Joint Electronic Advanced Technology

The Joint Electronic Advanced Technology (JEAT) program under the Office of the Secretary of Defense, aims to address the challenges posed by the rapidly evolving electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) and cyber-related technologies. The program's specific objectives include accelerating the development and maturing of innovative technologies to address new EW and EW-Cyber warfighting challenges, as well as providing new EMS capabilities to ensure U.S. warfighters maintain decisive EW and EW-Cyber overmatch capabilities. The program focuses on technologies that fall outside the Services’ purviews or are developed synergistically with a transition to the Services post-maturation. It seeks to counteract potential adversaries' leveraging of advanced electronic systems and components, as well as the rise of cyber-related EMS technologies, which have made U.S. operations in the EMS and cyberspace significantly more difficult.

The Electromagnetic Warfare Enterprise Exploration and Innovation (EW E&I) research efforts, part of Project 245, aim to identify, explore, and accelerate the maturing and demonstration of new EW-related and EW-Cyber-related technologies. These efforts encompass technologies enabling electromagnetic attack (EA), electromagnetic protection (EP), and electromagnetic support (ES), including non-traditional EMS sensing and ultra wideband approaches. The program also focuses on distributed multi-domain sensing concepts leveraging advanced analysis and robust data fusion to accurately depict complex and dynamic EMS environments. Additionally, it explores technologies that will extend Department EMS capabilities to complex and contested environments while providing sensing stand-off and EA capabilities against emerging threats. The research is conducted in state-of-the-art laboratories and validated side-by-side with numerous competing technologies and systems from the Services, industry, academia, and National laboratories in live/virtual/constructive experimentation environments under real-world conditions. These efforts aim to accelerate the identification and development of effective EW technologies while reducing developmental costs.