The objective: Booz Allen Hamilton enlisted The Tauri Group as the key subcontractor on a multi-year project to assess the industrial base for militarily critical technologies for The Office of the Secretary of Defense/Industrial Policy.
The method: The Tauri Group conducted technology assessments in support of Booz Allen's capabilities-to-technologies methodology for identifying key DoD capabilities. The team then linked the capabilities to the technologies essential to their provision. The methodology was executed for the entire defense industrial base in five phases, corresponding to the original five Joint Functional Concept (JFC) capabilities areas identified by the Joint Staff:
As the study is being expanded and updated, The Tauri Group continues to provide subject matter experts for technology and industrial base assessments.
The results: The study team identified nearly 1,000 key capabilities spanning all JFC areas. From that list, associated technologies critical to these capabilities were identified, followed by the performance of industrial base sufficiency assessments on over 300 selected critical technologies. Sufficiency assessments subsequently identified technologies in need of further investment, to ensure that vital military capabilities are not compromised.
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Study results were published by Office of the Secretary of Defense/Industrial Policy.
DARPA funded Scorpion multi-legged robotic developed by the University of Bremen, Germany.
Demonstration of ground penetrating radar integrated into a mobile unit. Sponsored by the U.S. Army.
