Technology Development
Abstract
The Technology Development funds provide DMEA with the resources to maintain an in-house ability to quickly develop and deliver timely, cost-effective, technically appropriate solutions to sustain weapon systems, to modernize their capabilities, increase their lethality, address new threats, and meet operational demands. These funds also support DMEA’s ability to partner with industry, other government agencies, and academia to enable streamlined access to a variety of microelectronics technologies and engineering services. These funds enable DMEA to provide increasingly rare government microelectronics design, fabrication, and test expertise to DoD programs. DMEA’s knowledge of varying military requirements across a broad and diverse range of combatant environments and missions—along with its unique technical perspective—allows it to develop, manage and deliver novel, decisive, quick turn microelectronics solutions for defense, intelligence, special operations, and cyber and combat missions. These funds allow DMEA to maintain and enhance critical, Trusted microelectronics design, aggregation, fabrication, post-processing, assembly and analysis capabilities to ensure that the Department is provided with solutions that enable or maintain the warfighter’s technological superiority over potential adversaries. These solutions use high mix, low volume, unique microelectronics that are endemic to military requirements but are not commercially available. In addition, funding provides for the research, development and support necessary to ensure availability of microelectronics technologies for weapon systems, particularly as the technologies advance and industry is increasingly unable or unwilling to provide them. DMEA looks to industry to see if it can provide the required solutions. If industry cannot or will not, only then does DMEA provide the necessary solutions using its in-house capabilities. A critical element required to enable continued success is DMEA’s protection of the industry partners’ valuable Intellectual Property (IP) and processes. DMEA is a small, agile government-owned and operated organization, providing the structure and confidence necessary to assure them that commercial IP is protected from potential competitors. This strategic and cooperative industry partnership approach allows DMEA to use industry-developed IP and processes by acquiring, installing, and applying them toward meeting the immediate and long-term needs of the Department. This unique capability is essential to all major weapon systems, combat operations, and support needs. As such, DMEA serves the Department, other US Agencies, industry and Allied nations. DMEA assists hundreds of Department programs every year. DMEA has provided its specialized engineering assistance and capabilities to older systems, current systems, and even to programs not yet in the production phase. Programs that DMEA has recently provided critical support to include Counter-Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) System, C-5, V-22, F-15, F-35, RQ-4 Global Hawk, AEGIS Advanced Surface Missile System, Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM), HH-60G Pave Hawk Helicopter, OSD Joint Fuze Technology Program, among many others. DMEA assists the Combatant Commands (COCOMs) including Special Operations, Intelligence, and the Radiation-Hard communities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 001_0603720S_3_0400_PB_2021
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