MATERIALS AND BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY
Abstract
This program element is budgeted in the Applied Research Budget Activity because its objective is to develop material, biological and energy technologies that make possible a wide range of new military capabilities. The major goal of the Materials Processing Technology project is to develop novel materials, materials processing techniques, mathematical models and fabrication strategies for advanced structural and functional materials and components that will lower the cost, increase the performance, and/or enable new missions for military platforms and systems. Included in this project are efforts across a wide range of materials including: structural materials and devices, functional materials and devices, and materials that enable new propulsion concepts for land, sea, and space vehicles and low distortion optical lenses. The Biologically Based Materials and Devices project acknowledges the growing and pervasive influence of the biological sciences on the development of new materials, devices and processes, as well as the commensurate influence of materials, physics and chemistry on new approaches to biology and biochemistry. Contained in this project are thrusts in the application of biomimetic materials and devices for Defense, the development of biochemical materials to maintain performance, the use of biology's unique fabrication capabilities to produce structures that cannot be made any other way, and the development of manufacturing tools that use biological components and processes for material synthesis. It also supports a major thrust that will revolutionize the development of prosthetics for the wounded soldier. The Tactical and Strategic Energy Technology project is focused on the unique challenges facing the DoD in developing and demonstrating advanced power generation and energy storage technologies. It will address critical military needs for improved energy efficiency and availability to support a range of military missions that include individual warfighter and small unit operations, large platform operations, and sustainment of forward operating bases. At the individual warfighter and small unit operations level, efforts are addressing the need for mission extending power generation and energy storage technologies with particular emphasis on portability and robustness challenges that are unique to the DoD. At the large platform and forward operations scale, efforts are addressing needs for deployable energy storage and more efficient power generation and distribution technologies. As electronic systems are common to all scales of power generation and energy storage and management, this project also investigates improved board-level power conversion and regulation strategies to more efficiently convert and distribute high voltages to locally required low voltages for powering integrated circuits and sensors.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 0602715E_2_0400_PB_2012
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2010: Decrease reflects the transfer of "Center for Non-Proliferation Studies" congressional add to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, SBIR/STTR transfer and internal below threshold reprogrammings. FY 2012: Decrease reflects shift of on-going medical programs in Project MBT-02 to the new Biomedical Technology PE 0602115E and Defense Efficiencies for contractor staff support, partially offset by increases for power programs and transfer of the Vulcan effort from PE 0603286E, Advanced Aerospace Systems.
- Service Agency Name
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Entities
Organizations
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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