Shaping Policy For The Ew Discipline

摘要

As the AOC moves into 2009, I see changes on the horizon for our discipline in the United States; there is a new White House administration, a significantly different focus on Capitol Hill and thus a changing direction for the DOD. It is therefore vital that the AOC initiates contact with the Pentagon and Congress to advocate an agenda to keep EW moving in the right direction. In this vein, the AOC will go to the US Congress this month and present our newly developed EW policy agenda. Our 2009 Policy Agenda has four basic positions. They are: 1. Improve EW leadership and organization in the DOD. 2. Strengthen investment in critical EW technologies. 3. Modernize legacy platform self-protection systems and aircraft survivability equipment (ASE). 4. Provide for next-generation EW systems.