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Army Updates EW Capability Requests For 2019 Cyber Quest

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, August 16th, 2018

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Army Updates EW Capability Requests For 2019 Cyber Quest

Army officials released an updated notice Thursday for the service's 2019 Cyber Quest event calling on industry partners to demonstrate readily available tools to better detect electronic warfare (EW) attacks and improve jamming operations across the entire spectrum.The Army’s white papers request for its next EW war gaming event details near-term and midterm capability needs including new sensors and Electronic Attack capabilities.“The Army needs to be able to search for, intercept, identify, and locate or localize sources of intentional and…

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