Aerostat Joint Project Office

Abstract

Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) is a supporting program of the Army and Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense, providing persistent, over the horizon surveillance and fire control quality data on Army and Joint networks enabling protection of the U.S. and coalition forces as well as geopolitical assets from Cruise Missiles, Aircraft, Unmanned Air Vehicles, Tactical Ballistic Missiles, Large Caliber Rockets, and Surface Moving Targets. A JLENS Orbit consists of two systems: a fire control radar system and a wide-area surveillance radar system. Each radar system consists of a separate 74-meter tethered aerostat, mobile mooring station, radar and communications payload, processing station, and associated ground support equipment. The systems are designed to work together, but can operate independently. The JLENS Orbit is transportable by road, rail, sea and air. JLENS uses advanced sensor and networking technologies to provide persistent, 360-degree, wide-area surveillance and precision tracking of Land Attack Cruise Missiles and other types of Air Breathing Threats. This information is distributed via joint service networks and provides fire control quality data to Surface to Air missile systems such as Army Patriot and Navy Aegis, increasing the weapons' capabilities by allowing systems to engage targets normally below, outside or beyond surface based weapons' field of view. JLENS also provides fire control quality data to fighter aircraft allowing them to engage hostile threats from extended ranges, and contributes to the development of a single integrated air picture. JLENS Product Office (JPO) demonstrated the system's operational capability with the Weapon Systems Evaluation Program (WSEP) exercise using JLENS with an United States Air Force (USAF) operational aircraft and Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS) to track and neutralize targets in August 2013. Guidance from the Senate Appropriations Committee - Defense (SAC-D) congressional marks language requires that the JLENS Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) parent funding line be divided between two separate funding lines, Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) and Combatant Command (COCOM) Exercise, which are summed under the parent funding line. The EMD line will be funded at $60.000 million and the COCOM Exercise line will be funded at $23.406 million for a total of $83.406 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014. This guidance was not reflected in the FY 2015 President's Budget, and The Army Budget Office will not separate these funding lines in the P&R Form database until the FY 2016 President's Budget submission.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: 0102419A_7_2040_PB_2015
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Aircrafts
• Contracts
• Control Systems
• Cooperative Engagement Capability
• Cost Reductions
• Cruise Missiles
• Engineering
• Fire Control Radar
• Military Acquisition
• Program Management
• Radar
• Surveillance Radar
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States
• United States Northern Command

Readers

• Missile Defense Systems.
• Public Financial Management and Budgeting
• Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Space
• Space - Space Objects