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ERA Summary Charts

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Essential Research Areas

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Tactical Unit Energy IndependenceEnable organic operational energy capabilities of widely dispersed future tactical units operating in

contested environments while eliminating vulnerabilities & logistics burden due to energy resupply

MILESTONES:

AWFCs: 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20

PAYOFF:• Increase platoon level operational energy to execute 3-7 day missions without

energy resupply

• Robotic teammates with self-sustaining energy systems that function for days

• Advanced power systems for future air/ground vehicles to enable MCoE &

ACoE vision of platforms for maneuver that are organic to BCT units and can

function without refueling for 3-7 day missions.

• Intelligent energy networks to untether the Soldier and enable constant on-the

move power transfer to systems in need

OBJECTIVES:

Coordinating Campaign: Sciences for Maneuver Campaign Lead: Dr. Jaret Riddick ERA Coordinator: Dr. Brett H Piekarski

• Increase Soldier portable device energy

efficiency

• Increase conformable battery energy

density

Unburden the

Soldier and

extend mission

duration

• Multi-mode energy harvesting and high-

rate conversion of local resources

• Multi-fuel tolerant power systems

• Multi-functional energy storage structures

Efficient, energy

self-sustaining

power systems

for air/ground

platforms

• Seamless power transfer across Soldiers

& platforms organic to tactical operations

• Development of solid-state alternatives to

electromechanical components

• Wireless recharging on the move

Integration of

Soldiers &

platforms into

intelligent energy

networks

More Effective

Energy Storage

& Device

Efficiency

Exploit Local and Energy Dense

Fuel Sources

High

endurance

power

systems for

platforms

Soldier

Device

Efficiency

(Mid) Demo 5X energy efficiency over current SoA

in soldier portable devices

(Far) Demonstrate 10X energy efficiency

Energy

Density

(Near) Demo 50% improvement in specific energy

of advanced batteries

(Mid) Extend higher density batteries for higher

voltage (4.7V) and safe stable chemistries

Tactical Unit Energy Independence

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Science of Manufacturing

at the Point of Need

PAYOFF:

• Reduce Army inventory and logistics burden through

globally-distributed agile materiel manufacturing

• Reduce time to materiel availability

• Design flexibility to enable mission specific performance

• New structures and materials

Rapid development and certification of lightweight multi-functional materials technologies for protection,

maneuver, and situational awareness by enabling new and adaptable manufacturing processes and

robust predictive models

Materials

Design

Process

Agility

Develop multi-domain high performance

materials, with desirable print properties that

integrate with Army platform materials.

Develop optimization tools to drive design of

parts, process and material to achieve mission

specific high performance.

Develop advanced process models to ensure

high confidence prints in multi-design, multi-

materials environment. Ultimately produce

graded materials that outperform conventionally

machined parts.

OBJECTIVE:

Milestones:

• Near-term (FY20-23): Demonstrate a custom UAV airframe with integrated

components (e.g. antennas, smarts) in an optimized structure with >20%

reduction in weight

• Mid-term (FY24-27): Demonstrate printed munition with integrated

guidance, navigation, control, and flight surfaces, utilizing novel energetics,

and scalable lethality effects

• Far-term (FY28+): Point of need manufacturing of >20% flight/mission

critical rotorcraft parts with >95% increase in time to availability

AWFCs: 4, 16Coordinating Campaign: Materials Research

Campaign Lead: Mr. Andrew Ladas

ERA Coordinator: Dr. William Benard

Operationalize technology for the Army by

developing models to control process for robust

performance with varying resources (including

materials, feedstock quality, energy and time.

Fundamental disruption to

logistics and manufacturing

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Manipulating Physics of Failure for

Robust Materials

PAYOFF:

• Lightweight and flexible armor that can sense

impending danger, react at the “speed of the fight” to

mitigate the danger

• Projectiles that can be fired, sense their intended target

protective scheme, adjust their effects in real time at

the “speed of the fight” to defeat a myriad of targets.

Detect, characterize, and manipulate the physics of failure, including

fatigue and dynamic damage to create disruptively capable structures

that are affordable, available and adaptable

Milestones:

• Near-term: Focus on dynamic damage, Exploit

Uncertainty Quantification for Advanced Predictive

Modeling & Elucidate Mechanisms

• Mid-term: Exploit Mechanisms at the Speed of the Fight

• Far-term: Create Protective and Weapon Materials/

Systems that Sense & Adapt in Real Time

AWFCs: 12, 15, 16, 17, 18

Coordinating Campaign: Materials Research

Campaign Lead: Mr. Andrew Ladas

ERA Coordinator: Dr. Adam Rawlett

Understanding the physics of failure• In situ probing at extreme conditions

• Predictive modeling

Manipulate Failure at relevant scales• Pressure, electrical , magnetic, topology,

other effects to manipulate failure

• Discovery of the elusive phases of

condensed matter

Stimuli responsive materials that sense

their state• Novel/new techniques/concepts

• Synthesis of smart and responsive

materials and systems

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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

PAYOFF:

• AI systems that learn, adapt, reason and act with Dinky, Dirty,

Dynamic, Deceptive Data (D5)

• AI systems that learn, adapt and reason in a distributed manner

over highly heterogeneous data with impaired communications

• AI systems that perform computations under extreme constraints

of Size, Weight, Power and Time available (SWAPT)

Develop and employ a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) inspired and machine learning (ML) techniques

and systems to assist soldiers in dynamic uncertain complex operational conditions. Systems will be

robust, scalable, and capable of learning and acting with varying levels of autonomy, to become

integral components of networked sensors, knowledge bases, autonomous agents, and human teams.

AWFCs: 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 19

OBJECTIVE: To provide AI & ML capabilities and

systems to assist warfighters in complex environments

• Diverse & dynamic missions, tasks, goals at varying tempos

(e.g., kinetic vs. non-kinetic)

• Highly dynamic, mobile, & resource-constrained environment

(energy, power, storage, bandwidth, infrastructure, computing,

communications)

• Extreme heterogeneity: Mixture of sensor, data and information

assets (secure DoD assets, open-source, adversarial) with

varying security, provenance, & capabilities (smart & dumb)

• Varying scales from very dense (mega-cities) to

sparse (remote FOBs)

• Adversaries already on the network, advanced persistent threats

KNOWLDEGE

REASONING

PERCEPTION ROBOTICS

MACHINE

LEARNING

NATURAL

LANGUAGE

PROCESSING

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

PLANNING

COGNITIVE

SYSTEMS

MILESTONE:

• Near-term: Anomaly Determination with joint text and video data

analytics (reduce uncertainly by 50%)

• Medium-term: Machine learning and reasoning in complex urban

environment via Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) (distributed ML

with 10+ data sources)

• Far-term: Distributed cooperative intelligent agents operating at

ballistic speeds (adaptive ML ~ 1ms)Coordinating Campaigns: Information Sciences (IS) and Computational Sciences (CS)

Campaign Leads: Ms. Cynthia Bedell (IS) and Dr. Raju Numburu (CS)

ERA Coordinators: Dr. Tien Pham (IS), Dr. Brian Henz (CS)

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PAYOFF:

• Enable all battlefield assets (fires, vehicles and soldiers) to

provide focused effects before, during and after a maneuver

from the most disbursed positions.

• Expand the ‘zone of influence’ for isolated formations

Dispersed entities to deliver overwhelming kinetic and non-kinetic effects

combining omni-speed (from low to high speed), radical maneuverability and

extremely efficient payload kill mechanisms.

Milestones:

• Near-term: Strike moving target using image-based

navigation & high maneuverability airframe; destruction of

multiple near-simultaneous inbound rockets.

• Mid-term: navigation to complex, mixed targets using

advanced algorithms and low-cost sensors

• Far-term: Swarming maneuver of modular munitions;

protection from like-enabled adversary.

Guide,

Navigate,

Control

Decide &

Communicate

Effects

Multi-agent estimation & navigation (i) robust

against misinformation, (ii) small, and (iii)

embedded within the platform for accurate

terminal guidance; coupled flight physics

optimized for aero & ballistic interaction of

fast, close, maneuverable, and exploding

agents

Efficiently harness stored energy to reliably

defeat any target; understand scaling of

multiple discrete impacts/explosions.

Robustly mitigate likewise-enabled

adversary

Develop multi-agent decision techniques

that are robust against uncertainty &

misinformation. Propagate appropriate

information for group action. Guide to

targets in contested & congested

environment.

AWFCs: 15,16,17,20

Distributed & Cooperative Engagements

in Contested Environments

Coordinating Campaign: Sciences for Lethality and Protection

Campaign Lead: Dr. Jeff Zabinski

ERA Coordinator: Dr. Scott Schoenfeld

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Provide CEMA Security Bubble for

an Area of Operations or Influence

• Ensure freedom of maneuver within

cyberspace across Blue, Red, &

Gray networks

• Ensure LPI/LPD1 on all CEMA

activities

• Maintain Situational Understanding

augmented by CEMA

• Enable communications and PNT

in congested & contested

environment

Cyber and Electromagnetic Technologies

for Complex Environments

1LPI/LPD – Low Probability of Intercept/Low Probability of Detect

Payoffs:• Better ability to fight and win against a near

peer threat in a congested and contested

environment (Scenario 7)

• Shape an area of operations or area of

influence

• Control CEMA damage, effects and

interference CSA Priorities: Readiness & Future Readiness

AWFCs: 1, 7, 17/18,19

TRADOC Big 6+1:

•Expeditionary mission command/cyber-electromagnetic

•Soldier and team performance and overmatch

Coordinating Campaign: Analysis & Assessment Campaign Lead: Dr. Pat Baker ERA Coordinator: Dr. Tom Stadterman

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Accelerated Learning for

a Ready and Responsive Force ERA

MILESTONES:• Near Milestones (FY2020 – FY2023)

• Human variability modeling to tailor individual

adaptive instruction (Army-relevant domains)

• Mid Milestones (FY2024 – FY2027)• Individual adaptive instruction with augmentation

• Far Milestones (FY2028+)• Adaptive instruction for collective units with

enhanced, unobtrusive augmentation

AWFCs: 8, 9, 10

PAYOFF:• The Army of 2050 will have technology (tools and

methods) to reduce the time to gain task proficiency

and enhance learning for the same amount of

instruction today.

• More knowledgeable and agile Soldiers, leaders,

and teams

• Significantly enhance learning, performance,

retention, and transfer of skills from training to

operations compared to equivalent training time

today

OBJECTIVES:• Tailored learning experiences to enhance Soldier

engagement based on human variability

• Adaptive instructional tools and methods to

enhance Soldier learning rates and capacity based

on human variability and reinforcement learning

techniques

• Enhanced learning capacity based on augmentation

tools and methods

Research and discover technology (tools and methods) to help individual Soldiers and units

learn faster, perform at consistently higher levels, retain knowledge and skills longer, and

transfer skills from training to operations at a higher rate.

Coordinating Campaign: Human Sciences Campaign Lead: Mr. John F Lockett ERA Coordinator: Dr. Kelvin S. Oie

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Human Agent Teaming (HAT) ERA

MILESTONES:• Near Milestones (FY2020 – FY2023)

• Human modeling to tailor information delivery

• Collaborative human-agent target recognition

• Mid Milestones (FY2024 – FY2027)• Tailored delivery based on HAT context & behavior

• Collaborative human-agent situational concept

recognition

• Far Milestones (FY2028+)• Enhanced HAT common SA through human-agent

collaborative tools with tailored delivery

OBJECTIVES:• Tailored information to individual Soldiers and

intelligent agents

• Enhanced human-agent collaborative decision

making

• Effective team responses to dynamic events

• Dynamic team composition across missions

• Human-intelligent agent teaming analysis

PAYOFF:• Enhanced communication and situational

awareness

• Increased speed of collaborative human-intelligent

agent decision making for overwhelming

operational tempo

• Dynamic adaptable teams of humans and agents

• Maximum manned-unmanned team cohesion,

performance, and adaptability under conditions of

team member degradation, loss, and replacement

• Robust validated fielded HAT systemAWFCs: 1, 8, 9, 10, 20 Coordinating Campaign: Human Sciences Campaign Lead: Mr. Corde Lane ERA Coordinator: Dr. Kaleb McDowell

Teams of humans and agents, performing military-relevant tasks more

efficiently and effectively than either group alone.

Human Agent Teaming

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Discovery

MILESTONES:• Short: Improved sensors; Materials with integrated biological

components; Modeling emergence of factions in large groups

• Mid: Small scale quantum devices; New algorithms to form &

control swarms; Biological assembly of non-biological sequence-

defined polymers; Tools to enhance cultural competence

• Far: Solve complex logistics problems quickly; Adaptive and

responsive biological-like machines; Control the emergence of

complex new behavior different than its individual components

AWFCs: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19

Coordinating Campaign: Extramural Basic Research

Campaign Lead: Dr. David Skatrud

ERA Coordinator: Dr. Peter Reynolds

Complexity

Discover and apply new math, big data, network

science, neuroscience, physics, etc to understand

emergent behaviors including complex and

unknown failure modes of complex Army systems

Quantum

Exploit the “2nd quantum revolution” for

fundamentally new and leap-ahead capabilities

across C4ISR (computing, sensing, imaging,

PNT, secure comms, networks, etc.)

Social

Dynamics

Utilize advances in biometric & geospatial

tracking, breakthroughs in data availability and

analytic methods to understand, predict, and

control emergent social dynamics like group

behavior (beyond individuals and small groups)

Living

Materials

Develop responsive materials imparting living

functions (i.e., self-healing, adaptation,

protection, situational awareness) for disruptive

capabilities in austere Army environments

Topological

Matter

Fundamentally new realm of electronic and

photonic matter; Will create phenomena never

before seen and materials with new functions.

PAYOFF: Leap-ahead sensors, materials, and capabilities

Identify, create, develop, and exploit innovative new Army critical scientific discoveries.

Discovery is crucial for the Army's future technological superiority, creating technological

surprise for our adversaries and avoiding technological surprise for ourselves.

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