Looking Forward Staying Ahead - From Lab Coats to Boots

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A Message From the Chief Executive Officer

Vision, Mission and Values

Introduction

Key Objectives

S&T; Strategy

Synchronizing S&T; Efforts to Maximize Impact—The Defence S&T; Strategy

Responding to the S&T; Strategy—DRDC’s Implementation Strategy

S&T; Capability

Program Outputs

Exploitation

Integrating Concepts

Business Model

- Pursuing a Business Model That Stimulates Innovation

Corporate Services

- Building Corporate Services Capacity

- Ensuring Compliance with Government Priorities and Applicable Policies and Procedures

Support to Transformation, Support to Operations and Fielded Technologies

Support to Transformation

Support to Operations

- Human Systems Integration

- Command and Control

- Mobile Systems

- Personnel Protection

Fielded Technologies

- Protection of Assets

- Communications Networks

- Personnel Protection

Developments Supported by the Defence Industrial Research Program

- Human Systems Integration

- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

Centre for Security Science

Conclusion

Annex A—Proposed Science and Technology Challenges

Annex B—DRDC S&T; Programs

New Technology Demonstration Program Projects Started in 2005

Defence Industrial Research Program Projects Approved to Start in 2006

New Technology Investment Fund Projects Approved to Start in 2006

Annex C—Acronyms and Abbreviations

Looking Forward Staying Ahead is a strategic document that challenges all levels of Defence R&D; Canada (DRDC) to achieve excellence by setting ambitious goals for the future.

Working within a five-year time frame, Looking Forward Staying Ahead outlines strategic directions aimed at bringing together the research centres of DRDC and our partners in the Canadian Forces, the Department of National Defence, and the public and private sectors.

One of DRDC’s greatest challenges is to anticipate the future requirements of the Canadian Forces, from technological, operational research and analysis perspectives. Looking Forward Staying Ahead lays the foundation for planning research that will expand the boundaries of current developments and prepare for future threats and opportunities.

Our commitment is to be the best, most responsive and most cost-effective source of information, advice and support in science and technology for defence and security.

March 2006

Additional copies of this report are available from:

Director Science and Technology Policy
Defence R&D; Canada
Department of National Defence
Constitution Building, 8th Floor
305 Rideau Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0K2

Tel: (613) 995-2091
Fax: (613) 996-5177

Electronic Copies are available at:
www.drdc-rddc.gc.ca

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