MATERIALS AND BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY
Abstract
The Materials and Biological Technology 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, fabrication and processing techniques, models, 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 technology areas including manufacturing, electronics, sensors, optics, and complex and autonomous systems. 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 that apply biology's unique fabrication and manufacturing capabilities to produce novel chemicals and materials at scale, as well as research to develop new high-throughput methods and devices to analyze biological changes at the cellular and molecular level. Additional work leverages advances in synthetic biology to engineer novel biological systems and develop new approaches to biosecurity. This project also includes major efforts aimed at integrating biological, computational, and digital sensing methodologies to explore neuroscience technology and maintain human combat performance.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 0602715E_2_0400_PB_2019
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2017: Decrease reflects Congressional reduction, reprogrammings and the SBIR/STTR transfer. FY 2018: N/A FY 2019: Decrease reflects completion of the BioDesign and Biological Robustness in Complex Settings programs in FY 2018.
- Service Agency Name
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Entities
Organizations
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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