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Excerpt: At the dawn of the 21st century political Islam, or more commonly Islamic fundamentalism, remains a major presence in governments and oppositional politics from North Africa to Southeast Asia. New Islamic republics have emerged in Afghanistan, Iran, and Sudan. Islamists have been elected to parliaments, served in cabinets, and been presidents, prime ministers, and deputy prime ministers in nations as diverse as Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,...
Excerpt: An innovative thermal management system (TMS) that provides both effective active heat transfer and high passive thermal energy storage capacity has been developed and successfully demonstrated. The TMS integrates the high latent heat advantages of a phase change material with an actively cooled cold plate design. The resulting TMS concept has direct use on many transient system applications, where the amount of heat dissipated varies over time. The example disc...
Excerpt: The array of technologies covered in Section 5.0 is related to Microelectronics (General Purpose. Integrated Circuits), Opto-Electronics, Electronic Components, General Purpose. Equipment, Fabrication Equipment, and Materials. Militarily critical technologies include materials and techniques that enable the extreme density and high performance, with low power, of Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI), Ultra Large Scale Integrated Circuits (ULSI), and Very ...
Excerpt: (U) A. Mission Description The Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) is an air-to-ground weapon designed to attack a variety of targets during day, night, and adverse weather conditions. JSOW will enhance aircraft survivability as compared to current interdiction weapon systems by providing the capability for launch aircraft to standoff outside the range of enemy point defenses. The JSOW accuracy and launch-and-leave capability will allow several target kills per aircraf...
Excerpt: A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification. This Program Element is funded in its entirety by Congressional Adds.
Excerpt: (U) Mission Description: (U) The Advanced Electronics Technology program element is budgeted in the Advanced Technology Development Budget Activity because it seeks to design and demonstrate state -of-the-art manufacturing and process technologies for the production of various electronics and microelectronic devices, sensor systems, actuators and gear drives that have military applications and potential commercial utility. Introduction: of advanced product desig...
Excerpt: A. (U) Mission Description and Budget Item Justification. This Program Element (PE) provides Applied Research to support all Navy advanced weapon and platform system concepts and needs in the areas of materials, electronics, and computer technology. Developmental tasks address significant improvements in terms of affordability; performance; reliability; high assurance computing; data; information and image processing; distributed collaborative network concepts; ...
Excerpt: A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification. This applied research Program Element (PE) investigates and develops smoke and obscurant technologies to increase personnel and platform survivability for use in the Future Force, and where feasible, exploits opportunities to enhance Current Force capabilities. The PE funds applied research in materials science and dissemination technologies to counter enemy weapon target acquisition systems and to provide th...
Excerpt: A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification. The goal of this Program Element (PE) is to research and investigate smoke and obscurant technologies to increase personnel and platform survivability. The PE funds applied research in materials science and dissemination methodologies and mechanisms to counter enemy weapon target acquisition systems and/or degrade enemy surveillance capability. The obscurant materials and dissemination systems will be designe...
Excerpt: A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification. This program element provides for countermine, electronic deception and advanced signature management technologies. The specific countermine efforts include close in detection of individual mines utilizing manportable technologies, detection and neutralization from moving vehicles, and remote detection of minefields. Advanced robotics technologies will be emphasized to minimize threats to weapons systems and ...
Excerpt: A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification. This program element provides funding to develop Proof of Concepts to define fundamental capabilities and limitations of Focused Intelligence XXI technologies which supports Force XXI. Focused Intelligence addresses the functional areas of Situational Awareness, Information Management, and Predictive Analysis. This requires a comprehensive understanding of the following seven critical technologies when integr...
Excerpt: A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification. The objective of this program is to research and evaluate technologies that will enhance the capabilities of the Future Combat Systems (FCS) and the Future Force and, where feasible, exploit opportunities to enhance Current Force capabilities. Focus is on providing sensor, signal, and information processing technology for advanced reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition (RSTA); ground-to-ground a...
Excerpt: The Department of Defense (D.O.D.) High Performance Computing (HPC) Program (HPCP) supports the needs of the warfighter for technological superiority and military dominance on the battlefield by providing advanced computational services to U.S. weapons system scientists and engineers. By exploiting continuous advances in high performance computing technology, the defense research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) community is able to resolve critical sci...
Excerpt: (U) Mission Description: (U) The Advanced Electronics Technology program element is budgeted in the Advanced Technology Development Budget Activity because it seeks to design and demonstrate state-of-the-art manufacturing and process technologies for the production of various electronics and microelectronic devices, sensor systems, actuators and gear drives that have both commercial and military applications. Introduction: of advanced product design capability a...
Excerpt: APPROPRIATION. 0400D Research, Development, Test & Eval, DW Date: FEB 2004 Program Thousands of Dollars S Line Element E No Number Item Act FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 C 2 0601101E Defense Research Sciences 171,383 139,434 143,729 U ... Basic Research 171,383 139,434 143,729 12 0602301E Computing Systems and 2 390,607 334,696 342,614 U ...
Excerpt: APPROPRIATION. 0400D Research, Development, Test & Eval, DW Date: FEB 2003 Program Thousands of Dollars S Line Element E No Number Item Act FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 C 2 0601101E Defense Research Sciences 141,900 199,030 151,029 143,522 U ... Basic Research 141,900 199,030 151,029 143,522 12 0602301E Computing Systems and 2 349,666 409,256 404,859 479,119 U Communications Technology 13 0602302E Embedded Software and Pervasive 2 56,190 58,599 13,318 U Compu...
Excerpt: (U) A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification This program develops advanced materials, processing, and inspection technologies to reduce life cycle costs and improve performance, affordability, supportability, reliability, and survivability of current and future Air Force systems and operations. The program has four projects that develop: (1) structural, propulsion, and sub-systems materials and processes technologies; (2) electronic, optical, and su...
Excerpt: (U) A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification (U) BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ELEMENT: (U) The Department of Defense (D.O.D.) High Performance Computing (HPC) Modernization Program (HPCMP) directly supports the needs of the warfighter for technological superiority and military dominance on the battlefield by providing the highest computational power available to U.S. weapons system scientists and engineers. By exploiting continuous advances in high performan...
Excerpt: BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ELEMENT The Department of Defense (D.O.D.) High Performance Computing (HPC) Modernization Program supports the needs of the warfighter for technological superiority and military dominance on the battlefield by providing advanced computational services to U.S. weapons system scientists and engineers. By exploiting continuous advances in high performance computing technology, the defense research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) commu...
Excerpt: (U) Mission Description: (U) This program element is budgeted in the Applied Research budget activity because its objective is to develop electronics that make possible a wide range of military applications. (U) Advances in microelectronic device technologies, including digital, analog, photonic and microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices, continue to have significant impact in support of defense technologies for improved weapons effectiveness, improved intelligen...