Advanced Materials
Discover, understand, synthesize, and transition materials that unlock new performance.
ADVANCED MATERIALS · COMPUTING · NATIONAL CAPABILITY
Technology moves at the speed of its materials.
TACTIC brings advanced computing and materials science together to address difficult technology problems, accelerate discovery, and strengthen the capabilities that support the American warfighter.
01 · MISSION
Materials increasingly define what technology can become.
Across computing, energy, autonomy, sensing, space, and defense, progress is often constrained not by imagination or algorithms, but by the materials that make systems physically possible.
TACTIC exists to push beyond those limits. We combine materials discovery, advanced computation, experimentation, manufacturing insight, and mission need to move promising ideas toward useful capability.
02 · APPROACH
Integrated by design.
Advanced Computing
Use computation, data, and artificial intelligence to search larger spaces and learn faster.
Integrated Capacity
Connect federal, industrial, and academic strengths so discovery is informed by deployment from the beginning.
03 · CONVERGENCE
No single institution holds every piece of the solution.
The United States has extraordinary technical depth distributed across universities, national laboratories, industry, government, and the defense enterprise. The opportunity is to connect that capacity around hard, consequential problems.
TACTIC is structured to work across those boundaries, pairing fundamental discovery with engineering reality and accelerating the path from scientific possibility to operational impact.
04 · TENNESSEE
Built in a place where science, industry, energy, and national security already meet.
Tennessee sits at the intersection of a deep research ecosystem, advanced manufacturing, national laboratory capability, energy infrastructure, and a growing technology economy. TACTIC is built to turn that regional strength into national capability.