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U.S. Army in Final Stages of Developing EW Software Tool for Battle Management

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

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U.S. Army in Final Stages of Developing EW Software Tool for Battle Management

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The U.S. Army is in the final stages of developing a software tool, the Raytheon [RTN] Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool (EWPMT), to give the operators of military hardware, including aircraft, situational awareness of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS), according to a discussion of Electromagnetic Battle Management (EMBM) at the Association of Old Crows annual symposium in Washington, D.C. this week. Begun by the Army in 2014, EWPMT is to plan, manage and control sensors and other systems in the…

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