Maintaining Technology Advantage
Abstract
This Program Element provides funding to support efforts to maintain DoD's technology advantage. The targeting of U.S. capabilities by our strategic competitors create the potential to degrade core U.S. military technological advantages through unwanted technology transfer. The technology transfer, primarily unclassified technology, threatens DoD's ability to maintain the technology advantage required to support the lethality and survivability of the Joint Force. DoD is executing a campaign plan to maintain DoD's technology advantage. First, DoD is promoting strategic technology investment to provide DoD access to new and innovative technology. These investments are required to create breakthroughs in key areas of basic research, foster transition and decrease time to market of applied research to economically viable companies, and harvest U.S. innovation or with likeminded allies. Secondly, DoD must ensure its strategic technology investments are protected against unwanted technology transfer by developing and maintaining the tools and techniques that enable the U.S. engage in technology transfer at the time, place, and parties of our choosing. Thirdly, DoD must combat adversaries' attempts to thwart U.S. technology security mechanisms to control technology transfer. The Department will support these three efforts by developing the appropriate suite of analytic tools, a data acquisition strategy, and utilize program protection activities to address the threat over the long term. Program Protection Planning includes protection of critical program information, critical components and mission functions, and integrates high level security policies and practical expertise to specific RDA practices, systems engineering activities, and risk reduction activities. Through this initiative the Department is maturing system security engineering methodologies to protect controlled unclassified information, to include controlled technical information on contractor networks; improve mitigation of supply chain risk management risks, improve integration of cybersecurity into the engineering processes, mature processes to identify Critical Program Information integration of defense exportability features and improve program protection planning.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 0605797D8Z_6_0400_PB_2021
- Change Summary Explanation
- This continuity of effort is being transferred from the Defense Technical Analysis PE 0605798D8Z and the Systems Engineering PE 0605142D8Z beginning in FY 2020 to more appropriately align the efforts within the current OUSD(R&E) organization. FY 2020: -$2.000 million decease for excess growth $3.000 million increase for Securing American Science and Technology FY 2021 Internal Realignment for Higher Priorities includes: $10.000 million adjustment to support DoD priorities
- Service Agency Name
- Office of the Secretary Of Defense
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
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