Future Naval Capabilities Applied Research

Abstract

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) works closely across the Department of the Navy (DON) and Naval Research Enterprise (NRE) to develop high priority technological capabilities needed by the operational forces. From their beginnings, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have leveraged technology innovation to gain decisive advantage. However, breakthroughs don't happen overnight. Critical to sustaining the pipeline of new capabilities, is maintaining a priority-driven portfolio of naval science and technology (S&T) to deliver solutions to known requirements, and experiment with potential game-changing ideas. The Naval S&T budget supports higher guidance defined by the National Defense Strategy, and responds to requirements identified by the Secretary of the Navy. Specifically, this PE develops component technologies in the Future Naval Capabilities (FNC) Program primarily to address cost, schedule and performance challenges in acquisition programs, accelerating delivery. The term Technology Candidate refers to component applied research efforts, which contingent on success, will continue development as FNCs in PE 0603673N Advanced Technology Development. Efforts in this PE are coordinated with related work in the USMC Technology Candidates Activity of PE 0602131M Marine Corp Landing Force Technology. This Program Element (PE) funds Applied Research, which is the systematic study to understand the means to meet a recognized and specific need. Most of the work in this PE can be classified between Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 2 (technology concept and/or application formulation) and TRL 4 (component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environments). Due to the number of efforts in this PE, the programs described herein are representative of the work included in this PE.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 0602750N_2_1319_PB_2021
• Change Summary Explanation: Funding: No significant change. Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Autonomy
• C4I
• Cyber
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Antisubmarine Warfare
• Artificial Intelligence
• Combat Areas
• Computers
• Data Science
• Information Science
• Information Warfare
• Logistics
• Maintenance
• Military Organizations
• Military Science
• National Security
• Naval Operations
• Navy
• Robotics
• Test And Evaluation
• Warfare

Readers

• Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.