Critical Technologies Plan for the Committees on Armed Services, United States Congress. Revision

Download or read book Critical Technologies Plan for the Committees on Armed Services, United States Congress. Revision written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report responds to Public Law 100-456, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1989, to provide Congress annually with a Critical Technologies Plan. This is the first such submission. It is the result of a series of meetings involving representatives of the military departments and defense agencies with responsibilities for science and technology programs, and representatives from the Department of Energy, Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs. After defining the scope of the report and outlining the DoD planning process for science and technology, selection criteria for critical technologies are presented. Technologies related to nuclear weapons and their effects, because of their special nature, are not included in this plan. Critical technologies are technologies with great promise of ensuring the long- term superiority of the United States weapon system. The following critical technologies were selected: Microelectronic Circuits and Their Fabrication, Preparation of GaAs and Other Compound Semi-Conductors, Software Producibility, Parallel Computer Architectures, Machine Intelligence/Robotics, Simulation and Modeling, Integrated Optics, Fiber Optics, Sensitive Radars, Passive Sensors, Automatic Target Recognition, Phased Arrays, Data Fusion, Signature Control, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Air Breathing Propulsion, High Power Microwaves, Pulsed Power, Hypervelocity Projectiles, High-Temperature/High-Strength/Light- Weight Composite Materials, Superconductivity, and Biotechnology Materials and Processing.