Defense Research Sciences

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) builds fundamental scientific knowledge contributing to the sustainment of United States (US) Army scientific and technological superiority in land warfighting capability and to solving military problems related to long-term national security needs, investigates new concepts and technologies for the Army's future force, and provides the means to exploit scientific breakthroughs and avoid technological surprises. This PE fosters innovation in Army niche areas (e.g., lightweight armor, energetic materials, and night vision capability) and areas where there is no commercial investment due to limited markets (e.g., vaccines for tropical diseases). It also focuses university single investigator research on areas of high interest to the Army (e.g., high-density compact power and novel sensor phenomenology). The in-house portion of the program capitalizes on the Army's scientific talent and specialized facilities to transition knowledge and technology into appropriate developmental activities. The extramural program leverages the research efforts of other government agencies, academia, and industry. This PE also supports basic research at the Army laboratories through the In-House Laboratory Independent Research (ILIR) program. The ILIR program serves as a catalyst for major technology breakthroughs by providing laboratory directors flexibility in implementing novel research ideas, by nurturing promising young scientists and engineers, and is used to attract and retain top doctoral degreed scientists and engineers. The ILIR program also provides a source of competitive funds for peer reviewed efforts at Army laboratories to stimulate high quality, innovative research with significant opportunity for payoff to Army warfighting capability. This PE also identifies emerging and disruptive basic scientific research outcomes in order to translate, integrate, and ingrain research outcomes with Army Warfighting Concepts which describe how the Army will fight in the far-term future. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0601102A_1_2040_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: Increased funding to support basic research enhancements for strategic competition.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Kinetic Weapons

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aging (Materials)
• Climate Change
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Computational Science
• Control Systems
• Health Services
• Information Processing
• Information Science
• Material Degradation Processes
• Materials Laboratories
• Materials Processing
• Materials Science
• Materials Testing
• Medical Personnel
• Network Science
• Quantum Computing
• Unmanned Systems

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Biotechnology