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Focuses on the integrated defensive electronic countermeasures (IDECM) system for the United States Navy's F/A-18E/F. Radio-frequency countermeasures portion of the system; Efforts to obtain a more rugged tether for its towed decoy; Key features of the system.

The article discusses electronics in military engineering by the U.S. armed forces. A division of responsibilities for electronic warfare between the Navy and Air Force is examined in which the Air Force has invested in stealth technology for its military airplanes while the Navy has focused its operation on electronic surveillance and attacks on enemy electronic systems. An effort by the two services to develop a joint command and control system for electronic warfare is discussed.

This article reports on a low-rate initial production contract won by BAE Systems to produce the Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasure System/Radio Frequency Countermeasure system of the U.S. Navy.

Reports that ITT-Avionics will team up with Lockheed Martin and Sanders to bid on the Navy's upcoming Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) system. Joint bid and achievement of the engineering and manufacturing development contract for the Army's Advanced Threat Radar Jammer (ATRJ); Other bidders.

Reports on the delay of the US Navy's program to develop a new Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures system for the F/A-18E/F aircraft, while the Air Force evaluate whether it can be adapted to protect a variety of its aircraft. Market potential of the system; Use by the system of ALQ-165 antennas and wiring installed on F/A-18C/Ds; Use by the system of towed decoys to counter threat from monopulse radars.