Electromagnetic Spectrum Maneuver Warfare

Download or read book Electromagnetic Spectrum Maneuver Warfare written by Kurt Meier and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Radio frequency communications have been assigned and managed by spectrum since 1921 in the United States[1], and this has remained largely unchanged since then. Even today, the US Department of Commerce and FCC still discuss planned spectrum policy in terms of "needs, assignments, and allocations". This allocation method has allowed military programs and technologies to treat the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) they're assigned as a space where operations are deconflicted, and interference is avoided or planned around, with varied results by program on how adversary jamming is planned for and mitigated. Our adversaries have used our allocation plans and policies as a blueprint for how to cripple us in a future war, where we have clearly laid out our plans for where, when, and how we will communicate between platforms and technologies. The EMS must be treated like any other domain of warfare, in the sense that we must give ourselves freedom to maneuver within it and avoid enemy jamming, civilian communications, and other interference. To do this, we must change how we allocate and use spectrum to give all technologies and platforms the greatest possible spectrum to operate within, and design our systems to accept and avoid interference, both from our own communications, and enemy attempts at jamming. This "spectrum agnostic" approach is possible, but requires a concerted effort to modernize our communication technology with Software Defined Radios (SDRs), and changes to how we plan and assign spectrum. Without a change to how the EMS is used and friendly communications within it are defended, the efforts to develop new weapons and technologies that rely on use of spectrum in Joint All Domain Warfare and the Air Force Air Battle Management System concepts are pointless."--Page [1].