Joint Acquisition Protection Exploitation Cell (JAPEC)
Abstract
The DoD established a joint analysis capability (Joint Acquisition Program and Exploitation Cell (JAPEC)) to conduct comprehensive assessments of controlled unclassified technical information losses, and engage acquisition, intelligence, counterintelligence, and law enforcement sources, to determine consequences and appropriate preventative/mitigation actions against unwanted technology transfer. The JAPEC requires the ability to detect and characterize past technology losses, conduct damage assessments of lost information, and provide various insights with predictive value to support and promote activities. Together with supporting organizations, the JAPEC enables comprehensive, detailed assessments of U.S. military technological vulnerability, as well as inform the development and application of effective policies, countermeasures, and enforcement actions to preserve U.S. technical superiority in all warfighting domains. JAPEC must also reach out to select Allies and Partners in order to develop protection efforts across the extended supply chains resulting from the partnerships created by the global S&T community. JAPEC, and supporting organizations, require an analytic capability to synchronize, integrate, coordinate and inform the DoD efforts in order to protect the acquisition and investment in sensitive U.S. technologies from adversaries and better exploit opportunities to combat adversary activities. JAPEC will conduct trend analysis of protection efforts for the Department's critical acquisition programs and technologies, incorporate findings into protection processes and activities, and analyze losses, to determine consequences and appropriate requirements, acquisition, programmatic, and strategic courses of action to include deterring our strategic competitors and identifying opportunities to promote the NSIB. This project also manages the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) responsibilities for CFIUS, including the assessments, reviews, and investigations of transactions on the CFIUS docket, as well as the identification of “non-notified” transactions that are not yet formally before CFIUS. This effort involves the initial screening of all CFIUS transactions (approx. 500 per year) to determine OUSD(R&E) equities, coordination with subject matter experts who provide vulnerability and consequence information to support the assessment of risks to national security presented by each transaction affecting OUSD(R&E) mission space. This effort is also supporting the Department of the Treasury, which chairs CFIUS, in its outreach to partners and allies who are standing up similar capabilities, providing advice and technical assistance in those foreign-to-foreign investments which may indirectly affect U.S. national security. This effort is also the focal point for OUSD(R&E) export control activities, managing the activities necessary to provide technical advice to the Defense Technology Security Administration regarding export control regulations and license review policy. This includes prioritization of critical technologies for inclusion in the Commerce Control List and the U.S. Munitions List and the processing of export license applications involving emergent technologies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 139_0605797D8Z_6_0400_PB_2024
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