Joint Electronic Advanced Technology
Abstract
In Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), the United States must be ready to meet the widespread and growing threat of asymmetric weapons such as Man Portable Air Defense Systems (ManPADS), unguided hostile fire and portable small weapons improvised from commercially available electronic sensors, computer modules, navigation and control components coupled with various disruptive payloads. Such devices provide terrorists and foreign military units the novel means to rapidly construct a wide range of weapons capable of disruptive actions against civilian and military forces alike. The U.S. must be ready to counter such weapons on short notice. The asymmetric nature of such devices is already well understood by terrorists. ManPADS and mortars have been used to attack both air and ground forces, and pose a threat in any region due to their portability. Digital processors, analog-to-digital converters and digital optical sensors give terrorists the means to deploy unexpected threats on short notice. Conventional kinetic defenses against these devices can be impractical in urban settings. Because the speed of appearance of these disruptive devices can be short, such threats are asymmetric in comparison with the long development cycles that are typical of U.S. military defensive systems. Together these asymmetries highlight the need to rapidly evolve alternative Electronic Warfare, Information Operations and Counter Terrorism capabilities suitable for neutralizing such threats in a timescale that is commensurate with their appearance. This program element investigates novel means to detect and neutralize asymmetric threats, as well as special mission and other methods to employ asymmetric principles against our adversaries. This program element seeks to identify rapidly deployable solutions (outside of service programs of record) that can effectively mitigate asymmetric threats by integrating advanced commercial or military off-the-shelf technology in innovative ways that augment and/or reduce risk when inserted into service programs of record.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2012
- Change Summary Explanation
- Defense Efficiency – Report, Studies, Boards and Commissions. As part of the Department of Defense reform agenda, reflects a reduction in the number and cost of reports, studies, DoD Boards and DoD Commissions below the aggregate level reported in the previous budget submission. Defense Efficiency – Contractor Staff Support. As part of the Department of Defense reform agenda, reduces funds below the aggregate level reported in the previous budget submission for contracts that augment staff functions.
- Service Agency Name
- Office of Secretary Of Defense
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