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 materials and biological 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 will leverage the growing and pervasive influence of the biological sciences for the development of new DoD capabilities. Contained in this project are thrusts that apply biology's unique fabrication and manufacturing capabilities to produce and detect novel DoD relevant chemicals, materials at scale, and devices for overmatch. Example projects include analyzing biological threats at the cellular and molecular level, mitigating the effect of threat agents on deployed warfighters, and developing remote, persistent sensor systems to detect terrestrial and maritime threats. This project also includes efforts to develop novel technologies for maintaining human combat performance.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 0602715E_2_0400_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2018: Decrease reflects Congressional reduction, SBIR/STTR transfer and reprogrammings. FY 2019: Decrease reflects Congressional reduction. FY 2020: Decrease reflects minor program repricing.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• Biomedical
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Sensors
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Advanced Materials
• Biological Sciences
• Construction
• Detection
• Fabrication
• Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
• Gene Therapy
• Immunomodulation
• Manufacturing
• Materials
• Materials Processing
• Medical Personnel
• Peripheral Nervous System
• Situational Awareness
• Space Environments
• Space Weather
• Therapy

Readers

• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
• Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Microelectronics