Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035: Becoming a 21st-Century Force Volume 2: Technology (1997) / Chapter Skim
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1 OVERVIEW OF TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES
1 OVERVIEW OF TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES
Pages 9-27
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Vision, belief in the forecasts, strategic planning based on that belief, investments in development and applications, and rapid adoption by the Navy are all additional ingredients necessary to turn a technology dream into real systems for the future. DRIVING TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION AREAS The foundation of future naval superiority will be information.
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These global commercial services will have a profound impact on future naval operations. They will be available to cooperative forces as well as adversaries around the world.
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The panel believes that a possible solution to the software dilemma is to create domains of expertise within naval operations, such as avionics, missile guidance, command and control, and so on, and to practice within these domains a higher degree of reuse of software modules and develop software logic synthesis tools, automatic programming tools, and other methods that will boost productivity significantly. Object-oriented programming, an approach that demands well-defined building blocks and that encourages reuse, should be a major factor in future software development.
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The OTHER SHORED 7 SATELLITE I WEATHER | COMM IMAGERY / _ ~ EXPEDITIONARY / / FORCES ~` ~ 1 CONUS I FORCES \\ ARGs AT SEA ~A'RCRAFT INDEPENDENT/ SHIPS LIFT ARGs · Transparent wideband global communications · Any data all the time · Common databases · Instant information access · Intelligent support systems · Secure FIGURE 1.1 Global distributed collaboration is key to future naval operations.
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The growth in these critical underlying technologies will determine the sensor capabilities available to future naval forces. The panel anticipates a significant change in the use of sensors as we know them today.
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UUVs will be operated both by submarines and surface combatants and will provide economical force multiplication, increased and extended underwater battle-space awareness, and reduction in exposure of humans to hostile action. UAVs will view the battle space with EO/IR and SAR and other types of sensors, participate in cooperative engagements against difficult targets, such as low observable seaskimming missiles, collect enemy radar and communication signals, hunt mines
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The panel believes this computational materials design approach will enable breakthroughs in ferrous alloys, titanium matrix composites, polymer composites, high-temperature ceramics, wideband gap semiconductors, and smart
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Unique nanophase materials for new applications and smart materials based on shape memory alloys, ferroelectrics, and ferromagnets that can be adapted for mechanical and electrical applications and on wideband gap semiconductors will be the technology drivers of the future. Power and Propulsion Warfare in the 21st century likely will bring the use of advanced technologies and combat systems with ranges, lethality, and detection capabilities surpassing anything known in contemporary warfare.
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Because naval operations in littoral waters are of growing importance, the Department of the Navy will require large-scale models that can accurately simulate the physical state of a littoral zone under various scenarios of weather. The panel envisions that in 10 years models could be developed that are time-dependent and three-dimensional with outputs that would be presented in multidimensional graphical visualization systems to identify patterns of currents, temperature fronts, and so on.
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The SBA computer environment integrates models and simulations, engineering and physics, operations, and doctrine to evaluate overall product value and cost, guide the development process, and establish support operations of the product during its life cycle. SBA also features an interactive, immersive synthetic environment, integrated collaboration tools, legacy analysis and modeling tools that are "wrappered" to achieve compatible interface standards, smart agents to aid information collection and integration, advanced information sharing and distribution, and advanced product and process optimization tools.
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It is clear to the panel that for the Navy and Marine Corps space offers innumerable advantages for rapid and secure global communications, monitoring of the air and sea environment, locating and targeting adversary naval and air forces, and carrying out potentially soft and hard kills of targets. Space will continue to provide the high ground for line-of-sight access to the ocean areas of the globe and is integral to the mission responsibility of the Department of the Navy.
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Based on rapid advances in MEMS technology, sophisticated CBW detection devices are being developed by DARPA and others that show promise of being sensitive, small, rugged, and low in cost and hence could be deployed on UAVs to provide advanced warning. The panel encourages continued support of this exciting technology as a keystone means for staying ahead of the CBW aggressor.
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The first key benefit is illustrated in Figure 1.3. By combining computational power, information, communications, sensors, and the technologies that enhance human performance with more efficient enterprise processes, the Department of the Navy will realize much more efficient and effective use of people.
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Through the application of these powerful technologies the Department of the Navy can realize dominance in future naval operations (Figure 1.5~. Advanced sensors, long-duration UUVs and UAVs, high-performance on-board
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SENSORS ~`'`-_ AUTOMATION ENVI RONMENTAL INFORMATION/> · COMPLETE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS · INFOWARFARE · ALL THREATS IDENTIFIED AND TARGETED · SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS INTEROPERABILITY · SMART WEAPONS · TIMELY BATTLE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT ~ COMPUTATION ) FIGURE 1.5 In the future, dominant naval operations will result from the use of these technologies.
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Because of their importance, these technologies deserve careful attention in the months and years ahead: . Micro- and nanoscale technologies Microelectromechanical systems Nanoscale electronic circuits Systems-on-a chip; Teraflop affordable computers and petaflop high-performance computers; Genomics the marriage of biotechnology, genetics, and electronics; Smart materials involving nanophase materials engineering; Ubiquitous wideband communications and connectivity; Global distributed collaboration; Multisensory virtual reality environments; Information warfare, defensive and offensive; Autonomous agents; and Signature management and warfare.
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The environment in which future naval forces will exist and in which they will have to function effectively will be characterized by continuing budget stringency, barring the emergence of some future mortal threat to the United States and its allies. Regardless of the level of resources that will be allocated to support the creation of the entering wedges of capability that this full study on technology for future naval forces foresees as essential to future naval force viability, and however they are found, the R&D part of those resources will have to be invested as effectively as possible, and in a timely manner.
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radar, IR and advanced infrared search and track [IRSTi, multispectral imaging, embedded microsensors and "smart" skins and structures, lasers, SQUIDs) ; · The sensor technologies would be joined in application with specialized information technologies (secure data access; stealth and counterstealth; ASW; chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons detection; automatic target recognition)
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R&D expenditures by the Navy Department in these areas, and in the adaptation of civilian technology to naval force purposes, must be focused in two areas: development of unique naval force capabilities needed to support ongoing force improvement and creation of future capability; and development, by work-sharing arrangements in the joint environment, of capabilities that all the Services will be able to use. Deciding the allocation of resources between these two areas of effort will obviously be the responsibility of the Department of the Navy working with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the other military departments, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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