EW Enterprise Exploration and Innovation
Abstract
EW E&I efforts identify, explore, mature and assess emerging technologies to address compelling EW and converged EW-Cyber warfighting needs. EW E&I involves three classes of efforts. Understanding. To maintain awareness of the global state of EW and EW-Cyber technology development, this effort coordinates and oversees all EMS warfare-related R&D activities within the Department and manages R&D activities within OUSD(R&E). Work within this effort includes: • Maintaining cognizance of all EW capabilities and capability development efforts worldwide. • Overseeing all EW and EW-Cyber related R&D activities across DoD. • Exploring new and innovative EMS technologies and approaches and advocating their development and adoption. • Coordinating Department EW and EW-Cyber-related R&D, protocols, and policy efforts. • Analyzing requisite development and operational interfaces across DoD and with international partners. • Reporting relevant information to senior leaders, across the Department and to Congress and other external groups. • Providing recommendations for development and acquisition programs that address EW- and EW-Cyber-related threats impacting sensors, seekers, communications, platform survivability, countermeasures, and EMS battle management. • Providing technical and analytic support to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) on Programs of Record, Joint Urgent Operational Needs and efforts involving technology maturity and availability, critical program information standards, foreign disclosure, and technical signals requirements. • Conducting deep dives and analyses of technological opportunities and advanced threats to support Departmental EW and EW-Cyber R&D efforts. Identifying and Developing Innovative Solutions. Efforts include: • Identifying, developing and integrating advanced technologies to synergistically create EW and EW-Cyber effects that are far greater than the sum of the constituent systems. • Identifying and developing nearer term, lower cost, and more effective EW and EW-Cyber technology solutions. • Conducting R&D within JEAT’s Distributed Electronic Effects Delivery (DEED) Laboratory. • Developing and validating prototypes of promising technology solutions within JEAT’s DEED Laboratory. • Integrating prototypes into unmanned vehicles for further exploration and assessment in experimentation venues. • Conducting collaborative R&D efforts with the Services, Combatant Commands and the Intelligence Community (IC) to explore, integrate and demonstrate enhanced real-time EMS/Cyberspace situational awareness and battle management technologies within the Digital Attack Surface Execution Environment (DASEE) effort. DASEE leverages state-of-the-art computational and perception technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, graph analytics, advanced heuristics and cognition/visualization also provide predictive analytics and course of action development. Exploring Potential Solutions. The JEAT team is DoD’s acknowledged expert in designing and conducting large-scale open air field experimentation venues. JEAT’s experimentation venues are selected and scoped to explore technology solutions to some of the most difficult operational challenges facing U.S. warfighters. JEAT’s experimentation venues are designed to simultaneously examine numerous developmental and existing technologies side-by-side under the same conditions and they utilize realistic threats and real-world EMS environments to provide the greatest insights to operators, developers and decision-makers. Leveraging JEAT’s history of conducting highly successful experimentation venues, SILENT HAMMER (SH) is our current multi-year, multi-agency series of field experimentation venues and the first SH venue, SH 1, was conducted in late FY 2019. Beginning in FY 2020, funding to conduct JEAT’s experimentation venues will be provided by PE 0603699D8Z, Emerging Capabilities Technology Development. • Exploring, maturing and assessing technologies and approaches for multi-platform, multi-aperture, multi-domain (M3) engagement of passive/active sensing architectures in very complex and highly congested EMS environments. • Selecting, scoping, designing and conducting subsequent experimentation venues. As with earlier JEAT experimentation venues, warfighters and the EW and Cyber Communities of Interest and Executive Committees are involved in this process to ensure their maximum relevance and value to both warfighters and technology developers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 6a505a3a738b15f5711a2aa9dca76e65