Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2000-2025

Abstract

This document presents the Department of Defense's (DoD) roadmap for developing and employing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the next 25 years (2000 to 2025). It describes the missions identified by theater warfighters to which UAVs could be applied, and couples them to emerging capabilities to conduct these missions. A series of Moore's Law-style trends are developed to forecast technological growth over this period in the key areas of propulsion, sensor, data link, and information processing capabilities. The result is a roadmap of capability- enhancing opportunities plotted against the life spans of current and projected UAVs. It is a map of opportunities, not point designs - a descriptive, not a prescriptive, future for UAVs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA391358

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Control Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Infrared Detectors
  • Military Applications
  • Semiconductors
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Warfare
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs