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Enhanced Naitonal Security
Enhanced National Security
We are committed to maintaining our military technological superiority.
High priority investments include:
Defense basic science (maintained at $1.2 billion)
Information technologies to enhance the capabilities of individual
warfighters and win the information war.
Modeling and simulation to improve combat readiness, doctrine
development, and acquisition.
Advanced sensors for improved situation awareness, quicker and more
accurate target identification, and better targeting.
New directions for national security science and technology:
Technology for affordability: lowering the cost of achieving and
maintaining needed military capabilities.
Accessing commercial technology through strengthened bonds between
the civilian and military sectors.
New missions such as countering the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction.