Mr

Dirk A. D. 

Smith 

Reginald Victor Jones Institute

Mr Dirk A. D. Smith is Director of Research for the Reginald Victor Jones Institute (RVJ Institute) Center for Excellence in Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations and is an international award-winning technical writer and freelance journalist. He specializes in the research, analysis, writing and presentation/publishing of complex technical knowledge. This work often includes interviewing Subject Matter  Experts (SME) for internal and external corporate, military, and intelligence communications.

Information provided is current as of May 2021

From the Author

Electronic Protective Measures

It’s About Protecting Access, Not Aircraft
By Mr 
Dirk A. D. 
Smith 
By Mr 
Steve 
Tourangeau 
When most people think of EPM, they think about platform self-protection (such as jammers or chaff and flares), but that is incorrect. Jammers and the like are classified as Electronic Defence (ED). In contrast, EPM [...]

Denial of Spectrum Denial

NATO’s EW Worry
By Mr 
Dirk A. D. 
Smith 
By Mr 
Steve 
Tourangeau 
The spectrum, or the electromagnetic spectrum, is the medium through which all radio, radar, cellular, wireless data, laser, and visual signals pass, therefore, it is where Electronic Warfare (EW) operates. The spectrum is categorized by frequencies and [...]

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