INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

The Information and Communications Technology program element is budgeted in the applied research budget activity because it is directed toward the application of advanced, innovative computing systems and communications technologies. The High Productivity, High-Performance Responsive Architectures project is developing the necessary computing hardware and the associated software technology base required to support future critical national security needs for computationally-intensive and data-intensive applications. These technologies will lead to new multi-generation product lines of commercially viable, sustainable computing systems for a broad spectrum of scientific and engineering applications; it will include supercomputer, embedded computing systems, and novel design tools for manufacturing of defense systems. The Information Assurance and Survivability project is developing the technology required to make emerging information system capabilities (such as wireless and mobile code/mobile systems) inherently secure, and to protect DoD's mission-critical systems against attack upon or through the supporting information infrastructure. These technologies will enable our critical systems to provide continuous correct operation even when they are attacked, and will lead to generations of stronger protection, higher performance, and more cost-effective security and survivability solutions scalable to several thousand sites. The Language Translation project will develop and test powerful new Human Language Technology that will provide critical capabilities for a wide range of national security needs. This technology will enable systems to a) automatically translate and exploit large volumes of speech and text in multiple languages obtained through a variety of means; b) to have two-way (foreign-language-to-English and English-to-foreign-language) translation; c) enable automated transcription and translation of foreign speech and text along with content summarization; and d) enable exploitation of captured, foreign language hard-copy documents. The Cyber Technology project supports long term national security requirements through the development and demonstration of technology to increase the security of military information systems. This involves networking, people, platforms, weapons sensors, and decision aids to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. The results are networked forces that operate with increased speed and synchronization and are capable of achieving massed effects without the physical massing of forces as required in the past.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 0602303E_2_0400_PB_2012
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2010: Decrease reflects internal below threshold reprogramming offset by SBIR/STTR transfer. FY 2012: Increase reflects expanded efforts in cyber related research and language translation offset by a reduction for Defense Efficiencies for contractor staff support.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Human Systems
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductors
• Computational Science
• Computer Networks
• Computer Programming
• Computers
• Control Systems
• Cyberattacks
• Detection
• Detectors
• Information Systems
• Integrated Circuits
• Language
• Manufacturing
• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
• National Security
• Operating Systems
• Semiconductors

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Cybersecurity.
• Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Cyber