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Electronic Warfare Needs More Attention, Lawmakers Say

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, October 12th, 2017

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Electronic Warfare Needs More Attention, Lawmakers Say

An E/A-18 Growler electronic attack aircraft in the foreground shadowed by a F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. (Photo: Boeing)

Two electronic warfare (EW) advocates have urged the Department of Defense to pay more attention to EW to ensure the U.S. military keeps its edge in that area.Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a retired Air Force brigadier general and former EW officer who sits on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), said Oct. 11 that the U.S. military’s EW capabilities have atrophied since the 1990s while China and Russia have improved theirs. He attributed the decline partly to a lack of high-level…

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