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SPECIAL REPORT | The 14 Future Icon technology areas, as described in testimony by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Tony Tether before a House committee
Self-forming, robust, self-defending networks at the strategic and tactical level are the key to network-centric warfare. Miniaturizing an atomic clock to fit on a chip to provide very accurate time as required, for instance, in assured network communications. Technologies to identify and defeat terrorist activities such as the manufacture and deployment of improvised explosive devices and other asymmetric activities. Manned and unmanned air vehicles that quickly arrive at their mission station and can remain there for very long periods. The U.S. military's ability to use space is one of its major strategic advantages, and DARPA is working to ensure the United States maintains that advantage. DARPA is working to maintain the U.S. global lead in supercomputing, which is fundamental to a variety of military operations, from weather forecasting to cryptography to the design of new weapons. Real-time machine language translation of text and speech with near-expert human translation accuracy. Technologies to dramatically accelerate the development and production of vaccines and other medical therapeutics from 12 years to only 12 weeks. Developing prosthetics that can be controlled and perceived by the brain, just as with a natural limb. Exploiting quantum phenomena in the fields of computing, cryptography and communications, with the promise of opening new frontiers in each area. DARPA's Fundamental Laws of Biology program is working to bring deeper mathematical understanding and accompanying predictive ability to the field of biology, with the goal of discovering fundamental laws of biology that extend across all size scales. A completely revolutionary technology for extracting titanium from ore and fabricating it promises to dramatically reduce the cost for military-grade titanium alloy, making it practical for many more applications. Technologies to help reduce the military's reliance on petroleum. Novel, compact, high-power lasers making practical small-size and low-weight speed-of-light weapons for tactical mobile air and ground vehicles.
The 14 Future Icon technology areas, as described in testimony by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Tony Tether before a House committee:
Networks:
Chip-Scale Atomic Clock:
Global War on Terrorism:
Air Vehicles:
Space:
High-Productivity Computing Systems:
Real-Time Accurate Language Translation:
Biological Warfare Defense:
Prosthetics:
Quantum Information Science:
Newton's Laws for Biology:
Low-Cost Titanium:
Alternative Energy:
High-Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System:
Networks:
Chip-Scale Atomic Clock:
Global War on Terrorism:
Air Vehicles:
Space:
High-Productivity Computing Systems:
Real-Time Accurate Language Translation:
Biological Warfare Defense:
Prosthetics:
Quantum Information Science:
Newton's Laws for Biology:
Low-Cost Titanium:
Alternative Energy:
High-Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System:
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