Summarized by the Alliance for Fort Gordon
Published February 27, 2026
In the latest in a strategic shift, the Army has issued a call to industry, broadly soliciting solutions for the electromagnetic spectrum rather than outlining specific needs as usual.
Documents posted alongside a the request for information note that currently the Army “lacks the ability to sense, locate, attack, and protect in and through the EMS across competition and geographic continuums in order to generate necessary effects against targets of interest at range.” But rather than think up a singular solution and request specifically that thing, the service’s requests aims to see a range of solutions from across industry — the more ideas, the better.