Joint Electronic Advanced Technology

Abstract

The Electromagnetic Operating Environment (EMOE) spans the terrestrial and space domains. It 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 warfighting challenges in the EMOE is essential to all military operations because it is through the use of Electromagnetic Spectrum (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. And it is through Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO) that adversarial use of the EMOE can be impacted and potentially denied. EMS-enabled cyber capabilities have linked the cyber and EMOE domains in such a way that the two domains often enable each other. Independently, and sometimes in concert with each other, they will be used to deliver or enable non-kinetic effects. It is important that the two domains be considered in terms of their many potential synergies and not in isolation of one another. Cyberspace and the EMOE can and will overlap in operationally significant ways. Adversary radars are evolving from fixed analog systems to programmable digital variants with agile waveforms and unknown behaviors making preprogrammed electronic countermeasure less effective. Cognitive, adaptive, and passive technologies figure prominently. 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. Non-kinetic exploits against the Command and Control (C2) networks in the cyber domain or at an EMS/cyber interface are also relevant. The Joint Electromagnetic Advanced Technology (JEAT) Program was established to address these challenges through efforts designed to substantially accelerate the development and maturing of innovative technologies to (1) address new EW and EW/Cyber warfighting challenges and (2) provide new, leap ahead EMSO 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 not being developed rapidly enough.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2025
Source ID
0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2025
Change Summary Explanation
A reduction of -$0.204 was applied to meet DoD overall funding reductions, which were spread to mitigate impact. Funding increase of $0.042 million for Economic Assumptions.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Cyber
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Microelectronics
  • Space

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