Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD)

Abstract

In alignment with the National Defense Strategy (NDS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) modernization priorities, the Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) program, PE 0603648D8Z, has refined its project selection to further strengthen alignment with the Department’s mandate to build a more lethal force, strengthen alliances, and enable the DoD to achieve greater performance and affordability. The JCTD program focuses on utilizing existing technologies (typically Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 3 or 4) to provide experimental and early prototypes of new capabilities to the joint warfighter. The key tenets for project selection and resourcing reflect the Joint Forces’ highest, end-to-end joint mission priority areas that present significant warfighter risk and suffer from inadequate Service/Title-10 investment. In FY 2021, the JCTD Program will specifically focus its portfolio investments to: (1) provide real-time management of advanced electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors and platforms to find, fix, and finish fleeting targets that accelerate kill chain activities against time sensitive targets; (2) operationalize low-cost and persistent DoD stratospheric architectures to rapidly reconstitute or augment space assets that are vulnerable to adversarial degradation/attrition; (3) connect Service sensors, data, and shooters to disparate targeting echelons that accelerate the execution of precision fire missions while integrating future Hypersonics and autonomous loitering weapon systems; (4) accelerate reliable, wideband, mesh networks for critical information transport across a wider, over-the-horizon battlespace; (5) deliver scalable, machine learning-enabled capabilities that advance full-spectrum cyberspace operations and strengthen platform-agnostic robotics to defend against unauthorized control, detect behavioral abnormalities, and harden against code tampering; (6) deliver transformational capability to modernized logistics nodes within contested environments, and automate the deployment, employment, and sustainment of forces through distributed and self-directed logistical support operations. JCTD outcomes are designed to accelerate transition by demonstrating and evaluating prototypes in operationally relevant environments. Based on the results of a Military User Assessment (MUA) performed under the cognizance of a Combatant Command (CCMD) sponsor, the products of a JCTD are "left behind" for immediate Warfighter use, transitioned to a program of record (PoR), or returned to the technical base for further development. The JCTD program uses MUAs to further inform acquisition pathways to field initial capabilities one to two years faster, or prompt major acquisition program decisions prior to milestone A or B approvals. Therefore, the JCTD program serves as a technology catalyst, rapid capability provider, and transition-bridge between the USD(R&E) and the Undersecretary of Defense, Acquisition and Sustainment (USD(A&S)) offices.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0603648D8Z_3_0400_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2022 current president's baseline budget of $102.669 is an increase of $14.251 million from the previous total of $89.929 million that includes the transfer of the Time Sensitive Targeting Defeat (TSTD) project code (P-722 within program element (PE) 0603338D8Z) for proper alignment and execution. The TSTD funding realignment coincides with recent organizational changes, placing TSTD execution under the operational cognizance of the Demonstration component within the JCTD program. The FY 2022 current president's baseline budget further reflects a reduction of due to economic assumption and a reduction of $0.052 million for other adjustments and DoD priorities.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• C4I
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Aircrafts
• Artillery
• Autonomous Systems
• Combatant Commanders
• Command And Control
• Control Systems
• Cyberspace Operations
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Mesh Networks
• Military Applications
• Naval Operations
• United States Southern Command
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Ground Vehicles
• Unmanned Systems
• Warfare

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

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