Harnessing Complexity

Integrated technologies to enhance warfighter capability and survivability

New tools for modeling complex phenomena, networks and systems

Physics, chemistry, and materials for new national security capabilities

Novel methods, tools, and approaches to better understand social systems and dynamics in a national security context

The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) identifies and pursues high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines – sometimes reshaping existing fields or creating entirely new disciplines – and transforms these initiatives into radically new, game-changing technologies for U.S. national security.