Joint Electronic Advanced Technology

Abstract

To counter the United States’ historic technological advantage, nation-states and terrorists are increasingly developing asymmetric capabilities that are enabled by advanced commercial electronic components and devices that have become globally available. These asymmetric threats range from terrorist-employed improvised devices to dedicated military systems that can be used in ways that diminish our technological advantage in conflicts with nation-states. The rate at which new threats are appearing is accelerating and they are appearing quicker than traditional Department of Defense (DoD) requirements and acquisition processes can respond. The use of asymmetric technologies is well understood by both nation-states and terrorists. Terrorists have attacked air and ground forces using improvised explosive devices based on commercial electronic components and easily transportable man portable air defense systems, and they are increasingly employing commercially-available unmanned air systems to target U.S. and allies’ forces. Concurrently, nation-states are developing and proliferating cruise and ballistic missiles, Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS), and unmanned air systems with advanced capabilities to pose significant threats to our forces. The dire 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) and EW/Cyber capabilities that can neutralize threats in fiscally and temporally responsive ways. We must, however, also concurrently develop innovative technologies and approaches to 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 focuses on technological innovation to accelerate the pace of EW capabilities development. JEAT specifically explores and assesses new and innovative approaches to rapidly mitigate advanced threats by integrating advanced commercial and military off-the-shelf technologies in innovative ways and rapidly demonstrating innovative technological capabilities that can be inserted into the Services’ Programs of Record with significantly reduced risk. JEAT efforts are based on three pillars (Experimentation/Demonstration, Advanced Technology Development/Verification, and Innovative Technology Exploration) and supported and enabled by JEAT’s EW Enterprise Collaboration and Planning efforts. In FY 2016, the EW Enterprise Exploration and Innovation Project (P245) was added by the Department to accelerate the fielding of vitally needed EW capabilities. This four-year effort has two foci: (1) accelerating the development of innovative countermeasures to new classes of advanced threats that are being developed and fielded by potential adversaries and (2) providing innovative capabilities to counter anti-access/area denial threats posed by countries possessing modern, advanced IADS. Work area in area (1) will enable earlier fielding of warfighting essential capabilities through direct technology transitions to ongoing Air Force and Navy Programs of Record (Advanced Airborne Countermeasures Development and Advanced Defensive Countermeasures Development). Work in area (2) will explore a variety of non-kinetic technologies, tools, and techniques to include converged EW/Cyber approaches and battle management optimization and visualization technologies (Non-Kinetic Battle Management and Visualization Technology Development, Advanced EW and EW/Cyber Exploration and Development, and Ultra Wideband Receiver Development).

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2017
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2017 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

• Advanced Electronics
• Autonomy
• C4I
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Defense
• Aircrafts
• Battle Management
• Command And Control
• Control Systems
• Defense Systems
• Department Of Defense
• Electronic Components
• Electronic Warfare
• Information Operations
• Radio Frequency
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• United States
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Warfare

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Cyber
• Microelectronics