Dr. Tony Tether

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• Dr. Tony Tether
• DARPA Director
• February 25, 2002

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DARPA Organization
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Research Focus

• Leading-edge RD supports three DoD
  concerns National-Level Problems
• Rapid, in-depth response to urgent national
  security issues
• Operational Dominance
• Pioneer and develop advanced techniques and
  technologies that leapfrog current capabilities
  and threats to give U. S. forces decisive
  advantages
• Revolutionary and Future Generation Concepts
  and Technology
• Prevent technological surprise
• Develop quantum changes in military capabilities

Ideas and new concepts arise from frequent
consultation with operational forces Services
intelligence sources advisory groups industry
academia and other research organizations.
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DARPA Role in Science and Technology
Science Technology
Service ST
Fundamental Research
NEAR
MID
FAR
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DARPA Role in Science and Technology
Science Technology
Service ST
DARPA
Fundamental Research
NEAR
MID
FAR
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Internal Technology Flow
DARPA OFFICES
Advanced Technology Special Projects Tactical
Technology
Defense Sciences Information Technology Microsyste
ms Technology
Information Exploitation Information Awareness
NEAR
MID
FAR
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DARPA Accomplishments
1960
Global Hawk
UCAV
Saturn
Vela Hotel
1970
TMR
Ground Surveillance Radar
MEMS
2000
ATACMS
JSF
MALD
M-16 Rifle
JSTARS
1980
Uncooled IR
Stealth Fighter
Arpanet
BAT
Sea Shadow
Taurus Launch Vehicle
Predator
GPS
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New Initiatives

• Continuing to Spur Transformation
• Pre-conflict preparedness focused response to
  terrorism
• Information Awareness Office
• Precision Tracking of Terrorists
• Detecting, Identifying, Tracking and
  Understanding Terrorist Networks
• Conflict capabilities seamless sensor-to-shooter
  kill chain
• Information Exploitation Office
• Higher confidence kill chain
• Find, ID, Target, Destroy Land Based Targets
• Space Thrust
• More robust capabilities in space - assured
  access and use

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Information Exploitation Office
Address systematic challenges associated with
surface target interdiction
Decisive Precisions Operations
Sensors
Exploitation
Command Control
Dynamic Battle Management
Comprehensive Situational Awareness
Combat identification confidence and low
likelihood of inadvertent collateral damage
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Information Awareness Office
Total Information Awareness of transnational
threats requires detection, classification,
identification, and track
Corporate Memory
Functional View
Collaborative, Multi-agency Analytical Environment
Multiple Heterogeneous Distributed Data Bases
Discovery Tools
Models
Collectors
Decisions
Collaborative, Multi-agency Policy Ops
Environment
Plausible Futures
Options
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Detect gt Classify gt ID gt Track
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Space Programs
Situational Awareness of Space
Access Infrastructure
Active and passive sensing of space from space
or ground
Rapid, flexible space access
Space-BasedEngagement
Support real-timetactical warfighting
from space
Rapid response in denied areas
Space AssetProtection
Active and passive defense of space
Space AssetDenial
assets
Ground-and-spacebased threats
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Potential Future Breakthroughs

• Defeat terrorist networks
• Precision identification, tracking and
  destruction of elusive targets
• Characterization of underground structures
• Combined manned unmanned attack operations
• Assured use of space
• Cognitive computer systems
• BioRevolution