 Surface Navy Association, this is my second time I was here last year and I know this was a great opportunity for me as the Chief of Naval Research and as a Navy Flag Officer that's wearing black shoes today to work together and explain and have a dialogue with you and so this is more of a dialogue versus a monologue. I've got about 30 minutes of a discussion about the Office of Naval Research for those folks that may or may not be intimately familiar with our mission and then I'm going to talk about some of the eye-watering technologies and discoveries that are associated with surface warfare but also in technologies that are domain agnostic and then I'll take your questions. So next slide. So the Office of Naval Research, science and technology right? Not engineering in technology but the science and technology for our Navy and Marine Corps. We are four commands inside the Office of Naval Research, you can see the four logos there, the headquarters in Boston, about a thousand scientists there. We've got a special projects office over in Boling, we have an O&R global command, worldwide science and technology diplomacy which we'll talk about and then the cornerstone which most folks are aware of which is our Naval Research Laboratory located over there in the banks of the Potomac. About 4,000 strong scientists and technologists, we have about a 10% footprint of active and reserve. My reserve component is an incredibly intelligent component, about 190 and 92% of them are PhDs, we're in the uniform and they go back to be the chief technologist in small and medium and some large businesses so it's a great spectrum of intellectual capital across our science and technology domain. About two billion dollars, that sounds like a lot of money right? Two billion dollars. We have 17 billion dollars in our Department of the Navy's R&D account annually. Two of that goes to science and technology. What we do is we break that up into basic applied and advanced research and we'll talk about how we do that and how we understand the fleet's need that ties back to the science to ensure we're lead turning the capability gaps that we don't even know about. 23 locations around the world and here in the United States and thousands of partners and I'm looking at them right now right? We have an S&T triangle triad of government, industry and academia. We leverage off of small, medium, predominantly and large companies from a application perspective and that discovering invention predominantly our academic institutions, universities and colleges around the world. We discover new knowledge. That discovery is incredible. Been in a seat now for a year and there hasn't been a day that's gone by where we haven't had a new discovery. That's just phenomenal and that's not new information that perhaps Admiral Archisel hasn't read in a book somewhere. I'm talking about new knowledge that's never been in anywhere other than some divine understanding. That discovery is the incubation for the development of breakthrough technologies. We knit together those technologies into feasible capabilities and then we determine is that something the fleet can take today? Is that a technical risk reduction opportunity for a program or record or do we put it into the corpus of technology knowledge what I call the shelf of technology and we put all that together and guided by an S&T strategy that I'll talk about here on the next slide. How do you invest in the squishy business of science and technology? For you technologists out there or business development folks in corporations where you have to go and you have to justify your budget to invest in areas that the return on investments measured in decades, that's a tough sell. Well it's no different with us but as you look at the ability to trace the DNA of discovering invention you have to show that S&T and science technologies have equities in all three of our fleets and forces and you see that along the X axis. The current fleet that Hays Gray and Underway we have S&T technologies and capabilities that can help our sailors today. Corrosion control, autonomous pipe cleaning right? I mean these things aren't sexy but the fact of the matter is there's technologies that are emerging out of this domain that can help our sailor today and then we have our programs or record. We have acquisition efforts that are ongoing that take anywhere between a couple of years to a couple of the decades or a couple decades. We need to make sure that we can provide technology on ramps and so we have equities and programs and focus areas for that. Then the traditional fleet which is that future fleet right? 32 years ago I was coming out of the University of Notre Dame, Go Irish. The fact of the matter is you come out what was in the Petri dish and the test tubes then right? We're fighting with today. So what should be in our Petri dishes and our test tubes? What are the flubber and flux capacitors of today that our generation 30 years from now going to be fighting the fight? And that takes some time and takes some thinking to make sure we're investing in the right areas and I'm going to talk about how we do that. So those boxes that you see there is our methodology to take that two billion dollars and parse it up. Red box discovery invention, predominantly academia in areas of advanced material research or algorithmic phenomenology, photonic and quantum sensing research, some bio inspired and synthetic biology research goes on and on. It's an incredible amount and all this is open source and for those that are interested can come to our website and you can see not only the current basic research that's underway but the areas that we're planning to go into so that you can get a lead turn if you're interested. Those two center boxes are technology push nobody's asked for this but we see the emergence of the basic research coming into an application domain that allows us to say you know what we should take that chocolate and that peanut butter and bring it together and might be a good combination and that combination comes into things like rail gun, laser cannons, LDUUVs, cyber effects, things that as they mature and we push it, yes the fleet sees it and they start pulling it and we start to craft con ops and understand how it can be integrated into the current fight and the future fight so that we can establish either program or record or do rapid prototyping. The gold box is my technology maturation pull. Those are those opportunities that have fielded systems, torpedoes that are capable but we're looking for a little more range right. This isn't basic science but this is still science and technology experiment and discovery in maturing the technology that can give a torpedo within the same outer mold line and increase propulsion capability for example and those are our future naval capability activities and then the blue box as I mentioned we allocate a small portion of our resources to ensuring that we can look at manufacturing technology processes and see where current technologies in science can help make them more efficient and actually help industry and the government come together to be more productive in the manufacturing. Okay next slide. So when you remember those four colors because I use those as a mapping across some of the rest of the brief. So I'm a big enterprise triad guy right. You got a requirement and you got money that's great but who's gonna do the work right. It's the old you know let's go let's go take the hill and that comes from here and then it goes to the echelons it comes down the echelon it finally gets to the squad the squad's gonna take the hill right. So who's doing the work. You can see here the triad is our government engagement and our government scientists and warfare centers and system centers with our engineers but we are reliant upon as a triad partnership with our industry partners and their academic professionals. It is not just our folks at the Naval Research Laboratory or at China Lake or at Newark and in that we put together the appropriate awareness and an outreach initiatives so that you those that are in industry here can have awareness of what the science and technologies at least in the office of Naval Research are working on today and what we're pursuing for tomorrow so you can help craft your own business plans and I'm gonna show you at the end of the brief here how if you don't know how you can work with us communicate with us and keep us in your solution space been as we move forward. Next slide. Okay so chief of Naval Research I get two questions one what keeps you up at night and what are your priorities what keeps me up at night is not the the high-end fight or actually the warfighting fight at all that keeps up co-coms and number of fleet commanders as they should I'm not that I'm the I'm the mad scientist of the Navy right and chief of Naval Research what keeps me up at night is the inefficiency of being able to discover new knowledge mature technologies and deliver feasible capabilities so our warfighter can fight the fight and win and what we don't want to do is the duplication and find out that even within your own organization we're duplicating effort so that's where we focus on efficiencies not efficiencies and finding money and getting rid of money but the science of science which are my investment priorities right need to have the business of science efficiencies right it's the old adage of things are moving forward a boss everything's great now it's time to put it on contract right boom we hit the belt sander of policy and we have pulled down okay got to do negotiation T's and C's I got me we'll get this thing on contract in eight to nine months wrong right we've established the ability within our authorities to accelerate the business of science in our contracting in our funding in our engagement with partners industry and academia and we've already realized that over this past year and are moving things much more expeditiously to get into the science of science bending a metal writing of code and so forth okay so with that you can see you've now had an opportunity to read through the slide investment priorities does that mean this is the only thing we're invested absolutely not refer back to that four box chart four box chart we have two point one billion dollars allocated across that and we have somewhere in a neighborhood of about 10,000 projects ongoing at any one time aligned across our focus areas and making sure that we are doing the appropriate science that gets us the technologies that then we can work with the fleet to pull to to inform con ops and requirements to reduce technical risk for programs and to ensure that fielded capabilities remain relevant these five areas though are right now as we look across the board with CNO Richardson comment on Neller which are my two change of command from a operational engagement to ensure that the warfighter's requirements are being met and then from an acquisition S&T perspective coming through our service acquisition executive Mr. Stackley to the secretary of the Navy and into the OSD realm across the S&T folks there we've looked across that we've been part and parcel to the long-range research and development program plan the third offset strategy with the upset death and providing our forward leaning looking areas these areas are aligned to those but they're also supportive of our common on CNO directed energy and electric weaponry some exciting investments but more importantly a very good progress in maturing the technologies and I'll talk about some of those cyber the good thing about cyber is that you really don't know what's going on right that's a two-edged store right you sit there you go well you could say I don't know if anything's going on so I'm happy or you can say I don't know anything's going on and I'm paranoid what we've taken is a tact of a balance of that a little bit of paranoia keeps you sharp right but at the same time the sky is not falling what we need to do is make sure we're looking across that domain and coming up with the algorithmic phenomenology and that's a word or a phrase that we use to say when you identify something in a cyber domain even an informational product like their information technology product it accelerates from a TRL readiness level technology readiness level of one to nine ready for operational use almost overnight right there's no qualification shake that around a roll any of that it's ready to go so this investment priority we are tightly tied into admiral tie and her team and other other stakeholders in the cyber domain to include our industry partners but a lot of that is compartmentalized so if you have ideas and engage opportunities in the cyber domain in those full spectrum networks communication and computational information please reach out to me or you'll I'll tell you how you can reach out so that we can keep that communication going forward I anchor on cyber because that's one that we end up really glossing over because of the classification and though I won't go into the specifics I want you to know that we're working on that we have a good footprint of cyber S&T going on and we need your help on the EMW and maneuver warfare I'm going to talk about some of our science that we're doing in a couple slides as well as maneuver warfare and then synthetic biology is a focus area that's your petri dish that's my 20 year downrange right I've got symbiogenesis geneticists that have grown microbial energy cells that can eat metallic material and poop electricity okay so when you start thinking about that demonstration that's a discovery element that's my red box but if you start to think about how we can cultivate that rate put metal tracks on the seabed sprinkle this organic mercurial on it and hook up electrodes to it I have an endless supply of power under the water right so when I said that they go I guess it could be that way that we're a long way off I said that's okay I'm not going to put that on a brochure but I have to justify that red box how do you justify it'll be in the fleet in 20 years sir well you have to be able to say gallium nitride for example is now in the e2d radar and making sure that we can have high performance capability for command and control radar search surface search for the carrier strike group that came out of that was kind of red box so my synthetic biology focus is in that domain of the petri dish and test tubes next line okay I want to I want to give you an opportunity especially industry partners and know and my navy counterparts here teammates the S&T global engagement of the office-enabled research is is 55 countries strong look at those red dots those six red dots are where I have scientists stationed PhD scientists stationed their mission is in country and surrounding countries to engage in the S&T collaboration with the universities and colleges in that country in those surrounding countries to engage in open search open research and basic research in those investment areas and in the research areas that are in our strategy to collaborate and learn but also to help minimize our technological surprise on the global stage and it's very very effective in fact this coming this August it will be celebrating our 70th anniversary August 1st of the office-enabled research and the establishment of the first global location in London so we have London we have Prague we've got Singapore and Tokyo we've got Sao Paulo and Santiago for those that are interested in the science of what we do and you are in these areas they're mostly co-located in consulates and embassies and if you're a US citizen you can go and you can visit our own our global and I give you an open invitation to do that the other white dots you see there are science advisors and I have some here with me and some alumni science advisors they are engineers and scientists that are aligned and on the staffs of our numbered fleets and forces our tie comms our warfare development centers op-nav and our syscoms they provide the scientific advice engagement as well as the reach back to all of our warfare centers and system centers to help to find the solution space for our principles across those numbered fleets it's a very good network and a very effective network so I just give you that quick snapshot of our global engagement we do about 300 million or excuse me 300 grants about a hundred million dollars worth of work globally dedicated with in this domain right here across that entire partnership we have somewhere in neighborhood of about 2000 international industry and colleges and universities so it's a very extensive network and exchange of information next slide okay so I don't know most of you probably have heard the Valley of Death right well as the warfare center commander what weapons division in China Lake which is in the northern Mojave which is two hours away from Death Valley right I said you know we got to turn the words around right no Valley of Death Death Valley is actually a pretty great place to go you've got life there you got you've got vegetation you've got a lot of things in Death Valley so I said let's go understand this Valley of Death and so we're not throwing confetti and saying that things everything transitions but when we started putting the data down on the table and to those four colored boxes for our investment strategy you have these four pillars we identified what transitions from knowledge to technology to capabilities it's important to understand that and this is in collaboration with industry and academia right can't sit there and say we're 100 percent successful in fact I don't want to be a hundred percent successful not in the science and technology realm you want to fail fail fast learn faster and move forward but we also have to understand that your second grader when he or she graduates second grade you shouldn't kick yourself in the behind that they didn't graduate and go to college the next year right third grade yes maybe fourth grade right so half of what we do is that red box and what we want to make sure is we're graduating transitioning right the algorithmic phenomenology for example in that top graphic to our CINMAC and the oceanographer of the Navy to ensure that their METOC models and other models needed to ensure that our fleet understands the domains and the environments they're going into continue to get better right that center you know I'm gonna talk about a number of the gray that's our technology push we are going to ramp up in FY 16 and 17 the volume of technology push and to do that we have to have technology awareness so that's going to it's an initiative and you'll see a roll out of that and in fact in a couple of slides and then the others we have rapid response most folks are familiar with our Ponce laser SSL quick reaction capability some other unmanned systems unmanned system controllers I talked about the corrosion in the pipe cleaners we talk about LED and deck lighting there's a number of things that transition immediately go that's not science I go no it's not science but it's technology right and so you got under we need to understand the spectrum well and then how do we enable and ensure that the development teams that are taking your technologies are able to reduce risk and then expeditiously get operationally suitable and effective capability in our warfighters hands next slide okay so let's get sort of focused down on surface warfare domain one of the things I talked to my scientists about as we discover new things and the technology start to emerge it's absolutely essential to not stovepipe yourself in a domain right we need to be domain agnostic almost like cost is an independent variable remember that a couple decades ago in the agnostic so that when we look at the technology we don't disregard solution space because we're humans right so in this case what you see here again the four colored boxes right these are representative it's not the 100% they're the key S&T programs that are underway right now executing and some that are finishing up in the blue bars those are those things are getting out to our sailors right now the gold or yellow or our future naval capabilities predominantly in mine countermeasures in propulsion efforts to topside electronics some kinetic the hyper velocity projectile some things along as it wasn't planning going through each one I'm going to talk about some of the choice ones here in a couple and then the gray our technology push of our innovative naval prototypes and then the peach addition test tubes are the the red ones what I'm giving you is a sense and for those that need and want to engage with the office of naval research we have taken the 10,000 plus projects that are currently underway and executing and we've done the business of science to be able to bring them to the shelf to be able to understand where they are how they map to a certain domain how they map to a certain capability how they map to a certain industry partner to a certain academic partner so that we can have a dialogue with you to make sure we're not duplicating but more importantly where we can collaborate and move forward and get our warfighter what he and she needs next slide okay so let's talk about some of the cool science I put this more in the capabilities focus because when I when I start talking about graphing graphene and you know nano particles I can't see you because these lights are pretty blight but I'm sure people go into high alpha or their roller eyes out or so what I'd like to do is I like to talk to you about our innovative naval prototype engagements predominantly here that gray bar in the gray box the electromagnetic maneuver warfare is a key area for fleet forces command and our numbered fleets we listen to our fleet force commander and we engage to ensure that we're doing that left of the acquisition kill chain science and technology but in collaboration coordination and communication with the fleet briefing them where we can engaging with the warfare development centers where it's appropriate understanding the tie-com support to the fleet commanders and then bringing that together to make sure that this naval prototype effort that we're pursuing remains relevant you can see on the top schedule across that's for integrated topside INP that is wrapping up in the next 18 months that INP generated a set of integrated RF functionality suites that were aperture a common set of aperture avionics and software packages to reduce the overall configuration of future ship superstructures we're still looking at and providing potential suites solution space for back fit the software products and you can see each of those green triangles the software products have been already rolled out see what block 2 is already benefiting from this innovative naval prototype this is an incredible shift in an opportunity to allow the technology algorithmic phenomenology to release the burden on our sailors and operators and allow the automation where it makes sense to time-share manage and engage the electromagnetic capabilities mostly in the RF spectrum on our ships that's important and from that we kicked off the EMC squared which is the electromagnetic maneuver control capability we're just kicked that off the idea there is leveraging off of that commonality and single aperture and software suite and modular capabilities be able to give the strike group commander and the other local commanders of the platform the ability to real-time measure assess and then react to their own electromagnetic spectrum and footprint that they are generating okay and to have the ability to see everybody else's once we get to pass that and we start talking about the ones and zeros it gets classified the fact that matters this is an exciting it's geeky but it's an exciting science and technology opportunity here leveraging off the end top and you can see in there where we have wargame engagements with our weapons development centers and the fleet because in this science and technology and these software products what we experienced in in top was we expected 18 to 24 months of development of discovery invention and so and it accelerated in weeks so we want to make sure we have a warfighter as well as explaining and an awareness to our industry base because these are going and will go into fielded systems and those fielded systems are predominantly the OEMs our industry base okay next slide next area pillar UXS maneuver warfare most of you are familiar with our swarming demonstration on the James River about a year and a half ago that was very successful it was successful in demonstrating the software control algorithms the controller interfaces and the token ring learning algorithms for in this case they were they were boats but for the vehicle and it was the first in a series of swarming technology demonstration experiments and demonstrations we have since given it the acronym locus which is our low-cost unmanned swarming technologies we just demonstrated a 30 swarm UAVs coyotes the ability for not all airborne some in simulation but to be able to communicate cooperate health and status goes severable individual small severable packages to full packages there's a big deal as it's not just about the software it's about the learning it's about the the neural network science that's being injected into this locus architecture over this coming year you can see in 2016 we'll be doing swarms of 30 10 land and then 30 at sea this the sea domain and the maritime demonstration brings some physics challenges that we look forward to discovering and hopefully we I know we will understand them and that's about understanding so these technologies again once again is domain agnostic and so as we get ready to think about our underwater vehicles we're looking at how some of this can transport into you UV swarming activities next slide and that's our LDU UV so this has been underway for quite some time and there may be some folks out here that are getting ready to participate in the program of record LDU UV that's not this okay this is still our innovative prototype for the LDU UV now the science and technology and the maturation of this vehicle and the four vehicles total are helping reduce the risk right the three areas that this science and technology IMP is focused on is battery fuel cell technology autonomous maneuver and endurance and we've made some incredible technological progress in all three of those we are about to execute a roughly 400 to 700 mile open ocean demonstration of one of our LDU UV's from San Diego to San Francisco in that we'll be using some of our advanced battery technology to demonstrate its ability to provide the not only the power for for the actual transit but for some maneuvering experiments that we're going to conduct and in that also our sense and avoid algorithms to understand how we can ensure that vehicles at varying depths can dynamically sense and avoid obstacles fixed and moving as we move forward so it's an exciting demonstration and we'll bring you that as we move forward it in the program a record effort we are providing everything we learn to the technical team so they can reduce their risk so I usually get questions about the program a record and I'll point you towards the appropriate acquisition leadership for that next slide okay but surface right so the ASW continuous trail unmanned vehicle you don't see it there well actually you do that's the active for those folks that are familiar with the DARPA project we are coordinating O&R and DARPA together right on a USB configuration that can provide a persistent engaged unmanned surface capability for multiple payloads and for autonomous and for manned and unmanned complementary capability engagements we are going to pick up this technology and capability from DARPA in the 2018 timeframe I asked my DARPA counterpart if we could brief this collaboratively our innovative naval prototype kickoff in FY 18 will be the medium displacement USB and in that we will now look at again fuel fuel cells and batteries we will look at payloads we will look at endurance and we will look at at sense and avoid similar what we're doing for LDUV because we're going to take those technologies from LDUV and see how they are domain agnostic and are applicable on our MD USB so we're really excited about this this hull is going to get wet this year and it's we're going to be able to watch and discover and work with our DARPA counterparts to help our MD USB get to a good start next slide solid-state laser so out on the Ponce right now our 30 kilowatt system continues to operate fifth fleet commander uses it on a daily basis not only for SSL from a laser perspective but also as an ISR asset with the advanced optics that the that the QRC system brings to the table with that we continue to move forward and we just released the contract work for our technology maturation effort which is what you see here the objective there is to continue to mature the actual capability but also look at the beam sharpener beam director looking at energy storage advanced optics doing the lethality analysis for given target sets for laser energy defeat to understand what is good enough right right now the objective of this TM effort in the FY 19 time frame is 150 kilowatt power but when I asked my scientist well is 140 good enough do you need 300 is more better the answer is more is better in certain cases when you think about what we have to do which is integrate this on shipboard platforms swap see is precious so we need to continue it's a balance so actually it's a ballet as we continue to refine and get advances in energy storage and that's a lot underneath our electromagnetic rail gun program we've brought that down significantly we're using that same technology here and then as we look at the new generation of the Zumwalt and other in our next generation ship platforms and the types of alternative and next generation hybrid type generation or energy generation architectures we're taking all that into account here and helping inform those requirements I see and the technology pool is not necessarily necessarily a laser in every pot but the laser capability and understanding how it can reduce the cost per kill but right now we've got to ensure that the energy storage and the energy engagement is that that technology continues to mature and that's the focus on this it's really exciting we'll continue to keep the Ponce deployed we've been given that opportunity to continue to support the fifth fleet commander and that will happen we are pursuing other QRC like science and technology demonstrations on other platforms and some land-based ranges to continue to beat down the risk but more importantly mature the technology so that as the as we come into FY 1920 time frame integration on our surface ships can become a reality next slide and then turn turn is a DARPA led O&R collaborative effort where we are looking at being able to take a vertical launch and recovery flying wing right to be able to with one thou with a with a tactically significant payload amount and be able to go at range off of surface ships what we're really that that sort of sounds like well we've sort of done that isn't that engineering this this flying wing vertical takeoff flying wing the stability and control and the ability for the the desired flight envelope has never been done before these we say it's never been done it's been tried before right so maturing the technologies to actually demonstrate this which is what we're going to do from 16 to 19 and be able to bring that to a level of maturity that we can then do prototyping and demonstration on fielded on on current ships is the game plan and the objectives okay next slide okay so for those that were hoping that I'd roll out the actual you know flubber and flux capacitor or put you know bring out some neat tools that would light up and everything I apologize for not meeting your expectations however what you can see is that we have an substantial amount of science and technology efforts going on we have it the partnerships of academia and industry is absolutely essential our sister services across the army the Air Force and the Marine Corps coming together to ensure that we're not duplicating our technologies to understand all that and where we're going I encourage you to visit our website and in this the business of science we have a standing open BAA where we can take your ideas and we review those ideas on a regular basis and then we come back and we engage and we put money on contract and we move out measured in weeks for those that are interested in participating in the larger proc I n p's and effences the technical points of contact in the business points of contact are listed right there so if you see something that you're interested in or something that you believe as it matures you would be interested in I encourage you to engage those technical points of contact the communication is absolutely essential oh and our does not have the corner market on great ideas we've got a lot of great ideas and we do a lot of eye watering science and technology those 4,000 scientists but it's you it's industry and academia together with us that are going to really make the change so I engage I encourage you to engage there or see any of the oh and our reps that are here after the presentation next slide okay my pinwheel if you take anything away from this these icons give you a snapshot of the functionality and the science and technology across the board these are devolved out of our s&t strategy and they provide you a snapshot and appropriate nomenclature and lingo inside the spiral our codes are like program offices and our naval research laboratory and our office of naval research global commands are engaged in the day-to-day basic research and the global s&t diplomacy so if any of that is of interest to you as you walk out the door today or even in two weeks six months from now I encourage you to engage with us so that we can establish the relationship and work together for our common purpose