Science and Technology (S&T) Analytic Assessments

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) directly supports the call for developing innovative capabilities to meet the emerging threats in the areas of Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) environments, missiles, advanced Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS), surface warfare, warfare from under the sea, counter-terrorism, and counter-Weapons of Mass Destructions (WMD). With cross-domain challenges in areas such as cyber, electronic warfare, space, and Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) outlined in Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for the 21st Century Defense. The S&T analytic assessments performed under this budget item will include the following activities: - Threat envelope assessments beyond intelligence community products for identifying gaps in U.S. capability for critical threats (Red teaming). - Independent assessment of critical capability and technology development (Red teaming). - Architecture development and evaluation to develop new U.S. capability (Blue teaming). - Experimentation campaigns to demonstrate relevant technologies in preparation for rapidly transitioning the capability, either directly to warfighters, or to acquisition programs (Blue teaming). Due to the complexity of these capability gaps, the process for developing and executing these analytic assessments will span fiscal years and may have multiple phases. The emerging nature of the problem sets makes identification of studies beyond the budget year unlikely. Typically, the distribution of effort for studies, experiments and prototypes, and testing and integration will be roughly 30/40/30 percent. The first step in the process is to study problems or gaps identified by threat assessments and develop possible solutions; the second step develops those possible solutions into plans for experiments and prototypes; and finally, selected experiments or prototypes may be pursued to more fully develop the solution(s) for operational testing and integration. Implementation of this process could span a couple of years causing the portfolio to cascade from year to year with each effort moving through the phases of study, experiment, and test.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 0603288D8Z_3_0400_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: This is a new start program in FY 2015 to support the higher priorities of acquisition and operations of the Department. Funds added to expand capability assessments in the areas of Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) and investments in Defense Innovation Initiatives.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Counter WMD
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Defense
• Area Denial
• Ballistic Missiles
• Counterterrorism
• Cross Domain
• Defense Systems
• Electronic Warfare
• Emerging Threats
• Environment
• Experimental Data
• Intelligence Community
• Prototypes
• Reconnaissance
• Surface Warfare
• Surveillance
• Warfare
• Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Microelectronics
• Space