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New Electronic Warfare Strategy Awaits DoD Approval

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, November 29th, 2016

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New Electronic Warfare Strategy Awaits DoD Approval

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

The U.S. Defense Department has finished drafting a strategy to improve its use of electronic warfare (EW), and the document is expected to receive high-level approval soon, an official said Nov. 29.“This time next year, we will have a signed EW strategy by either this secretary of defense or the follow-on secretary of defense,” said Navy Capt. Casey Casad of the Joint Staff’s Force Structure, Resource & Assessment Directorate. “It’s written, it’s been sent up, it’s waiting to be signed.”Casad…

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