Applied Research for the Defense Industrial Base
Defense contractors and their government sponsors face a recurring problem: committing to a technology, an AI assistant, a private 5G network, an analytic platform, before anyone has established how it performs under realistic conditions, or what it does to the people and systems around it. Vendor benchmarks answer the wrong question, and a live program is an expensive place to find out.
Fraunhofer USA builds the experimental infrastructure that answers it first: testbeds, laboratories and rapid-prototype environments where a proposed capability can be instrumented, varied and measured before it is fielded.