(U) COST: (Dollars in Thousands)
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| NUMBER & | FY 1996 | FY 1997 | FY 1998 | FY 1999 | FY 2000 | FY 2001 | FY 2002 | FY 2003 | TO | TOTAL |
| TITLE | ACTUAL | ESTIMATE | ESTIMATE | ESTIMATE | ESTIMATE | ESTIMATE | ESTIMATE | ESTIMATE | COMPLETE | PROGRAM |
| Ocean Sciences | 571 | 587 | 636 | 623 | 634 | 650 | 672 | 693 | CONT. | CONT. |
| Advanced Materials | 1,850 | 1,883 | 2,025 | 1,985 | 2,020 | 2,069 | 2,138 | 2,207 | CONT. | CONT. |
| Information Sciences | 1,143 | 1,163 | 1,255 | 1,231 | 1,252 | 1,283 | 1,325 | 1,368 | CONT. | CONT. |
| Sustained Programs | 11,440 | 11,050 | 11,918 | 12,397 | 12,685 | 12,970 | 13,393 | 13,843 | CONT. | CONT. |
| TOTAL | 15,004 | 14,683 | 15,834 | 16,236 | 16,591 | 16,972 | 17,528 | 18,111 | CONT. | CONT |
A. (U) MISSION DESCRIPTION AND BUDGET ITEM JUSTIFICATION: This program supports the missions of the Naval Warfare Centers with high-risk/high-payoff research, responding as shown below to the Department of the Navy (DON) Joint Mission Areas/Support Areas (JMA/SA) and enabling the technologies that could significantly improve Joint Chiefs of Staff's Future Joint Warfighting Capabilities. The research addresses fundamental questions regarding existing and anticipated naval systems, and is supported within the Office of Naval Research (ONR) thrusts in Ocean Sciences, Advanced Materials, Information Sciences, and its Sustaining Program. This program reflects the integration of efforts both within Warfare Centers and among other research performers. Research efforts are proposed and selected by the Warfare Centers, and reviewed after the fact for the quality of science produced and for relevance to the naval mission.
(U) This program responds to the Joint Littoral JMA through ocean sciences research into the variability of the marine environment, such as acoustic shallow water (SW) models that incorporate wave-breaking sources, allowing superior signal processing in SW environments. Research advancing fundamental understanding of DON-essential materials and processes responds to operational capability requirements in the Maritime Support of Land Forces JMA, such as the recent development of an aluminum based, metal-matrix, high-temperature superconducting material that can be extruded into wires for significantly improved naval electrical power systems. The program responds to the Joint Surveillance JMA through thrusts in information sciences that address naval-relevant computing applications including software engineering, high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and the use of computers in manufacturing. For example, the development of an advanced signal processing technique for the analysis of real Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) broadband acoustic data provides detection performance which exceeds the conventional energy detector in high noise ASW applications. Research in other areas supports requirements of the Readiness JMA, such as discovering redox chemicals for use in "smart" coatings which alter color when degraded and serve as early warning systems for corrosion of naval systems.
(U) Due to the sheer volume of efforts included in this Program Element, the programs described in the Accomplishments and Plans sections are representative selections of the work included in this program element.
(U) The Navy S&T program includes projects that focus on or have attributes that enhance the affordability of warfighting systems.
(U) JUSTIFICATION FOR BUDGET ACTIVITY: This program is funded under BASIC RESEARCH because it encompasses scientific study and experimentation directed towards increasing knowledge and understanding in broad fields directly related to long-term Department of the Navy (DON) needs.
(U) PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PLANS:
1. (U) FY 1996 ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
(U) ($571) Ocean Sciences responded to the Maritime Support of Land Forces JMA by studying remote sensing of water mass structures and currents, including surface fluxes and Langmuir circulation, small-scale Ocean-Atmosphere interaction, and current estimation from space, rain, and scattering.
(U) ($1,850) Advanced Materials responded to the Joint Littoral JMA by tailoring polymers at the molecular level to achieve reduced submarine acoustic signatures, and responded to the Joint Strike JMA by enhancing the orientation stability in nonlinear optical polymers.
(U) ($1,143) Information Sciences responded to the Joint Strike and Surveillance JMA's by advancing the knowledge and skills of computational statistics as applied to image processing, and responded to the Joint Littoral JMA by examining new classification techniques for threat neutralization.
(U) ($11,440) Sustaining Programs responded to the Joint Strike, Joint Littoral and Maritime Support of Land Forces JMA's by describing the underlying physics of the detonation process which will lead to new and novel warhead designs with desired degree of lethality, and responded to the Readiness, Support and Infrastructure JMA by investigating biomedical preventions and treatments for operational injuries due to decompression and oxygen toxicity, heat and cold exposure, spatial disorientation, fatigue, hazardous materials, and radiation.
2. (U) FY 1997 PLAN:
(U) ($587) Ocean Sciences will respond to the Joint Littoral JMA by investigating very-shallow-water physics as it relates to the performance of mine countermeasure sensors.
(U) ($1,883) Advanced Materials will respond to the Maritime Support of Land Forces and Joint Strike JMA's by investigating shock induced damage and failure mechanisms, at the atomic level, in metals used in warheads and in armor.
(U) ($1,163) Information Sciences (signal processing and statistical sciences) will respond to the Readiness JMA by using advanced time-frequency analysis techniques in conditioned based monitoring of shipboard machinery to better diagnose and maintain the surface and submarine fleet and will respond to Joint Strike JMA by developing new signal and imaging processing algorithms to improve effectiveness of autonomous target recognition/guidance.
(U) ($11,050) Sustaining Programs will respond to Joint Strike JMA by studying supersonic turbine engine combustion technology and improved energetic materials; will respond to the readiness, support and infrastructure JMA by researching biomedical methods for disease prevention and treatment, wound repair, blood loss, hemorrhagic and septic shock, transplantation, and musculoskeletal injury; and will respond to the Joint Littoral JMA by developing advanced processing technologies for mine countermeasure operations in SW and VSW.
3. (U) FY 1998 PLAN:
(U) ($636) Ocean Sciences will respond to the Joint Littoral Warfare JMA in the undersea battlespace dominance area by studying techniques for the near optimum detection of unknown signals and fluid-elastic interface modeling, both of which contribute to improved sonar performance in shallow water
(U) ($2,025) Advanced Materials will respond to the Joint Littoral Warfare JMA in the undersea battlespace dominance area by molecular modeling of new sonar transducer materials and the use of tessellation theory to design efficient multi-element transducers.
(U) ($1,255) Information Sciences will respond to the Joint Littoral JMA by formulating new concepts and algorithms to fuse data collected from multiple sensor platforms deployed in the shallow water environment for the purpose of environmental mapping and classification/identification of bottom targets.
(U) ($11,918) Sustaining Programs will respond to the maritime support of land forces and joint strike JMAs by investigating drag reducing hull forms, improved maneuvering performance of ships and subs in littoral waters, developing expanded capabilities in computational fluid dynamics for the improved efficiency, maintainability and reliability of naval propulsors and turbomachinery, and the detection of wake signatures.
4. (U) FY 1999 PLAN:
(U) ($623) Ocean Sciences will respond to the Joint Littoral JMA by investigating physical mechanisms for deposition of high energy acoustic or seismic pulses on elastic objects deployed on or in the bottom of a shallow water ocean environment.
(U) ($1,985) Advanced Materials will respond to the Joint Strike and Joint Littoral JMA's by studying energetic materials using nanosize fuels and high heat of reaction intermetallic ingredients to enhance warhead performance, by synthesizing high performance, insensitive explosive ingredients (based on principles of molecular charge delocalization and graphitic-like crystal structures) for penetrator applications, by studying the dynamic shock wave properties of warhead materials to support the modeling and design of warheads, and by developing equations of state and reaction rate models for use in hydrodynamic code modeling of warheads.
(U) ($1,231) Information Sciences statistical analyses will reduce the complexities of signals and of the algorithms for signal processing to advance the capability for electronic warfare and electronic countermeasures in joint strike and joint surveillance JMA's, with enhanced detection probability and diminished tracking time in cluttered environments and in the presence of false targets.
(U) ($12,397) Sustaining Programs will respond to the Strike Warfare and Command, Control and Communications JMAs by investigating the three-dimensional effects of loss mechanisms in non-ideal, thin-film, integrated waveguide structures for opto-electronic applications.
B. (U) PROGRAM CHANGE SUMMARY:
FY 1996 FY 1997 FY 1998 FY 1999
(U) FY 1997 President's Budget: 15,390 15,309 16,525 17,102
(U) Adjustments from FY 1997 PRESBUDG: -386 -626 -691 -866
(U) FY 1998/1999 PRESBUDG Submission 15,004 14,683 15,834 16,236
(U) CHANGE SUMMARY EXPLANATION:
(U) Funding: FY 1996 reduction reflects Jordanian F-16 financing rescission (-$18); and internal DON adjustments
(-$366). FY 1997 adjustments reflect Congressional undistributed reduction (-$626). FY 1998 adjustments reflect internal DON realignments (+$906); and Navy Working Capital fund (NWCF) and minor rate adjustments (-1,597). FY 1999 reductions reflect internal DON adjustments (-$712) and NWCF and minor rate adjustments (-$154).
(U) Schedule: Not applicable.
(U) Technical: Not applicable.
C. (U) OTHER PROGRAM FUNDING SUMMARY: Not applicable.
(U) RELATED RDT&E:
(U) PE 0601101A (In-House Laboratory Independent Research)
(U) PE 0601101F (In-House Laboratory Independent Research)
(U) PE 0601153N (Defense Research Sciences)
(U) PE 0602111N (Surface/Aerospace Surveillance & Weapons Technology)
(U) PE 0602234N (Materials, Electronics & Computer Technology)
(U) PE 0602314N (Undersea Surveillance & Weapons Technology)
D. (U) SCHEDULE PROFILE: Not applicable.