Joint Electronic Advanced Technology
Abstract
This program supports the Department's initiatives to Deter Aggression and Prevail in Conflict, Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage, and Building a Resilient Joint Force and Defense Ecosystem. The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) environment (EME) is the largest and most complex warfighting environment. 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. 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 superiority is being challenged 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. Because the accelerating pace of technological innovation has increased the rate at which new EMS and cyber threats are appearing, the effective operational lifetime of many advanced technologies has decreased. For all of these reasons, the Department of Defense (DoD) must develop and field new EW and EW-Cyber capabilities faster, at much lower costs, to be broadly integrated and employed across the entire force structure. 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 in order to: (1) address new EW and EW-Cyber warfighting challenges; and (2) provide new, leap-ahead EMS warfighting capabilities to ensure U.S. warfighters will always have decisive EW and EW-Cyber overmatch capabilities. The JEAT program specifically focuses on EW and EW-Cyber-related technologies that fall outside the Services’ purviews or are developed synergistically with a transition to the Services post maturation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2023
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President’s Budget request did not include out-year funding.
- Service Agency Name
- Office of the Secretary Of Defense
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
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