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Information Microsystems

Relating to computer and other digital electronic systems

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The Microsystems Technology Office’s (MTO) core mission is to develop high-performance intelligent microsystems and next-generation components to ensure U.S. dominance in the areas of Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), Electronic Warfare (EW), and Directed Energy (DE). The effectiveness, survivability, and lethality of these systems depend critically on the microsystems contained inside.
Precise timing is essential across DoD systems, including communications, navigation, electronic warfare, intelligence systems reconnaissance, and system-of-systems platform coordination, as well as in national infrastructure applications in commerce and banking, telecommunications, and power distribution. Improved clock performance throughout the timing network, particularly at point-of-use, would enable advanced collaborative capabilities and provide greater resilience to disruptions of timing synchronization networks, notably by reducing reliance on satellite-based global navigation satellite system (GNSS) timing signals.
The Mesodynamic Architectures (Meso) program seeks to address future Defense needs by exploiting unique characteristics of matter and energy emerging at small spatial and short temporal scales including new states of matter, untapped forces, novel relationships between fields and excitations and the importance of noise and nonlinearity. The parallel goals of the Meso program are to provide DoD with unrivaled communication, sensing, and computation by exploiting mesoscale characteristics, while establishing well-defined problems to accelerate the transition to quantum engineering.