DoD Research and Engineering Enterprise

Abstract

Technological superiority has been central to the strategy of the Department of Defense (DoD) for the past Century. The current Defense Strategy, dated January 2012, is based on five high-level tenets two of which rely directly on the continued technology superiority of the Department of Defense: 1. The military will be smaller and leaner, but it will be agile, flexible, ready and technologically advanced. 2. The Department will protect and prioritize key investments in technology and new capabilities, as well as our capacity to grow, adapt and mobilize as needed. The Department and nation are at a strategic crossroads the funds available to the Department (and government in general) are decreasing, while the complexity and depth of national security challenges are growing. The preservation and advancement of technology superiority requires heightened levels of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration between all members of the DoD Research and Engineering (R&E) Enterprise. The external factors that shape the Department s ability to deliver advanced technology-based capabilities continue to evolve, making the delivery of such capabilities more complex. While challenging, there is no doubt that exploiting advanced technologies will continue to be at the center of the Department s strategic path forward. The foundation of the Department s technological strength is its wide-ranging Research and Engineering (R&E) Enterprise. The enterprise includes the military departments and their laboratories, all other DoD laboratories and product centers, defense agencies such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), other federal government laboratories, federally funded research and development centers, university affiliated research centers, United States and allied universities, our allied and partner government laboratories, and the U.S.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA601360

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Assistant Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Materials
  • National Security
  • Navigation
  • Quantum Computing
  • Security
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test Methods
  • United States
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.