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Appendix H Defining 21st Century Defense Needs
Pages 194-200

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... H Defining 21st Century Defense Needs In the summer of 2001, DOD's Defense Science Board (DSB) was asked to recommend how the department's S&T investment should be spent, how much should be invested, and how the military could realize the most value from this investment.
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... A P P E N D I X H 195 · Rapid deployment and employment of forces globally against responsive threats. · Global effects that can be delivered rapidly, anywhere.
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... It is clear, therefore, that progress in materials research in the United States and abroad will affect the nation's ability to defend itself against emerging threats in the 21st century. Another report from the National Research Council considered the narrower topic of contributions materials research could make to meet 21st century military needs.
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... A P P E N D I XH 197 needs and explored the revolutionary defense capabilities that could result from R&D in five classes of materials:4 · Structural and multifunctional materials, · Energy and power materials, · Electronic and photonic materials, · Functional organic and hybrid materials, and · Bioderived and bioinspired materials. In considering the opportunities in these materials subclasses, the study identified the following core tasks for the U.S.
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... The report also concludes that successful research on broad classes of materials and processes will need to be accompanied by the consideration of engineering issues -- for example, a new material or process that seems promising in the laboratory would be useless if it could not be manufactured. In addition, the introduction of a new material into a system is more likely to be successful if the new material is integrated into the system or component design effort as early as possible.
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... Some of the advances will result from R&D undertaken by commercial enterprises for competitive advantage in areas like tele communications and computation. In other areas, however, DOD may have to bear the funding burden directly.
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