By Terri Moon Cronk DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, March 15, 2018 — The USA is inwards an era of constant scientific discipline together with engineering contest from countries such equally Russian Federation together with China, a senior Pentagon official said on Capitol Hill yesterday.
Mary Miller, performing the duties of the assistant secretarial assistant of defence for interrogation together with engineering, along amongst Steven H. Walker, manager of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, testified earlier the House Armed Services Committee’s panel on emerging threats concerning the financial yr 2019 budget asking for the Defense Department’s scientific discipline together with engineering programs.
“We consider nations similar PRC together with Russian Federation investing heavily inwards interrogation trying to unopen the engineering gap amongst the [United States],” she said. “We consider high-end armed services engineering that has diffused to many countries that would accept been unable to railroad train it themselves, fifty-fifty reaching to a greater extent than or less nonstate actors.”
Speed is Vital
In a globe amongst near-equal access to technology, speed is becoming the discriminator, Miller told the panel -- non only the speed of discovery, but likewise speed of delivery. “How fast nosotros tin give the sack develop, adopt or leverage engineering to run into the warfighter's needs together with larn it into their hands volition create upwards one's hear our mightiness to outpace our adversaries.”
In such a competitive environment, DoD must pay much to a greater extent than attending to hereafter readiness together with ensure its conventional overmatch remains on overtime, she said.
“We must hold upwards willing together with able to tap into commercial research, recognize its armed services potential, together with railroad train novel capabilities together with operational together with organizational constructs to employ them faster than our competitors,” Miller noted.
Such essay would non hold upwards possible without DoD scientists together with engineers, who are doing groundbreaking together with innovative work, she said. “They are embracing these difficult challenges our armed services faces every day, seeking to improve sympathise the warfighter's problems together with working diligently on affordable together with effective solutions.”
DoD Addresses Gaps
The Defense Department is addressing critical engineering together with capability gaps through a combination of adaptation of existing systems such equally efforts conducted through its Strategic Capabilities Office together with the evolution together with introduction of innovative novel technologies through its labs together with centers, such equally DARPA, together with Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, she said.
“We recognize that our adversaries acquaint us amongst a challenge of sophisticated evolving threats,” Miller told the House panel. “We are prepared to run into that challenge together with restore the technical overmatch of the USA armed forces through focus together with innovation.”
DARPA inwards Line With White House, DoD
Walker, the DARPA director, said his priorities for investment are aligned amongst President Donald J. Trump's National Security Strategy together with amongst Defense Secretary James N. Mattis' National Defense Strategy.
“So, my priorities for investment inwards the hereafter are defending the homeland, No. 1, from varied threats to include developing cyber deterrence capabilities, bio surveillance together with bio protection technologies together with the mightiness to feel together with defend against weapons of volume terror,” he told the panel.
DARPA’s No. ii priority is deterring together with prevailing against peer competitors inwards Europe together with Asia, which volition require novel thinking, Walker said.
“The [United States] tin give the sack no longer hold upwards dominant across all scenarios, but it needs to hold upwards highly lethal inwards conduct ones,” he noted. “Realizing novel capabilities across all the physical domains volition hold upwards of import together with hypersonics volition hold upwards a fundamental engineering there. But nosotros likewise accept to await at infinite together with the electromagnetic spectrum domains. They're going to hold upwards really of import for that fight.”
Fighting Differently
DARPA’s No. iii priority is effectively prosecuting stabilization efforts across the globe, which requires the USA to larn improve at fighting differently together with inwards dissimilar environments, Walker said.
“Capabilities to address gray zone together with 3-D city-scale warfare, along amongst the evolution of rigorous together with reliable models to predict adversarial moves volition hold upwards critical,” the way manager added.
The No. iv priority is what Walker called foundational interrogation inwards scientific discipline together with technology, which he said would underlie all of DARPA's “grander pursuits” together with makes possible never-before-seen capabilities. “We must maintain to exercise what I intend DARPA does improve than anyone, together with that's to follow where engineering tin give the sack atomic number 82 us to solve the country's toughest challenges,” he said.
“[DARPA] promises to maintain to hold upwards a bold risk-tolerant investor inwards high-impact technologies,” Walker said, “so the nation tin give the sack hold upwards the commencement to railroad train together with adopt the novel capabilities made possible yesteryear such work.”
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