DARPA - Defense Technology Integration and Infrastructure

DARPA Defense Technology Integration and Infrastructure Budget Code: ST-19

Advanced technologies are of value when they are integrated into usable systems in support of national defense capabilities. This activity is intended to help transition advanced technologies into the defense mainstream by:

Developing "middleware" adaptive services technology enabling interoperable secure transactions, resource discovery, information management, and survivable distributed computing;
Integrating and demonstrating "middleware" services technology within the context of realistic large-scale systems;
Leveraging commercial high performance computing hardware and software developments tailored for military applications;
Enabling interoperability by establishing a building-block architecture common to many defense solutions.
The Embeddable Systems activity focuses on leveraging and extending the commercial scalable computing technology base to support present and future defense embedded computing applications. This activity makes strategic embedded-specific investments through leveraging advanced systems packaging technology to achieve system "smallness" with regard to power, weight, and size.

The Application Support Technology activity focuses on extending general commercial service technologies to support sophisticated information-intensive applications developed for defense needs.

The Technology and Services Validation activity consists of focused efforts for fundamentally enabling applications, such as Digital Libraries and Electronic Commerce.

The technologies developed in support of these efforts will enable other applications that require extensive capabilities for large-scale repositories of network-linked objects, adaptation to the surrounding resource environment, usage metering-accounting-payment mechanisms, and privacy-enhanced, secure, and trusted processing.

This program has been augmented by efforts shifted from the Defense Information Enterprise Technology (DIET) program, particularly from the Information Infrastructure Software and Services and Information Infrastructure Applications and Demonstrations areas within DIET.

Budget ($ M)

FY 95 Act 22.35

FY 96 Pres 23.25

FY 96 Est 41.40

FY 97 Rqst 56.71

Program Component Areas

FY 96 FY 97

HECC 8.20 14.00

LSN 24.19 37.47

HCS

HuCS 9.01 5.24

ETHR

Agency Ties

DARPA

NSF Partner

DOE

NASA

NIH

NSA

NIST

NOAA

EPA

ED

AHCPR

VA

Milestone Changes

FY 1995 Actual Milestones FY 1996 Estimated Milestones FY 1997 Agency Requested Milestones

Demonstrated use of advanced visualization environment in a defense application.

Developed a set of communication benchmarks, communication protocols, and prototype for embedded, scalable military systems.

First Message-Passing Interface (MPI) demonstration of cross-architecture application portability.

Demonstrated integrated access to several different special, classified defense and intelligence information systems.

Demonstrated 10 GigaFLOPS/cu.ft. militarized HPC System. Develop and provide experimental testbed services employing advanced high performance computing technologies for special defense users.

Prototype embedded computing system modules with scalability concepts containing memory hierarchy and power on a single unit of replication.

Perform integration tests in key defense applications such as advanced distributed simulation, advanced distributed collaboration, advanced communications and control, and advanced human computer interfaces.

Demonstrate first fine-grained high performance embedded and scalable computer system.

Demonstrate graphical program environments for embedded systems.

Demonstrate prototype toolkits supporting development of applications adaptive to changes in the computing and communication environment.

Demonstrate prototype of information services through a testbed incorporating information management and secure transactions.

Demonstrate graphical program environments for embedded systems.

Demonstrate prototype toolkits supporting development of applications adaptive to changes in the computing and communication environment.

Demonstrate prototype of information services through a testbed incorporating information management and secure transactions. Complete the developments and transition of experimental testbed services employing high performance computing technologies to special defense users.

Demonstrate integrating testbed architecture incorporating advanced distributed simulation, advanced distributed collaboration, advanced communications and control, and advanced human computer interfaces.

Demonstrate enhanced feature, real-time distributed operating systems for Embeddable HPC.

Demonstrate 100 gigaops/cu. ft. militarized HPC.

Demonstrate initial capabilities of intelligent information services architecture with multiple mechanisms for describing resource capabilities and with a uniform interface to hybrid search methods for resource retrieval.

Develop real-time image understanding algorithms for use in image registration, target recognition, and autonomous navigation for ground level and overhead reconnaissance and surveillance.