Joint Electronic Advanced Technology

Abstract

The United States has enjoyed a historical technological advantage in sensors, weapons, and countermeasures. To offset this advantage, adversaries are developing competing and asymmetric capabilities that are enabled by advanced commercial electronic components and devices. 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 sensors and communications systems, advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) components and systems, integrated air defense systems (IADS), and increasingly capable cruise and ballistic missiles. The rate at which new threats are appearing continues to accelerate and demands a faster response than traditional Department of Defense (DoD) research, development, and acquisition processes can provide. 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 nonkinetic 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 address new threats far more quickly and in more cost-effective ways. The Joint Electronic Advanced Technology (JEAT) program is specifically designed to address these challenges through efforts designed to substantially accelerate new nonkinetic solutions for the EMS battlespace. To do this, the JEAT program explores technologies and approaches that either fall outside the Services’ research and development (R&D) programs of record or are being developed at rates that cannot deliver needed capabilities in the required timeframes. To identify nearer-term and lower-cost solutions, JEAT specifically explores and assesses approaches that use off-the-shelf military and commercial technologies in innovative ways. This approach has resulted in substantial savings for the Services and the Department in both R&D and in Programs of Record. It has also enabled needed military capabilities to be delivered to the warfighter much sooner than possible by traditional DoD approaches. JEAT program efforts are focused in four areas in two project codes, Project 619 and Project 245. There currently are three classes of efforts within Project 619, EW and Non-Kinetic Effects Experimentation and Oversight: (1) Experimentation/Demonstration efforts utilize innovative field and laboratory experimentation venues to fully understand current and future threats and more rapidly and thoroughly explore, mature, and demonstrate potential countermeasures and overmatch opportunities. This effort will be realigned and funded out of the 0603699D8Z Emerging Capabilities Technology Development (ECTD) Program Element beginning in FY 2020. (2) Advanced Technology Development/Verification efforts investigate mature technologies and approaches to counter advanced threats in innovative ways and provide powerful new warfighting capabilities. These efforts include advanced technology development of new sensors and countermeasures in laboratory environments and the development and demonstration of new warfighting capabilities such as computer-augmented data dominance and machine learning technologies and approaches to enhance EMS situational awareness and accelerate nonkinetic operations planning and decision-making. This effort will be realigned to Project 245 beginning in FY 2020. (3) EW Collaboration and Planning 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. This effort will be realigned to Project 245 beginning in FY 2020. Currently the sole effort in Project 245, EW Enterprise Exploration and Innovation explores computer-augmented data dominance and machine learning technologies, tools, and approaches to enhance EMS situational awareness and accelerate nonkinetic operations planning and decision-making.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
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
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Defense
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Battle Management
  • Data Analysis
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electromagnetic Spectra
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Emerging Technology
  • Intelligence Community
  • Machine Learning
  • Situational Awareness
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • 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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