Submission + - Army Developing Teams for Electronic Warfare
krou writes: The New York Times is reporting that the Army is now developing its own electronic warfare teams, after having had to rely on the Navy and Air Force in Iraq. Electronic warfare is completely separate to cyber warfare, in that it normally occurs in a tactical battlefield setting, focusing primarily on signals carried on radio and microwave frequencies. Possible applications would be to defend (and, obviously, carry out attacks) against radio and cellphone scrambling, or jamming satellites that feed navigation networks. (I wonder if they'll use raspberry?) "The initial goal is to train more than 1,600 people from enlisted ranks through the officer corps by 2013, and to double that in the following years, giving the Army enough of these specialists to rival its sister services and surpass all of the NATO allies combined."