The Research Program supports focused collaborative research
projects in the fields of social science, physical science,
and engineering that have potential significance to military
transformation. The research results should provide national
security policy decision makers with analyses necessary to
make informed decisions on policy and the implications of
technology on national security. Proposals are solicited from
both the policy and technology arenas, however research supported
by the program should have a substantial technical component.
Nonetheless, the objective of the program is to investigate
the effects and implications of technology on national security
and not to support pure technical work. Technology has always
had a major role in defense and national security and the
Bush Administration's emphasis on military transformation
serves to spotlight the link between technology and national
security and defense policy. The objective of the program
is to examine these links by supporting research at civilian
institutions of higher learning and by building relationships
between these institutions and the National Defense University
(NDU).
This program supports specific projects on topics in the
in the following areas:
Technologies and issues of national
security policy that support the transformation of the military
to a netted, adaptable force capable of meeting the demands
of the 21st century
Terrorist organizational utilization of information
technology and potential countermeasures
Assessment of techniques for detecting weapons
of mass destruction and conventional explosives
Assessment of techniques for dealing with countermeasures
to ballistic missile defense
Concepts for closing the military capabilities
gap within NATO
Implications of COTS based weapons
Utility and potential of mini unmanned air vehicles
Utility of directed energy weapons for non-lethal
warfare in an urban environment
Analysis of performance parameters for all-electric
ships and vehicles
Space concepts for network centric communications
for land attack
Assessment of techniques and treaty compliance
of "short lifetime" and remotely controlled land mines
The program supports focused collaborative research projects
in the fields of social science, physical science, and engineering,
which, if successful, will lead to military benefits. The
Research Program funds project research in target areas of
national importance and in emerging areas that are of potential
significance to military transformation. It is anticipated
that the program will provide national security policy decision
makers analytic results necessary to making informed decisions
on policy and technology implications of national security
and which have the potential for impact on transformation
within 10 to 15 years.
