DARPA Emerging Technologies

Abstract

Current research at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) investigates the realm of the possible and provides insight into future force structures. DARPA is pursuing critical breakthrough technologies to enable a dispersion of assets while maintaining concentrated effects. In particular, this article presents breakthrough research in disaggregated capabilities, hypersonic strike weapons, and directed energy. These capabilities will be essential for operations in anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) regions and offer to replace the monolithic manned platforms with a network of integrated systems disaggregated across teams of manned and unmanned air vehicles. Coupled with hypersonic standoff-strike munitions and enhanced directed-energy capabilities, these technologies provide a viable option for maintaining a credible global strike capability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1018283

Entities

People

  • Paul Calhoun

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Command And Control
  • Control Systems
  • Emerging Technology
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Lasers
  • Military Aircraft
  • National Security
  • Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Engines
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Directed Energy
  • Hypersonics