Author: Association of Old Crows
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Languages : en
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Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309493935
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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High-performance electronics are key to the U.S. Air Force's (USAF's) ability to deliver lethal effects at the time and location of their choosing. Additionally, these electronic systems must be able to withstand not only the rigors of the battlefield but be able to perform the needed mission while under cyber and electronic warfare (EW) attack. This requires a high degree of assurance that they are both physically reliable and resistant to adversary actions throughout their life cycle from design to sustainment. In 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop titled Optimizing the Air Force Acquisition Strategy of Secure and Reliable Electronic Components, and released a summary of the workshop. This publication serves as a follow-on to provide recommendations to the USAF acquisition community.

Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289243753
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Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO followed up on its previous report on the adequacy of Air Force electronic warfare system test equipment to determine whether the Air Force took effective corrective actions to resolve identified problems. GAO found that: (1) the Department of Defense (DOD) took no corrective action in response to the report; (2) DOD disagreed with the GAO assessment that significant problems involving inadequate and unreliable electronic warfare test equipment impaired the combat readiness of Air Force tactical units and increased costs; (3) DOD stated that faults identified in preventive maintenance inspections probably did not detract from mission effectiveness for specific scenarios previously tested on the aircraft; (4) the Air Force's capability to identify and repair system malfunctions within time frames required to sustain combat operations is at risk; and (5) DOD maintains that the report was inaccurate and believes that combat capability has been enhanced due to increased reliability and maintainability of the electronic warfare systems and test equipment over time.

Author: Mason Boyd
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9781622577927
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 115

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According to the DOD, the U.S. military's access to and use of the electromagnetic spectrum is facing rapidly evolving challenges and increased vulnerabilities due to the increasing quality and availability of electronic warfare capabilities to both state and non-state actors. Also, DOD has reported that electronic warfare capabilities, which play a critical and potentially growing role as an enabler for military operations, are currently stressed and will remain so in the future. Moreover, near-peer competitors, primarily Russia and China, have fully recognized the critical nature of electromagnetic spectrum control in military operations and cyperspace operations, which includes computer network operations. This book examines select assessments of military capabilities and strategies with regard to electronic warfare, with a focus on management and oversight, as well as airborne electronic attacks.

Author: Richard S. Deakin
Publisher: Artech House
ISBN: 1596933380
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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The era of mechanized warfare is rapidly giving way to the battle for information superiority OCo enabled by electronic technologies that provide data for detailed analysis of enemy forces and capabilities. Supported with over 400 four-color photographs and illustrations, this new book is written and designed specifically to help non-specialists quickly understand the complexities of Network Enabled Capability (NEC). It offers you expert guidance on how to achieve information dominance throughout the battlespace by effectively employing the technologies, concepts, and decision-making processes of network enabled warfare.Written in clear, nontechnical language with minimum mathematics, the book explains how to use sensor technologies, including radar and electronic warfare systems, to disseminate information to key decision makers in timely and relevant manner. You learn how these technologies allow for the effective acquisition and dissemination of intelligence, while denying the collection, dissemination and use of intelligence by enemy forces.Providing a complete understanding of the advantages and weaknesses of information warfare, this practical book shows you what factors need to be taken into account when designing systems and equipment for use in a network-enabled environment. Moreover, this forward-looking reference explores what evolving requirements to consider for future air, land, and sea battlespace scenarios. This is an extraordinarily valuable and useful resource for military staff, defense industry engineers and managers, and government officials involved with defense funding decisions."

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309174481
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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This book documents electric power requirements for the dismounted soldier on future Army battlefields, describes advanced energy concepts, and provides an integrated assessment of technologies likely to affect limitations and needs in the future. It surveys technologies associated with both supply and demand including: energy sources and systems; low power electronics and design; communications, computers, displays, and sensors; and networks, protocols, and operations. Advanced concepts discussed are predicated on continued development by the Army of soldier systems similar to the Land Warrior system on which the committee bases its projections on energy use. Finally, the volume proposes twenty research objectives to achieve energy goals in the 2025 time frame.

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309284538
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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The U.S. military does not believe its soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines should be engaged in combat with adversaries on a "level playing field." Our combat individuals enter engagements to win. To that end, the United States has used its technical prowess and industrial capability to develop decisive weapons that overmatch those of potential enemies. In its current engagement-what has been identified as an "era of persistent conflict"- the nation's most important weapon is the dismounted soldier operating in small units. Today's soldier must be prepared to contend with both regular and irregular adversaries. Results in Iraq and Afghanistan show that, while the U.S. soldier is a formidable fighter, the contemporary suite of equipment and support does not afford the same high degree of overmatch capability exhibited by large weapons platforms-yet it is the soldier who ultimately will play the decisive role in restoring stability. Making the Soldier Decisive on Future Battlefields establishes the technical requirements for overmatch capability for dismounted soldiers operating individually or in small units. It prescribes technological and organizational capabilities needed to make the dismounted soldier a decisive weapon in a changing, uncertain, and complex future environment and provides the Army with 15 recommendations on how to focus its efforts to enable the soldier and tactical small unit (TSU) to achieve overmatch.

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Languages : en
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As a matter of policy, industrialized nations use technology to facilitate the substitution of capital for labor in warfighting. That is, the policy is to shoot more and fight less. Technological development and insertion has increased the rate of substitution dramatically. Electronics technologies in particular are responsible for the revolution in warfare. They appear in precision guided weapons, integrated surveillance systems including space based systems, high speed decision aids, netted command and control systems, and increasingly sophisticated command and control, communications, and electronic combat systems. Once considered visionary, such capabilities are now reality. As a result, a relatively few important capital targets can be destroyed quickly with profound effect and a new warfare area, Space and Electronic Warfare (SEW), has emerged.

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309064856
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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Rapid progress in information and communications technologies is dramatically enhancing the strategic role of information, positioning effective exploitation of these technology advances as a critical success factor in military affairs. These technology advances are drivers and enablers for the "nervous system" of the militaryâ€"its command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) systemsâ€"to more effectively use the "muscle" side of the military. Authored by a committee of experts drawn equally from the military and commercial sectors, Realizing the Potential of C4I identifies three major areas as fundamental challenges to the full Department of Defense (DOD) exploitation of C4I technologyâ€"information systems security, interoperability, and various aspects of DOD process and culture. The book details principles by which to assess DOD efforts in these areas over the long term and provides specific, more immediately actionable recommendations. Although DOD is the focus of this book, the principles and issues presented are also relevant to interoperability, architecture, and security challenges faced by government as a whole and by large, complex public and private enterprises across the economy.

Author: John R Hoehn
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781099776137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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U.S. airborne electronic warfare (EW) programs involve developing and procuring EW aircraft and EW systems that are mounted on U.S. aircraft. The President's FY2020 budget request for the Department of Defense (DOD) proposes funding for a number of airborne EW programs.