AMERICA’S ARMY WINNING IN A COMPLEX WORLD

The Army ManTech Program provides affordable and timely
manufacturing solutions that address the Army’s highest priority
needs. It accomplishes this through technology developments and
demonstrations that value the most effective, efficient and adaptable
advanced manufacturing processes, procedures and standards. The
program encourages strong internal and external partnerships across the
manufacturing technologies community.
In a time of decreased modernization funds, it is incumbent upon
the S&T Enterprise to drive down the technical risks associated
with developing new capabilities. The Technology Maturation
Initiative drives down technical risk, informs future requirements
and provides affordable capabilities for the Army of the future. The
Army TMI is a strategic partnership between the S&T Enterprise and
acquisition community established to enable the transition of priority
technologies at reduced cost and risk. This is done by partnering with
acquisition program offices to further mature, prototype and validate
emerging technologies beyond technology readiness levels typical of
S&T products.
A current priority under TMI is the set of efforts focused on driving
down cost and technical risk for technologies that provide dismounted
and mounted Soldiers with trusted PNT information, while operating in
conditions that impede or deny access to the GPS. The S&T Enterprise
is addressing risk in four thrust areas. The first is pseudolites (pseudosatellites)
that augment or replace military GPS signals by developing
a terrestrial/aerial based GPS-like signal, enabling signal acquisition/
tracking, navigation and timing in degraded or denied environments.
The second is a PNT hub for vehicular applications that develops a
robust system to support all PNT needs on the platform and maintains
PNT capability during operations in GPS-denied environments. Third,
the S&T Enterprises are developing a PNT hub for dismounted Soldiers
systems that has low size, weight and power and can provide assured
PNT signals for all Soldier equipment. Finally, anti-jam antennas that
enable GPS signal acquisition and tracking in degraded or denied
environments are being investigated.
These PNT efforts leverage traditional S&T and TMI investments
and have a direct tie into the A-PNT PoR. By further developing these
technologies to a relatively high-maturity level, we are driving down the
PoR’s technical risk, accelerating capability and ensuring that our troops
can operate in a contested environment.
The High Performance Computing Modernization Program provides
supercomputing resources to DoD scientists and engineers to conduct
advanced research and design by demonstrating and maturing the most
advanced, leading-edge computational architectures and exploiting
these systems with complementary specialized expertise. The program
is maturing the Defense Research and Engineering Network, a leadingedge
digital network that securely delivers computational capabilities
to the distributed DoD Research, Development, Test and Evaluation
(RDT&E) community. The program leverages specialized expertise
from DoD, other Federal departments, industry and academia to
demonstrate leading-edge software application codes. These synergistic
activities collectively demonstrate
horizontal technologies that
are exploited throughout the
DoD RDT&E community to
ensure DoD maintains the most
advanced research ecosystem
in the areas of computationally
intensive modelling and design.
The Engineered Resilient Systems Program applies high-performance
modeling and simulation tools from concept generation through
tradespace analysis to virtual prototyping and testing to increase
affordability, adaptability and effectiveness of acquisition processes.
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