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ERA Summary Charts
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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.