CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREAS

CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREAS

The most crucial areas that our
military will achieve technological
dominance in.

The most crucial areas that our military will achieve technological dominance in.

01
Applied
Artificial
Intelligence
02
Biomanufacturing
03
Contested Logistics Technologies
04
Quantum And Battlefield Information Dominance
05
Scaled
Directed
Energy
06
Scaled Hypersonics

HON EMIL MICHAEL
Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering

HON JAMES MAZOL
Deputy Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering

ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF WAR (ASWs)

ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF WAR (ASWs)

Mission Capabilities
Science & Technology
Critical Technologies

HON JAMES CAGGY
Assistant Secretary of War for Mission Capabilities

Bridges the divide between technology discovery and fielded operations in the warfighter domain.

HON JOSEPH JEWELL
Assistant Secretary of War for Science & Technology

Leading the scientific frontier for U.S. military superiority.

HON MICHAEL DODD
Assistant Secretary of War for Critical Technologies

Transitions critical technologies to create an asymmetric advantage on the battlefield.

INDUSTRY OPPORTUNITIES

Discover funding opportunities to rapidly field technology to the American warfighter.

We seek and will find new technologies, approaches, and methods to ensure our military maintains a decisive advantage and is able to secure peace through strength and, if necessary, dominate any battlefield. We pursue this mission with the objectivity that science demands and with the purpose befitting our role in the Department of War.

HON. EMIL MICHAEL
Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering

We seek and will find new technologies, approaches, and methods to ensure our military maintains a decisive advantage and is able to secure peace through strength and, if necessary, dominate any battlefield. We pursue this mission with the objectivity that science demands and with the purpose befitting our role in the Department of War.

HON. EMIL MICHAEL
Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering

INNOVATION
ECOSYSTEM

INNOVATION
ECOSYSTEM

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OUSW(R&E)

The Pentagon

Office of the Under Secretary of War,
Research and Engineering (OUSW(R&E))
3030 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-3030