AOC is set to release the AOC White Paper on "21st Century Electronic Warfare" by Robert Elder Lt Gen, USAF (Ret) on February 23 during the Conference. The AOC's white paper on 21st Century Electronic Warfare (21CEW) is a comprehensive review of the US strategy to ensure US military superiority across the electromagnetic spectrum. Don't miss this event!
Join us in Las Vegas for the Joint Electronic Attack Conference: AEA Operations Supporting Land, Sea and Air. Key topics will include data fusion, net-centric operations, JSEAD transformation, AEA applications and threats to future air operations. Current operations and trends from warfighters highlight the conference. The deadline is fast approaching, so make your hotel reservations now!
JUST ANNOUNCED: 2010 Capitol Hill Awareness Day Registration Opens Next Week!The AOC will be convening its annual Capitol Hill Awareness Day (CHAD), April 13-14, at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, DC. CHAD is designed to train AOC members to effectively communicate to Congress and provide members the opportunity to meet their congressional representatives.
The event begins with an unclassified Future of EW Symposium on Tuesday morning, April 13 at 8:00 a.m., and a Multi-National Forum lunch sponsored by the AOC Capital Chapter at 11:30 a.m. The CHAD training seminar begins Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 PM. CHAD participants then visit Capitol Hill on Wednesday, April 14, to meet with their congressional representatives. The Future of EW Symposium is $25 for both AOC members and nonmembers and CHAD is free for AOC members only.
For more information, please visit the AOC advocacy site at
www.crows.org or contact Ken Miller, AOC Director of Government and Industry Affairs, at
kmiller@crows.org.
March 21-25: Join us at Dixie Crow 35The Dixie Crows currently have 48 vendors/exhibitors reserving 71 10x10 booths confirmed to support the exhibit portion of the upcoming 35th Annual Dixie Crow EW Symposium. Take a look at our new
layout for 2010 along with the exhibitors and booth assignments. Come join us for Dixie Crow 35!
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In Berlin, Germany,
the global event for EW - held in collaboration with the AOC and strongly supported by European and international industry.
Electronic and computer attack-the futuristic segment of the Pentagon's arsenal-will benefit from the proposed 2011 military spending plan, but identifying all the key pieces is difficult without close scrutiny. (Aviation Week)
Call it a case of defense-press diplomacy: An Iranian colonel this week spoke publicly about a "special weapon" that was tailor-made to destroy US Apache attack helicopters. The government-run Iranian news agency also released images of the shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile. (Popular Mechanics)
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade have changed what the Royal Air Force buys and how it's organized. Critical wartime lessons, says Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, the UK chief of air staff, underscore the need for flexible airpower with speed and reach - in air mobility, attack and combat ISTAR (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance). (Defense News)
Israel is pressing the US administration to clinch a deal for up to 75 F-35 stealth fighters but Lockheed Martin wants to sell the fifth-generation fighter to Arabs as well. (UPI)
A US Air Force fighter jet recently performed as a reconnaissance platform by using a targeting sensor to detect radio emissions and then transmitting their type and location in near real time to commanders and troops on the ground. The demonstration at a military exercise highlighted the use of nontraditional aerial platforms, such as fast attack jets, for surveillance and reconnaissance. (SIGNAL)
An aircraft carrier and several squadrons based in Hampton Roads have received efficiency awards from Naval Air Force Atlantic, the Navy said this week. (The Virginian-Pilot)
With the Iranian nuclear program in full steam, the IDF may face its greatest challenge yet, but will Ashkenazi be there to lead it? (Jerusalem Post)
The seven countries that ordered the Airbus A400M military transport plane have submitted a joint proposal on how to cover extra costs, a German defense ministry spokesman said February 15. (Defense News)