Joint Affordable Kill-Chain Closure (JAKCC)
Abstract
JAKCC supports the National Defense Strategy’s priorities to modernize key capabilities and evolve innovative operational concepts. This effort integrates the fully networked command, control, and communications (FNC3); autonomy; electronic warfare (EW); and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) prototypes developed on an autonomous platform. A series of incremental demonstration and experimentation activities are executed in coordination with the Services and Combatant Commands to validate the platform integrated prototype capability to accelerate development and adoption of cost effective and interoperable solutions for defense challenges. The JAKCC project leverages a government reference architecture developed in coordination with the Services and Combatant Commands to enable a Service agnostic prototype acquisition strategy. In FY 2022, the JAKCC project stood up a system integration laboratory (SIL) with an accredited project information technology (IT) network to complete prototype payload, mission software, platform software, and modeling and simulation development. Prototype hardware and software underwent testing in the SIL prior to integration onto the prototype autonomous platforms. The project completed the initial flight testing and executed two technology demonstrations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 4adb703a722d1e9279f4d49ab4dd4e47