4 July 1998
Source: Hardcopy from Peter Leitner

Table 3

FUTURE WEAPON SYSTEMS: Technologies Required

X  ESSENTIAL   #   IMPORTANT   O  HELPFUL

Ship-to- Air Missiles

Shipborne Laser Weapons

Shipborne Phased Array Radar

Short- range Attack Missiles

Short- range SAM

SIGINT Satellite

Small ACLM

Small GLCM

Small SLCM

Solid SLBM

Space Event Support Ship

Space Station

Space Tug

SSBN

Surface Combatant

Tank- Launched ATGM

Tank

Tilt- Rotor Aircraft

Torpedo Attack Submarine

Aerothermodynamics

Bearingless Rotor

Burn Through Shroud

O

CAD/CAE/Simulation

#

#

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

#

X

X

X

X

X

X

Ceramics

O

#

#

#

#

X

#

Cesium Clocks

X

X

#

Chemistry

X

Coatings

X

Compact Cryogenics

Composites

O

#

X

X

X

X

X

O

#

#

X

X

Correlation Sonar

#

Crystal Growth

X

Displays

#

X

Elastomerics

X

Electronics, High-power

O

O

X

Encryption

Explosives Chemistry

O

#

O

O

O

X

O

#

#

X

O

X

Fiber Optics

Gas Bearings

#

Heat Lamp

O

High Power Battery

High Pressure Pumps

Hydraulic Press Design

O

Hydraulics

Instrumentation

Know-how

#

X

O

#

#

#

#

Laser Detector

#

O

O

Laser

O

Machining

X

#

O

X

X

#

O

X

#

X

X

#

X

Magnetostrictive devices

Manufacturing

X

#

#

Materials

#

X

#

O

#

#

X

X

X

#

O

#

X

Matrix Detector Production

Metals

#

#

#

X

O

#

#

X

X

#

X

Microelectronics

X

X

X

#

X

#

#

X

X

#

X

X

#

X

X

X

Monomolecular Fluid

#

X

Optics

X

Phase Shifters

#

Piezoceramics

Power Source

O

Radar Sensor

X

Receiver

#

#

#

Sensors

Signal Processor

#

#

#

Software

X

X

X

#

#

#

X

#

#

O

X

X

X

Spectroscopy

Superconductors

O

X

Telecommunications

X