Joint Advanced Concepts (JAC)

Abstract

Acquisition reform initiatives call for top down, national security strategy-driven capabilities-based planning. The Joint Advanced Concepts (JAC) program supports acquisition reform initiatives and early capabilities based strategic investment decisions that ensure joint, integrated, interoperable, system-of-system combat capability to the warfighter. Through a systematic and thorough process, including comprehensive technology assessments, net technical assessments that engage in comparative analysis of U.S. versus non-U.S. capabilities, the program will better inform early shaping of acquisition programs, to include Special Access Programs, from a capabilities portfolio management perspective to deliver improved capabilities to the current and future joint warfighter. This shaping is supported through capability-based assessments, requirements analysis, joint capability area assessments, integrated roadmap development, and the development/integration of risk-based collaborative tools to conduct capability-based assessments. Provides funding for Joint Electronic Warfare (EW) initiatives and EW assessments. The EW Joint Analysis Team (established in November 2007) fills a void identified by the Combatant Commanders for a group to coordinate the disparate EW activities across the Department. Provides funding to the EW JAT for establishing the Joint Electronic Warfare Center (JEWC) as the executive agent for coordination between Combatant Commanders, Services, Office of Secretary of Defense, Joint Staff, Weapon Schools, Technology Centers, Academia and DT&E organizations. Provides for EW exploitation analysis of the inter-relational effects of combined-systems evaluations in mission area needs in such domains as Integrated Air and Missile Defense, Blue Force Identification, Netted-sensors and Command and Control. The program will further work with the Joint Staff in developing a comprehensive, holistic EW architecture. In FY 2011, a new Project Code--within this Program Element--will be addressed separately for Director, Joint Interoperability efforts; reference P208.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Source ID
0603200D8Z_3_0400_PB_2011
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Identification
  • Information Systems
  • Interoperability
  • Investments
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Tactical Air Support
  • Technology Assessment
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Microelectronics

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