Joint Electronic Advanced Technology

Abstract

The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) environment (EME) is the largest and most complex warfighting environment because it is universally pervasive, largely unseen, and can only be perceived through the use of advanced electronic technologies. Understanding and addressing EME warfighting challenges is essential to all military operations because it is through the use of EMS technologies that we perceive operational realities - the state and disposition of all military and nonmilitary forces and groups within operational environments - and coordinate all actions of our military forces. Historically, the United States has had significant technological advantages in EMS warfighting technologies, specifically sensors, communications, and countermeasures. This is no longer the case in many technology areas due to the rapid commercialization of advanced electronic systems and components, the broad proliferation of these technologies, and the concurrent rise of cyber-related EMS technologies. Potential adversaries have leveraged these advances to develop and field competing and asymmetric capabilities to offset historic U.S. advantages. These efforts have made U.S. operations in the EMS and cyberspace significantly more difficult, and they continue to do so at an accelerating rate. Adversary radars are evolving from fixed analog systems to programmable digital variants with agile waveforms and unknown behaviors making preprogrammed electronic countermeasure less effective. Foreign developments include new generations of challenging threats ranging from small unmanned air systems and easily transportable Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) to dedicated anti-access area denial (A2/AD) military systems including integrated air defense systems and increasingly capable cruise and ballistic missiles that have incorporated the most advanced sensors, communication and electromagnetic warfare (EW) technologies. The accelerating pace of technological innovation has fast-tracked the rate at which new EMS and cyber threats are appearing. Concurrently, the effective operational lifetime of many advanced technologies is decreasing. For these reasons, the Department of Defense (DOD) must develop and field new EW and EW-cyber capabilities quicker and at much lower costs. The Joint Electronic Advanced Technology (JEAT) Program was established to address these challenges through efforts designed to substantially accelerate the development and maturing of innovative technologies to address these EW and EW-Cyber warfighting challenges and enable the development, new leap-ahead EMS warfighting capabilities for U.S. warfighters. The program specifically focuses on EW and EW-Cyber-related technologies that fall outside the Services’ purviews or are not being developed quickly enough. PROJECT CODE 245, ELECTRONIC WARFARE ENTERPRISE EXPLORATION AND INNOVATION (EW E&I) EW E&I research efforts identify, explore, and accelerate the maturing and demonstration of new EW- and EW-cyber related technologies. Technologies enabling and/or supporting all areas of electromagnetic spectrum warfare (EW) are covered including electromagnetic attack (EA), electromagnetic protection (EP), and electromagnetic support (ES). EW E&I research is performed in state-of-the-art laboratories and validated side-by-side with competing developmental technologies from the Services, National laboratories, industry and academia in field environments under real-world conditions to meeting EW and EW-Cyber warfighting needs and providing leap-ahead EW and EW-Cyber capabilities. EW E&I includes efforts focusing specifically on EW-Cyber-related technologies in a sub-project designated EW-Cyber Interface (EWCI). EWCI efforts specifically focus on develop and advance the technological bases for “over-the-air” algorithmic warfare utilizing existing and new generations of EW-Cyber technologies and systems.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2022 increase supports additional Electronic Warfare/Cyber efforts.
• 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
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Sensors
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Defense
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Science
• Countermeasures
• Defense Systems
• Department Of Defense
• Detection
• Detectors
• Electromagnetic Spectra
• Electronic Countermeasures
• Electronic Warfare
• Information Operations
• Machine Learning
• Military Operations
• Passive Sensors
• Signal Processing
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Computer science

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