JETS II Industry Day Announcement

The Product Manager, Soldier Precision Targeting Devices (PdM SPTD) will conduct a Precision Targeting Industry Days Conference on 28 October and 17-18 November 2021. The PdM SPTD is conducting this Conference to present the future needs of the Army and seek industry’s innovative and light-weight potential solutions for a man-portable precision target location system capable of extended target acquisition ranges, target location ranges, and laser designation, based on emerging requirements.

The conference will be conducted as a follow-on to the Industry Day held in July 2021 and will be focused on the project referred to at that event as the Joint Effects Targeting System (JETS) Next Generation. The project has subsequently been re-titled as JETS II. This Industry Day will be conducted virtually in two phases:

Phase I will be an open presentation provided by the Government on 28 October 2021 to give industry an operational overview of future fires emerging requirements, operating in a global positioning system (GPS) contested environment, navigation systems for rapid target location, laser and optics emerging requirements, and testing requirements overview. More detailed discussion on these topic and areas of interest are listed below.

Some additional areas of particular interest are listed below. After weight minimization, other items are in no particular order:
Weight Minimization: all other capabilities tradeoffs must include the overall
impact to weight.

• Battery Usage Minimization/Power Management: both battery life and minimum weight of spare batteries are important. Automatic modes to minimize power consumption are of interest.
• Image Fusion: combining outputs from multiple imagers into one image.
• Interoperability, Communications and Advanced Processing: communication with external devices such as the End User Device and exploiting its data (map data, imagery & metadata import/export, situational data, position location information, precision fires imagery, Intra-Soldier Wireless [ISW], import of rover feeds, etc)
• Simplicity of Module to Module Interoperability: rapid, but simple methods to mate modules, operations without cables, and boresight between modules. Additionally, protective lens cover methods.
• Signature Management: this includes optical augmentation, light security, glint, visible/infrared signatures, acoustic noise (including setup and teardowns, when mating modules, and other operator induced actions), and radio frequency signature.
• Day & Night Navigation for Rapid Targeting: this includes Precision Azimuth- Vertical Angle Measurement (PAVAM) module, celestial sensors, M-Code integration issues, operation in GPS contested environments, and covert target location.
• Laser and Image Stabilization: capability of targeting without the use of a tripod and potential simplification of tripod design.
• Robustness of Design Over Operational Environments: system designed and subcomponents selected to be capable of withstanding all environments, and a high level approach to demonstrating operational requirements.

Any company who participated in the July 2021 Industry Day, and was not able to present their technology capabilities to the Open Forum (Day 1) will be afforded the opportunity to present information to the open audience. The presentation time will be limited to 30 minutes.