4 July 1998
Source: Hardcopy from Peter Leitner

Table 2

FUTURE WEAPON SYSTEMS: Technologies Required

X  ESSENTIAL   #   IMPORTANT   O  HELPFUL

Handheld SAM

Heavy ICBM

Helicopter Launched ATGM

High Perform Platform

IL-76 Class Strat/Tact Aircraft

Imaging Satellite Systems

Interceptor

Large ALCM

Large CTOL Aircraft Carrier

Large GCLM

Large SCLM

Launch Detection Satellite

Light Combat Vehicle

Liquid SLBM

Long-Range SAM

Mid-Range SAM

Mobile Comms & Command Posts

Multiple Rocket Launcher

Naval AWACS

Naval Gun

Navigation Satellite

Non-Acoustic ASW

Nuclear Weapons Control Sys.

Nuclear Weapons Targeting Sys.

Precision Guided Munitions

Radio Electronic Combat

Reconaissance & Intel Collection

Reconstitution

Sea-Launched Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles

Aerothermodynamics

Bearingless Rotor

Burn Through Shroud

O

CAD/CAE/Simulation

O

X

X

X

X

#

#

X

X

O

#

#

#

O

X

#

#

#

X

#

#

Ceramics

X

#

#

O

O

X

#

Cesium Clocks

X

X

Chemistry

Coatings

Compact Cryogenics

#

#

O

#

Composites

X

X

#

#

X

X

X

X

O

#

X

#

Correlation Sonar

#

#

Crystal Growth

Displays

X

Elastomerics

Electronics, High-power

#

O

Encryption

Explosives Chemistry

O

X

X

#

X

X

O

#

#

Fiber Optics

O

Gas Bearings

#

#

Heat Lamp

O

High Power Battery

High Pressure Pumps

#

#

Hydraulic Press Design

O

O

Hydraulics

Instrumentation

Know-how

#

#

X

X

O

X

X

X

O

Laser Detector

#

X

O

X

#

#

Laser

Machining

#

X

X

X

#

#

O

#

X

X

X

#

X

X

#

#

X

Magnetostrictive devices

Manufacturing

#

X

X

#

#

#

#

#

#

Materials

#

#

X

X

#

#

#

O

O

X

#

X

X

O

X

#

#

#

Matrix Detector Production

Metals

X

X

#

#

X

#

#

#

Microelectronics

X

#

X

X

#

X

X

X

X

X

X

#

X

X

X

#

X

#

X

X

X

X

#

X

X

X

Monomolecular Fluid

#

#

Optics

X

X

X

Phase Shifters

#

O

Piezoceramics

Power Source

Radar Sensor

X

Receiver

#

#

#

Sensors

#

Signal Processor

#

#

#

Software

#

#

O

#

X

#

X

X

X

X

#

X

X

#

#

X

#

X

#

Spectroscopy

Superconductors

Telecommunications

X

#

#

#