AOC 2019: Financial and Great Power challenges threaten US electronic warfare capability
Budget pressures and a lack of military programming and industrial agility are some of the main challenges facing the US and its electronic warfare (EW) sector in the coming years, as the so-called Great Powers of Russia and China threaten Western hegemony in the battlespace.
These were some of the highlights delivered during the keynote speeches delivered on the opening day of the AOC’s International Symposium and Conference, a message intended to present industry with an outline to the environment within which they operate and how they would have to adapt in the future.
Among the speakers was Alan
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