Will defense spending cuts affect the UAV segment?
New budget and political realities facing the U.S. government are calling for smaller, more effective and less risky solutions to win military and paramilitary engagements in the years ahead. Despite the general downturn trend in the defense market, the UAV segment is forecast to survive the recession unscathed. The UAV technology is the answer for both a smaller Defense Department heavily reliant on solid intelligence gathering, and for an increasingly militarized CIA overseeing the counterinsurgency drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan and …

The U.S. military UAV market is projected to grow at an 12% CAGR reaching $18.7 billion in 2018. The report finds that the U.S. military UAV market will generate $86.5 Billion revenues over the period 2013 – 2018.

The report provides detailed year-by-year (2013 – 2018) forecasts for the following U.S. U.S. Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) market segments:

• R&D, tests and evaluation
• Unmanned Air Vehicles
• Payloads
• Ground Control Systems
• Service, support and maintenance
• Training
• Data management
• Revenues by UAV Groups (by vehicle airspeed, weight, and operating altitude)

Market Research Media analysts have found that there is a widening gap between growing UAV fleet and UAV infrastructure development, especially in such sectors as training; service, support and maintenance; and data management. This gap creates a number of market opportunities for UAV vendors, both large defense contractors and small technology companies.

“More aircraft help us manage their maintenance, but do not affect the number of Predators we can fly at any given time. More ground control stations would be helpful, and the system is trying to produce more. But even if we had more ground control stations and aircraft, we would not be able to employ them without more pilots and sensor operators,” said Lieutenant General Walter E. Buchanan III, Commander U.S. Central Command Air Forces. “The effectiveness of UAVs as surveillance systems is unmatched, and has had great effect in both theaters of operation.”

Military procurement of UAS, including unmanned aircrafts, payloads, CGS makes the DoD the single largest consumer of UAV technology in the world. We can predict with a great deal of confidence that the U.S. Government will continue to invest in UAS as much as needed to keep its dominance, both technological and pure force factor, in the next decades.

Table of Contents
1. Market Report Scope & Methodology
1.1. Scope
1.2. Research Methodology

List of Tables
Table 1 UAS classes by weight, level of operational control and mission focus
Table 2 UAS groups by vehicle airspeed, weight, and operating altitude
Table 3 Characteristics of Selected Tactical and Theater-Level Unmanned Aircraft
Table 4 Key System Capabilities
Table 5 Military services’ inventories of groups 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 unmanned aircraft as of end 2011
Table 6 UAV Manufacturers
Table 7 Video/Electro-Optic/Infrared (EO/IR) Sensor Payloads
Table 8 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Table 9 Emerging Sensor Technologies
Table 10 DOD Organizations and Initiatives Addressing UAV Training Challenges
Table 11 U.S. Military UAV Market Forecast 2013-2018, $Mln
Table 12 U.S. Military UAV Market 2013-2018 by Sectors, $Mln
Table 13 U.S. Military UAV Market 2013-2018 by UAS Groups, $Mln

Howard Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President and the Cybersecurity Coordinator, has unveiled previously classified details of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), a program called to unify agencies’ fragmented approach to cyber security within the federal government. Two initiatives within CNCI, Einstein 2 and Einstein 3, imply wide implementation of Deep Packet Inspection technology to protect federal networks:

“Deploy an intrusion detection system of sensors across the Federal enterprise. Intrusion Detection Systems using passive sensors form a vital part of U.S. Government network defenses by identifying when unauthorized users attempt to gain access to those networks. DHS is deploying, as part of its EINSTEIN 2 activities, signature-based sensors capable of inspecting Internet traffic entering Federal systems for unauthorized accesses and malicious content. The EINSTEIN 2 capability enables analysis of network flow information to identify potential malicious activity while conducting automatic full packet inspection of traffic entering or exiting U.S. Government networks for malicious activity using signature-based intrusion detection technology.”

“The goal of EINSTEIN 3 is to identify and characterize malicious network traffic to enhance cybersecurity analysis, situational awareness and security response. It will have the ability to automatically detect and respond appropriately to cyber threats before harm is done, providing an intrusion prevention system supporting dynamic defense.”

It was an open secret that the U.S. Government is bolstering a program to detect and respond to cyber attacks on government systems and DPI technology was rather obvious choice. A flurry of activity around DPI technology vendors is in the air. A few weeks ago Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
announced the acquisition of CloudShield Technologies Inc, a cybersecurity and DPI technology provider. CloudShield’s deep packet inspection (DPI) capabilities are expected to enhance SAIC’s cybersecurity offering in the US Federal Government and commercial markets. Small DPI technology vendors may find it difficult to enter the world of federal contracts other than through established federal IT security contractors.

The Deep Packet Inspection market is undergoing a strong revival – it will see explosive growth, more mergers and acquisitions, more fighting with privacy advocates and a whole lot of new applications in cyber defense, signal intelligence, IP traffic monitoring and management.

In 2011, we’ve seen a palpable shift from reactive approach to cyber security to proactive (Einstein – US-CERT programs) and attitude change of federal CIO’s with regard to Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). While technological advantages of the DPI technology leave no doubt about its significant role in cyber security, lawful interception and data leakage protection, the perception of DPI as “postal employees opening envelopes and reading letters inside” and privacy concerns hurdle its deployment.

Given the severity of recent Chinese hacking attacks and the potential catastrophic consequences of critical networks disruption, DPI technology is in a favorable position to emerge as a major line of cyber defense for years to come. The U.S. Government Deep Packet Inspection market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 31% from 2013 to around US$ 1.8 Billion by 2018. The market will see a few good years of explosive growth in all segments before going flat.

The report answers the following questions:

• Why pay any attention at all to the U.S. Government DPI market?
• What segments of the U.S. Government DPI market are poised for fast growth?
• What are key trends in DPI deployment?
• Will legal hurdles and privacy concerns impede DPI deployment in government networks and DPI use for surveillance & monitoring purposes?
• What are drivers and inhibitors of the U.S. Government DPI market?
• What are market opportunities in providing DPI solutions for Government sector?

The report provides detailed year-by-year (2013 – 2018) forecasts for the following U.S. Government market segments:

• Deep Packet Inspection software, hardware, services (including SaaS/PaaS/IaaS) and personnel training
• Deep Packet Inspection applications for security, Sigint (Signals Intelligence) and network management;
• Deep Packet Inspection market by Defense/Civilian agencies;
• Deep Packet Inspection market by Landline/Mobile networks.

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Deep Packet Inspection (DPI): U.S. Government Market Forecast 2013-2018

• The number of hours flown by drones in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharply increased in the last few years – from 50,000 in 2006 to more than 200,000 in 2009
• The Predators and Reapers are already transmitting 16,000 hours of video each month, to be processed and analyzed on the ground.
• Instead of carrying just one camera, the new UAVs, will soon be able to record video in 10 directions at once. By 2011, that will increase to 30 directions with plans for as many as 65 after that. Camera resolution, frame rate and bit depth are growing as well.
• The Air Force’s top intelligence official, Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, described the situation as “swimming in sensors and drowning in data”.




Market Research Media Ltd forecasts computational requirements of the global Defense HPC community to triple every year to reach 1,000,000 Habu by 2015 (For more information, please see Worldwide Defense High Performance Computing (HPC) Market Forecast 2010-2015). Habu is a measure of computational performance used by DoD. In 2002, a 1,024-processor IBM system located at the Naval Oceanographic Office MSRC named Habu, was designated the baseline system. Since then computational performance measures are all in “Habu” equivalent units.

As a matter of fact the future computational requirements tend to be grossly underestimated, for example, here is a forecast made in 2005:

“The Department of Defense computational science community will need over 875 HABU equivalents of computing capacity by 2010.” Source: Cray’s press release

The use of COTS have fueled and will fuel growth in Defense HPC Market far beyond expectations. Recently the US Department of Defense, announced that it will upgrade its supercomputer cluster with 2200 Sony’s PlayStation 3 video game console. Here is an excerpt from the order justification form:

With respect to cell processors, a single 1U server configured with two 3.2GHz cell processors can cost up to $8K while two Sony PS3s cost approximately $600. Though a single 3.2 GHz cell processor can deliver over 200 GFLOPS, whereas the Sony PS3 configuration delivers approximately 150 GFLOPS, the approximately tenfold cost difference per GFLOP makes the Sony PS3 the only viable technology for HPC applications. Sony is the only firm capable of manufacturing the brand of required hardware without the Government experiencing substantial duplication of cost that would not be recoverable through competition among providers of alternative technology. Using cell processor technology besides the Sony PS3 would cost the Government the equivalent of several years of professional research and engineering effort, in addition to the initial investment of $118,000 made by ARFL/RIT in 2008. Moreover, moving to an alternative technology hardware would also cause duplication of costs associated with redeveloping the software, military systems, and applications already based on the existing Sony PS3 cluster. This will become increasingly relevant as the magnitude of applications and supporting hardware infrastructure likely will increase over time.

Commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) HPC software or hardware are often used as alternatives to in-house developments or one-off government-funded developments. The use of COTS HPC solutions in combination with Application Specific Software is being mandated across many government agencies, as such products may offer significant savings in procurement and maintenance, reduction of overall system development and costs, and that’s where opportunities lie.

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High performance computing will be a key technology for meeting national security requirements and to enhance national defense and economic competitiveness. High performance computing contributes substantially to the design and development of advanced vehicles and weapons, planning and execution of operational military scenarios, the intelligence problems of cryptanalysis and image processing, the maintenance of nuclear stockpile, and is a key enabler for science and discovery in security-related fields.

“The United States cannot afford to take a back seat in computer technology to the Chinese, or to anyone else. The nation that leads the world in high-performance computing will have an enormous competitive advantage in every sector, including national defense…”, said Eric D. Isaacs, Director of Argonne National Laboratory.

The global defense high performance computing market is projected to reach $13.6 billion in 2020. The estimate for worldwide cumulative market 2015 – 2020 is $65.5 billion, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.4% over the period 2015-2020.

No modern war has been won without technological superiority. No future war will be won without it. The High Performance Computing (HPC) provides many capabilities and tools the military needs to address defense problems. HPC hardware and software can be used to address a wide spectrum of defense-related issues, including: protecting bases of operations through the mitigation of toxic threats; modeling to support certification of new aircraft-store combinations before deployment to conflicts zones; supporting air and space supremacy; conducting climate, weather, and ocean modeling that provides valuable information for countermine warfare; data mining and intelligence analysis, disaster modeling, preparation for emergency operations and humanitarian relief operations throughout the world. These are but a few examples.

The report provides detailed year-by-year (2015 – 2020) forecasts for the following defense HPC market segments:

• Infrastructure and service: 11 segments including servers, interconnects, HPC in the cloud and others;
• Applications: 10 segments;
• Fast growing/high priority technology segments, among them ARM-based servers, in-memory computing, and embedded High Performance Computing;
• By geographic region (Americas, EMEA, Asia/Pacific Rim) and by top 10 countries (country-by-country).

The report accounts for critical HPC applications in weapons technology, military communications, military simulation, operational weather and ocean forecasting; planning exercises related to analysis of the dispersion of airborne contaminants; cryptanalysis; military platform analysis; survivability/stealth design; intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance systems; virtual manufacturing/failure analysis of large aircraft, ships, and structures; and biotechnology.

How much do individual countries plan to spend on defense-related HPC between 2015 and 2020? Where are the major market growth opportunities in military HPC market in 2015-2020? How are emerging COTS solutions shaping the market? These critical questions and many more can be answered through our in-depth research, as presented in this report.

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Table of Contents

1. Market Report Scope & Methodology
1.1. Scope
1.2. Research Methodology

2. Executive Summary
2.1. Defense HPC Market in 2015-2020: Key Market Trends, Opportunities and Predictions
2.2. National Defense HPC Markets
2.2.1. Defense HPC Market: U.S.
2.2.2. Defense HPC Market: Japan
2.2.3. Defense HPC Market: France
2.2.4. Defense HPC Market: UK
2.2.5. Defense HPC Market: Germany
2.2.6. Defense HPC Market: Spain
2.2.7. Defense HPC Market: Canada
2.2.8. Defense HPC Market: Italy
2.2.9. Defense HPC Market: South Korea
2.2.10. Defense HPC Market: Australia
2.2.11. Defense HPC Market: China
2.2.12. Defense HPC Market: Saudi Arabia
2.2.13. Defense HPC Market: Sweden
2.2.14. Defense HPC Market: India
2.3. Defense HPC Market 2015-2020 in Figures
2.3.1. Defense HPC Market 2015-2020 by Infrastructure and Services
2.3.2. Defense HPC Market 2015-2020 by Applications
2.3.3. Defense HPC Market 2015-2020 by Geographic Region
2.3.4. Defense ARM-Based HPC Market 2015-2020
2.3.5. Defense Embedded HPC Market 2015-2020

List of Figures
Fig. 1- What Forces Will Shape the Global Defense HPC Market in 2015-2020?
Fig. 2- Worldwide Defense HPC Market Forecast 2015-2020, $Mln
Fig. 3- Defense HPC Market: Growth Rates 2015-2020 by infrastructure and service segments, CAGR %
Fig. 4- Cumulative Defense HPC Market 2015-2020, market share by infrastructure and service segments, %
Fig. 5- Defense HPC Market 2015-2020 by Infrastructure and Service Segments, $Mln
Fig. 6- Defense HPC Market Dynamics 2015-2020: Market Share by Infrastructure and Service Segments, %
Fig. 7- Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: Servers, $Mln
Fig. 8- Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: Power and Cooling Infrastructure, $Mln
Fig. 9- Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: Interconnects and Network Equipment, $Mln
Fig. 10- Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: HPC Accelerators, $Mln
Fig. 11- Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: Storage, $Mln
Fig. 12- Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: HPC in the Cloud Services, $Mln
Fig. 13- Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: Middleware, $Mln
Fig. 14- Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: Application Software and Services, $Mln
Fig. 15- Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: Support and Maintenance Services, $Mln
Fig. 16- Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: Training, $Mln
Fig. 17- Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: R&D, $Mln
Fig. 18- Defense HPC Market: Growth Rates 2015-2020 by Applications, CAGR %
Fig. 19- Cumulative Defense HPC Market 2015-2020: Applications by Size, $Mln
Fig. 20-29 Defense HPC Market 2015 – 2020: 10 Segments by Applications, $Mln
Fig. 30- Defense HPC Market: Growth Rates 2015-2020 by Region, CAGR %
Fig. 31- Cumulative Defense HPC Market 2015-2020, market share by region, %
Fig. 32- Defense HPC Market 2015-2020 by Region, $Mln
Fig. 33- Defense HPC Market Dynamics 2015-2020: Market Share by Region, %
Fig. 34- Defense In-Memory HPC Market as Percent of Total HPC Market 2015-2020, %
Fig. 35- Defense In-Memory HPC Market 2015-2020, $Mln
Fig. 36- Defense ARM-based HPC Market as Percent of Total HPC Market 2015-2020, %
Fig. 37- Defense ARM-based HPC Market 2015 – 2020, $Mln
Fig. 38- Defense Embedded HPC Market as Percent of Total HPC Market 2015-2020, %
Fig. 39- Defense Embedded HPC Market 2015-2020, $Mln

List of Tables
Table 1 – Defense HPC Market by Government and Private Sector
Table 2 – Current DoD Challenge HPC Projects
Table 3 – Canadian Defence Research Centers by and Military HPC Applications
Table 4 – Indian Defense HPC Projects and Programs
Table 5 – Worldwide Defense HPC Market Forecast 2015-2020, $Mln
Table 6 – Defense HPC Market 2015-2020 by Infrastructure and Services, $Mln
Table 7 – Defense HPC Applications
Table 8 – Defense HPC Market 2015-2020 by Applications, $Mln
Table 9 – Defense HPC Markets by Countries and Military HPC Applications
Table 10 – Defense HPC Market 2015-2020 by Region, $Mln
Table 11 – Defense HPC Market 2015-2020 by Top 10 Countries, $Mln
Table 12 – Defense In-Memory HPC Market 2015-2020, $Mln
Table 13 – Defense ARM-based HPC Market 2015-2020, $Mln
Table 14 – Defense Embedded HPC Market 2015-2020, $Mln


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