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 materials, devices 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, energetic materials and devices, low distortion optical lenses, and materials that enable new propulsion concepts for land, sea, and space vehicles. The Biologically Based Materials and Devices project acknowledges the growing and pervasive influence of the biological sciences on the development of new DoD capabilities. This influence extends throughout the development of new materials, devices, and processes and relies on the integration of biological breakthroughs with those in engineering and the physical sciences. Contained in this project are thrusts in the application of biomimetic materials and devices for Defense, the use of biology's unique fabrication capabilities to produce structures that cannot be made any other way, the application of materials in biological applications, and the development of manufacturing tools that use biological components and processes for materials synthesis. This project also includes major efforts aimed at integrating biological and digital sensing methodologies and maintaining human combat performance despite the extraordinary stressors of combat. Finally, this thrust will develop new cognitive therapeutics, investigate the role of complexity in biological systems, and explore neuroscience technologies.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 0602715E_2_0400_PB_2017
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2015: Decrease reflects reprogrammings and the SBIR/STTR transfer. FY 2016: Decrease reflects congressional reduction. FY 2017: Decrease reflects a reduction to Materials Processing and Manufacturing efforts and completion of the Manufacturable Gradient Index Optics (M-GRIN) program.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• C4I
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Additive Manufacturing
• Advanced Materials
• Biological Sciences
• Chemistry
• Cognitive Science
• Complex Systems
• Computational Science
• Control Systems
• Energetic Materials
• Fabrication
• Gradient-Index Optics
• Manufacturing
• Materials Processing
• Materials Science
• Mathematical Models
• Tensile Strength
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Reinforced Composite Materials

Technology Areas

• Biotechnology
• Space