{"id":32402,"date":"2023-03-28T17:21:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2023\/03\/28\/electronic-warfare-is-new-frontier-for-us-missile-defense-agency\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:45:15","slug":"electronic-warfare-is-new-frontier-for-us-missile-defense-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/electronic-warfare\/2023\/03\/28\/electronic-warfare-is-new-frontier-for-us-missile-defense-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic warfare is \u2018new frontier\u2019 for US Missile Defense Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is contending with what its director dubbed a \u201cnew frontier\u201d of invisible threats to its mission, with foreign militaries sharpening their electronic warfare and cyber capabilties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MDA is tasked with developing and deploying layers of missile-killing systems<\/a> to protect the U.S. as well as its deployed forces and interests abroad. Key to the assignment is detecting what\u2019s actually incoming, calculating where it will land and quickly deciding the best means of interception, all of which is made more difficult by jamming and cyber harassment, according to Navy Vice Adm. Jon Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I look at the future, and I think about the problems we face, beyond all of those different trajectory types and warhead types, for me it becomes the electronic attack and protection side of the house,\u201d he said at a March 24 event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. \u201cWe have to make sure we are as resilient as possible. We\u2019ve been working on the cyber aspects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electronic warfare is a fight for control of the electromagnetic spectrum, relied upon for communications, situational awareness, weapons guidance and more. The Defense Department is attempting to rebuild its related arsenal<\/a> after decades of post-Cold War atrophy and years spent in the Middle East fighting less technologically-savvy forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\t