§500g Integration of Electronic Warfare Into Tier 1 and Tier 2 Joint Training Exercises

Summary

From fiscal year 2026 through 2030, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff must include both offensive and defensive electronic warfare in Tier 1 and Tier 2 joint training exercises. Each exercise must use a simulated enemy that matches the latest intelligence about that adversary’s use of the electromagnetic spectrum as of the exercise date. The Chairman can waive these rules if the exercise does not need an electronic warfare demo or does not face a meaningful electronic warfare threat, or if adding electronic warfare is too expensive or not technically possible for the exercise’s goals. When the President’s budget is sent to Congress each year from 2026 through 2030, the Chairman must brief the congressional defense committees. The briefing must say which exercises are planned in the budget and report results from the previous year. It must describe how much electronic warfare was used, evaluate how the simulated enemy affected participants (including joint lessons learned and high‑interest training issues and needs), and say whether electronic warfare was used as part of joint fires and how it was incorporated. Definitions: electromagnetic order of battle — see Joint Publication 3–85 (May 2020); high‑interest training issue/requirement and Tier 1/Tier 2 — see CJCSM 3500.03E (April 20, 2015); joint fires — see Joint Staff paper (July 2018).