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. The Department of the Air Force technologies in this program are both enabling and enduring as we invest in maturing emerging technologies that address established mission gaps, and transformational technologies that address integrated enterprise capabilities intended to reshape the future force across air, space, and cyber warfighting domains. Development of transformational operational capabilities through advanced technology solutions focuses on five strategic capabilities: Global Persistent Awareness; Resilient Information Sharing; Rapid, Effective Decision-Making; Complexity, Unpredictability, and Mass; and Speed and Reach of Disruption and Lethality. 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, 2022
• Source ID: 0603270F_3_3600_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2020 Other Adjustments: Decrease of $1.746 million due to Air Force reprogramming. FY 2021 and 2022: Congressional directed realignments from program element restructure.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Defense
• Aircrafts
• Cyber Protection
• Defense Systems
• Department Of Defense
• Digital Engineering
• Electromagnetic Spectra
• Electronic Countermeasures
• Electronic Warfare
• Emerging Technology
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems
• Global Positioning Systems
• Navigation
• Navigation Satellites
• Situational Awareness
• Systems Engineering
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

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