Electronic Warfare: A Two-Day Lecture on Contested-Spectrum Operations
Electronic Warfare is central to modern military operations, where control of the electromagnetic spectrum can determine detection, survivability, command-and-control, and mission success. This two-day short-course provides a high-level but operationally relevant overview of key EW disciplines, emerging threats, and mission applications across air, land, sea, space, and cyber-enabled battlespaces.
The course is on the 26-27 November 2026 and attendees can attend one or both days. The agenda includes:
Day 1
- Electronic Attack — Denying, degrading, deceiving, and disrupting adversary sensors, communications, and command-and-control links across the battlespace.
- Electronic Protection — Hardening friendly systems against jamming, spoofing, interference, exploitation, and contested-spectrum operations.
- Electronic Support — Detecting, identifying, geolocating, and characterizing emitters to build real-time situational awareness and enable kinetic and non-kinetic effects.
- ELINT — Turning adversary radar and RF signatures into actionable intelligence for threat libraries, mission planning, and survivability.
Day 2
- Stealth and Low Observability — Understanding how shaping, materials, emissions control, and tactics reduce detection, tracking, and engagement risk.
- High-Power Microwave and Nuclear EMP — Exploring directed-energy and electromagnetic-pulse effects on electronics, infrastructure, platforms, and mission resilience.
- Space, Communications, and GNSS EW — Contesting SATCOM, datalinks, PNT, and space-enabled networks through jamming, spoofing, meaconing, navigation warfare, and multi-domain spectrum effects.
- Counter-UAS EW — Detecting, tracking, identifying, and defeating drone threats through RF sensing, jamming, spoofing, and layered defense.
Progress in Radar Research (PIRR) 2026
The EW short-course is aligned with the Progress in Radar Research 2026 workshop and all attendees are invited to attend this free 2-day event on the 24-25 November.
PIRR registration link: https://events.humanitix.com/progress-in-radar-research-workshop-2026
Registration costs:
IEEE members: $300 per day / $500 both days
Non IEEE members: $400 per day / $700 both days
Students: $150 per day / $200 both days
Group discounts available - please contact luke.rosenberg@ieee.org
20% discount for earlybird registration before October 16
Key Dates:
Early bird discount last day: 16 October
Progress in Radar Research workshop: 24-25 November
EW short course: 26-27 November
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- Kerr Grant Lecture Theatre, Adelaide University
- North Terrace
- Adelaide, South Australia
- Australia
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Lorenzo Lo Monte
Dr. Lo Monte has experience in applied Radar, RF, Signal Processing, Electronic Warfare system design and prototyping, from small companies, consulting, academia, research institutions, to large defense contractors and government agencies worldwide. He serves as Chief Scientist at TTM Technologies, a top-40 defense corporation specializing in ISR, with the role of translating research innovations into commercial products. Prior to that, he was a Research Associate Professor at the University of Dayton and the Director of the Mumma Radar Laboratory. Dr. Lo Monte has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and two book chapters.
Throughout his career, he gained experience in radar systems design from HF to W band, including AESA, Fully Digital Arrays, Automotive Radars, Health Radars, ASW, ASuW, AEW, Multistatic Radar, Precision Timing / Frequency Control, MIMO Radar, SAR, ISAR, CSAR/Tomography, counter ISRT, SAA/DAA, GPR, FMCW, Passive Radar, Geolocation, LO/CLO, Low RCS, Counter IED/EFP, cUAS, BMD target discrimination, AMTI, GMTI, MMTI, DMTI, CCA/FVL and MUM-T, ATR/MCA, EA/ES/EP/RWR/ELINT, Radar Reverse Engineering, LPI/LPD/LPID, Clutter Modeling and Measurements, Antenna Modeling and Measurements, IMA Design, Inverse Scattering, Applied Electromagnetics, Adaptive/Systolic Array Processing, STAP, MIL-STD/NTIA/FAA/RTCA Compliance, Safety Certification, MxFE, Packaging, PCB / Substrate Technology, SysML/DoDAF/MBSE.
Dr. Lo Monte is highly active in the IEEE community: he was the General Chair for IEEE RadarConf’22, and serves in the AESS Board of Governors as the VP for Members and Chapter Coordinator. He held the VP role for Education (AESS) and VP for Industry (Region 1). Dr. Lo Monte was also a Technical Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal for many years. Dr. Lo Monte is also an AESS Distinguished Lecturer and an approved AESS Short Course Instructor. He taught many short courses in radar, EW, and RF worldwide, including at AFRL, Intelligence Centers, AFLCMC, MIT, Fraunhofer Institute, DSTG Australia, Singapore, as well as underrepresented sections such as Algeria, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, and Bolivia.