作者：Valerie Insinna

美国空军第16电子战中队的作战人员与爱达荷州博伊西市高文菲尔德的第124战斗机联队的飞行员一起通过“作战盾”测试对A-10雷电II进行了作战评估。“作战盾”每年要评估所有作战空军联队的电子战准备情况。（瑞安·怀特/美国空军国民警卫队）

美国空军的第二号人物声称，在最近的评估测试中，美国空军发现其电子战能力不强并且对新出现的威胁没有足够的反应之后，美国空军正在采取行动重塑其电子战能力。美国空军副参谋长史蒂芬“塞夫”威尔逊将军9月17日在接受《国防新闻》独家采访时表示：“目标是使[电子战] 成为我们在空军中所做的一切。”

威尔逊曾于2017年宣布，美国空军将进行内部研究，称为企业能力协作团队或ECCT，该研究将评估美国空军是否正在做必要的工作以保持电磁频谱的作战优势。该军种网络空间作战和作战人员通信总监大卫·盖德克（David Gaedecke）将军在2018年领导了这项工作，并已经于2019年1月向空军领导层介绍了该小组的调查结果。

威尔逊表示，首先，该研究发现美国空军的电子战努力在不同的利益相关者之间是脱节的。因此，该军种在空军的A5 / 8部门内设立了由Gaedecke领导的电子战办公室，负责战略计划和计划。这个新办公室负责与空军的主要司令部以及其他部门合作，以确保电子战计划和投资保持一致。

威尔逊表示：“我们以前曾失去了对主导频谱的重要性的关注，因此他和他的团队目前正在努力做到这一点。” “坦率地说，我们空军各个方面都有很多的教育和培训内容，因为，坦率地说……除非我们能控制和控制电磁频谱，否则所有不同领域都将无法做他们需要做的事情。”

他还声称，另一项主要任务涉及转向电子战系统的软件定义方法，以便可以在发现新威胁时在给定系统上重新编程新的对策。

他说：“我无法构建该平台独有的单个设备，因此要摆脱单个硬件的影响。...这种情况将迅速改变，我需要能够根据我们刚刚发现的内容进行重新编程。”

他表示：“真的，我们将进入认知电子战发展。”他用一个术语来描述配备了人工智能的电子战系统。拥有这种能力将使电子战系统可以从现场的敌方系统中进行学习，弄清楚如何对付它从未遇到过的频率和波形以进行对抗。

Gaedecke补充表示，美国空军已经开始采用以软件为中心的方法，但是尚未在不同程序之间进行协调。

他表示：“我们已经认识到，许多不同的人正在为不同的事情做这件事，如果我们增加合作的数量，那么我们将变得更好。” “我们可以互相学习，也可以利用最好的品种。”

原文：

This is how the Air Force plans on improving its electronic warfare capabilities

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Air Force is taking action to reshape its electronic warfare enterprise after a recent assessment found that the service was too stovepiped and not responsive enough to emerging threats, its No.-2 general said.

“The goal is to make [electronic warfare] part of everything we do in the Air Force,” said Gen. Stephen “Seve” Wilson, the Air Force’s vice chief of staff, during an exclusive interview with Defense News on Tuesday.

Wilson announced in 2017 that the Air Force would conduct an internal study, known as an Enterprise Capability Collaboration Team or ECCT, that would assess whether the service was doing what was necessary to maintain superiority over the electromagnetic spectrum. Brig. Gen. David Gaedecke, the service’s director of cyberspace operations and warfighter communications, was tapped to lead the effort in 2018 and briefed the team’s findings to Air Force leadership in January.

First, the study found that the Air Force’s electronic warfare efforts were disjointed across different stakeholders, Wilson said. So the service stood up an electronic warfare directorate, led by Gaedecke, inside the Air Force’s A5/8 division for strategic plans and programs.

That new office is charged with working with the Air Force’s major commands, as well as the other services, to ensure that EW programs and investments are aligned.

“We"ve lost focus on the importance of being able to dominate the spectrum, and so he and his team are working on that,” Wilson said. “There"s a huge education and training piece across all aspects of our Air Force because, quite frankly … all the different domains aren’t going to be able to do what they need to do unless we can dominate and control the electromagnetic spectrum.” he said.

"I can"t build individual equipment that is unique to that platform, so getting out of the individual hardware piece. … Things will change rapidly, and I need to be able to reprogram based on here"s what we just found out,” he said

“Really, we’re going to get into cognitive EW,” he added, using a term used to describe an EW system equipped with artificial intelligence. Having that capability would allow the electronic warfare system to learn from enemy systems on the spot, figuring out how to counter frequencies and waveforms it had never encountered previously.

Gaedecke added that the Air Force had already been moving to a software-centric approach, but that it hadn’t been coordinated across different programs.

“We’ve recognized that a lot of different people are doing it for different things, and if we just increase the amount of collaboration that we have then we will be able to be that much better,” he said. “We can learn from each other and we can take the best of breed.”

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