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, small unmanned air systems, and easily transportable Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) to dedicated military systems such as advanced sensor systems, advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) components and systems, advanced Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS), and increasingly capable cruise and ballistic missiles that can diminish our technological advantage in conflicts with nation-states. The rate at which new threats are appearing continues to accelerate and the myriad of new advanced Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) threats have made operations in the EMS significantly more difficult and complex. The challenges posed by new kinetic and non-kinetic EMS threats and the dire consequences of technology surprise highlight the need to rapidly develop and field innovative EW and EW-Cyber capabilities that can rapidly address these new threats in more cost-effective ways. The Joint Electronic Advanced Technology (JEAT) program was established to address these challenges through efforts designed to significantly accelerate the development and transitioning of new EW and EW-Cyber capabilities. To do this, the JEAT program explores, assesses, and validates a plethora of new technologies and approaches focusing specifically on technologies and approaches that fall outside the Services’ Research and Development (R&D) programs or are being developed by the Services at rates that cannot not produce required capabilities in the needed timeframes to identify the most fruitful EW and EW-Cyber R&D opportunities for the Department. To identify potential nearer-term and lower-cost solutions, the JEAT program also explores and assesses approaches that integrate and demonstrate off-the-shelf military and commercial technologies in innovative ways. The JEAT program’s approaches have provided substantial savings for the Services and the Department in both R&D efforts and in Programs of Record, and thus enable required military capabilities to be delivered to the warfighter much sooner than possible in traditional DoD approaches. JEAT program efforts are focused in four areas in two Project Codes. •In Project 619, Joint Electronic Advanced Technology, (1) the Experimentation/Demonstration effort utilizes innovative field and laboratory experimentation venues to understand current and future threats and explore potential countermeasures and overmatch opportunities, (2) the Advanced Technology Development/Verification effort explores technologies and approaches to counter advanced threats in innovative ways, and (3) the EW Collaboration and Planning effort ensures appropriate coordination and technological oversight of Department and Service EW and EW-Cyber R&D programs and processes and provides governance insights for senior decision makers. •In Project 245, EW Enterprise Exploration and Innovation, (4) this effort explores computer-augmented data dominance and machine learning technologies, tools, and approaches to enhance awareness and accelerate planning and decision making in essential EMS war fighting capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2019 adjustments are reflective of higher priority DoD requirements.
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
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Defense
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Battle Management
  • Defense Systems
  • Electromagnetic Spectra
  • Electronic Components
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Emerging Technology
  • Information Operations
  • Machine Learning
  • Signal Processing
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Visualizations
  • Warfare

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Cyber
  • Microelectronics

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