I/ITSEC 2023: US Army switches training focus to cyber and EW
IEWTPT Inc 2 has been conducted by the US Army’s PEO STRI. (Photo: US Army)
The service will pay greater attention to the development of intelligence, cyber and electronic warfare training capabilities.
The US Army has been changing its training focus away from modernisation and has instead been paying greater attention to the development of training solutions within the intelligence, cyber and electronic warfare (EW) domains.
Speaking at I/ITSEC 2023 in Orlando, Florida, this week, Douglas R. Bush, assistant secretary of the Army Commanding General (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) stressed the need to recognise that the intelligence and EW domains were now ‘more important than ever’.
‘The ability to actually train soldiers to do intel and EW at a high level of fidelity has always been a challenge’, he explained. ‘It is difficult to replicate those environments.
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