US soldiers will get electronic warfare backpacks later this year

The system is a portable combination of a jammer and scanner.

The service will spend nearly $100 million to equip, train, and field the system, dubbed the Terrestrial Layer System–Brigade Combat Team Manpack, according to an Army press statement released Monday. The Manpack is designed by Mastodon Design, a subsidiary of defense contractor CACI.

The system is “on track to be the first dismounted electromagnetic attack/electromagnetic support program of record for the Army,” said a spokesperson for the Army’s program executive office for electronic warfare and cyber.

The Manpack is designed to scan the electromagnetic spectrum for indications of enemy activity, like command post emissions, as well as to jam enemy transmissions. It requires two people to operate.

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