Booz Allen IDs Top 10 Emerging Technologies for DOD and National Security
New research highlights critical tech that will make mission impact on day one
The report was developed by Booz Allen’s Tech Scouting team – a core function of Booz Allen's Chief Technology Office (CTO) that closely monitors early-stage technologies, non-traditional partners, and startups poised to transform mission outcomes for the public sector. Tech Scouting has a critical role as a trusted advisor to
"The greatest technological competition of our lifetimes is upon us and it is incumbent that we identify, invest in and deploy solutions that meet the missions of our
By focusing on dual-use technologies, this report extends defense-focused analysis into commercial markets where
Key takeaways from the report include a detailed overview of ten emerging technologies expected to reach an inflection point of impact in the next one to three years, including (grouped by category, not order of importance):
AI
- AI Accelerator Chips: semiconductor chips designed for speeding up artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) computations and lowering their energy requirements, enabling AI at the edge.
- Multimodal AI: AI systems that ingest text, imagery, audio, video and other data types in tandem to better interpret context and create more accurate predictions.
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Generative AI Software Development : specially designed AI/ML to review, edit, and write software, offloading all or much of the coding burden from humans, as well as potentially reduce bugs and security flaws.
Cyber
- Post-Quantum Cryptography: new mathematical algorithms for public-key encryption are essential to resist attacks from quantum computers in the future.
Power
- High-Density Energy Storage: next-generation batteries with significantly higher energy density, allowing for greater energy output in smaller transportable form factors.
Sensing/Awareness
- Alternative Positions, Navigation, and Timing (Alt-PNT): more secure, robust alternatives to existing,vulnerable GPS-based position, navigation, and timing (PNT) technologies.
- Space Domain Awareness Tech: technology for a thorough understanding of the space operating environment to perceive threats and reduce risk of collision through study and monitoring of satellites and orbital objects.
- Autonomous Swarms: multiple robots with local processing, communication, and sensing capabilities interconnected and programmed to react to their environment autonomously.
- Non-Kinetic Counter-UAS: weapons that use highly focused energy, such as lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams, to damage or destroy fast-moving threat targets.
- Hypersonics: vehicles or weapon systems that fly five times faster than the speed of sound.
“The research is not about new technologies per se, but about new ways of thinking,” said
This latest report, “Top 10 Emerging Technologies for the
Read the full report and learn more about Booz Allen’s Tech Scouting capabilities.
Methodology
Emerging technology is a key element in the future of warfare, and the aim of this report is to be an introductory roadmap for those trying to understand it. To identify technology ecosystem candidates, Booz Allen used a mix of
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