The Association of Old Crows hosted a press conference today featuring Ron "Fog" Hahn, a former EA-6B Prowler pilot, who is now deputy director of the Joint Electronic Warfare Center.
I asked him the biggest question on my mind about the electronic warfare community. With the Next Generation Jammer program now gaining momentum, and the USAF struggling to get the Core Component Jammer program off the ground, how does the joint community justify the budget for these very clearly "next war" type programs. In an age of where the most dangerous immediate threat is an insurgent holding a cellular phone, how do you find billions of dollars to spend on technology designed to defeat the most advanced sensors in a "peer" adversary's arsenal.
I asked him the biggest question on my mind about the electronic warfare community. With the Next Generation Jammer program now gaining momentum, and the USAF struggling to get the Core Component Jammer program off the ground, how does the joint community justify the budget for these very clearly "next war" type programs. In an age of where the most dangerous immediate threat is an insurgent holding a cellular phone, how do you find billions of dollars to spend on technology designed to defeat the most advanced sensors in a "peer" adversary's arsenal.
on October 19, 2009 9:30 PM | Reply
The embedded video seems to have been marked private. What was his response?