作者：Mark Pomerleau

美国陆军正在试验新的电子战排。（中士Michael C. Roach /陆军）

8月21日，一名高级官员表示，美国陆军可能会在2020年春季开始部署新的电子战排。

这些电子战排是美国陆军正在进行的部队改革的一部分，以便更好地与俄罗斯和中国等国家竞争。他们将在配备在军事情报连内，并作为旅和团提供能力支持。

“我们在陆军中没有任何建制的电子攻击能力，”美国陆军数字卓越中心能力开发集成总监David May在8月21日的TechNet Augusta上说。

如先前报道，华盛顿路易斯堡的第2步兵师第2步兵团被指定为这些新的EW排的试验单位。

从那以后，这个旅参加了一系列的现场环境测试，May告诉C4ISRNET，包括联合作战人员评估。该部队还将前往国家培训中心进行全面轮换，允许士兵和电子战人员在9月份对抗世界一流的部队并参加网络闪电战演习。

此外，Cyber Center of Excellence将在其战斗实验室中通过建模和模拟来补充这些现场实验和演示。

这些活动预计将持续到11月，May说，届时陆军将分析其数据，并在2020年4月向陆军总部发送正式的部队要求。如果陆军接受了这项要求，他们就可以开始在部队中建立这些部队。

这些实验还使陆军能够测试新的能力，作为当前记录计划（即地面层系统（TLS））降低风险的各种试验场。它还允许陆军试验新的概念。

“我们选了一个单位。我们给他们配备一些电子战人员。我们采用了一些预制原型套件。我们带他们到外地，我们说"我们希望你用它。让我们尝试一些不同的形式。让我们尝试一些不同的方式来进行连接和地理定位。让我们看看哪些有效，什么无效，”“MAY表示。“所有这些经验教训都将用于验证作战概念，并帮助我们推动材料需求，这样当我们出来并要求行业生产出一些产品时，我们就能获得90％的解决方案。”

目前，TLS分布在多个项目中，用于不同规模部队的功能。可能解释这包括TLS扩展范围，这将是一个分队和团组合，大型的TLS系统，这将是一个旅团资产安装在像Stryker，TLS小型的大型车辆上，它可能会保持车载，但外形更小和TLS下马。

TLS large将是第一个开发和部署的。May先前曾表示TLS将在2022年或2023年的时间段内设置为野外部署。他补充说，这些车辆功能也适用于卸下的系统，因此士兵也可以将其作为车辆的一部分进行部署。

除了电子战排之外，MAY解释说，陆军希望在师级建立一个情报/电子战营，并在团一级建立一个情报/电子战连。

MAY表示，这些部队更新仍在通过陆军总部审批。

原文：

When the Army could get new electronic warfare units

The Army could start fielding its new electronic warfare platoons in spring 2020, a top service official said Aug. 21.

These platoons are part of major force updates the service is undertaking in order to better compete with nations such as Russia and China. They will reside within military intelligence companies and serve as brigade assets.

“We do not have any organic electronic attack capabilities across echelons in the Army,” David May, director of the capability development integration directorate at the Cyber Center of Excellence, said Aug. 21 at TechNet Augusta.

As previously reported, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division out at Fort Lewis in Washington was designated as the pilot unit for these new EW platoons.

Since then, this brigade has participated in a series of live environment tests, May told C4ISRNET, including the Joint Warfighter Assessment. The unit will also go to the National Training Center for a full rotation, allowing soldiers and electronic warfare personnel to practice against a world class force as well as participate in Cyber Blitz in September.

In addition, the Cyber Center of Excellence will supplement these live experiments and demonstrations with modeling and simulation at its battle lab.

These activities are expected to run until November, May said, when the Army will analyze its data and send a formal requirement for the unit to Army headquarters in April 2020. Provided the Army accepts the requirement, they can begin establishing these units across the force.

The experimentation has also allowed the Army to test new capabilities, serving as a proving ground of sorts for risk reduction on current programs of record, namely, the Terrestrial Layer System (TLS). It also allows the Army to experiment with new concepts.

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“We took a unit. We gave them some EW personnel. We took some pre-prototyped kit. We brought them out to the field and we said ‘We want you to play with it. Let’s try some different formations. Let’s try some different ways to do connectivity and geolocation. Let’s see what works, what doesn’t work,’” May said. “All those lessons learned are going into validating the concept of operations and helping us drive the material requirement so that when we do come out and ask industry to produce something we’ve got a 90 percent solution.”

Currently, TLS is spread across several programs for varying sizes of capabilities. May explained this includes TLS extended range, which will be a division and corps asset, TLS large, which will be a brigade asset mounted on a large vehicle like a Stryker, TLS small, which will likely remain vehicle mounted but a smaller form factor, and TLS dismount.

TLS large will be the first to be developed and fielded. May had previously said TLS is set to field in the 2022 or 2023 timeframe. He added that these vehicle capabilities will also work with the dismounted systems so soldiers can also deploy with it as part of the vehicle.

In addition to the platoons, May explained the Army wants to create an intelligence/EW battalion at the division level and an intelligence/EW company at the corps level.

These force updates are still working their way through Army headquarters for approval, May said.

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