Making, Maintaining, Supply CHAIN AND Logistics

- Expand evaluations of plausible utility-scale concepts as needed to prevent strategic surprise. - Finalize R&D plans, including detailed execution plans addressing the major risks associated with building a utility-scale quantum computer, planned risk mitigation steps, and plans for prototypes that will demonstrate risk reduction…

- Identify transition paths to wide DoW applicability for electrically-small receivers. - Identify transition paths to wide DoW applicability for electrically-small transmitters.

- Demonstrate robust quantum sensors on government platforms. - Validate theory and limits of operation of robust quantum sensors. - Develop integration requirements and methodology for system demonstrations.

- Reduce Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) of qNICs towards deployable hardware package. - Test, evaluate, and document developed quantum-augmented network protocols for standardization of protocols. - Develop and evaluate proof of concept over air quantum-augmented links by modifying qNICs.

- Demonstrate a fully-integrated tactical-grade clock. - Demonstrate use of tactical-clock with DoW communications equipment.

- Demonstrate initial components of heterogeneous quantum interconnects. - Demonstrate heterogeneous quantum circuit compilers on small reference circuits. - Develop preliminary heterogenous quantum computer architecture specifications.

- Investigate new concepts in combined quantum sensing with quantum networking. - Explore hardware interconnectivity between heterogeneous qubit platforms. - Evaluate heterogeneous quantum architectures for relevant use cases. - Initiate design activities for manufacturable quantum sensors.

- Develop features to the tools and systems that use autonomous and/or probabilistic components. - Demonstrate tools on a medium-complexity cyber-physical systems with autonomous components.

- Develop thermal modeling and characterization capabilities to improve fidelity of thermal analysis of 3DHI stacks. - Establish reference EDA flow for improved design accuracy and reduced design cycle time. - Release alpha version of 3D-ADK, which includes standards, training documentation, revision control, and predictive modeling.

- Demonstrate large diameter UWBG material with low defect density and improved doping efficiency and uniformity. - Quantify improvement in material quality by designing, fabricating, and characterizing test structures. - Demonstrate optimized microfabrication processing with low resistance electrical contacts to UWBG materials with high…

- Demonstrate complete device-level integration and characterization of scalable optomechanical infrared detectors. - Demonstrate preliminary testing and benchmarking of application-specific optomechanical infrared detectors for multiple applications. - Demonstrate field testing and environmental resilience of fully packaged…

- Deliver preliminary design review (PDR) for high-performance compute system. - Complete optical wafer design, tape out, and manufacturing. - Integrate optical wafer with digital high-performance compute wafer.

- Reduce transistor thermal resistance by 8x compared to SOA, and design thermal resistance test structures to demonstrate this reduction. - Design and fabricate RF PAs with a 16X increase in output power density, compared to SOA, close to electrical limit. - Demonstrate robust operation of RF transistors and PAs with a 16X increase in…

- Demonstrate small, scalable and power-efficient MAMs for high-performance CIM. - Evaluate power-efficient models run on CIM hardware. - Demonstrate new capabilities compact, power efficient CIM offers in warfighter relevant use-cases.

- Evaluate five-tier stack high power test vehicle models for intended usage environment. - Demonstrate operational five-tier test vehicle to meet target thermal management capabilities in intended usage environment.

- Deliver a critical design review (CDR) for a large-scale dense photonic array with updated simulated array performance. - Demonstrate a non-blocking routing network connecting nodes on a three-dimensional photonic grid. - Fabricate the large-scale photonic array design.

- Finalize design and fabricate radiation sources. - Conduct experimental and computational simulation campaigns to correlate single-event effects created by the new radiation sources with conventional heavy-ion data.

- Integrate selected approaches for machine-learning-driven compilation in an end-to-end capability for optimization of compiled software for heterogeneous architectures. - Develop techniques to automatically recognize source code patterns that can be allocated to specific hardware accelerators. - Extend evaluation framework to…

- Demonstrate optimized algorithms and computational performance of nanoresonator-based computing cores for complex physical problems of interest to the DoW. - Initiate size weight and power reduction and systems-level packaging of nanoresonator-based computing cores for DoW relevant applications.

- Demonstrate techniques for fully automated exploit chain synthesis, including link replacement and repair, in complex systems. - Demonstrate the capability to reproduce exploit chains in software of interest to transition partners and integrate tools and capabilities into operational contexts.

- Demonstrate sharp atomic layer growth. - Demonstrate multiple atomically flat, compositionally sharp thin heterogenous layers.

- Experimentally demonstrate optical detector modules for enhanced sensitivity.

- Transition filter technology to DoW radar systems and high-volume communications market.

- Begin functional test and performance characterization at high temperature.

- Demonstrate increased read ability for proteins of greater length and complexity. - Complete microsystem design and prepare for tape out. - Initiate development of integrated system.

- Demonstrate fully functional growth tools/techniques with precise control for complex material growth. - Achieve small-scale demonstrations of four new complex inorganic materials. - Scale up growth to at least 2 inches at single crystal quality for one complex material. - Demonstrate that growth process is uniform at large-scale and…

- Delivery of first energy storage device prototypes. - Perform function and safety tests of initial prototypes. - Report on manufacturing improvements and economic cost drivers.

- Develop initial models capturing the physics of the separation processes to inform projections of prototype efficiency and throughput. - Perform initial experimental demonstration of technique achieving medium purity separation of simple feedstock. - Deliver initial commercialization plan that outlines value proposition, market…

- Complete Preliminary Design Reviews for photonic circuits. - Complete Critical Design Reviews for photonic circuits. - Complete tapeout of initial photonic circuit designs. - Perform analysis of system-level performance including designed photonic circuit.

- Initiate design of circuits and modules for very large-scale photonic integration. - Initiate design of advanced concepts for flexible batteries and energy storage devices. - Perform design and assessment of precision, maskless nanofabrication tools. - Initiate preliminary design of atomically precise molecular machines with initial…

- Perform evaluation of novel design techniques for advanced circuits and modules with next generation capabilities. - Initiate a trade study on new hardware architectures that can leverage commercial scaling while preserving their security and lead to superior systems. - Evaluate technologies for the control of advanced materials down…

- Maximize the output power of compact G-band III-V MMIC PAs that use the silicon-like multilayer interconnects while optimizing efficiency. - Design, fabricate and test circularly-polarized, high-power transmit and ultra-low noise receive array test articles.

- Experimentally demonstrate gate drive and control circuitries for high efficiency and compact radiation tolerant POL converters. - Demonstrate device integration technologies which enables high-efficiency, high-energy-density POL converters. - Demonstrate fully integrated, high efficiency and compact radiation tolerant POL converters.

- Deliver finalized commercialization plan for advanced additive manufacturing technology. - Finalize additive manufacturing synthesis technique. - Demonstrate a functional microsystem that is fabricated with AMME technology.

- Construct system demonstrators utilizing visible-wavelength integrated platforms.

- Finalize adaptive array processing algorithms to meet SOAP goals. - Complete co-design of high-level hardware architectures to prove out the algorithms on-array.

- Refine and integrate cyber operational prototypes with established DoW programs and systems to create a cohesive, robust, and effective cyber warfighting architecture. - Develop, test, evaluate, and operationalize cyber technologies, prototypes, and capabilities in collaboration with DoW cyber stakeholders. - Coordinate with U.S. cyber…

- Develop and demonstrate techniques for fully automated exploit chain synthesis, including link replacement and repair, in complex systems. - Advance the analysis and modelling of exploit chains to forecast exploit chain lifecycle in complex software systems that have state-of-the-art defenses. - Demonstrate the capability to reproduce…

- Extend ingest and process model generation to handle noisy or incomplete system information of real-world BL systems. - Demonstrate automated fault identification capability on an enterprise system of interconnected BL systems. - Evaluate the performance of techniques for identification and resolution of BL faults to existing and new…

- Refine approaches for formally modeling adversaries that actively hunt for hidden or obfuscated communications. - Demonstrate the scalability of approaches using highly realistic network environments.

- Implement techniques for peer-based monitoring, detection, and remediation of bus cyber-attacks. - Conduct demonstrations of bus resilience technologies implemented as firmware updates suitable for deployment to common bus-based systems and components.

- Demonstrate the ability of regular DoW development staff to incorporate formal-methods-based tooling into development processes at minimal cost. - Demonstrate cybersecurity benefits of formal-methods development integration.

- Refine environment simulations and agent training to transition partner operational priorities. - Extend environments to support training goals of defensive cyber operators.

- Develop interactive tools that facilitate understanding of formal mathematical proofs for high assurance software systems. - Create formal compilation and verification techniques that improve the resistance of computing systems to soft errors. - Develop techniques and tools that integrate verification and validation with model-based…

- Develop techniques for automated identification of latent behaviors for heterogenous mega-systems to enable novel defenses. - Develop techniques for digital continuity of operations. - Use on-board sensor data to enable timely detection of cyber attacks. - Discover and prove logic flaws in security protocol implementations. - Learn to…

- Demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of mitigations against unintended system behaviors to reduce risk of adversarial reuse and emergent execution. - Refine tools for emergent execution mitigation to enhance potential integration across the SDLC.

Harden cyber planning and risk management tools and transition capabilities to operational partners.

- Refine AI risk analysis techniques and tools based on the results of initial operational exercises and red team experiences. - Quantify the effectiveness of alternative robustness enhancements and TTPs across diverse use cases. - Conduct high-fidelity operational and red team exercises targeted to high-priority DoW AI-robustness use…

- Conduct the first at-scale evaluation of genAI assessment methods for compositions of classes of problems. - Integrate mathematical guarantees into assessment methods at scale. - Formalize best practices for classes of problems and compositions of classes to facilitate adoption by the genAI user community.

- Improve TTP detection performance through adaptive generative approaches and demonstrate capability to anticipate and extract novel money laundering TTPs from heterogeneous FININT and transaction data. - Collaborate with AML stakeholders from across USG and the private sector to evaluate techniques and tools in operationally relevant…

- Evaluate R&D efforts addressing critical technical challenges associated with the use of frontier AI for national security and initiate new efforts as appropriate. - Launch additional collaborative R&D efforts that address critical technical challenges associated with the use of frontier AI for national security.

- Extend core capabilities to include the estimation of risk and reward structures associated with belief states. - Transition Kallisti technologies.

- Attract private capital to support efficient operation of the forum and operationally relevant development of geoeconomic theory and playbooks. - Develop geoeconomic playbooks derived from geoeconomic research.

- Transition techniques to Department of War program offices that can benefit from enhanced capabilities to simulate autonomy.

- Collaborate with transition partners to leverage feasibility assessment tools in operational settings.

- Develop formal approaches for software adaptation and system behavior prediction in the field. - Create physics-based models of perception for high reliability AI/ML-based sensing in autonomous systems. - Integrate distributed control, game-theoretic incentives, and strategic reasoning to enable robust, controllable, and adaptive…

- Enable enhanced collaborative reasoning by integrated human-machine warfighting formations. - Automatically generate high-fidelity digital representations and behavioral models of adversary groups. - Develop AI for automated reverse engineering during active cyber warfare. - Develop AI that continually improves its model as it operates…

- Complete final version of structural price prediction models and extend to additional minerals. - Complete final supply and demand forecast models and extend to additional minerals. - Conduct evaluation of completed structural price prediction and supply and demand forecast models. - Conduct research surrounding application of…

- Demonstrate cooperative operation of multiple controller instances in a single, complex physical system. - Collaborate with transition partners to demonstrate safe operation and functionality on real-world, operational platforms despite damage or malfunction. - Formalize mathematical foundations of the recovery and control techniques…

- Finalize AI neurosymbolic datasets and benchmarks and conduct demonstrations on selected use cases. - Transition methods to DoW.

- Organize intellectual property generated for use by the U.S. Government and Department of War.

- Perform a coupled optimization demonstration between high-throughput material testing and design optimization frameworks balancing performance, cost, and sustainability. - Establish a proof-of-concept manufacturing demonstration for a continuous material shape optimized component. - Initiate incorporation of enhanced quantum…

- Complete builds of operationally relevant magnetohydrodynamic prototype pumps and conduct operational testing. - Conduct operational analysis and assessment of scalability study, evaluate future transition paths for PUMP technology. - Perform full scale inlet testing to verify modeling and simulation tools for VLEO inlets. - Complete…

- Conduct assessment of designs to understand ability to meet mass production requirements. - Develop preliminary design of integrated system. - Test sub-scale solid rocket motor assembly. - Compare preliminary designs to potential transition partner requirements.

- Produce and test C-C 2D coupons and C-C 3D hypersonic-representative parts that mimic design features and manufacturing challenges seen in real, full-scale aeroshell. - Develop processes for high throughputs of C-C hypersonic aeroshells. - Design aeroshell production lines - Perform independent testing and assessment (i.e., material…

- Integrate nitrogen oxidation catalysts into a small-scale reactor capable of delivering nitric acid at a particular rate.

- Complete first of four testing cycles, collect data, analyze and modify designs to optimize performance. - Begin second testing cycle with increased complexity at release conditions. - Complete second testing cycle and begin third testing cycle with increased complexity at release conditions. - Review improved capabilities with…

- Conduct field exercises and DoW-relevant application demonstrations of high-performance, environmentally-robust optical clocks

- Finalize experiment plan for autonomous control using nuclear physics predictions and advanced, combined neutronics models. - Develop air-breathing secondary fuel cells with far greater gravimetric energy density than current comparable energy solutions, while remaining safe, rechargeable, and easily manufactured. - Assess feasibility…

- Demonstrate control of a single catalyst type with different control physics. - Demonstrate size and complexity scaling. - Increase the accuracy of both models and fabrication approaches over a larger number of attachment sites and catalyst types.

- Demonstrate analog hardware at intermediate scales. - Demonstrate analog feature extraction and classification techniques at intermediate scales. - Demonstrate training, inferencing and compression algorithms at intermediate scales.

- Fabricate and engineer non-traditional heterostructures with ultralow energy and high-speed switching characteristics. - Design and develop basic computational circuits using non-traditional transistor heterostructures. - Begin radiation hardness testing.

- Perform initial design photonic and optical components using optimized materials systems and device wavelengths. - Evaluate applications areas that could be enabled using novel concepts in electronics that are inaccessible by traditional electronics. - Investigate the benefits of non-traditional circuits as compared to traditional…

- Achieve high velocity motion with a tethered microsystem on chip exceeding the fracture limit of polycrystalline silicon. - Perform preliminary experiments to demonstrate the shock and vibration immunity of mechanical frequency combs. - Demonstrate stability of surfaces to extend the long-term bias stability and aging of sensors.

- Explore the interaction of new waveforms and sensing targets to determine properties at stand-off distances. - Use experimental data to refine the theory and assess utility of these novel methods for future defense purposes.