This year’s 53rd Annual International Symposium and Convention is AOC’s premier event to enhance your personal and professional network, while engaging in discussions regarding Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations with military leaders, policy makers and electronic warfare practitioners from an international perspective. Technical papers will be presented to disseminate research findings and increase awareness of emerging technologi...

This year’s conference will pick up the discussion from the 2015 event, which examined the conduct of Information Operations, Electronic Warfare, and Cyber Operations under the conditions of hybrid warfare in peacetime, and extend it into the warfighting challenges for IO in Anti-Access and Aerial Denial Environments that will characterize future conflicts. As in previous Pacific events the Symposium will include Global Allies and Partne...

This upcoming October will mark 15 years of persistent conflict where the Army has enjoyed a distinct technological advantage in its fight against terrorism and in the conduct of counter-insurgency operations. Today, we are on the brink of a new era of great power competition conflict. With a resurgent Russia and an escalating China, a civil war in Syria with international implications, and Iran and North Korea steadily flexing their military...

Our adversaries are using ubiquitous and cheap technology to further develop cyber warfare as well as advance and proliferate electromagnetic spectrum capabilities. EMW is an operational approach to seizing the initiative across the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS). The goal is to combine EMW capabilities in the sea, air and land domains to generate enhanced combat effects. EMW, in essence, means leveraging the cyberspace domain and the full ele...

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVE Electronic Warfare and Cyberspace technical capabilities are becoming more technically similar. However, the communities which practice these disciplines remain largely separated and vary widely across the military Services in terms of their equipment, unit organization and operating methodologies. This conference provides the EW and Cyberspace communities an opportunity to collaborate and discuss capabilities, TTPs and re...

Background: The 2016 AOC Europe Conference, now in its 16th year, is scheduled for 11-12 May 2016. The 2016 Conference will follow a well-proven format of presentations, Q&A and discussions in a relaxed atmosphere with lunches and refreshments included. The AOC is the international Electronic Warfare advocacy association with over 13,000 members worldwide and now in its 52nd year. Once again, AOC EW Europe will be supported by the AOC...

This conference is being held by the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) under a co-sponsorship agreement with AOC.All sessions will be classified SECRET releasable Australia. Caveat: Approval to conduct the conference is in process with a final Department of the Navy decision expected no later than Feb. 2016. All indications are that this conference is in compliance with all required directives, so we expect but cannot guarante...

52nd Annual AOC International Symposium and Convention December 1-3, 2015 | Marriott Marquis and DC Convention Center, Washington, DC Synchronizing EW and Cyber to Achieve Spectrum Dominance Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) Dominance in the future will require that we "Synchronize EW and Cyber to Achieve Spectrum Dominance". The Department of Defense along with its industry partners face an uncertain global security environment driven by advers...

Marine Corps Spectrum Maneuver WarfareOctober 28-29 2015 | MCAS Cherry Point, NC CONFERENCE OBJECTIVE As the U.S. Marine Corps moves forward to reconfigure and refit to meet the vision of Expeditionary Force 21 it understands that freedom of movement in the electromagnetic spectrum and cyberspace is the key enabler to 21st century military operations, and one of the critical challenges when developing these capabilities is integrating and sync...

This conference is being held with U.S. Pacific Command under a co-sponsorship agreement with AOC. The co-sponsored symposium consists of two days of unclassified presentations and panel discussions, followed by a classified working group at Camp H.M. Smith. 4th Annual AOC Pacific ConferenceOctober 20-22, 2015 | Hale Koa Hotel | Honolulu, HI SYMPOSIUM OBJECTIVE This year's unclassified event, in association with USPACOM, will cover the role of...