Success in combat today is largely about exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum while denying its use to adversaries, yet some of the United States’ tools for doing so, namely the main airborne jamming system currently used by the joint force, have grown obsolete. The Pentagon has created a program called the Next Generation Jammer Technology Maturation to devise a better jammer program and recently awarded BAE Systems a $42 million contract to field a system that can electronically attack the advanced electronics being developed by other nations’ militaries and the commercially available electronics that terrorists regularly use to communicate, coordinate operations and adapt as weapons. The jammer must be capable of countering anticipated and unanticipated electronic threats.Read more from Defense Professionals.Get information on the BAE project from Strategic Defense Intelligence.
U.S. Joint Force Survivability Hinges On New Jammer
