Responsive Electronic Attack for Cooperation Tasks II
In the context of the fast-changing electromagnetic warfare environment and given the rapid advance in sensors and longrange weapons to counter air threats, it arises the urgent need to address the current military capabilities shortcomings of the EU MS in the area of Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA).
In order to deal with current and future contested EW environments, where the use of air power may be seriously compromised, it is required to boost a joint effort of the EU industry in the defence sector to fill in the gaps in the existing EU AEA capabilities.
REACT II (awarded proposal for EDF-2022-DA-AIR-AEW) will bring all the progress made and the lessons learned from REACT I (awarded proposal for EDIDP-ACC AEAC-2019). All this experience gathered is an invaluable asset to build on for the new project to be undertaken.
The REACT II consortium consists of 21 partners from 10 Countries, covering the whole value chain from applied research to high technology product development and supply. The REACT II solution to cover the future challenges for AEA capability will be comprised by a modular architecture based system whose core building blocks will allow to reconfigure the system to better adapt to the needs of the mission to be performed. From a strategic point of view, REACT II will encourage the cooperation among European Union member states, stimulating the production of doctrine and CONOPS at EU level, strengthening the EU defence own capabilities, promoting EU
technologies and improving the competitiveness of EU defence industrial base to develop new EW systems to be offered as inkind contribution to NATO defence.
