The research area Electronic Warfare supports the Swedish Armed Forces’ capability needs in the electronic warfare domain. The aim is to create the conditions to control the electromagnetic spectrum in order to protect one’s own units, platforms, and personnel.

Through electronic warfare measures, an adversary’s ability to collect information can be degraded while one’s own sensors, platforms, and units are protected.

The activities include theoretical and experimental research, method and technology development, and studies on jamming, signals intelligence and protection within the electromagnetic domain. Research in electronic warfare, in Sweden as well as in other countries, is often classified and is regarded as critical for sovereign defence. In this context, sovereignty-critical research refers to knowledge that is not openly available or purchasable from others but can only be built up through one’s own efforts.

FOI’s research in electronic warfare provides the Swedish Armed Forces with access to methods and technologies for jamming, signals intelligence and protection that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to obtain. This knowledge is intended to give the Swedish Armed Forces an advantage in their use of the electromagnetic spectrum. The principal clients are the Swedish Armed Forces and the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV).