Joint Electronic Advanced Technology
Abstract
Asymmetric electronic threats enabled by significant advances in globally-available commercial electronic components and devices are proliferating at an alarming rate. This project investigates means to rapidly mitigate new threats by integrating advanced commercial and military off-the-shelf technologies in innovative ways and rapidly demonstrate innovative technological capabilities that can be inserted into the Services’ Programs of Record with reduced risk. Efforts concurrently develop innovative technologies and approaches that will give us asymmetric advantages over potential adversaries. Three efforts currently comprise this project: Experimentation/Demonstration, Advanced Technology Development/Verification, and Innovative Technology Exploration. In FY 2015, we are adding a new effort, EW Enterprise Collaboration and Planning, that addresses selection, organization, oversight, and coordination of new and emerging Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) warfare concepts and related efforts within the EW and Countermeasures Office (EW&C) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OASD(R&E)). In FY 2016, this area will be expanded to provide analysis and national and international coordination on emerging Information Operations and Electronic Warfare (EW)/Cyber Convergence topics. Experimentation/Demonstration (First effort: Vigilant Hammer (VH)): Experimentation/Demonstration efforts focus on experimenting with and demonstrating technologies and approaches to address compelling issues facing the warfighter. Our first Experimentation/Demonstration effort, VH, is a recurring multi-year, multi-agency, live, virtual, and constructive field experimentation venue of increasing complexity focused on advancing the state of the art for the detection, classification, geolocation and prosecution of electromagnetic signals of interest using both Department of Defense (DoD) and national resources. VH is modeled after Joint Electronic Advanced Technology's (JEAT) highly successful BLACK DART, Trident Spectre, and Rotorcraft Aircraft Survivability Equipment Experiment (RASE) venues, and will include both scripted and free play scenarios intended to give participants an opportunity to explore the efficacy of existing and new technological capabilities and approaches to engage emerging EMS threats. Engagement payloads will be developed and vetted in the Distributed Electronic Effects Development (DEED) laboratory discussed below. Additional venues that address pressing warfighter concerns like advanced electro-optical threats and millimeter wave threats will be added in future years. Advanced Technology Development/Verification (ATD/V) (Ongoing effort: DEED): ATD/V focuses on research to mature and assess emerging technologies to address compelling EW and converged EW/Cyber warfighter needs. Our ongoing ATD/V effort, DEED, is a laboratory and developmental venue that matures and assesses emerging EW and converged EW/Cyber technologies to enable, e.g., more effective coordination of sensor and electronic attack capabilities to deliver multi-point, collaborative EW and cyber capabilities to warfighters. DEED specifically seeks to identify and pair synergistic technologies to develop systems with capabilities that are greater than the sum of the individual parts. Innovative Technology Exploration (Ongoing effort: Adaptive/Asymmetric Technology (A/AT)): Innovative Technology Exploration encompasses a wide variety of efforts focusing on analyses and studies of emerging asymmetric threats for the Director, EW&C. Past work includes the Aircraft Survivability Equipment Joint Analysis Team, the Helicopter Survivability Task Force, and advanced analytic studies of the link budget associated with addressing highly advanced, agile threats. Our ongoing effort in this area, A/AT, produces studies that are strongly supported by the Services and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and past studies have resulted in significant technology investments by DoD. EW Enterprise Collaboration and Planning (EW C&P): EW C&P supports the activities of the Director, EW&C related to the selection, organization, oversight, and coordination of new and emerging EMS warfare concepts and related efforts. It includes efforts related to the identification, assessment, formulation of recommendations to address EW-related threat trends impacting sensor, seeker, communications and battle management technologies and countermeasures for these threats; programmatic and budget review and recommendations; and decision support to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (OUSD(AT&L)) on selected programs of record including Critical Program Information standards, Foreign Disclosure advice, and Technical Signals Requirements. This effort further solicits and provides advisory information between OSD and the Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Service sponsors and Research Engineers including oversight of an extensive variety of EW-related Research and Development (R&D) activities within the department and world-wide. EW C&P efforts support all three JEAT pillars.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- P619_0603618D8Z_3_0400_PB_2016
Related Documents
- Root: Joint Electronic Advanced Technology
- Child Accomplishment: Experimentation/Demonstration Vigilant Hammer (VH)
- Child Accomplishment: Advanced Technology Development/Verification (ATD/V)
- Child Accomplishment: Innovative Technology Exploration (ITE)
- Child Accomplishment: EW Enterprise Collaboration and Planning