National Critical Technologies

Information & Communication

High-Density Data Storage        View Details

Technical Applications

• Thin-film recording head transducers
• Recording media
• High-density RAM
• Format compatibility/standards for optical storage
• Magneto-optical storage
• Holographic optical elements
• Parallel data storage controllers

High Definition Displays        View Details

Technical Applications

• Lithography
• Circuitry patterning
• Glass sheet production
• Thin-film technologies
• Photographic displays

Data Compression        View Details

Technical Applications

• Chaotic graphics compression

Telecom / Data Routing        View Details

Technical Applications

• Broadband switching
• Programmable radios
• Wireless communications technology
• Cable
• Fibre
• Satellite-ground communication systems
• Mobile computing systems

Interoperability        View Details

Technical Applications

• Data interchange standards
• Product data exchange

Parallel Processing        View Details

Technical Applications

• MIMD (Multi Instruct
• Multi Data Stream)
• SIMD (Single Instruct
• Multi Data Stream)
• VLIW (Very Large Instruction Word)
• Systolic arrays
• Specialized parallel coprocessors
• Hypercubes
• Parallel data storage architecture

Data Fusion        View Details

Technical Applications

• Multi-spectral data processing
• Distributed array processing

Large-Scale Information Systems        View Details

Technical Applications

• Very large database management tools
• Real-time large scale info retrieval tools

Health Systems and Services        View Details

Technical Applications

• Integrated systems of electronic patient records & decision support systems
• User interfaces

Integrated Navigation Systems        View Details

Technical Applications

• Electronic charts data information systems
• On-the-fly DGPS positioning
• Real-time environmental information systems

Autonomous Robotic Devices        View Details

Technical Applications

• Sensors
• Signal processing
• Software
• Robotics

Artificial Intelligence        View Details

Technical Applications

• Knowledge representation
• Computer-based reasoning methods
• Machine learning methods

Physical Devices        View Details

Technical Applications

• Microsensors
• Biosensors
• Chemical sensors
• Passive thermal imagers
• IRST systems
• High yields
• high-density photo/IR detectors
• Multi-spectral integrated sensors

Integrated Signal Processing        View Details

Technical Applications

• IR/radar sensors

Education Training Software        View Details

Technical Applications

• Military training
• Multi-media authoring tools

Network and System Software        View Details

Technical Applications

• Navigation and resource discovery tools
• Directories
• Registries
• Transparent embedding software
• Operating systems
• Run-time execution systems
• Programming languages
• Interpreters
• Compilers

Modeling and Simulation        View Details

Technical Applications

• Virtual battlefields & weapons systems
• Atmospheric and global systems
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Agricultural
• Cellular/biomolecular function
• Computational physics
• Computational chemistry
• Economic systems
• Numerical control simulation
• Manufacturing

Software Engineering Tools        View Details

Technical Applications

• CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tools
• User interface design tools
• Software testing tools
• IC design tools

Pattern Recognition        View Details

Technical Applications

• Virtual reality software
• Natural language recognition (speech
• handwriting)
• Multi-media operating systems

Software Production        View Details

Technical Applications

• Rapid prototyping
• Modular/object-oriented programming