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Enabling Battlespace Persistent Surveillance: The Form, Function, and Future of Smart Dust Scott “Grins” Dickson, Major, USAF Information superiority in 2025 will fuse U.S. demand for intelligence data with an array of technological capabilities. It will likely require sensors that measure heat, magnetism, vibration, or video, in a wireless ad-hoc network, capable of uploading data to an orbiting UAV or satellite and obtainable by flying aircraft, counterinsurgency forces, or information-hungry combat operations centers. It will also very likely require shrinking those sensors to the size of dust. At that size, these nanoscaled devices, called motes, penetrate previously inaccessible urban buildings, jungle canopies, or weathercovered terrain. Deployable from orbiting aircraft or an aerosol can, this wireless sensor network, called Smart Dust, also acts as a localized backup to U.S. space-based ISR assets. Based on the current state of technologies and the potential future for the United States, Smart Dust is achievable, employable, and effective in 2025. As a future persistent surveillance solution for battlespace awareness, homeland defense, and WMD identification, Smart Dust offers the intelligence advantages of ubiquity, flexibility, timeliness, and persistence to military leaders, planners, and operators. With the right U.S. support in terms of policy, funding, and education, Smart Dust represents a revolutionary leap in persistent surveillance and produces an informational asymmetric advantage for whoever possesses it – friend or foe. Recommendations: 1) Support and fund research into nanotechnology and measurement and manufacturing. 2) Continue funding and research in the development of nanoscale sensors and power supplies. 3) Develop new antennae capable of larger
gains to offset reduction in size. 4) Continue research into the use of nanoscale devices in networks. Biotechnology DNA Possibilities and Military Implications Phil L. Samples, Colonel, USAF The results and benefits of the human genome project, and advances in DNA technology have significant potential benefits and military applications. Besides the future military implications of these DNA-based technological advances by the year 2025, developments in areas such as DNA sensors and DNA vaccines, with more immediate potential. This paper investigates numerous DNA technologies to include: our ability to forecast and treat diseases, and DNA manipulation to enhance human performance. Military implications for enhanced human performance through exploitation of DNA vaccine technology may produce the best near-term advance of all current DNA technologies. Once perfected, effective plasmid DNA vaccines used in all military personnel will increase survivability in known biological attacks, decrease disease, and enhance safety, virtually eliminating risk of adverse reactions because of the immunization. Most, if not all, advances in this area of study will come as a result of private sector research. Although there are significant benefits to humanity in the advancement of these technologies, there is also great potential for misuse by an adversary. Blue
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