JSC Ordnance E3 Risk Assessment Database (JOERAD)

The Joint Spectrum Center (JSC) Ordnance Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) Risk Assessment Database (JOERAD)

The Joint Spectrum Center (JSC) Ordnance Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) Risk Assessment Database (JOERAD) is a software tool that evaluates the interoperability of radio frequency (RF) emitter suites and ordnance items on ships, land platforms or shore stations. The complex electromagnetic environment and accelerated tempo of Joint tactical operations demand full situational awareness and capabilities to evaluate risks associated with RF sensitive ordnance.  These electrically initiated ordnance items can pose a great threat to personnel and equipment or result in excessive emission controls on essential RF equipment. JOERAD is valuable software tool with design features that will continually evolve to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

• The complex electromagnetic environment (EME) and accelerated tempo of Joint Operations demands full situational awareness to evaluate risks associated with electrically initiated ordnance.  This combination, if not properly analyzed, poses a threat to personnel and materiel or results in excessively restrictive transmitter controls on essential equipment.
• JOERAD evaluates the EME that is produced by RF emitters against the maximum allowable environment of ordnance on units, military bases, and platforms and generates a plan to mitigate hazards of electromagnetic radiation to ordnance (HERO).
• JOERAD software provides the user the ability to perform a HERO analysis for joint operational evolutions. Awareness briefings and training courses have been developed to ensure proper consideration is given to E3 safety issues in joint operations.

JOERAD Capabilities:

• Assists in the resolution of potential HERO effects on munitions during the planning of Joint or combined operations and exercises as a pre-deployment planning tool.
• Provide an organic and timely capability to calculate safe separation distances between ordnance and RF emitters based on the ordnance MAE and the RF radiated power.
• It aids in promoting HERO-safe operations by calculating and deconflicting potential interactions between ordnance and RF emitters.

Why Use JOERAD

JOERAD CD

In order to receive and use the JOERAD CD, you must fill out a DSO Access Request Form (DARF):  Click here to download the DSO Access Request Form pdf.

** Note: The FY13 Cyber Awareness Challenge (version 1.0) training has replaced the DoD Information Assurance Awareness Training (version 10) and Federal Information Systems Security Awareness (version 5.0)

JOERAD Training

JOERAD training can be provided at key user locations on request. A full day class provides a thorough working knowledge of JOERAD. The training topics include:

• An introduction to JOERAD
• A description of installation and logon procedures
• An overview of basic JOERAD operations.
• Instructions for searching, viewing, creating, deleting and printing a selected equipment, unit/platform, and ordnance record
• Instructions for performing an impact assessment and viewing the resulting reports
• Instructions for exporting and importing
• Examples of ordnance name, nomenclature, description, and/or platform fields.
• The default tables for the HERO unsafe, HERO susceptible, and HERO safe curves used to fill in the MAE (maximum allowable environment) data in the ordnance module.
• Samples of the reports generated by the JOERAD impact analysis
• Instructions for reporting problems or changes to JOERAD software and documentation.

The following are likely candidates for JOERAD Training:

• Operational Ordnance personnel
• HERO Engineers
• Ordnance Data Analysts
• JOERAD Administrators

JOERAD Version 9.5 has completed validation and verification process and is now available!  JOERAD accesses databases for emitter and ordnance technical specifications, calculates the safe separation distances and/or safe emitter power levels and displays the results for the warfighter in a comprehensive format that can be used for operational planning.