111. Tactical Tech: How Smartphones are Countering Jamming in Ukraine with Dr. Sean Gorman

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Dr. Sean Gorman discusses how smartphones are being used to counter jamming in Ukraine.

“The hope is that we can begin to profile what the capabilities of the jammer are that we’re seeing out in the field with enough measurements from enough devices” [Editor’s Note: In last week’s post, Sherman L. Barto posited a fictional intelligence (FICINT) scenario detailing China’s swift victory over Taiwan and the United States — achieved in part by the People’s Liberation Army’s use of “… jam-resistant swarms utiliz[ing] permissioned blockchain encryption and … onboard AI adjust[ing] Software Defined Radio (SDR) receivers in real time to ignore interference that does not transmit with proper encryption and authentication. The loss of GNSS satellite navigation was assumed by PLA military planners and is replaced with a ship-based Long Range Navigation (LORAN) system providing the location of the three PLAN aircraft carriers to UAVs which is then paired with UAV computer vision trained on detailed maps of Taiwan to recognize where they are. Each UAV transmits a location tag every second to each adjacent node in the swarm, enabling precision location within 20 meters. The one pulse per second geolocation tags perform double duty as a network timing protocol, ensuring all PLA…

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Sean Gorman

Topics covered

• tactical technology
• smartphones
• jamming
• military applications
• Ukraine conflict
• communication systems

Keywords

• smartphones
• jamming
• Ukraine
• military technology
• communication
• tactical tech
• U.S. Army

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S. Army, People’s Liberation Army

Places: Taiwan, Ukraine, China

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