Joint Electronic Advanced Technology
Abstract
The Joint Electronic Advanced Technology project (Project 619) explores and assesses innovative technologies and approaches to rapidly mitigate advanced threats and demonstrate new overmatch technologies in ways not being explored by the Services. Project 619’s three efforts, Experimentation/Demonstration (Expt/Demo), Advanced Technology Development/Verification (ATD/V), and Electronic Warfare Enterprise Collaboration and Planning (EW C&P), focus on enabling nearer-term technology transitions to the Services’ Programs of Record (PoR) with reduced risk and cost. Expt/Demo efforts focus on exploring, demonstrating, and assessing innovative technologies and approaches to overcome existing and developing threats and provide new overmatch capabilities for the U.S. military. ATD/V efforts integrate advanced commercial and military off-the-shelf technologies in ways not being explored by the Services to demonstrate nearer-term technological opportunities. EW C&P efforts within Electronic Warfare and Countermeasures Office (EWCO) of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering assess, ensure coordination, and provide senior leadership insights on all Departmental EW and EW-Cyber Research and Development (R&D) as well as coordinating national and international EW and EW-Cyber efforts. Experimentation/Demonstration (Expt/Demo): Expt/Demo explores and demonstrates new EW and EW-Cyber technologies and approaches through the use of large-scale, dynamic field experimentation venues. The current venue, Vigilant Hammer (VH), is a multi-year, multi-agency, live, virtual, and constructive event focused on advancing the state of the art for detecting, classifying, geolocating, and engaging of electromagnetic signals of interest. Modeled after Project 619’s highly successful BLACK DART, TRIDENT SPECTRE, and Rotorcraft Aircraft Survivability Equipment Experiment (RASE) venues, VH includes both scripted and dynamic scenarios to give participants an opportunity to explore the efficacy of existing and new capabilities and approaches to engage emerging Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) threats. Follow-on venues will address concerns such as multi-platform/multi-aperture, collaborative/coherent EW and multistatic passive/active sensing architectures. Advanced Technology Development/Verification (ATD/V): ATD/V explores, matures and assesses emerging technologies and approaches to address compelling EW and EW-Cyber warfighting needs. Project 619’s ongoing ATD/V effort, the Distributed Electronic Effects Development (DEED) Laboratory, explores, matures and assesses emerging EW and EW-Cyber technologies to enable, for example, multi-aperture collaborative/coherent EW and EW-Cyber employment through exquisite coordination of sensing and electronic attack capabilities. EW Enterprise Collaboration and Planning (EW C&P): EW C&P supports all activities of the Director, EWCO, related to the selection, organization, oversight, and coordination of all EW and EW-Cyber-related efforts across DoD. EW C&P oversees and ensures coordination and collaboration between OSD and the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, and the Services on all EW and EW-Cyber activities within DoD. To do this, EW C&P identifies, assesses, and develops recommendations to address EW and EW-Cyber-related threats impacting sensor, seeker, communications, platform survivability, countermeasures, and battle management technologies. EW C&P also provides programmatic recommendations and decision support to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) on PoR, including technology maturity and availability, Critical Program Information standards, Foreign Disclosure, and Technical Signals Requirements. EW C&P also conducts and leads analyses of advanced threats and technological opportunities to support Departmental EW and EW-Cyber R&D research, development and acquisition efforts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 619_0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2019
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