Los actuales campos de batalla cada vez son m\u00e1s complejos, el Ej\u00e9rcito de EE. UU. debe asegurarse que los soldados de guerra electr\u00f3nica puedan realizar seis tareas: 1. detectar identificar y localizar los blancos al m\u00e1ximo alcance, 2. contrarrestar a los objetivos localizados a larga distancia, 3. compartir datos e informaci\u00f3n con sus aliados, 4. poder elegir al mejor operador para esa misi\u00f3n, 5. filtrar los datos \u00fatiles entre toda la informaci\u00f3n, 6. tener una imagen clara del campo de batalla moderno dentro del espectro electromagn\u00e9tico, esto lo\u00a0dijo\u00a0un importante l\u00edder de la EW.<\/p>\n
AUGUSTA, Ga. \u2014 In an increasingly complex battlespace, the U.S. Army must make sure that electronic warfare soldiers can accomplish six tasks, a top EW leader said.<\/p>\n
Col. Daniel Holland, Army capability manager for electronic warfare, listed the needed capabilities during a presentation at the recent\u00a0TechNet Augusta<\/a>\u00a0conference.<\/p>\n 1. Detect, identify and locate targets at the maximum effective range of a commander\u2019s weapon systems<\/strong><\/p>\n While the Army has a pretty good idea of how to accomplish this at the battalion and brigade levels, Holland said the service is still figuring out how to identify and locate targets of interest over longer distances for higher echelons, such as division, corps, theater and multidomain task forces.<\/p>\n During the past 20 years, the brigade was the primary unit of action. The Army expects that will change in the multidomain battlefield of the future against sophisticated near-peer nation-states that will act over much greater distances.<\/p>\n \u201cCommanders will be able to shoot much farther than they can see. The electronic warfare officers are expected to remedy this situation,\u201d Holland said.<\/p>\n Despite a bevy of overhead capabilities possessed by the U.S., many used by the intelligence community for strategic, not tactical or operational purposes necessarily, Holland said there are assumptions those assets might not be available. As such, the Army must develop its own capabilities, such as hyperspectral imaging, hypersensitive antenna technologies or sensors that can show commanders what\u2019s happening long distances away.<\/p>\n 2. Affect targets at long range<\/strong><\/p>\n Once targets are identified over long ranges, commanders will have to be able to deliver effects against them. This is particularly needed in echelons above the brigade level that are more likely to handle long-distance attacks, Holland said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m challenging you to think beyond line of sight,\u201d he told the audience of mostly defense contractors.<\/p>\n The Army must consider disruptive technology that goes beyond line of sight and RF, with Holland asking the audience to consider, as an example, low-cost, anti-radiation loitering munitions. While these are in the kinetic realm and outside his office\u2019s electronic warfare portfolio, Holland said the Army has begun to integrate requirements with various acquisitions communities.<\/p>\n The electronic warfare capability manager is working on requirements with the fires, aviation, space, missile defense, intelligence and cyber communities, he said.<\/p>\n Cross-cutting requirements are the future, Holland said, pointing to low-cost loitering munitions seen in the\u00a02020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict<\/a>\u00a0in Azerbaijan, which he described as game changing.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want enemy radar operators running scared that when they turn their radar on, 15, 30 seconds later a loitering munition will be crashing on their forehead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n