Antifragile Electronic Warfare

Land Warfare Studies Centre Communications Electronic Warfare and the Digitised Battlefield about the Authors Abbreviations and Acronyms

Modern land commanders are increasingly dependent on information-age systems comprising communications and information systems, networks and sensors. While these systems have the potential to produce significant changes in the conduct and character of war, their reliance on the electromagnetic spectrum also has the potential to increase their vulnerability to interdiction by electronic-warfare ...

Convergence between Signals Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Support Measures

In this paper the author introduces the common and different features of signals intelligence and electronic warfare support measures, as well as interprets the content of intelligence and combat information. The paper shows the role of low probability of intercept transmission modes in the modern tactical communications. It focuses on the challenges to signals intelligence and electronic warfa...

Integrated Network Electronic Warfare: China's New Concept of Information Warfare

* Colonel Deepak Sharma is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) considers active offence to be the most important requirement for information warfare to destroy or disrupt an adversary's capability to receive and process data. Launched mainly by remote combat and covert methods, the PLA could employ information warfar...

Towards Antifragile Software: Knowledge-driven Perturbation of Software Systems with Active Learning

Antifragility Analysis and Measurement Framework for Systems of Systems

The twenty-first century is defined by the social and technical hazards we face. A hazardous situation is a condition, or event, that threatens the well-being of people, organizations, societies, environments, and property. The most extreme of the hazards are considered X-Events and are an exogenous source of extreme stress to a system. X-Events can also be the unintended outputs of a system wi...