0602234N Materials, Electronics, and Computer Technology

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PROJECT NUMBER & TITLE	FY 1996 ACTUAL	FY 1997 ESTIMATE	FY 1998 ESTIMATE	FY 1999 ESTIMATE	FY 2000 ESTIMATE	FY 2001 ESTIMATE	FY 2002 ESTIMATE	FY 2003 ESTIMATE	TO COMPLETE	TOTAL PROGRAM
Materials, Electronics, and Computer Technology	78,105	84,724	76,653	87,445	92,289	93,708	95,099	97,372	CONT.	0	CONT.

A. (U) MISSION DESCRIPTION AND BUDGET ITEM JUSTIFICATION: This Program Element (PE) provides exploratory development to support all Navy advanced weapon and platform system concepts and needs in the areas of materials, electronics, and computer technology. Developmental tasks address significant improvements in terms of affordability, performance, reliability, environmental impact, and advanced distributed manufacturing to effect transition of advanced technology to the Navy fleet. Development efforts are part of an integrated Department of Navy Science and Technology process managed by the Office of Naval Research.

(U) This PE develops enabling technologies to support most Joint Mission Areas, for example:

Ò (U) Joint Strike: advanced thermal management materials for most platforms to reduce weight and cost.

Ò (U) Littoral Warfare: acoustic signature reducing materials, torpedo warhead materials, fiber optic sensors, vacuum

electronics, solid state low noise amplifiers, complex systems engineering, and high performance computing.

Ò Joint Surveillance: real-time targeting, connectivity, counter-jamming and deception, infrared sensors, broadband adaptive transmitter/receiver modules and control components, fiber optics technology, high performance

computing, and artificial intelligence.

Ò (U) Space and Electronics Warfare/Intelligence (SEW/I): lightweight and radiation-hard satellite materials, radio frequency (RF) solid state devices, high performance computing, complex systems reengineering, software engineering environments, human computer interaction, security and assured computing approaches and tools, and expert system technology.

Ò (U) Strategic Deterrence: advanced ballistic missile launcher materials, RF solid state devices for secure communications, engineering of complex systems, and high performance computing.

Ò (U) Forward Presence issues: high temperature pavements for advanced aircraft, RF solid state devices for secure communications, high power transmitters for precision strike, high performance computing, and decision aids.

Ò (U) Maritime Support of Land Forces: development of advanced distributed manufacturing capabilities and advanced long-life materials for repair of aircraft at sea.

(U) In addition, this PE directly underpins the Readiness Joint Support Area and Support and Infrastructure Joint Support Area especially in the domains of affordability, environmental quality, and logistics. Programs include environmentally acceptable coatings for both aircraft and ships and the maintenance of the Navy pier and wharf infrastructure for surge capacity. This PE also contributes to lower system life-cycle costs through development of technologies that realize more compact, lighter weight electronic components, and reduction of cost, schedule and operational manpower in computer-centric systems.

(U) This PE supports the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Science and Technology (S&T) Investment Strategy in the following Future Joint Warfighting Capabilities: Real-Time Knowledge of the Enemy, Prompt Engagement of Regional Forces on Global Basis, Lower-End Actions, Space Control, and Countering Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction; materials projects support affordable performance increases in radomes, infrared windows, advanced engines, and platform signature reduction to allow achievement of military objectives with minimum casualties and collateral damage; materials programs directly support lightweight, survivable satellite and spacecraft thermal control materials to positively affect the U.S. ability to control space usage. The PE is an integral part of the following Department of Defense (DoD) Key Technology Areas: Materials, Processes and Structures, Electronic Device and Processes, Electronics, and Information Systems Technology. As a foundation technology area it has impact in most other DoD key technology areas as well.

(U) Due to the sheer volume of efforts included in the PE, the programs described in the Accomplishments and Plans sections are representative selections of the work included in the program.

(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 budgeted within the APPLIED RESEARCH Budget Activity because it investigates technological advances with possible applications towards solution of specific Naval problems, short of a major developmental effort.

(U) PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PLANS:

1. (U) FY 1996 ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Ò (U) ($853) SHORE FACILITIES MATERIALS.

- (U) Completed field trials of high temperature pavements that are six times more resistant to AV-8B exhaust temperatures and velocities which should eliminate costly procurement and engine foreign object damage repair.

Ò (U) ($8,048) AIRBORNE MATERIALS.

- (U) Demonstrated growth and polishing of 1.5 mm (.060 in.) thick, 72 mm (2.84 in.) diameter diamond dome for an hypersonic (Mach 4+) missile infrared seeker applications.

- (U) Completed development of cast gamma titanium aluminide for aircraft engine high pressure compressor blades and vanes and low pressure turbines to replace superalloys for a 40% component weight savings.

- (U) Completed investigating low toxicity, high temperature resins for composite materials to replace PMR-15 resins in naval aircraft applications.

- (U) Attained a 15% toughness improvement in AerMet 100 steel through process control. This will permit greater margins of safety in naval applications of this steel, e.g., F/A-18E/F landing gear and F-14 wing pivot pins.

Ò (U) ($8,768) SEABORNE MATERIALS.

- (U) Continued development of anti-fouling, environmentally compliant hull coatings.

- (U) Continued evaluation of continuous cooling transformation diagrams for 100,000 pound yield strength high strength shlow alloy hull steels needed to control metallurgy and hydrogen cracking of welds in hulls.

- (U) Completed development of low strength (65,000 lb/sq-in tensile strength) low alloy steel to lower the cost of aircraft carrier construction by elimination of needs for welding preheat and post-welding heat treatment.

- (U) Completed development of advanced liner material for shipboard vertical launch systems.

Ò (U) ($2,339) MISSILE/SPACE MATERIALS.

- (U) Completed fabrication, ablation screening and initial aging studies of candidate replacement heat shield materials for Md4/Mk5 Reentry Bodies to address the non-availability of current material and meet the presidential mandated life extension to 60 years.

- (U) Completed payoff study for ceramic composite propulsion materials applicable to Theater Missile Defense systems divert and attitude control components. These materials will replace costly rhenium-based materials.

Ò (U) ($9,265) MULTI-MISSION MATERIALS.

- (U) Completed concept validation of the remotely addressable, embedded sensor concept using RF energy to energize sensors in resin-matrix composite materials and transmit sensor information to external receivers eliminating the need for wire attachment to external systems and initiated phase II project to develop sensors and detectors.

- (U) Completed development of high temperature superconductor wire for motor magnet windings and test in a superconducting motor and demonstrated operation in a superconducting homopolar motor. High temperature superconductors will permit motor application at liquid nitrogen rather than liquid helium temperatures (77 K

(-196^o C) vs. 20 K (-253^o C)).

- (U) Completed a study to apply laser countermeasure materials developed in the Laser Hardening program in the Next Generation Stinger.

- (U) Established a cooperative research agreement and patent license for the application of tubule-based, biomolecularly derived controlled release materials anti-fouling and mildew-control coatings.

Ò (U) ($7,187) RF SOLID STATE DEVICE AND CONTROL COMPONENTS.

- (U) Continued development of InGaAs/InP heterostructure power High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) (including power and power combining components) for use in Wide-band active aperture phased array component development.

- (U) Continued development of silicon carbide static induction transistor devices and structures that exhibit 10 Watts(W) of continuous power and air-bridged static induction transistors that exhibit 160 watts of continuous power at Short-band frequencies for Navy systems applications such as AEGIS.

- (U) Initiated development of high power (20KW) ultra high frequency (UHF) circulators for shipboard communications applications, especially for integrating multiple systems within a common aperture.

- (U) Continued development of 18-40 GHz Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) Driver for Millimeter Wave (MMW) Power Module for use in decoys and extending frequency range of the SLQ-32.

- (U) Completed demonstration of fixed frequency superdirective array for improved direction finding for small diameter anti-radiation missile seeker applications.

- (U) Continued development of high dynamic range, wide band Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) with very high second and third order intermodulation intercepts.

Ò (U) ($12,907) VACUUM ELECTRONICS.

- (U) Continued extension of Microwave Power Module (MPM) concept to higher frequencies with the development of MMW (20-40 GHz, 50-W) power modules.

- (U) Completed development of MPM capable of producing in excess of 10025 watts CW (within C-band) at extremely high efficiencies for use in an airborne antenna conformal to an E-2C.

- (U) Completed and distributed beta test version of the Millimeter Wave Advanced Computational Environment (MMACE) 2-dimensional Research and Engineering Framework (REF) with a preliminary design tool set selected for the design of a helix traveling wave tube (TWT).

- (U) Continued development of high power density Microwave (MW) window technology using man-made diamond. This technology is central to needed performance improvements in several Navy systems

- (U) Initiated the development of a high-power W-band gyro-klystron supporting defense interests in space object identification, ballistic missile defense, long range command guidance and non-cooperative target identification.

Ò (U) ($6,560) ELECTRO-OPTICS (E/O) TECHNOLOGY.

- (U) Continued development of fiber optic beamformer for phased array radar systems with emphasis on fast wavelength tuning of source, large dynamic range, and field testing of system, especially as related to the Advanced Technology Development (ATD) on shipboard Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) transmitter for ship defense.

- (U) Continued mid-Infrared fiber development to reduce impurity loss to <.5 dB/m, total loss <1.0 dB/m, and, increase mechanical strength to >75 ksi to support Electronic Warfare and hazardous waste detection applications.

- (U) Continumpleted development of 128 x 128 adaptive Infrared Focal Plane Array (IArrays (IRFPA)RFPA) with on-chip electronics to enhance the dynamic range to 120 dB and to implement offset nonuniformity correction. and initiated development of 256 x 256 adaptive IRFPA also with high dynamic range on-chip electronics to implement on-chip nonuniformity correction and preliminary filtering functions.

- (U) Continumpleted development of color-discriminating infrared (IR) detectors and initiated development of 128x128 color discriminating IRFPA.

- (U) Continued development of GaInSb/InAs superlattice based detectors as an alternative to HgCdTe-based detectors for higher temperature operation at longer wavelengths.

- (U) Completed development of 64x64 dual-band IRFPA and initiated development of 256x256 dual band IRFPA.

Ò (U) ($6,307) MICROELECTRONICS.

- (U) Continued development of three dimensional (3D) circuits on Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) with emphasis on Reduced Instruction Set (RISC) processor.

- (U) Completed demonstrationntinued development of analog front-end of 16 bit, 125 megasample/sec analog-digital converter for Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) applications.

- (U) Continued development of 100x100 synapse, 100 neuron analog self-learning artificial neural network.

- (U) Initiated development of sub 500nm - 250nm p-channel silicon germanium devices with T-gate structures in 50nm thick thin-film silicon-on-sapphire for improved transistor performance up to 50 GHz.

GHz.

- (U) Continued development of analog Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits for co-site interference cancellation applications.

Ò (U) ($1,886) ELECTRONIC AND E/O MATERIALS.

- (U) Continued development of wide bandgap III-V semiconductors such as GaN and AlN which will involve a combination of materials growth, device structure fabrication, and characterization to produce blue and ultra violet (UV) lasers and high power, high temperature operation of RF devices.

- (U) Completed development of techniques for growth of unstrained InGaAs/InAlAs heterostructures on GaAs substrates by means of compositionally graded layers acting as dislocation filters. The devices will be used for secure communications with applications to military and civilian users.

- (U) Completed contractual activity to demonstrate narrow band (less than 1 percent) high temperature superconducting bandpass filters capable of handling more than ten watts of incident MW power and initiate program to fabricate and characterize high temperature superconducting thin films optimized for high power MW components.

- (U) Initiated single-precursor growth of cubic silicon carbide substrates. The goal is to provide a method for producing low defect density substrates used in Navy high power RF electronics.

Ò (U) ($3,166) HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC).

- (U) Completed sea trial (TB-29) with laboratory hardened submarine towed array algorithms using Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware.

- (U) Demonstrated the capability of Processing Graph Method Tool (PGMT) to place Multiple Instruction Multiple Data (MIMD) parallel computers using static scheduling under Precision Guided Munitions (PGM).

- (U) Initiated the design of a Digital Library for the Warrior using parallel computers and demonstrate parallel image/video servers. Installed and worked with early research products from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/National Science Foundation (NSF)/National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Digital Library program.

Ò (U) ($2,700) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION.

- (U) Demonstrated the application of machine learning techniques for developing more reliable robotic software.

- (U) Redesigned multi-mode interfaces using new interaction techniques and conducted evaluation experiments.

- (U) Applied speech understanding lessons learned from Eucalyptus to a model for speech control in virtual environments to enhance operator effectiveness.

- (U) Demonstrated range-based sensing and control in mobile robots, suited to surveillance and other missions.

- (U) Assessed alternative approaches to the management of large and dynamic case-based memories, integrate model-and case-based reasoning; explore novel uses of cases viewed as active agents using a strict object-oriented model; these are key issues to making this approach effective in time constrained environments.

Ò (U) ($4,727) ENGINEERING OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS (ECS).

- (U) Released DESTINATION prototype, a software tool for automated specification and exploration of complex processor-intensive systems, including advanced capabilities to perform system level design capture, design optimization, and structuring and restructuring in a coherent, seamless manner. Hierarchical capabilities will allow manipulation of various levels of system design, component, and environment representations. Included are proven tailorable objective functions based on different measures-of-effectiveness criteria to ensure that system requirements are affordable for the system's projected life. Transition to Surface Combatant Surface Combat 21st Century (SC21) program.

- (U) Delivered prototype translator of CMS-2 (including embedded assembly language) to Ada. Completed and demonstrated test on actual Navy CMS-2 code. Highest success is with uncomplicated algorithms free from input/output.

- (U) Developed Software Infostructure through formalization of a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) reusable component strategy. Develop and demonstrate World-Wide-Web (WWW) and Java-based interfaces to Infostructure tools to assure portability while addressing potential security issues.

Ò (U) ($3,392) ADVANCED DISTRIBUTED MANUFACTURING DEMONSTRATION

- (U) Continued development of measures of effectiveness for distributed manufacturing and virtual management of distributed manufacturing, exploration of new manufacturing technologies for Navy application in distributed networks, application of virtual and distributed management to software development and software reuse in cooperation with government needs, documentation of military-related successful virtual management models for Virtual Management Workshop (Congressional add of $3.5 million).

2. (U) FY 1997 PLAN:

Ò (U) ($3,000) SHORE FACILITIES MATERIALS.

- (U) Initiate program to engineer lumber composed of wood products, polymers, carbon fibers and adhesives for long life, environmentally benign, and low cost shore applications such as fender pilings (Congressional add of $2.5 million).

- (U) Complete establishment of criteria for the cathodic protection of Navy pier substructures in the marine splash zone using embedded anodes and metallized zinc systems for 50-75% longer pier life and lower maintenance cost and including ship protection from pier cathodic systems to avoid costly ship hull damage.

Ò (U) ($9,602) AIRBORNE MATERIALS

- (U) Initiate a project on the plasma quench process to produce low cost titanium powder for aircraft components (Congressional earmark of $2 million).

- (U) Initiate program to qualify new composite materials for use in naval aircraft primary and secondary structures.

- (U) Complete material and fabrication concept for a switchable (electrically conductive to non-conductive) missile radome to shield internal antennas from RF energy.

- (U) Transition conductive polymer composite technology into F414 engine front frame for subsequent production qualification of the engine front frame eliminating the need for additional coatings and coating weight.

- (U) Complete demonstration of 1500^o F nickel superalloy disk and orthorhombic titanium capable of functioning with the higher cooling air temperatures of the Phase II Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine Technology demonstration engines.

- (U) Complete development of an encapsulated, room-temperature storable adhesive for shipboard repair of aircraft, including higher temperature, bismaleimide composites to provide the Navy Fleet with an alternative to the short lived, costly, and logistically burdensome adhesives that require continuous cold storage.

Ò (U) ($11,730) SEABORNE MATERIALS.

- (U) Initiate program to use intelligent processing methods for advanced complex materials to reduce cost.

- (U) Complete development of hydrogen control methods in welding materials and processes to eliminate hydrogen cracking in ship/submarine welded structures for more affordable hulls and processes.

- (U) Complete field testing of biofouling and other fouling resistant gray-water filter membranes for ship application.

Ò (U) ($3,430) MISSILE/SPACE MATERIALS.

- (U) Complete Phase II of the Robust Processing Program in which high thermal conductivity carbon fibers are incorporated in metal thermal planes for a 50% increase in heat removal from electronic modules accompanied by a 30% decrease in thermal plane weight.

- (U) Complete mechanical, thermal, ablation, and moisture (aging) characterization of replacement heat shield materials.

Ò (U) ($5,246) MULTI-MISSION MATERIALS.

- (U) Complete engine durability testing of stabilized zirconia thermal barrier coatings in marine turbine engines to provide at least 50% greater resistance to vanadate attack from lower grade oils than current zirconia coatings.

- (U) Establish the capability to remotely address embedded sensors in conductive carbon-fiber composites using RF energy.

- (U) Complete the development of non-linear laser protective materials based on phthalocyanine and continue materials development for both eye and sensor protection from agile (tunable) lasers.

- (U) Initiate demonstration of controlled micro-structures based on self-assembling lipid systems.Establish material processes for new high strain sensor actuators.

Ò (U) ($3,328) RF SOLID STATE DEVICE AND CONTROL COMPONENTS

- (U) Demonstrate a MW continuous wave (CW), high linearity GEISHA amplifier with 7-10 watts output.

- (U) Complete 18-40 GHz MMIC Driver for MMW Power Module for use in decoys and extending frequency range of SLQ-32.

for use in decoys and extending frequency range of SLQ-32.

- (U) Initiate development of InP/InGaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors for application to pulsed Ka-band phased arrays.

- (U) Initiate development of 100 kW (peak) W-band duplexer for Navy's 94 GHz radar program.

Ò (U) ($14,564) VACUUM ELECTRONICS.

- (U) Complete extension of MPM concept to higher frequency by development of MMW (18-40GHz, 50-W) power modules for Electronic warfare (EW) applications.

- (U) Initiate development of selected elements of an advanced MMACE design tool set for implementation in consort with the 2 and 3-dimensional REF.

- (U) Complete development of high power density MW window technology using man-made diamond. This technology is central to needed performance improvements in several Navy systems.

- (U) Continue development of high-power W-band gyro-klystron for Naval Research Laboratory W-band radar.

Ò (U) ($4,368) E/O TECHNOLOGY.

- (U) Continue development of 256 x 256 adaptive IRFPA with high dynamic range on-chip electronics to implement on-chip nonuniformity correction.

- (U) Continue demonstration of fiber optic beamformer for phased array radar with emphasis on a two-dimensional (4x4) array and rapidly tunable sources.

- (U) Continue development of mid IR fibers to reduce impurity loss <0.1 dB/m and total loss <0.5 dB/m with emphasis on longer fibers (50m) and initiate development of IR fibers that transmit in the 8-12um region for Infrared Countermeasurers (IRCM) applications.

- (U) Complete development of single color GaInSb/InAs superlattice detectors and initiate development of two-color superlattice detectors as an alternative to HgCdTe-based detectors for higher temperature operation at longer wavelengths.

- (U) Continue development of 128 x 128 color discriminating IRFPA.

- (U) Continue development of 256x256 dual band IRFPA.

Ò (U) ($5,500) MICROELECTRONICS.

- (U) Demonstrate and manufacture planar Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) Controlled Thyristers (MCTs) that operate at 1400 volts, 300A/cm² and 100 KHz switching speed for incorporation into Power Electronic Building Blocks (PEBBs).

- (U) Demonstrate 16 bit, 20 MHz low temperature superconducting A/D converter.

- (U) Complete demonstration of collocated interference cancellation circuitry for communication systems.

- (U) Initiate development of sub 500nm - 250nm p-channel silicon germanium devices with T-gate structures in 50nm thick thin-film silicon-on-sapphire for improved transistor performance up to 50 Ghz.

- (U) Complete demonstration of analog front-end of 16 bit, 125 megasample/sec analog-digital converter for application to wide bandwidth digital ASW receiver to meet Navy multi-channel acoustic system requirements.

ASW applications.

2.5 gigasample/sec analog-digital converters.

- (U) Complete development of all composits of 100x100 synapse, 100 neuron analog self-learning artificial neural network.

Ò (U) ($2,123) ELECTRONIC AND E/O MATERIALS.

- (U) Complete development of growth techniques for single color IR detector materials and initiate development of growth techniques for two-color detectors.

- (U) Initiate nanometer-scale direct proximal probe patterning for fine-line (<0.05um) processing of metals and semiconductors to achieve the capability to realize sub-micrometer scale RF and microelectronic devices.

Ò (U) ($8,000) ADVANCED MULTIFUNCTIONAL RF SYSTEM SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY. With the advances that are currently being made in electronics there exists a strong opportunity to realize multifunctional systems that integrate the functions of radar, EW, and communications into two apertures. It should be noted that this program is in contrast to the Air Force (AF) and Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programs in that it treats both the transmit and receive functions in separate apertures. This approach avoids the need for time allocation of different RF functions and therefore offer the opportunity for more massive integration of RF functions into the pair of apertures. As a result this integrated thrust has been formed and the current program enhanced to capitalize upon ongoing and planned applied research to develop RF solid state, photonic, and microelectonic devices. This program is coordinated with JSF and the AF and has an oversight group with representatives from Space and Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), Naval Air Systmes Command (NAVAIR), SC-21, CVX, Program Exective Office (PEO) Theater Air Defense (TAD), PEO Surface Combatant Aegis Program (SC/AP) Common Support Aircraft (CSA) and Assisstant Secretary of the Navy (ASN) Research,Development Acquisition (RDA). Specific efforts within this thrust include:

- (U) Demonstrate a MW frequency, CW, high linearity GEISHA amplifier with 7-10 watts output.

- (U) Continue development of UHF high power circulator for application to Multi- Functional Electomagnetic Radiating System (MERS) ATD.

- (U) Continue and expand high power SiC transistor structure development to encompass high linearity and high efficiency for fleet surveillance and protection applications.

- (U) Complete development of high dynamic range wide band Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) with very high second and third order intermodulation intercepts and explore potential use of LNAs in Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) demonstration aircraft.

- (U) Demonstrate 16 bit, 20 MHz low temperature superconducting analog to digital (A/D) converter.

- (U) Demonstrate an RF beamforming network capable of RF frequency independent beam steering over 60 degrees from boresight using photonic technology to control RF transmission of an antenna array. Develop the necessary photonic components: integrated lasers and modulators, tunable lasers, dispersive fibers and tunable spectral filters.

- (U Demonstrate the feasibility of using optical switches to activate nested wideband spiral antennas and thereby demonstrate RF beam steering. The initial optical switch will be based on a photo-voltaic field effect transistor (FET) structure activated by an optical fiber. Maintain a Voltage Standing Wave Ration (VSWR) of less than 2.2 over an operating bandwidth that will be no less than 4 octaves of bandwidth.

Ò (U) ($2,390) HPC

- (U) Demonstrate a software parallelization tool based on the Processing Graph Method (PGM) for mapping signal processing data flow diagrams into arbitrary sets of processors automatically with appropriate scheduling to meet real time deadlines. Provide instrumentation to missile software testbed.

- (U) Demonstrate effective, customized digital library for information delivery to the warrior from multiple sources (spin-off from DARPA/NSF program). Demonstrate agent, mediator, and intelligent gatekeeper technology in a military applicationvelop and demonstrate Java-based digital mapping system.

- (U) Demonstrate 3D virtual reality workbench for battlefield situation assessment. Deliver first prototype to the Marine Corps for use in their Sea Dragon experiment. Add interface to accept data from the Joint Maritime Information System (JMCIS) and the Global Command and Control System (GCCS).

Ò (U) ($2,558) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION.

- (U) Demonstrate new capabilities for meteorological forecasting using machine learning.

- (U) Demonstrate guidance of mobile robot tasks by utilizing a 3D range scanner, and advance the computational efficiency of machine vision through innovative use of data from tripod operators.

- (U) Distribute an advanced Case Based Reasoning Shell which is useful for building decision aids with advanced capabilities in domains such as weather forecasting and situation assessment and planning.

- (U) Evaluate and extend multi-modal robotic interface and related tools.

Ò (U) ($4,692) ECS

- (U) Apply Destination and other ECS tools to the development of a sub-system of the AEGIS system using forward and reverse system composition methodology and prototype automation aids for specification and analysis of performance of at least three alternative designs. This will provide a fully integrated, automated environment to support affordable and evolutionary system design methodology for large complex computer-based systems.

- (U) Demonstrate Software Infostructure and PCIS in a Navyvelop interoperable software environment under joint US-France project. Further develop affordable reusable component methodology using CORBA, Java, and other industry standards. Implement distributed interfaces using WWWeb technology. Test commercial/government components to get best functional capability for Command and Control (C2) and combat system development.

- (U) Initiate development of new wavelet coding algorithms with packet parity protection that is compatible with any packet switching network including Link 16 messages.

Ò (U) ($4,000) ADVANCED DISTRIBUTED MANUFACTURING DEMONSTRATION

- (U) Extend the Virtual Company model to include modules for Prototype Development and for Full Production Manufacturing for Navy applications. Enhance the recently implemented Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) modules. Develop a Best Practices and Capabilities module. Apply the Virtual Company model to Navy requirements in the areas of software development and software reuse. The Machine Shop Company implementation of the model will be made available to private companies in order to expand industrial base capability to meet Navy needs (Congressional add of $4 million).

Ò ($193) Portion of extramural program reserved for Small Business Innovation Research assessment in accordance with 15 U.S.C.638.

3. (U) FY 1998 PLAN:

Ò (U) ($948) SHORE FACILITIES MATERIALS.

- (U) Complete development of corrosion resistant dual phase ferritic materials and flame-sprayed catalyzed titanium cathodic protection concept for extension of service life of waterfront structures.

- (U) Expand projects on the application of advanced materials such as composites and low-cost wood products into naval fenders and other rubbing energy absorption systems to extend life and reduce the need for chemically treated wood.

Ò (U) ($7,112) AIRBORNE MATERIALS.

- (U) Continue development of single crystal/powder metal insertable bladed disk system for 1200^o F compressors and 1450^o F turbines.

- (U) Complete development of very low volatile organic (200 gram/liter) waterborne self-priming topcoat for aircraft.

- (U) Complete development of cyanate ester adhesives for rapid curing aircraft repairs.

- (U) Initiate development of a distributed sensor system for condition-based maintenance monitoring of aircraft corrosion and health of corrosion preventive coatings.

Ò (U) ($9,655) SEABORNE MATERIALS.

- (U) Complete pilot development of part-on-call spray forming of non-axisymetric parts, including titanium based components and complete investigation of self-canning of powder components via selective laser sintering of the surface.

- (U) Complete sea water testing of materials replacement candidates for seawater valves and nondestructive testing techniques to evaluate the health of valves in service.

- (U) Continue development of a haze gray ship coating system with controlled spectral properties to meet the IR goals of MIL-E-24365a at much lower cost than competitive systems containing metal solids.

- (U) Initiate a hot-corrosion study of the best spray-formed materials for shipboard incinerator application.

Ò (U) ($1,941) MISSILE/SPACE MATERIALS.

- (U) Continue heat shield replacement materials development emphasizing lower cost fabrication techniques.

- (U) Continue development of ceramic materials for nozzle application with emphasis on lower cost fabrication and tailored coatings for specific applications using various fuels.

Ò (U) ($6,454) MULTI-MISSION MATERIALS.

- (U) Initiate a study of the vulnerabilities to lasers of the new uncooled IR detector arrays and establish plans for laser hardening approaches and materials to protect them.

- (U) Complete transition of tubule-based materials to controlled release coatings.

- (U) Continue development of high temperature composites based on fluorinated and non-fluorinated phthalonitrile polymers for high temperature application to multiple platforms.

- (U) Initiate an evaluation of metal-plated microtubules for electro-active coatings in antenna systems and electronic displays. Such materials are expected to be more cost effective than competing etched or vapor deposited systems.

- (U) Initiate demonstration of controlled micro-structures based on self-assembling lipid systems.velopment of nanometer wear-resistant coatings for valve stems, labyrynth seals, and rotating parts.

Ò ($3,380) RF SOLID STATE DEVICES AND CONTROL COMPONENTS- (U) Continue development of multitransistor combining of InGaAs/InP devices (high-power/low-noise HEMT process) for imaging and precision tracking sensors and initiate modular wideband power emitters for 5-100 GHz band.

- (U) Continue development of 100 kW W-band duplexer for Navy's 94 GHz radar program.

- (U) Initiate development of highly compact, high Q, tunable filters and oscillators for transmit/receive (T/R) module applications.

- (U) Continue development of InP/InGaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors for application to pulsed Ka-band phased arrays.

- (U) Complete development of UHF circulator and provide to MERS ATD.

- (U) Demonstrate highly linear broadban amplification from 100 MHz to 10 GHz with 10 Watts of output power.

- (U) Demonstrate feasibility of achieving a structurally embedded antenna array that is optically controlled over multi-octaves of frequency and capable of being fed by a MW modulated optical fiber for use in next generation wide area surveillance systems.

Ò (U) ($14,572) VACUUM ELECTRONICS

- (U) Complete development of selected elements of an advanced Microwave & Millimeter Wave Advanced Computational Environment (MMACE) design tool set for implementation in consort with the 23D Research and Engineering Framework (REF)

- (U) Complete the development of selected elements of an advanced MMACE design tool set for helix Travel Wave Tubes (TWTs). for implementation in 3D REF.

- (U) Complete the development of a high-power, moderate bandwidth gyro-klystron for the Navy's 94-GHz radar program.

- (U) Initiate the development of a high-duty, wideband gyro-twystron to meet the requirements of MMW radar applications.

Ò (U) ($4,377) E/O TECHNOLOGY.

- (U) Demonstrate receive mode ofmultifunctional operation of fiber optic beamformer with one and two dimensional array.

- (U) Continue development of mid IR fibers to reduce impurity loss < 0.05 dB/m and total loss< 0.1 dB/m with emphasis on kilometer lengths of cabled fibers; demonstrate IR fibers for 8-12m region with loss less than 1 dB/m.

- (U) Complete development of 256 x 256 dual band IRFPA and initiate development of a 512 x 512 dual band IRFPA to provide wider field of view for missile seeker and Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) applications.

- (U) Initiate development of a three band IRFPA to enhance performance against countermeasures and stealthy targets.

- (U) Continue development of 256 x 256 adaptive IRFPA with high dynamic range on-chip electronics to implement on-chip nonuniformity correction.

- (U) Continue development of 128 x 128 color discriminating IRFPA.

Ò (U) ($5,592) MICROELECTRONICS.

- (U) Complete development of 16 bit, 125 megasample/sec analog-digital converter for application to wide bandwidth digital ASW receiver to meet Navy multi-channel acoustic system requirements

- (U) Complete development of low power, low voltage sub 500nm - 250nm silicon germanium devices with T-gate structures in 50nm thick thin-film silicon-on-sapphire. These structures will allow the development of 4 bit, 10 gigasample/sec and 10 bit, - (U) Demonstrate the feasibility of a superconducting A/D converter operating with 20 bits of dynamic range for use in next generation wide area surveillance systems.

- (U) Test and Apply Signal Processing Rapid Prototyping testbed to Navy missile applications needing real-time

image processing in small devices.

- (U - (U) Continue the development of dimensionally reduced MPMs for electronically scanned arrays.

- (U) Continue the development of field emitter array (FEA) based power amplifiers as a more compact and efficient vacuum power booster for the next-generation MPM.

2.5 gigasample/sec analog-digital converters.

- (U) Initiate development of low power, low voltage Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) sub-250nm-100nm SiGe devices with T-gate structures in 50nm to 30nm thick Thin-film Silicon-on-Sapphire (TFSOS) to achieve f_t, f_max in the range of 70-100 Ghz. These structures will allow the development of 20 bit, 20 mega samples per second (MSPS) room temperature and 16-bit, 1 giga sample per second (GSPS) A/D converters.

- (U) Demonstrate 4-bit, 10 (GSPS) A/D based on 100 nm minimum feature size CMOS TFSOS for EW applications.

- (U) Continue development of analog VLSI continuous wavelet transform circuit for RF emitter identification.

Ò (U) ($2,128) ELECTRONIC AND E/O MATERIALS.

- (U) Complete growth of GaN substrates by chemical vapor deposition. These substrates are necessary for development of high power RF and high power switching devices for Navy EW, radar and power electronics systems.

- (U) Initiate in situ diagnostics to optimize Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and Orgono-Metallic Vapor Phase Epitoxy (OMVPE) growth of semiconductor alloys and heterostructures. This task will enable control of growth and processing for high reliability.

- (U) Continue the investigation of the high power behavior of High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) MW devices and identify those material parameters that limit performance.

- (U) Continue nanometer-scale direct proximal probe patterning for fine-line (<0.05um) processing of metal resonant tunneling diode structures to realize nanometer scale microelectronic devices.

Ò (U) ($9,500) ADVANCED MULTIFUNCTIONAL RF SYSTEM SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY

- (U) Complete development of UHF circulator and provide to MERS ATD.

- (U) Initiate development of 100 kW W-band duplexer for MMW Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) being developed for low observable applications.

- (U) Demonstrate highly linear broadband power amplification from 100 MHz to 10 GHz with GEISHA.

- (U) Initiate contractural development of Twystrode to reduce size of MPM for radar and EW applications.

- (U) Demonstrate feasibility of achieving a structurally embedded antenna array that is optically controlled over multi-octaves of frequency and capable of being fed by a MW modulated optical fiber for use in next generation wide area surveillance systems.

- (U) Demonstrate the feasibility of a superconducting A/D converter operating with 20 bits of dynamic range for use in next generation wide area surveillance systems.

- (U) Demonstrate an RF transmit and receive beamforming network capable of RF frequency independent beam steering over 60 degrees from boresight using photonic technology to control an antenna array. Characterize the performance of photonic technology components optimized for various beamforming architectures.

- (U) Demonstrate an optimized optical switch that consumes less optical power, switches faster and can accommodate more voltage. Assemble a 3 X 6 array of spiral antennas, each with optical reconfigurable RF phase shifting networks. Evaluate the radiation distribution pattern with emphasis on optimizing the relation between spiral separation and grating lobe formation.

Ò (U) ($2,155) HPC

- (U) CompleteBegin transition of software parallelization tool based on the PGM to the Advanced Submarine Technology Office for completion and Program Objective Memorandum (POM) maintenance support.

Demonstrate- (U) Demonstrate webbed-access using DARPA sponsored work in distributed Digital Libraries to support multimedia (e.g., video) in Navy Command, Control, Communication, and Information (C4I) - Friend or Foe application.

Ò (U) ($2,889) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

- (U) Demonstrate learning of control for multiple autonomous devices in cooperative complex mapping and surveillance.

- (U) Demonstrate software support of validation and verification methodologies and tools integrated with tools for building case-based decision aids.

- (U) Demonstrate high-level human-computer collaboration in assessment of force-level threats. Identify effects of human multi-sensor input to cognitive enhancement of situations for rapid and accurate decision making.

- (U) Continue 3D virtual reality workbench and add multiple view access. Initiate work on distributed prototype and designs for miniaturized versions. Enhance Marine Corps Sea Dragon Version; consider for deployment at sea for the Battalion Landing Team.

Ò (U) ($5,950) ECS

- (U) Finalize approach to incorporate human performance models in ECS tools for total system design and evaluation. This will provide a basis for automated tools for human systems integration in the design of complex systems and provide approaches to embed monitors in systems to identify changing human use and roles over time to flag opportunities for manpower reduction; SC21 is a key recipient.

- (U) Deliver a system evaluation and assessment repository consisting of system metrics knowledge base and non-invasive and minimally invasive system measurement techniques against system measures of effectiveness requirements.

- (U) Develop multi-criteria optimization strategies for life-cycle cost engineering of large, complex systems. This will provide an automated means for evaluation and rationale capture in a simultaneous manner across a range of factors such as performance, reliability, safety, security, producability, and costs for alternate implementations.

- (U) Completntinue demonstration collaboratively with France and develop unified distributed object architecture and repository; coordinate with Defense Information Systme Agency (DISA), Defense Information Infrastruture (DII) and DARPA Collaboratory efforts.

- (U) Test and apply Signal Processing Rapid Prototyping testbed to Navy missile applications needing real-time

image processing in small devices.

- (U) Continue development of new wavelet algorithms. Develop robust feature compatible image transmission algorithms for tactical data links.

4. (U) FY 1999 PLAN:

Ò (U) ($1,059) SHORE FACILITIES MATERIALS.

- (U) Complete durability focused materials characterization and parametric studies of composite systems for waterfront upgrades of reinforced concrete structures.

- (U) Continue development of composite materials for fenders, camels, piles, and other applications.

Ò (U) ($8,452) AIRBORNE MATERIALS

- (U) Complete evaluation of beryllium-aluminum alloys for aircraft application.

- (U) Continue development of wrought orthorhombic titanium alloys for compressor and low pressure turbine components.

- (U) Identify novel elastomeric fuel cell materials for longer operational life in higher temperature application appropriate to advanced fighter aircraft.

- (U)Complete erosion characterization of diamond infrared domes.

Ò (U) ($11,434) SEABORNE MATERIALS.

- (U) Complete hot corrosion testing of incinerator materials.

- (U) Conduct field tests of nondestructive, field-portable coatings evaluation system to determine the health of ship paint systems.

- (U) Continue evaluation of polyaniline-based anticorrosive coatings for shipboard application.

Ò (U) ($2,288) MISSILE/SPACE MATERIALS.

- (U) Complete materials development for reentry vehicle heatshields.

- (U) Expand the development of ceramic materials for protection of propulsion components and other high temperature impingement applications.

Ò (U) ($6,970) MULTI-MISSION MATERIALS.

- (U) Complete development of a low cost laser protective cell that can be incorporated in optical systems for the Marine Corps.

- (U) Complete development of system and controlling software for a reliable ultrasonic tomography system that alleviates the problem of refraction.

- (U) Transition controlled release system to commercial and naval coatings application for anti-fouling and anti-fungal/mildew applications.

Ò (U) ($5,790) RF SOLID STATE DEVICE AND CONTROL COMPONENTS

- (U) Complete 0.3 watt InP monolithic power amplifiers for active aperture phased arrays and initiate confined channel, ultra high density power heterojunction field effect transitors (FETs) (HFETs) for wideband mm-wave applications.

- (U) Demonstrate 40 watt CW ultra broadband (100 Mhz to 10 Ghz), ultra linear (cross modulation products 28 db m below fundamental signal) compact amplifiers suitable for use in next generation wide area surveillance systems.

- (U) Initiate wideband receiver component effort in support of the Joint Strike Fighter.

- (U) Complete development of 100 kW W-band duplexer for Navy's 94 GHz radar program.

- (U) Continue development of highly compact, high Q, tunable filters and oscillators for T/R module applications.

- (U) Complete development of InP/InGaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors for application to pulsed Ka-band phased arrays.

Ò (U) ($14,850) VACUUM ELECTRONICS

- (U) Complete 0.3 watt InP monolithic power amplifiers for active aperture phased arrays and initiate confined channel, ultra high density power heterojunction FETs for wideband applications.

systems.

- (U) Complete the development of a high-power, moderate bandwidth gyro-klystron for the Navy 94-GHz radar program.

- (U) Initiate development of 100 Watt, 5 GHz bandwidth, folded-waveguide TWT for W-band communications applications.

- (U) Initiate development of pole-piece beam focusing technique to explore a magic sphere design using rare earth magnetic materials.

- (U) Continue the development of a high-duty, wideband gyro-twystron to support radar and EW applications at millimeter-wavelengths.

Ò (U) ($5,754) E/O TECHNOLOGY

- (U) Continue multifunction array using fiber optic beamformer.

- (U) Complete development of 256 x 256 adaptive IRFPA

- (U) Complete development of a 128 x 128 color discriminating IRFPA - (U) Demonstrate true time delay control of optical beamforming networks.

Ò (U) ($5,663) MICROELECTRONICS

- (U) Complete development of CMOS low voltage, low power sub 250-100nm SiGe with T-gate structure in 50-30nm TFSOS for implementation of 16 bit, 1 GSPS and 10 bit, 2.5 GSPS analog-to-digital converters.

- (U) Complete development of very low power (<0.5 mw) high resolution ( 16 bits, 2 to 5 kilo sanples per second (KSPS) A/D converter for sonar applications.

Ò (U) ($2,468) ELECTRONIC AND E/O MATERIALS

- (U) Continue scale-up of GaN and SiC substrate growth. Achievement of this goal will enable a manufacturing technology for EO and RF devices for Navy EW and radar system applications.

applications.

- (U) Complete multiple color detector growth techniques and transfer the techniques to industry and device technology programs.

Ò - (U) Complete investigation of high power handling behavior of HTS MW devices and transition results to vendor community.

Ò - (U) Continue nanometer-scale direct proximal probe patterning for fine-line (<0.05um) processing of metal resonant tunneling diode structures to realize nanometer scale microelectronic devices.

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Ò (U) ($10,000) ADVANCED MULTIFUNCTIONAL RF SYSTEM SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY $4,114) HPC

- (U) Test and Apply Signal Processing Rapid Prototyping test to Navy application. Explore capability to apply to C4I centric systems.

- (U) Apply distributed Digital Library Technology to Navy C4I application.

- (U) Demonstrate 40 watt CW ultra broadband (100 Mhz to 10 Ghz), ultra linear (cross modulation products 28 dbm below fundamental signal) compact amplifiers suitable for use in next generation wide area surveillance systems

- (U) Demonstrate the steerability of a structurally embedded 3 x 6 or larger wideband antenna dynamically controlled over multi-octaves of frequency with VSWR less than 2:1 for next generation wide area surveillance

systems.

- (U) Continue the development of dimensionally reduced MPMs for electronically scanned arrays.

- (U) Continue the development of field emitter array (FEA) based power amplifiers as a more compact and efficient vacuum power booster for the next-generation MPM.

- (U) Demonstrate true time delay control of optical beamforming networks with new architectures.

- (U) Demonstrate a superconducting A/D capable of 19 bits of dynamic range over a 20 Mhz spectrum for use in reducing background clutter in littoral warfare surveillance operations.

- (U) Demonstrate the generation of simultaneously multiple frequency independent RF beams capable of beamsteering over 60 degrees from boresight on transmit and receive with an optical control structure that uses photonic technology components that preserve a 500 Mhz instantaneous RF bandwidth for each beam.

- (U) Demonstrate and characterize the performance of thin, conformal arrays of wideband spiral antennas operating over 8 octaves of bandwidth with a VSWR of less than 2.2 over the operating bandwidth, and a radiation pattern free of grating lobes.

Ò (U) ($1,985) HPC

- (U) Test and Apply Signal Processing Rapid Prototyping test to Navy application. Explore capability to apply to C4I centric systems.

- (U) Apply distributed Digital Library Technology to Navy C4I application.

Ò (U) ($3,432) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION.

- (U) Demonstrate learning of control for intelligent agents with opponents.

- (U) Integrate case-based reasoning with alternative problem-solving strategies for advanced toolsets.

- (U) Demonstrate advanced hybrid of reactive and reflective planning for robotic navigation and manipulation.

- (U) Demonstrate security measures that can defeat intrusion within Joint Warfare Strategy Technology (JWST) criteria and incorporate alternative action strategies upon detection of intrusion.

- (U) Demonstrate 2-D visualization from multiple views at distributed sites to meet Marine Corps Sea Dragon needs.

Ò (U) ($7,300) ECS

- (U) Demonstrate an integrated System Engineering Environment including design capture repository, design structuring and optimization, and system assessment repository. This will provide a capability to flow and evolve the complete system design record across all phases of development, production, and life-cycle support and insert in SC21 testbed. Demonstrate secure use of the self (COTS) software components.COTS software components and safeguard against detection of intent through analysis of network traffic.

- (U) Develop human-centered system design processes and methods to capture and specify the essential role of human operators and decision-makers in enabling the desired emergent behavior of complex systems.

- (U) Provide an initial demonstration of multi-criteria optimization strategies for life-cycle cost accounting of a key ship system element (e.g., SC21 weapon system).

- (U) TransitionDemonstrate unified distributed reusable Web-based object architecture and repository to a Navy application.software development architecture and repository on a C4I and combat system application.

- (U) Complete development and transition of wavelet algorithms.

- (U) Demonstrate formal methods approach to Navy safety -critical operation that captures

requirements and automatically generates suitable test suites for the final system.

B. (U) PROGRAM CHANGE SUMMARY:

FY 1996 FY 1997 FY 1998 FY1999

(U) FY 1997 President's Budget: $75,933 $75,886 $85,791 $95,641

(U) Adjustments from 1997 PRESBUDG: $+2,172 $+8,838 $-9,138 $-8,196

(U) FY 1998/1999 PRESBUDG Submission $78,105 $84,724 $76,653 $87,445

(U) CHANGE SUMMARY EXPLANATION:

(U) Funding: FY 1996 adjustment reflects a Jordanian F-16 financing rescission (-$88); Small Business Innovative Research assessment(-$147); execution adjustment (+$2,407). FY 1997 adjustment reflects Congressional plus-ups for Thermoplastic Engineered Lumber (+$2,500), New Processes for Navy Aircraft Skins (+$3,000), Advanced Materials Intelligent Processing Center (+$3,000), Virtual Company Framework (+$4,000); Congressional undistributeds (-$3,662). FY 1998 adjustment reflects PEBB realignment (-$6,000); Navy Working Capital Fund (NWCF) and minor adjustments

(-$13,384); S&T adjustments (+$10,334); Military and Civilian pay (+$110); and Inflation reduction (-$198). FY 1999 adjustments reflect PEBB realignment (-$10,000); NWCF and minor adjustments (-$978); S&T adjustment (+$2,965); Military and Civilian pay (+$142); and Inflation reduction (-$325).n

(U) Schedule: Specific areas within the following thrust areas will be delayed: Airborne Materials, Shore Materials, Multimission Materials, and Microelectronics. Specific areas which will be delayed include research in the area of integration of electrically switchable radome materials into airborne systems, engineered lumber for pilings, and transitioning high efficiency power converters to military systems.

(U) Technical: Airborne Materials, Shore Materials Microelectronics, and High Performance Computing thrust areas will be delayed increasing the technical and transition risk for front frame technology for aircraft engines, especially F414 in the F/A-18E/F; increase the technical risk for transitioning of engineered lumber for pilings, increase the tecnical risk for transitioning laser protective materials, increase the technical risk and development time of power converters that can be used for all-electric drive systems; draw down the focus area of HPC in order to increase Engineering of Complex system focused work so as to meet requirements of SC-21, NSSN, and other emerging platforms.

Not applicable.

C. (U) OTHER PROGRAM FUNDING SUMMARY: Not applicable.

(U) RELATED RDT&E:

(U) PEs 0601102A, 0601102F, 0601153N (Defense Research Sciences)

(U) PEs 0602105A, 0602102F (Materials Technology)

(U) PEs 0602705A, 0602709A, 0602204F, 0602702F (Electronic Devices Technology)

(U) PEs 0602783A, 0602783A, 0602202F, 0602702F, 0603728F, 0602301E, 0603226E (Computer Technology)

(U) PE 0602303A (Missile Technology)

(U) PE 0602601A (Combat Vehicle and Automotive Technology)

(U) PEs 0602702F, 0602232N (Command, Control and Communications)

(U) PE 0602786A (Logistics Technology)

(U) PE 0602111N (Air and Surface Weapons Technology)

(U) PE 0602121N (Surface Ship & Submarine HM&E Technology)

(U) PE 0602122N (Aircraft Technology)

(U) PE 0602314N (Undersea Warfare Surveillance Technology)

(U) PE 0602323N (Submarine Technology)

(U) PE 0602270N (Electronic Warfare Technology)

(U) This PE adheres to DTAP and DTO Agreements on Advanced Materials, Electronic Devices and Computer Technology with oversight provided by the Joint Directors of Laboratories and Joint Engineers. This PE is integrated with the Navy's 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 PE's shown above and is fully coordinated with efforts in DoD through Joint Director of Laboratories and Defense Task Area Plans activities.

D. FUNDING PROFILE: Not applicable.

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