Joint Electronic Advanced Technology

Abstract

To counter the United States’ historic technological advantage, adversaries are increasingly developing asymmetric capabilities that are enabled by advanced commercial electronic components and devices that have become globally available. These threats range from terrorist-employed improvised devices, unmanned air systems and easily transportable man portable air defense systems to dedicated military systems that can diminish our technological advantage in conflicts with nation-states. They include cruise and ballistic missiles, integrated air defense systems (IADS) and the advanced sensor systems used by them to detect and target U.S. forces, and advanced electronic warfare (EW) systems used to deny or negate our sensors, communications and precision navigation and targeting capabilities. The rate at which new threats are appearing continues to accelerate and new threats are emerging faster than traditional Department of Defense (DoD) research, development and acquisition processes can respond. The plethora of new electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) threats is making operations in the EMS significantly more complex. The challenges posed by new kinetic and non-kinetic threats and the dire consequences of technology surprise emphasize the need to rapidly develop and field innovative EW and EW-Cyber capabilities that can address new threats in fiscally and temporally responsible ways. The Joint Electronic Advanced Technology (JEAT) Program addresses these challenges through efforts designed to accelerate the pace of EW and EW-Cyber capabilities development by exploring technologies and using approaches that fall outside the scope or purview of the Services’ research and development (R&D) programs. Enabling the rapid transition of significant technologies to Service Programs of Record (PoR) at lower cost with lower risk is essential. JEAT thus explores and assesses technological approaches that integrate and demonstrate both new and off-the-shelf military and commercial technologies in innovative ways. JEAT efforts are focused in four areas under two Project Codes, P619 (Joint Electronic Advanced Technology) and P245 (EW Enterprise Exploration and Innovation). (1) Experimentation/Demonstration (P619) utilizes innovative field and laboratory experimentation venues to understand current and future threats and explore potential countermeasures and overmatch opportunities. (2) Advanced Technology Development/Verification (P619) explores technologies and approaches to counter advanced threats in innovative ways. (3) EW Collaboration & Planning (P619) ensures appropriate technological oversight of Departmental and Service EW and EW-Cyber R&D programs and processes and provides necessary governance insights for senior decision makers. (4) EW Enterprise Exploration and Innovation (P245) accelerates the fielding of essential EW capabilities such as innovative countermeasures to new classes of advanced threats (including anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) threats), and exploring and developing a variety of non-kinetic technologies, tools, and approaches to counter advanced threats and enhancing operators’ and analysts’ comprehension of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) environment to enable real-time precision employment of non-kinetic capabilities.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2018
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Sensors
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Defense
• Battle Management
• Defense Systems
• Department Of Defense
• Electromagnetic Spectra
• Electronic Warfare
• Emerging Technology
• Employment
• Engineering
• Information Operations
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• United States
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Visualizations
• 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