Technology by 2030: Looking to change game

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2010/01/airforce_scientist_011810w

 

 

The Air Force's chief scientist is doing his best Merlin, gazing into his crystal ball to see what technologies will run the Air Force in 2030.

What J.A. Dahm sees are cruise missiles that fly 4,000 mph and unmanned aircraft the size of bugs with wings that flap.

"We are not trying to do a complete environmental scan of all technologies. That's really just too much and not valuable," said Dahm, a professor of aerospace engineering who is taking a leave of absence from the University of Michigan. "We are trying to find just those massively disproportionately valuable technologies that could really have game-changing capabilities."