美国C4ISRNET网3月27日报道

美国国防部快速响应技术办公室（RRTO）要求工业企业向“创新更强”的技术发展，以适应未来战争作战需要。该办公室在国防部负责国防重点计划原型技术的发展，旨在寻求可形成超越“并驾齐驱”对手能力的创新性技术，缩小差距短板，以满足2028年前联合作战任务需求。3月24日，RRTO发布了“2021全球需求公告”，要求工业企业在一下领域的产品能力上给予反馈，包括：人工智能/机器学习、自动化、生物技术、网络空间、定向能、全网络化指挥控制通信、高超声速、微电子、量子、太空、5G，以及其它颠覆性技术领域。该办公室要求2021年秋季与企业进行对接交流，重点是那些已经经过概念演示或实验室验证了的技术。目标是通过原型工作达到技术成熟度6级水平，或经过一定程度的环境演示试验，并向军兵种或相关机构转移。

Pentagon tech office asks industry for ‘leap-ahead capabilities’

Andrew Eversden，C4ISRNET MARCH27

A Pentagon technology office is seeking solutions to fill gaps in the department’s war-fighting capabilities. (sakkmesterke/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s Rapid Reaction Technology Office wants industry to pitch “highly innovative” technologies that could benefit war fighters in future wars.

The office, which focuses on prototyping technologies for DoD modernization priorities, released its 2021 Global Needs Statement on March 24 on beta.sam.gov. The office wants to hear from companies about products across these priority areas: artificial intelligence/machine learning; autonomy; biotechnology; cyber; directed energy; fully networked command, communication, and control; hypersonics; microelectronics; quantum; space; 5G; and other disruptive technologies.

“RRTO is looking for highly innovative technologies that have the potential to provide leap-ahead capabilities against near-peer adversaries and fill gaps in critical joint mission needs no later than 2028,” the document said.

RRTO will hold meetings this fall with companies. The office is looking for technologies that have demonstrated a proof of concept or have been validated in a lab. The goal is to prototype the innovation to a technology readiness level 6, or a “relevant environment demonstration,” and transition it to an interested service or agency.

“Solutions are expected to derive from companies’ internal research and development (IR&D) or other research efforts and suitable for maturation through DoD prototyping funding, but not mature enough to be Commercial Off-the-Shelf products,” the solicitation stated.

Just this week, defense officials and lawmakers called for increased investment in basic research and commercial capabilities. Defense Innovation Unit Director Mike Brown said that the slowing of federal research and development funds must be countered by commercial technology investment.

“Federal R&D is declining as a percentage of the economy, [and] it’s flattening out in dollar terms,” Brown said during a webcast. “Meanwhile, the commercial sector has moved ahead quite dramatically.”

The department also recently established a center of excellence in California for networked command, control and communications as part of an effort to develop large-scale communications networks that can enable the Pentagon’s joint war-fighting concept.

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