Militarily Critical Technologies List. Developing Critical Technologies

The Department of Defense (DoD) Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL) is a product of the militarily critical technologies program (MCTP) process. This process involves a systematic, ongoing assessment and analysis of technologies to determine those that are critical to U.S. military forces. It assigns values and parameters to the technologies and covers the worldwide technology spectrum. Technologies are selected for the MCTL through the deliberation and consensus of Technology Working Groups (TWGs). TWG chairpersons continually screen technologies and nominate items to be added or removed from the MCTL. Working with an informal structure, TWG members who come from government, industry, and academia strive to produce precise and objective analyses across the technology areas. Part II of the MCTL is titled Developing Critical Technologies. Developing Critical Technologies lists technologies that will produce increasingly superior performance of military systems or maintain a superior capability more affordably. It focuses on worldwide technologies that will become available in the future for incorporation into U.S. weapons systems. ; The latest version of the publicly available MCTL is at http://www.dtic.mil/mctl. See Also ADA406678.