Modern electronic warfare demands the use of electromagnetic spectrum to effectively deny the use of this medium by an adversary, while optimising its use by friendly forces. Developing and fielding modern electronic warfare systems have become increasingly complicated and expensive. As technology evolves, so do the challenges in detection, avoidance, electronic warfare and countermeasures.

Electronic warfare is essential for Armed Forces to maintain its military superiority.  Electronic warfare provides access to the battle space, degrades our enemy’s capability to attack, and most importantly, saves lives.  It ensures that military operations, be they in the air, in the sea, or on the ground, are conducted on our terms.  Electronic warfare has three main components: electronic support, electronic attack and electronic protection.

The Armed Forces cannot maintain its military edge in the new millennium unless it continues to control the electromagnetic spectrum in the battlespace. EW is completely joint and combined in nature, as are modern operations and net-centric organizations. EW and associate capabilities must be coordinated across the whole operational force to meet a commander’s requirements.

This practical 3-day introductory course will provide EW operational staff and engineers a good understanding and insight into the whole electronic warfare field at the operational and systems level. This course will cover the basic definitions, and technical & operational aspects of electronic warfare to enable students a strong foundation for later higher level knowledge. All concepts are explained in practical and physical terms, and avoid deep mathematical coverage to learn about important propagation and jamming equations in their simple dB forms.

The course is designed for EW and Radar/Senor project managers, systems engineers and military operators/users who are tasked with planning, directing and executing highly complex electronic warfare projects and operations for the Ministry of Defence and military services. The course is designed to be rigorous where appropriate, while remaining accessible to students without a specific scientific background in this field.

The course will cover real-world case studies and group exercises to reinforce the learning and understanding of the concepts.

Julian Grenfell Chief Engineer EW MASS Consultants Limited

Julian Grenfell has some 38 years experience in both operational and engineering Electronic Warfare; with some 4000 hours on the Royal Air Force Vulcan B2 bomber, he was responsible for its EW operational capability and the air and ground EW training of Vulcan crews. Julian spent some times at Nellis Air Force Base in the USA as a RED FLAG EW assessor.

Julian is a mathematician, and worked in GEC as data link (JTIDS) engineer before moving to MEL as an EW engineer on land and naval systems. His time at MEL was followed by working for Thorn EMI on active off-board decoy systems, and then RACAL on airborne RWR and ESM systems. Julian then worked as an EW consultant before joining MASS Consultants Limited where he is now their Chief Engineer Electronic Warfare.

For more information about the event, please contact Sunny Lim at +65 6732 5518 by email.