Defense Research Sciences

Abstract

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) was established by Congress in 1946 to plan, foster and encourage scientific research in recognition of its paramount importance to maintaining American naval power. This Program Element (PE) addresses DON's basic research needs to target and solve some of the Navy's and national most vexing challenges. Basic research is the seed corn for new ideas and lays the foundation for new innovative technologies and future naval capabilities. This PE's basic research efforts include scientific study and experimentation directed toward increasing knowledge and understanding of national security in the maritime domain and related aspects of physical, chemical, engineering, environmental and life sciences. Ultimately, basic research efforts lead to and support more advanced aspects of applied research in capability-related 'thrusts', which advance Navy and Marine Corps objectives in: Autonomous Systems; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4); Information Analysis and Decision Support; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Logistics; Materials; Operational Environments; Platforms; Power and Energy Technology; Sensors and Electronics; Warfighter Performance and Protection; Weapons; and Science, Technology, Education and Mathematics (STEM) education and outreach. Decisive naval capability begins with Science and Technology (S&T) research. This PE ensures a robust portfolio of naval relevant S&T and enables new technological concepts to maintain maritime superiority. These investments are selected to meet research priorities set by the Chief of Naval Research and defined in the Naval Research and Development Framework, which support Navy and Marine Corps near to long-term requirements. Scientific breakthrough from this research become solutions to technical challenges via the Future Naval Capabilities (FNCs) pipeline, and new capability options for the future in the Innovative Naval Prototypes (INPs) portfolio. Today's Sailors and Marines are enabled by naval Science and Technology (S&T). Since its inception, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has fostered scientific research related to the maintenance of maritime superiority and national defense. ONR manages the Department of the Navy's (DON) portfolio of naval Basic and Applied research, and Advanced Technology Development investments to ensure naval forces can effectively deter conflict, but when called upon, fight, win and come home safe. Current investments hedge against uncertainty, providing solutions to commanders today, and options for the future. The Naval S&T budget supports higher guidance defined by the National Defense Strategy, and responds to requirements identified by the Secretary of the Navy through research priorities set by the Chief of Naval Research, coordinated across the Naval Research Enterprise (NRE), and outlined in the Naval R&D Framework. In addition, ONR's S&T investment portfolio supports National Naval Responsibilities (NNR) critical to the naval services where the Navy has historically taken the lead (ocean acoustics, undersea weapons, naval engineering, undersea medicine and sea-based aviation) to ensure decisive naval capability in the maritime domain. This Program Element (PE) funds Basic Research and systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without specific applications towards processes or products in mind. The work in this PE can be classified between Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 1 (basic principles observed and reported) and TRL 2 (technology concept and/or application formulation). Due to the number of efforts in this PE, the programs described herein are representative of the work included in this PE.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2021
Source ID
0601153N_1_1319_PB_2021
Change Summary Explanation
Funding: The reduction in FY 2021 is due to completion of the Basic Research Challenge efforts and Young Investigator Program efforts, and due to the realignment of resources for basic research administered through ONR Global to higher priority Navy requirements.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustics
  • Aircrafts
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Network Science
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Microelectronics

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