Podcast: Beam Wars

Podcast: Beam Wars

In today’s story, radar has been developed and we venture back to WWII to see the first large-scale use of Electromagnetic Warfare (EW). Electromagnetic spectrum operations (EMSO) has played an important role in military operations since the dawn of the electronics...
From EMBM to MDO: Making sense of the Future Battlespace

From EMBM to MDO: Making sense of the Future Battlespace

Have you ever wondered how all of these new concepts – EW, EMSO, EMBM, JADC2, MDO – fit together? Here is a helpful rubric to enhance understanding and fortify conversations around this topic. First, the acronyms explained. EW = Electromagnetic Warfare SM...
Smart Devices: We Haven’t Seen Anything Yet

Smart Devices: We Haven’t Seen Anything Yet

Imagine a future where a box of RITZ crackers has an RFID tag that transmits a data message to Amazon that it is getting empty and automatically orders you another box. Imagine a refrigerator that tracks the volume of food and does the same thing. Imagine driverless...
EW Warriors

EW Warriors

In our last blog, we clarified that even though EP is one of the three original pillars of classic EW, it is not a “system,” but rather, it is a set of features that enable a spectrum-dependent system to access the spectrum, regardless of spectrum denial or other...