Any future near-peer conflict will almost certainly involve coalition warfighting. For such, many standards in kinetic weapons, communications, and operations have been instantiated, as in NATO. EW has arguably been less standardized with regard to desired synergies and required interoperability in coalition spectrum warfare. Therefore, EW synergies and interoperability across coalition forces are worth exploring. We seek to cover any and all...

In my recent book, Relativistic Field Theory for Microwave Engineers, I discuss the often-overlooked connection between Maxwell's equations and Einstein's theory of special relativity. Electrical engineers, especially those who work in the areas of microwaves and wireless radio technology, are well-positioned to have a unique perspective on these subjects, as it was wave solutions to Maxwell's equations, revealing for the first time that light...

Airborne platforms are the main striking power and primary intelligence means for all the armed forces. However, they are vulnerable to surface and air threats without using SPEW systems. The main types of threats use RF guidance for medium and long ranges. The primary countermeasure systems for these kinds of threats are SPJ systems. The airborne platforms that use SPJ systems are bombers, cargo aircraft, helicopters, UAVs, and cruise missile...

Today’s wars in Ukraine and Israel highlight the criticality of sensing and understanding on the battlefield. Despite ubiquitous satellite, airborne, and terrestrial surveillance, combatants on both sides of these conflicts have been surprised, with sometimes catastrophic results. The US military should embrace the resulting lessons as it considers how to counter Chinese forces in China’s own back yard. Survival in this highly-cont...

The inaugural Warfighter Information Advantage Symposium addresses the synergies of Signal, Cyber, and EW and their critical role in creating and exploiting information advantages as a key aspect of multidomain operations. With the Army experiencing a rebirth and transformation of EW after decades of absence, this novel forum will focus on the combat development aspects of fighting and maintaining an advantage in the electromagnetic environmen...

Positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) is an essential utility to military forces and civil systems and applications. It underlies the operation of IT and communications, systems, populated data fields making modern life possible.America’s primary source of PNT is the Global Positioning System (GPS). Its fragile, easily denied and imitated signals are being disrupted around the world every day. Disruption is a major feature of conflic...

2024 Theme: Electromagnetic Spectrum Warfare - The Great Power Competition From the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza, to warfare in the Red Sea and tensions in the Indo-Pacific, the geopolitical situation is increasingly hostile, and tensions are increasing worldwide. Whether a nation state is monitoring borders for troop buildups through ISR in peacetime or denying vital data and information to their enemy through electronic attack during high-intens...

The Electronic Warfare (EW) community is witnessing the introduction of increasingly capable, phased-array-based, multifunctional, and cognitive radars in the modern scenario. This conceptual webinar approaches the perspectives and challenges related to the use of metasurfaces to enable multi-agent reinforcement-learning-capable EW drone swarms which, in turn, will be key to tackle the challenges associated with these new technologies.

In the last decades, Electronic Warfare (EW) evolved from a simple clash between static systems to a highly complex combat framework with plenty of reconfigurable systems optimizing their tasks on the fly. Today, one can consider that the platforms, which interact with electromagnetic waves, and the EW environment, which works as the communication channel, are electronically static. In this scenario, reconfigurability is essentially performed...

Fast tuning and low phase noise are typically opposing specifications for synthesizers. In this talk we will discuss modern synthesizers and how the tuning speed and phase noise coupling has been broken enabling both low phase noise and fast switching as attributes of the same synthesizer. We will discuss construction of small form factor, fast switching, low phase noise synthesizers.