Dr' Tony Tether DARPA Director

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Dr. Tony TetherDARPA Director February 12, 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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Contributions 2000s and Beyond
Potential breakthroughs in the next
decade Combined manned unmanned attack
operations Precision detection and tracking of
terrorists Real time detection and high
confidence kill Robust secure defenses against
cyberattack High-speed advanced networks Ultra
miniaturization Quantum changes in computing
data transmission BioRevolution
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Recent Changes

• Space Programs
• Toward SECDEFs Goal of More Robust Capabilities
  in Space
• Precision Weapon Employment Improvement
• Information Exploitation Office
• Higher Confidence Kill Chain
• Find, ID, Target, Destroy Land Based Targets
• Focused Response to Terrorism
• Information Awareness Office
• Precision Tracking of Terrorist Networks
• Detecting, Identifying, Tracking and
  Understanding Terrorist Networks

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Space Taxonomy
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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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
Collectors
Models
Decisions
Collaborative, Multi-agency Policy Ops
Environment
Plausible Futures
Options
Detect gt Classify gt ID gt Track