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MELBOURNE, Fla., April 14, 2026 — L3Harris Technologies has demonstrated an autonomous electronic warfare capability during a recent U.S. Army experiment, with systems detecting, pinpointing and disrupting threats in real time.
The event used the compact, software-defined Deceptor™ EW payload across multiple unmanned aerial systems. Networked within the company’s Distributed Spectrum Collaboration and Operations (DiSCO™) ecosystem, the payloads coordinated AI-enabled sensing and effects, combined inputs from multiple sensors on the fly, identified and geolocated radio-frequency emitters, and applied RF jamming to defeat them.
“Electronic warfare is uniquely suited for autonomy, where speed and scale in the RF spectrum are decisive,” said Lauren Barnes, President, Spectrum Superiority, Communications & Spectrum Dominance, L3Harris. “Our work is focused on delivering autonomous EW capabilities that reduce operator burden while increasing operational advantage.”
L3Harris said Deceptor is built on commercial off-the-shelf hardware and a modular, open-system design to speed integration across unmanned air, ground and maritime platforms. Its small form factor is intended to meet size, weight, power and cost constraints of distributed systems, enabling large-scale deployment across thousands of unmanned platforms for distributed EW effects.
The company added that it is extending more than a decade of investment in compact EW technologies, with upcoming demonstrations set to integrate Deceptor alongside other EW solutions to deliver coordinated effects across multiple domains and platforms.
