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. This Program Element also supports innovation and robust transition planning in the technology cycle by working with entrepreneurs to increase the likelihood that DARPA funded technologies take root in the U.S. and provide new capabilities for national defense. 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 application space of the biological sciences for the development of new DoD capabilities in materials development, threat detection, and warfighter performance. Contained in this project are thrusts that apply biology's unique synthesis capabilities to source DoD-relevant materials and overcome current limitations in accessing, scaling, and distributing critical microbes and resources to achieve overmatch. Programs in this project enable in situ and stand-off detection and mitigation of biological, chemical, traditional, and emerging threats against the warfighter, the food supply, DoD infrastructure, and other targets. This Project also includes efforts to develop novel biological technologies for maintaining the performance of warfighters and warfighting platforms in increasingly challenging environments. This Project supports innovation and robust transition planning in the technology cycle by working with entrepreneurs to increase the likelihood that DARPA-funded technologies take root in the U.S. and provide new capabilities for national defense.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0602715E_2_0400_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2021: Decrease reflects SBIR/STTR transfer offset by reprogrammings. FY 2022: Decrease reflects a reduction for Unjustified Increase. FY 2023: FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President's Budget request did not include out-year funding.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Biomedical
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Biological Sciences
• Biosensors
• Biotechnology
• Construction
• Detection
• Environment
• Environmental Health
• Health Services
• Manufacturing
• Materials Processing
• Materials Science
• Medical Personnel
• National Security
• Sea Level Rise
• Synthetic Biology
• Test And Evaluation
• Traumatic Stress Disorder

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Nanocomposite Materials Science

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Microelectronics
• Space