Air Force to stand up electronic warfare ECCT by the end of the year

The Air Force hopes to kick start its new electronic warfare enterprise capability collaboration team by the end of the year, and expects the 15-month effort will have substantive involvement from coalition partners, industry and academia.

Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen Wilson said during a Nov. 28 Association of Old Crows conference the service is finalizing the team's charter and working to establish a leadership team.

"Here's what I can promise you . . . we're going to reach across to all our joint partners," Wilson said. "Our coalition partners will be involved in this. We've got to get academia, we've got to get industry heavily involved."

The ECCT will be the service's third such team in the last three years -- part of an effort to reinvigorate the Air Force's developmental planning and prototyping process. The first team studied air superiority capabilities for a 2030 threat environment, and the second focused on multidomain command and control. Wilson said the MDC2 team briefed service leadership on Monday.

The Air Force has not determined whether it will study cyber capabilities as part of the electronic warfare review, and Wilson said he's not sure where that decision will land.

"There's a natural symbiotic relationship there, so how do we link them both?" he said. "We're not sure going forward, but as we flesh out the charter, we'll make that decision."