Evaluated screen

Electronic Warfare Systems

Identifies companies and other entities that develop, manufacture, integrate, operate, or sell systems specifically designed or materially modified for military electronic attack, electronic protection, or electronic support. Qualifying systems include radar and communications jamming, deception, electromagnetic disruption, expendable and non-expendable countermeasures, threat warning and emitter-location systems, anti-radiation support, and dedicated electronic-warfare mission modules. Passive intelligence collection without an electronic-warfare function, generic radar or communications equipment, civil spectrum services, cyber-only capabilities, and generic components are excluded.

Type
Evaluated
Version
2026.08.21.2
Published
Aug 21, 2026
Inclusions
5
Exclusions
6
How to read this definition

Inclusion criteria describe evidence that can establish this activity. Exclusion criteria identify circumstances that do not establish it on that basis alone. The evaluation remains connected to its taxonomy version and supporting evidence.

Can establish this activity

Included when supported

Evidence may support involvement when it matches one or more of these inclusion criteria.

5 criteria
  1. 01Criterion

    Include systems designed for military jamming, electromagnetic attack, directed-radio-frequency disruption, communications denial, radar denial, or comparable electronic attack.

  2. 02Criterion

    Include military electronic deception, decoy, spoofing, expendable-countermeasure, towed-decoy, active-protection, and countermeasure systems whose primary function is to mislead or defeat an adversary sensor or weapon.

  3. 03Criterion

    Include military electronic-protection and counter-countermeasure systems designed to preserve friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum under hostile interference.

  4. 04Criterion

    Include military electronic-support systems that detect, intercept, identify, locate, or characterize hostile emitters for threat warning, situational awareness, or support to electronic attack.

  5. 05Criterion

    Dedicated Electronic-Warfare Modules, Pods, Suites and Integration

    Defined as: Entities that develop, manufacture, supply, or materially integrate dedicated electronic-warfare mission modules, pods, suites, or mission systems where the product-level electronic-warfare function and material military role are established.

Does not establish this activity on its own

Excluded on this basis alone

These circumstances do not establish this activity unless separate evidence also meets an inclusion criterion.

6 criteria
  1. 01Criterion

    Exclude passive signals or communications intelligence whose role is intelligence collection without an electronic-attack, protection, or support function.

  2. 02Criterion

    Exclude general radar, radio, communications, navigation, and spectrum equipment without a specifically designed military electronic-warfare function.

  3. 03Criterion

    Exclude civil spectrum monitoring, interference investigation, frequency coordination, and telecommunications network-optimization services.

  4. 04Criterion

    Exclude cyber-only intrusion, malware, or network attack capabilities without an electromagnetic-spectrum function.

  5. 05Criterion

    Exclude generic semiconductors, antennas, amplifiers, processors, software, and other components without dedicated integration into a qualifying EW system.

  6. 06Criterion

    Exclude programme, contract, export-control, or marketing references that do not establish the product, EW function, and entity role.

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