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From the Editor
The first day of EW Europe kicked off with a symposium keynote from Lieutenant General Angelo Gervasio, Technical Advisor to the Chief Head of Defence, Italian Armed Forces Joint Staff, who discussed EW lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War and provided an excellent perspective on the many technical and policy challenges facing Italy (and many other European governments) as they develop new capabilities in Electromagnetic Operations (EMO). General Gervasio described the significant role that EW has played in the Russo-Ukrainian War. He said that both sides have relied on EW to disrupt communications, satellite navigation systems and drone operations. "Russia has deployed a range of advanced electronic warfare systems to disrupt Ukrainian communications and navigation systems like the R330-Zh Zhitel capable of jamming GPS, the Krasukha jammers that disrupt Ukrainian drones and artillery targeting the Leer-3 that disrupted cell phones and SMS with UAVs [and] the Murmansk jammed long-range communications. These jamming efforts made by Russia have forced Ukrainian drone operators to rely on visual landmarks for navigation as GPS signals are often unreliable due to interference." On the Ukrainian side of the electromagnetic contest, he said, "Ukraine has accelerated the development and deployment of its own electronic warfare systems – for example, the nationwide Pokrova system….With this system they distort satellite signals and mislead the navigation of enemy drones and missiles." After discussing the role of EW in the Russo-Ukrainian War, General Gervasio covered several technical and policy challenges for EMO. One area was spectrum congestion and government divestment of important spectrum bands. "The complexity of electromagnetic spectrum control grows with the growing complexity of the technology and evolves accordingly," he said. "The growing number of services creates spectrum congestion, which is managed by the adoption of sophisticated techniques like the spread spectrum modulation. Military services need to be harmonized with civilian emerging band and service demand, like the 5G network that interferes with military bands. Also in Italy, we had to give to the civilian authorities portions of our dedicated military band for the 5G service. New communication services, like GPS communication satellite networks, introduce new vulnerabilities, like jamming and deceiving, that need to be properly addressed and confined." He also addressed the influence that new technologies will have in EMO. "The broad availability of high tech equipment and systems introduce new possibilities for the adversary to modify their defense capabilities and adapt countermeasures. New technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence bring new capabilities, but also new threats. They also introduce ethical and legal issues that are not completely clear but need to be addressed in order to ensure that the use of these new technologies doesn't disable the human control of the conflict." At the policy level, he also discussed the importance of recognizing the EMS as a warfighting domain. "Finally, the complexity of the modern operations demonstrated that modern warfare is more and more multi-domain. And this is even more true with the introduction of the cyber and space domains which are for their nature shared by all the other three domains – classical three domains. To this regard, the electromagnetic spectrum is a strong candidate to be considered as a new domain of operations. But anyway, it is true that electromagnetic spectrum interconnects the domains and therefore contributes strongly to multi domain operations." – JED Staff
 Symposium Happenings
"So what's next? I can't leave this topic area without talking a little bit about 'Star Trek' and particle beams and phasers. And particle beam weapons are a directed-energy weapon. It uses high-energy beams or neutral particles to damage a target. And they can be used to penetrate very deeply and deposit their energy in a very narrow comb, causing immediate or severe damage such as an explosion. And, they're used for anti-missile defense and many of these capabilities are doing research for electron microscopes, cancer treatment, and x-rays. And the phasers, there really is a multi-mode directed energy armament system called MDS. It's an ultra-short laser pulse. It's used to create an ionized channel, and the entire focus here is to directly work with heating a target and disrupting its molecular structure. So what I always say when I get to see things like this that are under prototype or longtime science investment, it's just we're trying to boldly go where no other commercial DEW research capability has gone before." – Dr. Shawana P. Johnson, CEO, Global Marketing Insights, Inc, USA
"In the 1990s ... the prospect of a large-scale nuclear exchange seemed quite remote. So, there was a bit of a dearth of research in the open-source community, at least not policy implications of EMP and the effects of it and what it might do to our critical national and critical international infrastructure. But EMP is very much back on the agenda. It is a renewed concern amid the strategic tensions we find ourselves experiencing these days, vis-à-vis Russia, vis-à-vis China." – Dr. Thomas Withington, Writer and Analyst, Armada International Electronic Warfare Newsletter, France Today's Events
Review the online schedule of events and symposium agenda to finalize your on-site agenda. Get out your smartphone and download the conference app from the App Store or Google Play. Follow us on Facebook or LinkedIn and use #AOCEUROPE2025 to join in the conversation. Inside the Convention
Today: Commander Malte von Spreckelsen, DEU CYBER and INFORMATION Domain Command, Germany, will deliver the Day 2 kenote on the main stage beginning at 9:30 AM. More details are available in the full agenda. Exhibitor Happenings
Official Expo Hall hours during the AOC Europe 2025: Today
JED News
Read the May issue of JED Cover Story: Storm in the Spectrum: Typhoon in Line for Next-Generation EW Capabilities The Journal of Electromagnetic Dominance (JED) is the official publication of the Association of Old Crows (AOC), an independent, nonprofit, international professional association promoting public understanding in the science and practice of EW, SIGINT and related disciplines. Become an AOC member to get access to the latest issue of JED. Digital Pub Bin
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