Mr. Jason “Gump” Temple assumed the role of the JEC/JEWC Technical Director in September, 2024. He assists the JEC and JEWC Directors in leading a joint center that assesses electromagnetic warfare (EW) requirements, technology, and capabilities. He advises the Joint Staff, Allies, and Services on emerging and future technologies, EW policy and doctrine, and identifies requirement gaps and solutions. He oversees modeling, analysis, and electromagnetic spectrum activity coordination to support Combatant Commands, OSD, the Joint Staff and other U.S. government agencies. He also advocates for and coordinates the conduct of pathfinding experiments and technology maturation to support force modernization and future force structure.
Mr. Temple is a 1993 graduate of Auburn University’s Mechanical Engineering program and received his commission into the U.S. Navy through Auburn’s NROTC Unit. He has been qualified in both the EA-6B and the EA-18G with over 2200 flight hours across seven deployments. He has served as a Carrier Strike Group and Numbered Fleet staff Electronic Warfare Officer, as well as on a previous tour at the JEWC, where he was Deputy Chief and subsequently Chief of the Capabilities Development Division. After retiring from the U.S. Navy, he had a brief stint as a test engineer for the EA-18G and F/A-18E/F Operational Flight Trainers, he worked in the 16th Air Force Innovation Office where he was the Program Manager and Program Engineer for the BANSHEE series of projects prior to taking his current position under US Strategic Command’s Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center (JEC) as the JEWC Technical Director.