Advanced Innovative Technologies

Abstract

The Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) was created to identify, analyze, and accelerate capabilities to counter strategic adversaries and improve the United States posture for engaging future threats. A distributed enterprise amongst Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD), Combatant Commands (COCOMs), and the Intelligence Community (IC), SCO uniquely blends technology and concepts of operations to develop a full spectrum of innovative capabilities. Those meriting acceleration are worked as joint projects with the Services to speed transition time for rapid fielding. SCO breaks up objectives from Commanders' intent into specific projects inside a strategic plan. As part of its mission, SCO examines alternative strategies, such as: (1) explores multi-domain solutions (including cross-DoD/IC capabilities); (2) builds partnerships across national security divides; (3) analyzes cost effectiveness, risk, and performance; (4) develops prototypes to accelerate capabilities; and (5) increases the operational options available to senior leadership. Under this new start program, SCO will develop new strategic capabilities that provides options for the Department of Defense’s (DoD) operational priorities. New strategic capabilities will be composed of existing and advanced technologies and systems, with special emphasis on innovative and architecture-level concepts. The PE supports development, studies, analysis, and demonstration of integrated concepts and prototypes, analysis in support of ongoing efforts to shape and counter emerging threats, cross-Service and cross-Defense/Intelligence concepts, and red-teaming. Projects will focus on proving component and subsystem maturity prior to integration in major systems and may involve risk reduction initiatives. Specific applications and plans are available at a higher classification level.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Source ID
0604250D8Z_4_0400_PB_2014
Change Summary Explanation
This a FY 2014 New Start Program. The title for PE 0604250D8Z was changed from Systems 2020 Advanced Development and Prototypes to Advanced Innovative Technologies to meet the new defense strategy. Funds were realigned to meet the Department’s highest priorities for accelerating capabilities to address future threats.
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Guidance
  • Gun Mounts
  • Guns
  • Launchers
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Projectiles
  • Prototypes
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands

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  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

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