  In this white paper, submitted as a part of Snowmass 2013 (subgroup CF2), we
examine the current status and future prospects of the VERITAS indirect dark
matter detection program. The VERITAS array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov
telescopes (IACTs), sensitive in the 0.1-50 TeV regime, is in the process of
completing a multi-year program aimed at detecting signatures of neutralino
dark matter. This program is spread out over a range of astrophysical targets
which can potentially yield definitive signatures of neutralino
self-annihilation such as dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) and the center of
the Milky Way galaxy. While the program is still in progress, initial results
on dSphs have produced very competitive upper limits on the thermally averaged
cross-section of neutralino self-annihilation as well as strongly constraining
leptophillic dark matter models (such as those inferred from the PAMELA and AMS
positron fraction results). As the program continues over the next 5 years,
VERITAS observations will yield some of the strongest constraints available
from IACTs, pushing down the limit on the thermally averaged cross-section of
neutralino self-annihilation to the expected natural thermal relic scale.
