Joint Electronic Advanced Technology

Abstract

To counter the United States’ historic technological advantage, nation-states and terrorists are increasingly developing asymmetric capabilities and systems that are enabled by the significant advances in globally-available commercial electronic components and devices. These threats range from improvised devices being employed by terrorists that are constructed from commercially available electronic and industrial components to dedicated military systems that could be used in ways that diminish our technological advantage in conflicts with nation-states. The rate at which these threats are appearing is accelerating and new threats are appearing quicker than traditional Department of Defense (DoD) requirements and acquisition processes can respond. The use of asymmetric devices is well understood by both nation-states and terrorists. Using man portable air defense systems, mortars, and improvised explosive devices employing commercial electronic components, terrorists have attacked both air and ground forces, posing threats in any region due to their easy transportability. Unmanned aircraft systems employing advanced commercial electronic components are proliferating and pose threats as both military capabilities and as potential weapons delivery mechanisms. The extreme consequences of technological surprise and the accelerating rate of appearance of new threats highlight the need to rapidly develop and field innovative Electronic Warfare (EW), Information Operations and EW/Cyber Convergence capabilities that can neutralize threats in fiscally and temporally responsive ways. We must concurrently develop innovative technologies and approaches that will give us asymmetric advantages over potential adversaries. To proactively address the accelerating threat environment and restore the United States’ technological overmatch capabilities, the Joint Electronic Advanced Technology (JEAT) program’s overarching philosophy focuses on innovation to accelerate the pace of EW capabilities development. This program element investigates means to rapidly mitigate new threats by integrating advanced commercial and military off-the-shelf technologies in innovative ways and rapidly demonstrate innovative technological capabilities that can be inserted into the Services’ Programs of Record with reduced risk. JEAT efforts are based on three pillars: 1) Experimentation/Demonstration, 2) Advanced Technology Development/Verification, and 3) Innovative Technology Exploration. In FY 2016, two efforts were added by the Department to accelerate the fielding of vitally needed EW warfighting capabilities: the Advanced EW Technology Maturation Project and the EW Enterprise Exploration and Innovation Project. The Advanced EW Technology Maturation Project is a one-year effort to demonstrate modular, distributed, configurable EW technologies and systems designs that address requirements identified by the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and U.S. Army. Additionally, technologies demonstrated in this effort will be transitioned to the USMC to enable an earlier transition of vital warfighting capabilities within the Intrepid Tiger II (IT2) FY 2017 Program of Record. This effort will specifically mature counter-radar building blocks to provide new, vitally-needed EW capabilities for U.S. Army and USMC air and ground assets while mitigating blue-on-blue and co-site interference impacts. The EW Enterprise Exploration and Innovation Project is a four-year effort to (1) accelerate the development of innovative countermeasures to new classes of advanced threats that are being developed and fielded by potential adversaries and (2) provide innovative capabilities to counter anti-access/area denial threats posed by countries possessing modern, advanced integrated air defense systems. Work area in (1) will enable direct technology transitions to the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy in ongoing Programs of Record. Research in area (2) will enable earlier fielding, and will explore a variety of non-kinetic technologies, tools and techniques to include converged EW/Cyber approaches and battle management optimization and visualization technologies. Five work units are included in this project: Advanced Airborne Countermeasures Development, Advanced Defensive Countermeasures Development, Non-Kinetic Battle Management and Visualization Technology Development, Advanced EW and EW/Cyber Exploration and Development, and Ultra Wideband Receiver Development.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2016
Source ID
0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2016
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2016 realignment reflects funding for higher Departmental priorities and requirements.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Battle Management
  • Battles
  • Command And Control
  • Countermeasures
  • Data Processing
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Components
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Environment
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Cyber
  • Microelectronics

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