WHAT WE DO

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) safeguard and defend the United States and Canada from the emerging global security challenges threatening our nations, forces, and way of life.

The NORAD Mission: Conduct aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning in the defense of North America.

The USNORTHCOM Mission: Defend our homeland – deter, detect, deny, and defeat threats to the United States; conduct security cooperation activities with allies and partners; and support civil authorities.

Our vision is to outpace global competitors, deter adversaries, and deny and defeat threats through all-domain awareness, information dominance, decision superiority, and global integration.

WHO WE ARE

The NORAD and USNORTHCOM Requirements, Analysis, and Resources Directorate (J8) advocates for capabilities and funding in support of the Commands’ mission requirements. 

The NORAD and USNORTHCOM J84 Warfighter Innovation & Integration Division is an innovative team pursuing technological solutions that further develop and sustain the homeland defense, defense support of civil authorities, and theater security cooperation missions of the Commands.  The Division provides expertise and leadership, promotes innovation and continuous learning, drives technological development and experimentation, and fosters strategic partnerships to deliver solutions that meet priority NORAD and USNORTHCOM capability gaps.  Recognizing the commercial sector is driving technological advancements that provide our Nation, allies, and partners a distinct advantage over our competitors, we seek to leverage commercial capabilities to gain and maintain technological advances over our competitors.

The J84 Vendor Engagements Team serves as the central point of contact connecting commercial industry with appropriate NORAD and USNORTHCOM stakeholders and subject matter experts.  They coordinate engagements with industry vendors and conduct outreach to foster collaboration. 

WHAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN

• Air Domain Continuity of Operations 
• Arctic Maritime Homeland Defense
• Arctic Operations
• Ballistic Missile and Aerodynamically Maneuvering Vehicle, or Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle (MaRV) Detection, Tracking, Characterization, Discrimination and Warning
• Continuity of Information and Command and Control (C2) Systems
• Counter Advanced Ballistic Missile Capabilities
• Counter Fractional Orbital Bombardment Systems (FOBS), and Counter Multiple Orbital Bombardment Systems (MOBS)
• Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS)
• Cruise Missile Deterrence
• Defense Critical Infrastructure (DCI) Kinetic Threat Mitigation
• Domain Awareness, Indication and Warning (I&W) of Cruise Missile Threats
• Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Environment Data
• Holistic Sensor and C2 Network in the context of the Territorial Integrity of the United States (TITUS)
• Homeland Port Security
• Maritime Undersea Surveillance
• Submarine Fiber Optic Cables Protection
• Subsurface Defense
• Survivable and Endurable Communication Pathways.