dod looks at u.s.-south korea technology collaboration

the partnership between america and south korea has grown for more than 70 years now and continues to reinforce each yr.

one region that the protection branch emphasizes is in generation development between the two nations, said david a. honey, deputy undersecretary of protection for research and engineering.

president joe biden these days visited with south korean president yoon suk-yeol to talk about, amongst different matters, efforts to broaden cooperation on technologies, inclusive of semiconductors, batteries, civil nuclear energy, space development and cyberspace.

“fully spotting that [the] scientists, researchers and engineers of [their] international locations are among the most modern in the world, each presidents agreed to leverage this comparative advantage to decorate public and personal cooperation to defend and promote essential and rising technology, which includes main-area semiconductors, eco-friendly ev [electric powered automobile] batteries, artificial intelligence, quantum era, biotechnology, bio-manufacturing and self sustaining robots,” stated honey throughout a keynote address nowadays on the center for strategic and global studies.

honey stated dod officers have identified five, key technology areas the department objectives to increase further in partnership with south korea. all, he stated, have an effect on worldwide supply chain safety, and primary amongst the ones is artificial intelligence.

“as ai, machine mastering and autonomous operations preserve to mature, the dod will attention on evidence-based totally ai warranty and permitting operational effectiveness,” he said.

in communications, 5g generation and the following generation of communications generation also are critical to the branch, he stated.

“as fifth era wireless technology is followed and offers building blocks for functionality, the dod may also look forward to future g [generations] for bounce-beforehand technologies to steer in creating future requirements,” honey stated. “the department will put money into future g generation development to put the groundwork for endured usa management in records era, that is essential to maintaining our financial and country wide safety.”

quantum computing, honey stated, can provide dod with computational speeds which are remarkable and will allow the department to clear up a number of its most hard analytical troubles.

“quantum sensors promise the capacity to offer unheard of accuracy in position, navigation and timing,” he stated. “our close to-term technology attention is on superior atomic clocks and quantum sensors to enhance navigation and timing reliability beyond gps and enhance our get admission to to the spectrum.”

in addition investments in biotechnology, honey stated, can help with the whole lot from fighting worldwide pandemics to decreasing logistics and sustainment expenses and increasing energy efficiency.

“biotechnology can help change the manner the branch conducts missions, performs in contested logistics environments, and adapts to major worldwide changes,” he said. “biotechnology innovation is basically via global collaborations. dod partnerships regionally and across the world de-hazard and boost up the transition of research to operational demonstrations and capabilities.”

eventually, he said, renewable strength technology and garage are vital to dod’s future operations.

“renewable energy era and garage guarantees to decrease warfighter vulnerability and deliver new operational skills for the department,” he said. “from more efficient batteries to diversifying electricity resources and decreased gas transportation dangers, renewable power technology and garage will add resilience and flexibility in a contested logistics surroundings.”