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. This PE funds Future Naval Capabilities (FNC) Technology Candidates, which are at lower Technology Readiness Level (TRLs), and is focused on maturing technologies to higher TRLs to reduce FNC transition risk. Efforts in this PE are coordinated with related work in the USMC Technology Candidates Activity of PE 0602131M Marine Corps 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 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, 2023
• Source ID: 0602750N_2_1319_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: Funding: The FY23 decrease between the PB22 and PB23 requests for this PE was due to better than expected progress maturing several FNC Technology Candidate efforts in the C4ISR and Sea Warfare Activities that are continuing into FY23. This progress supported lower FY23 requests within these Activities than originally expected. Technical: No significant change Schedule: No significant change --- FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President’s Budget request did not include out-year funding.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Application Software
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Systems
• Command And Control
• Computational Science
• Computers
• Cooperative Engagement Capability
• Detection
• Electronic Warfare
• Information Science
• Logistics
• Machine Learning
• Military Organizations
• Robotics
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Systems
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Readers

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