A top U.S. Navy official acknowledges that the service’s Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) — designed for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler and F-35 — will feature a network invasion capability.
Such a capability was demonstrated a few years ago by the U.S. Air Force, which created a focused datastream with its EC-130 Compass Call aircraft that could be filled with invasive algorithms and fired into the antenna of an integrated air defense system and its wirelessly connected missile launching vehicles. The effects on the enemy network were monitored by an RC-135 Rivet Joint. This network invasion effort was known as “Suter.”
Now the Navy is putting the capability on fighter-size tactical aircraft through NGJ.
“I think [Suter] is a good description of NGJ [capability],” says Vice Adm. David Dorsett, deputy chief of naval operations for information dominance and director of naval intelligence. “Next Generation Jammer is a focus for that type of capability.”
NGJ is part of a Navy effort from 2010 to 2020 to refocus research and development on non-kinetic capabilities like information operations, network invasion and electronic attack. “We have been out of balance” because of the necessary focus on kinetic weapons needed to fight limited wars in the 2000-2010 period, Dorsett says.
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