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Department of Defense
Basic Research
West Virginia University
Dr. Robin Staffin
Director for Basic Research
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
July 2, 2014
Key Elements of
Defense Strategic Guidance
• The military will be smaller and leaner, but it
will be agile, flexible, ready and
technologically advanced.
• Rebalance our global posture and presence to
emphasize Asia-Pacific regions.
• Build innovative partnerships and strengthen
key alliances and partnerships elsewhere in
the world.
• Ensure that we can quickly confront and defeat
aggression from any adversary – anytime,
anywhere.
• Protect and prioritize key investments in
technology and new capabilities, as well as our
capacity to grow, adapt and mobilize as
needed.
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Defense Research and Engineering
Strategy
“Protect and prioritize key investments in technology and new
capabilities, as well as our capacity to grow, adapt and
mobilize as needed.”
Technology Needs
-SECDEF, January 2012 Strategic Guidance
1. Mitigate new and emerging threat capabilities
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Cyber
Counter Space
- Electronic Warfare
- Counter-WMD
2. Affordably enable new or extended
capabilities in existing military systems
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Systems Engineering
Prototyping
Interoperability
- Modeling and Simulation
- Developmental Test & Evaluation • Cyber / Electronic Warfare
- Power & Energy
• Engineering / M & S
3. Develop technology surprise through
science and engineering
• Capability Prototyping
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• Advanced Machine Intelligence
Autonomy
Human Systems
Quantum
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- Data-to-Decisions
- Hypersonic
• Protection & Sustainment
• Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD)
DOD Basic Research: the Early
Foundations of Progress
40s
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60s
70s
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• Nuclear weapons
• Digital computer
• Satellite comm.
• Airborne GMTI/SAR
• GPS
• Wideband networks
• GIG
• Radar
• ICBM
• Integrated circuits
• Stealth
• UAVs
• Web protocols
• Armed UAVs
• Proximity fuse
• Transistor
• Phased-array radar
• Strategic CMs
• Night vision
• Precision munitions
• Optical SATCOM
• Sonar
• Laser technology
• Defense networks
• IR search and track
• Personal computing
• Solid state radar
• Data mining
• Jet engine
• Nuclear propulsion
• Airborne surv.
• Space track network
• Counter-stealth
• Advanced robotics
• Advanced seekers
• LORAN
• Digital comm.
• MIRV
• C2 networks
• BMD hit-to-kill
• Speech recognition
• Decision support
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Why Basic Research at DOD?
(from the DSB Task Force Report on Basic Research)
• Basic research probes the limits of today’s technologies
and discovers new phenomena and know‐how that
ultimately lead to future technologies.
• Basic research funding attracts some of the most creative
minds to fields of critical DOD interest.
• Basic research funding creates a knowledgeable workforce
by training students in fields of critical DOD interest.
• Basic research provides a broad perspective to prevent
capability surprise by fostering a community of U.S. experts
who are accessible to DoD, and who follow global progress
in both relevant areas, as well as those that may not seem
relevant — until they are.
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Five Examples of DOD Basic Research
Leading to Game Changers
• Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) System
• Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) Microwave Electronics
• Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM)
• Stealth Technology
• Kalman Filter
Reference: Defense Science Board Task Force, p10
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DOD Basic Research 2015 PBR
Total RDT&E
$63.5B
Constant Dollars ($B) and % of RDT&E
2,4
4,0%
Applied
Research,
$4.5B, 7%
3,5%
2,0
Operational
Systems
Development
$24.4B, 38%
3,0%
1,6
2,5%
1,2
2,0%
Advanced
Technology
Development
$5.0B, 8%
1,5%
0,8
1,0%
0,4
0,5%
0,0
0,0%
FISCAL YEAR
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Basic
Research
$2.0B, 3%
RDT&E
Management
Support
$4.2B, 7%
System
Development &
Demonstration
$11.1B, 18%
Advanced
Component
Development &
Prototypes
$12.3B, 19%
DOD Basic Research by Component
FY15 President’s Budget Request
TOTAL
$2,018 M
Air Force
$454.5 M, 22%
DARPA
$362.0 M
18%
OSD
$114.5 M, 6%
Chem Bio
$48.3 M, 2%
DTRA
$37.8 M, 2%
Navy
$576.3 M, 29%
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Army
$424.2 M, 21%
DoD Basic Research is 6% of
Overall Federal Agency Support
Total
$32.9B
DOE
13%
NASA
8%
NSF
16%
DOD
6%
DHHS
50%
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Other
1%
Smithsonian
1%
Veterans Affairs
1%
Agriculture
3%
Commerce
1%
DoD Dominates Share of Federal Basic
Research in Certain Fields
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
DoD
71%
Other
1% NASA
2%
DoD
86%
NSF
26%
SOURCE: FY 08 obligations from “Federal Funds for Research and
Development” survey data on NSF WebCASPAR system
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Other
NSF
2% NASA 7%
5%
Basic Research Program
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6 High Priority S&T areas for DoD
• Metamaterials and Plasmonics
• Quantum Information Science
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
• Synthetic Biology
• Understanding Human and Social Behavior
Within the broader set of sciences critical
to DoD
Trends in basic research are identified and judged through a variety of
interactions, including:
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Publications, university site visits, conference attendance
Future Directions Workshops (identifying emerging areas for investment and International
Centers of Excellence for collaborative opportunities)
Engage expert panels (JASONs, National Academy of Sciences, etc…)
Understanding and creating the cutting edge
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Five Elements for
Defense Basic Research Strategy
Goal: Create conditions for basic research investments capable of
creating high-payoff, transformative scientific breakthroughs for DoD
Provide Scientific Leadership for the
DoD Basic Research enterprise
Ensure Coherence
and Balance
Foster DoD
Connections between
of the DoD Basic Research
Portfolio
DoD BR Performers
and the DoD Community
Defense
Basic
Research
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Attract the Nation’s
Best S&Es
Maximize the
Discovery Potential
to contribute to and lead DoD
research
of the Defense Research
Business Environment
Programs and
Program Policy