EW and Non-Kinetic Effects Experimentation and Oversight
Abstract
Project 619, EW and Non-Kinetic Effects Experimentation and Oversight 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. 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 lower-cost technology transitions to the warfighter with reduced risk. Expt/Demo efforts use innovative large-scale field experimentation venues to explore, demonstrate, mature, and assess innovative technologies and approaches to counter advanced electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) threats and provide new overmatch capabilities for U.S. forces. ATD/V efforts mature, integrate, and demonstrate technologies and approaches not being explored by the Services, including the use of off-the-shelf commercial and military technologies. They include laboratory efforts to demonstrate nearer-term, lower cost technological solutions to emergent threats. EW C&P efforts are conducted within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)). These efforts assess, ensure coordination, and provide insights to senior leadership on all Departmental EW and EW-Cyber research and development (R&D). Expt/Demo venues simultaneously explore myriads of technologies and approaches side-by-side with warfighter participation to more rapidly identify and mature promising technological solutions. They employ very complex and dense EMS environments, fielded and in-development threats, and emerging technologies and capabilities in combinations and ways not otherwise achievable due to cost and other limitations. These venues thus provide greater realism and far more information than any other developmental approach. The next Expt/Demo venue, Silent Hammer (SH), is a multi-year, multi-agency, live, virtual, and constructive series of events to explore, assess, mature, and accelerate technologies and approaches for multi-platform, multi-aperture, multi-domain (M3) passive/active sensing and targeting in complex and congested EMS environments. Modeled after JEAT’s highly successful BLACK DART, TRIDENT SPECTRE, Rotorcraft Aircraft Survivability Equipment Experiment (RASE), and VIGILANT HAMMER venues, SH will use both scripted and dynamic scenarios to give participants opportunities to explore new M3 capabilities and approaches to engage emerging EMS threats. Follow-on venues will address similar compelling capabilities, approaches, and threats. This effort will be realigned and funded out of the 0603699D8Z Emerging Capabilities Technology Development (ECTD) Program Element beginning in FY 2020. ATD/V explores, matures, integrates, and demonstrates emerging technologies and approaches to address compelling EW and EW-Cyber warfighting needs. Many of these efforts are conducted in JEAT’s state-of-the-art Distributed Electronic Effects Development (DEED) Laboratory to enable exploration of exceptionally complex approaches and interactions including, for example, multi-aperture collaborative-coherent EW and EW-Cyber employment using exquisitely coordinated electronic sensing and attack capabilities. EW C&P supports activities related to selecting, organizing, overseeing, and coordinating all EW and EW-Cyber-related R&D efforts across DoD. EW C&P oversees and ensures coordination and collaboration between OSD and the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Services, and the Intelligence Community (IC) on all EW and EW-Cyber activities within DoD. To accomplish this, EW C&P identifies, assesses, and develops recommendations to address EW- and EW-Cyber-related threats impacting sensors, seekers, communications, platform survivability, countermeasures, and EMS battle management. 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 Programs of Record, Joint Urgent Operational Need responses, and similar efforts, including technology maturity and availability, critical program information standards, foreign disclosure, and technical signals requirements. EW C&P also conducts and leads deep dives and analyses of technological opportunities and advanced threats to support Departmental EW and EW-Cyber R&D research, development and acquisition efforts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 619_0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2020
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