§5207 Department of Defense

Summary

Under the Superconductivity Action Plan, the Secretary of Defense must focus the Defense Department’s superconductivity work on basic research, materials processing, and real-world uses of new superconducting materials. The Secretary must define the engineering limits for high-temperature superconducting materials and carry out the needed development, engineering, and operational prototype testing for DoD missions, using DARPA’s testing criteria when appropriate. The Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) must support and add to basic and applied superconductivity research done by other federal agencies and industry, and create criteria for operational prototype testing within the Department of Defense.