Electronic Combat Technology

Abstract

This program develops and demonstrates technologies to support Air Force electronic combat warfighting capabilities. The program focuses on developing components, subsystems, and technologies with potential aerospace, special operations, and airlift electronic combat applications. It develops and demonstrates technologies for integrating electronic combat sensors and systems into a fused and seamless whole. It integrates and focuses research efforts in electronic warfare and cyber warfare to rapidly demonstrate a capability for rapid fielding. It develops and demonstrates technologies for navigation and timing in radio frequency (RF) contested and denied environments. It develops and demonstrates advanced technologies for radio frequency electronic combat suites and advanced warning and countermeasure technologies to defeat electro-optical, infrared, and laser threats to aerospace platforms. It also develops and demonstrates technologies that will enable mission systems to be more resilient, agile, autonomous, and be able to operate in multiple domains. This program has been coordinated through the Department of Defense (DoD) Science and Technology (S&T) Executive Committee process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. In the FY 2021, the Air Force is consolidating its existing thirteen Advanced Technology Development (ATD), Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDT&E), Budget Activity 03 (BA 03) PEs into five new capability focused RDT&E BA 03 PEs to better align with the Air Force Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy signed by the SECAF in April 2019. This consolidation will improve and accelerate delivery of integrated transformational, multidisciplinary, collaborative technology solutions necessary to enable new Air Force warfighting capabilities that support of the National Defense Strategy. This new structure will provide the Air Force and Congress with a clearer understanding and increased transparency of integrated technology solutions and demonstrations key to enabling the Air Force future force design. In FY 2021, the entirety of Project 633720, EW Quick Reaction Capabilities, and Project 63691X, EO/IR Warning & Countermeasures Tech, will be transferred from PE 0603270F, Electronic Combat Technology, to PE 0603035F, Next Gen Effects Dev/Demos, Project 633720, EW Quick Reaction Capabilities. In FY 2021, Project 63431G, RF Warning & Countermeasures Tech, non-Vanguard efforts and activities will be transferred from PE 0603270F, Electronic Combat Technology, to PE 0603035F, Next Gen Effects Dev/Demos, Project 63431G, RF Warning & Countermeasures Tech. Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) Vanguard activities under this Project will be consolidated and transferred in FY 2021 from PE 0603270F, Electronic Combat Technology, to the PE 0603032F, Future Air Force Integrated Tech Demos, Project 630320, Air Force Vanguards. In FY 2021, the entirety of Project 634335, Cyber Concepts, will be transferred from PE 0603270F, Electronic Combat Technology, to PE 0603034F, Persistent Knowledge, Awareness, & C2 Tech, Project 634335, Cyber Concepts. All of these transfers detailed above are part of the Air Force RDT&E BA 03 PE consolidation to realign technology areas to better support the National Defense Strategy, Air Force Future Operating Concept, and Air Force S&T Strategy, April 2019. This is an administrative realignment and not a new start. This work will continue to be executed by the Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Technology Directorate located in Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver science & technology capabilities. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0601102F, 0602102F, 0602201F, 0602202F, 0602203F, 0602204F, 0602602F, 0602605F, 0602788F, 1206601SF, and 0602298F. This program is in Budget Activity 3, Advanced Technology Development because this budget activity includes development of subsystems and components and efforts to integrate subsystems and components into system prototypes for field experiments and/or tests in a simulated environment.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 0603270F_3_3600_PB_2021
• Change Summary Explanation: Decrease in FY 2021 of $47.116 million is due to the following: 1) Entirety of Project 634335, Cyber Concepts, transferring to PE 0603034F, Persistent Knowledge, Awareness, & C2 Tech. 2) Entirety of Project 633720, EW Quick Reaction Capabilities and Project 63691X, EO/IR Warning & Countermeasures Tech, transferring to PE 0603035F, Next Gen Effects Dev/Demos. 3) Project 63431G, RF Warning & Countermeasure Tech, non-Vanguard efforts and activities transferring to PE 0603035F, Next Gen Effects Dev/Demos, Project 63431G, RF Warning & Countermeasure Tech. 4) Navigation Technology Satellite-3 Vanguard activities under Project 63431G, RF Warning & Countermeasure Tech, transferring to PE 0603032F, Future Air Force Integrated Tech Demos, Project 630320, Air Force Vanguards. These transfers in FY 2021 are part of the Air Force RDT&E BA 03 PE consolidation in order to realign technology areas to better support the National Defense Strategy, Air Force Future Operating Concept and Air Force S&T Strategy, April 2019.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Air Force Facilities
• Air Force Research Laboratories
• Aircrafts
• Cyber Protection
• Electronic Countermeasures
• Electronic Warfare
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems
• National Security
• Navigation
• Navigation Satellites
• Radio Frequency
• Situational Awareness
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Cyber - Quantum
• Directed Energy
• Microelectronics
• Space