Dr' Patricia Gruber, Director of Research Office of Naval Research

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Dr. Patricia Gruber, Director of Research Office
of Naval Research
Overview Briefing for ASEE Engineering Research
Council 28 February 2006 http//www.onr.navy.mil
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Naval Research Mission
Naval Research Laboratory (Appropriations Act,
1916)Conduct exploratory and research
worknecessary for the benefit of Government
service, including the construction, equipment,
and operation of a laboratory.
Office of Naval Research (Public Law 588,
1946) plan, foster, and encourage scientific
research in recognition of its paramount
importance as related to the maintenance of
future naval power, and the preservation of
national security.
Transitioning ST (Defense Authorization Act,
2001)manage the Navys basic, applied, and
advanced research to foster transition from
science and technology to higher levels of
research, development, test, and evaluation.
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ST Directorate Organization
N091 Principal Deputy for PR
Tech Dir / Chief Sci (TD/CS)
Chief of Naval Research (00)
Vice Chief of Naval Research (USMC)(09)
ACNR (00B)
AVCNR (09B)
Director of Innovation (03I)
Director of Research (03R)
Director of Transition (03T)
(INP)
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Expeditionary Warfare and Cmbting-terrorism
Ocean Battlespace Sensing
Sea Warfare and Weapons
Warfighter Performance
Air Warfare and Weapons
C4ISR
ST 1
O-6
SES 1
O-6
SES 2
O-6
SES 1
O-6
SES 1
O-6
SES 2
O-6
(FNC)
(DI)
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S T Departments Customers and Portfolios
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Naval ST Investment by Performer
Basic Research
Advanced Technology Demonstration
Applied Research
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ONR FY06 ST Portfolio

• Discovery Invention (40)
• Naval scientific disciplines
• NRL/Warfare centers
• National Naval Responsibilities
• Technical workforce sustainment
• High impacts/surprises

• Acquisition Enablers (31)
• Future Naval Capabilities
• Warfighter Protection
• Capable Manpower
• LO/CLO

• Directed/Pass-through (19)
• Joint Experimentation
• University Research Initiatives
• Others

• Leap-ahead Innovations (10)
• Innovative Naval Prototypes
• SwampWorks
• Tech Solutions
• SEA TRIAL
• Fleet/Force Response

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OceanographyBasic research in vital areas
Developing high resolution and numerical models
for strategically crucial littoral regions
ASIAEX
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Neuroscience and Biorobotics

Gap UUV noise levels, poor maneuverability /
station keeping, power consumption Objective Explo
it biological principles to develop fully
autonomous robots with robust mobility and
autonomy Enable efficient, low-noise, highly
maneuverable UUVs Approach Extract
principles of sensori-motor control and
biomechanics from biological systems in order to
design advanced prototypes that exceed current
engineering capabilities Product Prototype BAUV
robotic vehicles with efficient and stealthy
high-lift propulsors and adaptive neural
controllers
Pitching-heaving foils Based on fly and
fish hydromechanics
Brain-based controller
BAUV Biomimetic Autonomous Undersea Vehicle
Mobile Towed Array
Long-duration ultra-quiet missions persistent
undersea surveillance
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Sea Shield FNC Sea Based Missile Defense of
Shipsand Littoral Installations

• ST Projects (FY08 through FY11)
• Enhanced Distributed Weapons Coordination (EDWC)
• Naval Interceptor Improvements (NII)
• Positive Control of Naval Weapons (PCNW)
• Goals
• Improve effectiveness efficiency of engagements
  against ballistic missiles threatening naval
  forces facilities ashore
• Enable multiple, simultaneous coordinated
  engagements against theater missiles
• Exploit advanced decoy technology
• Improve interceptor performance against advanced
  missile threats
• Transition Programs
• Standard Missile (current future versions)
• Aegis Open Architecture Combat System
• Future shipboard electronic warfare systems

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Compact Rapid Attack Weapon (CRAW)
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Tactical Exploitation of Space INP

• Innovations for Low-cost, Quick Launch
• Newly Available Low-Cost Rockets Reconfigurable
  Satellite Busses
• Airborne Payloads/Hermetically Sealed Containers
• Focused Demos, Annual Launches
• Naval Warfighting Gaps Addressable from Space
• GWOT Shiptracking (ELINT, SEI, AIS)
• Data Exfiltration (GWOT ASW)
• Comms on the Move
• Maritime Hyperspectral (ASW MIW)

• Naval Needs in Space
• Navy is the Biggest User of Space but AF is the
  Executive Agent for Space
• How to Ensure the Space EA Will Meet Naval Needs?
• Traditional Space ST Costs too much and takes
  too long
• Game Changer
• TacSats Initiated by OFT
• Less than 1 yr Less than 20M
• ST Demos Quick Launch Payloads to Augment
  Existing Space Systems

Schedule Milestones FY 06 07 08 09
10 Ship Tracking Data Ex Comms on the
Move M-HSI
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Naval Science and Technology Vision

• To inspire and guide innovation that will provide
  technology-based options for future capabilities

Free electron laser
Superconducting electronics
Sea gliders
Homemade Shaped Charge IED
Homemade Shaped Charge IED
and to avoid technological surprise.
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Back - Up
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ST Product Flow
6.1 (Basic Research) 6.2 (Applied Res.)
6.3 (ATD)
Industry Direct
Fleet Force
ACQ P.O.R.
World of Ideas ST Opportunities
FNCs INPs
DI
DI Direct
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DI Assessment Framework
Metrics/Criteria based on overall factors that
characterize DI projects and specific factors
that are measurable tailored for 6.1 and early
6.2 efforts
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ST Portfolio Taxonomy
Sub-Area Structure Examples
Research Areas

• Air Platforms
• Anti-Submarine Warfare
• Battlespace Environments
• Biomedical
• Counter IEDs
• Expeditionary Operations
• Experimentation
• Force Protection
• Sea Ground Vehicles
• Human Systems
• Information Systems
• Marine Life Sciences
• Materials / Processes
• Mine Warfare
• Naval Research Enterprise
• Sensors, Electronics EW
• Space Platforms
• Weapons

• Ocean Acoustics
• Physical Oceanography
• National Ocean Partnership Program
• Littoral Geoscience
• Marine Meteorology

• Communications and Networks
• Information Processing / Integration
• Information Assurance
• Intelligent / Autonomous Systems

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University Programs

• Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
  (MURI) Program
• Support multi-disciplinary university teams
  to speed up scientific progress by
  cross-fertilization of ideas, hasten the
  transition of basic research to practical
  applications and train students in
  cross-disciplinary approaches to science and
  engineering research of importance to DoD
• Defense University Research Instrumentation
  Program (DURIP)
• Provides research equipment to universities
  to improve ability to conduct research and
  educate scientists and engineers in areas
  important to DoD
• Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate
  Competitive Research (DEPSCoR)
• Responds to Congressional mandate to
  broaden geographical Distribution of Federal
  funding of academic RD
• Young Investigator Program (YIP)
• To attract outstanding new faculty
  researchers to naval-relevant research and to
  encourage their research and teaching careers
• Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program (NREIP)
• To reinvigorate DoN ST labs by bringing in
  bright undergrad students from 148 NROTC schools
  and those having partnership agreements with a
  Navy lab
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities and
  Minority Institutions
• Designed to develop and attract engineering
  faculty to HBCUs.

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Doing Business with ONR www.onr.navy.mil
Doing Business with ONR
Contracts Grants
BAAs
URI/Education/ HBCU/MI
University Business Affairs
Additional information available on the ONR site
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Comparison of DoD Funded PIs with University
Population
Population
DoD
University Faculty Population provided by NSF
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Whats Coming
QDR Focus Areas

• Defeating Terrorist Networks
• Defending the Homeland in Depth
• Shaping the Choices of Countries at Strategic
  Crossroads
• Preventing the Acquisition or Use of Weapons of
  Mass Destruction

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The Naval Research Enterprise Program to Counter
IEDs
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Counter-IED Program Purpose

• Develop a long-term Basic Research program to
  develop counter-IED capabilities
• Establish/nurture a multidisciplinary counter-IED
  ST community
• Focus on research to break Kill Chain as early
  as possible
• Ensure work complementary to other DoD and U.S
  efforts
• Foster collaboration, where possible, with allies

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Evolving and Capable Enemy

• Change the Paradigm from
• Defensive to Offensive Orientation
• Go after the top of the IED
• kill chain
• Make the insurgents react and place them on the
  defensive

Homemade Shaped Charge IED
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Countering the IED ThreatExamine IED Delivery /
Kill Chain to Develop Systematic Countermeasures
Obtain
Funds
Develop
Organization
Gather

Provide
Material
Improvise
CONOPS
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Tactics
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Devices
Plan
Attacks
Perform
Attacks
BOOM
Consequence Management
Attribution
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DoN Counter-IED Approach
Intramural Efforts

• Naval Research Laboratory
• University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs)
• APL Johns Hopkins University
• ARL Penn State University
• ARL University of Texas
• APL University of Washington
• ARL University of Hawaii (being established)
• Full U.S. Academic Community
• International Participation

Extramural Efforts

• Focus on
• Long-term investment in Basic Research /
  phenomenology
• Multi-disciplinary Nothing off table

Build a Multidisciplinary Community
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Counter-IED Summary

• Develop/maintain sustained long term Basic
  Research Effort
• Focus on research to break kill chain as early
  as possible Couple behavioral sciences with
  technical sciences
• Goal Develop collective strategy to engage
  nurture multi-disciplinary community of
  Government, academic, and industry researchers