The US military establishment is playing catchup inside the EW sector, with large defense contractors and military test centers scrambling to test and field the best sensor systems to fight against near-peer competitors. While US defense companies develop products against a hypothetical contested spectrum (Baltics, South China Sea), companies in Europe deploy solutions that must work immediately in contested civil/military spectrums, everyday....

Cognitive Electronic Warfare (EW) systems are of critical importance to the future of EW, but despite this the underlying technologies are poorly understood. The goal of this webinar is to outline the architecture of modern cognitive EW systems, and the relevant technologies. Specifically, how Reinforcement Learning works, using a variety of mechanisms to develop a sense, act, reward cycle to explore the solutions space. The webinar will concl...

This webinar will present an overview of how AI can be used in EW. Dr. Haigh will describe opportunities for using AI in situation assessment and electronic support (ES), and decision-making techniques for electronic protect (EP), electronic attack (EA), and electronic battle management (EBM). Haigh will present AI techniques from Situation Assessment, Decision Making, and Machine Learning, and discuss tradeoffs. Haigh will describe approaches...

"With today’s increasingly sophisticated threats in the global defense battlefield and the proliferation of Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD), technology must rise to meet the challenge of complex missions – particularly for those operating across the electromagnetic spectrum. These missions call for ‘smart’ systems that address multiple threats and perform simultaneous functions, meaning that they need to be adaptive, mu...

Electromagnetic Battle Management … What does it really mean? What knowledge is needed to make it real? What tools are needed to make it an activity? How can a real solution be built and fielded? This webinar addresses all of those topics from the perspective of a technologist who has worked in this field for 30+ years … EMBM, EMSO, EW, SIGINT, Spectrum Management … where is our community coming from and where do we need t...

The MITRE Corporation will host a Space-Cyber Resiliency Summit at its Bedford Campus in collaboration with several organizations including DOT&E/TETRA, GTRI and the AOC Patriots’ Roost. The Summit will focus on Space domain threats and challenges, emerging technologies and capabilities, and T&E with an emphasis on EW and Cyber resiliency. Speakers and participation are planned from leadership and subject matter experts from acro...

Next generation (NG) communications systems promise to deliver higher data rates, energy efficiency, global coverage and connectivity as well as extremely high reliability and low latency. Secure communications platforms are assessing the adoption of NG technologies to fulfill this promise. Initiatives such as the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) are striving to provide novel connected platforms for land, air, sea, and data highway into space (...

The quantum “space race” is officially upon us. Worldwide commercial, university and government entities are accelerating development to build functioning quantum technologies with the potential to revolutionize computing and communication applications. At the heart of quantum lies the qubit, a quantum version of the classical bit realized as a two-level system of simultaneous states of 1 and 0. Researchers alike are studying qubit...

The Invisible Battlefield: Deterrence during Competition, Dominance throughout Conflict Electromagnetic spectrum dominance is the new high ground as the US Army faces an array of threats from China, Russia, and other near-peer adversaries. Whether it be deterrence in the early competition phase, or dominance throughout conflict, the invisible, complex, and congested electromagnetic spectrum will be where future battles are won or lost. Come jo...

"The Royal Air Force’s Bomber Command had finished the Second World War in proud possession of 100 Group. This was the world’s first dedicated, holistic offensive counter-air unit. 100 Group was tasked with attriting the radars, radio communications and radio navigation systems used by the Luftwaffe’s Integrated Air Defence System (IADS). No sooner had the war finished, than 100 Group disbanded. As the Cold War chilled, Bombe...