Posted on 08/24/2019 5:21:50 PM PDT by ASA Vet
MI Ping
But what does it do? Was this written to intentionally obfuscate that?
Based on this psychobabble, it must be getting close to budget preparation time...
The Army must have paid the contractor a lot of money for that word salad.
My assistant, a young man of 28, is going off to Ft. Benning boot camp on September 9 to do exactly what this article speaks of. His name is Robbie. Congrats to him!
It does many obscure and mind-boggling things. For instance, if one were exposed to some of its radio frequency emissions for only a few seconds; one result would be that all his grandchildren will be born naked! Awesome!
Likely. What else does it seems like every new tech development by the military is advertised, and thus give enemies like Russia and China an excuse to spend more on development for their military? Imagine a A-bomb development with this "look what we've got" advertising.
High power jammer on the modern battlefield = bullet magnet
Well, it visually synergizes its EW attack;
improves spectrum management operations;
streamlines the process between the EWPMT and fires support;
generates automated responses to a variety of signals or alerts;
integrates multi-domain operations;
and future ones will focus on pacing the threat’s capabilities within a disconnected, intermittent, and latent environment.
Do i make myself clear?
“...Based on this psychobabble, it must be getting close to budget preparation time...” [SuperLuminal, post 5]
“The Army must have paid the contractor a lot of money for that word salad.” [mikey_hates_everything, post 6]
“My assistant, a young man of 28, is going off to Ft. Benning boot camp on September 9 to do exactly what this article speaks of....” [Cen-Tejas, post 7]
The article sounds like word salad because scarcely anyone on this forum is familiar with the basics.
The use of the electromagnetic spectrum for attack, defense, disruption, surveillance, and intelligence collection predates 1900. But the US military establishment has struggled for decades, to develop a coordinated, coherent approach to using the spectrum, denying its use to adversaries, and assuring its use by friendly forces.
Mere management of the electromagnetic spectrum to enhance friendly use and unsnarl interference between Allied users is a monumental and ever-growing problem. Everyone wants a piece of it and hates to accommodate any other user.
Reasons for this seem sinister, but are relentlessly mundane: security restrictions, bureaucratic rivalries, professional chauvinism and parochiality, contractual muddle, high personnel turnover, backward-looking senior leaders, inability of appointed & elected officials to grasp fundamentals. Et cetera.
If the Army-ese can be accurately deciphered, they hope to develop a better user interface that can present a simpler, easier-to-interpret “picture” of the electronic battlefield. Ease of use can speed up decisions; a few seconds either way in fomenting real-world understanding can spell the difference between victory and defeat.
Cen-Tejas’ assistant won’t be doing this in basic training. This stuff will come later, at tech school. He will need all the luck he can scrape together, with this task ahead of him.
Skynet?
I kept looking for a “look what we got” in that jumble of words. I think this must be a misdirection and misinformation article because there’s nothing there.
Your proposal is a winner! $100 million coming your way. Straight from Nigeria.
"Soviet Nuclear Weapons Homing Beacon Operator."
Actually, a very cool and attractive mobile system. It would seem to be very attractive to such things as old fashioned artillery, a variety of missiles, including nuclear.
I get the technical stuff regarding RF and EW, especially when it comes to having to jam all detected RF but still allowing your own RF comms, including networking, to get through among other requirements. What I try to avoid is the Army/DoD/Program Manager-ese that sound like the GD and NG commercials on WTOP. It’s annoying to us and tends to be very expensive when vendors pitch technical products using that DoD jargon.
Missile magnet is more likely.
Still not holding a candle to Russian tech in this area.
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