exercise last month where we had about a dozen different industry partner sensors, from UAVs to terrestrial vehicles to man-mounted systems,\u201d he said. Those sensors can either be plugged directly into the computer running the EWPMT software \u2014 which means that data is displayed, for all practical purposes, instantly \u2014 or connect over a wireless network \u2014 which allows the user to access many more sensors over a much wider area at the potential price of lag and interference.<\/p>\n EWMPT is an obscure piece of Army modernization compared to\u00a0robot tanks\u00a0and\u00a0high-powered rifles. (You really know an Army program has been overlooked by the top brass when its acronym doesn\u2019t spell out anything cool or pronounceable). But it\u2019s a critical element of modern conflict. Russia in particular has used its mastery of electronic warfare to great effect against Ukraine, leading GPS astray with false signals, targeting Ukrainian troops for artillery barrages by tracking their radios and cellphones, and\u00a0baffling US sensors in Syria.<\/p>\n Electronic warfare may be invisible to the human eye but the Army has sensors that can detect these transmissions. Doing something with that information\u00a0has historically been a laborious process\u00a0involving Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint slides, and lots of yellow sticky notes.\u00a0That leaves precious little time to actually\u00a0think<\/em>\u00a0about what to do and make a plan.<\/p>\n EWPMT is intended to automate the process, giving electronic warfare troops a clear picture of what\u2019s happening and what they can do about it. The heart of the software is a physics model that uses data from multiple sources to calculate how radio waves are interacting, or could interact, both with each other and the terrain. (Hills and buildings often block transmissions).<\/p>\n