Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

The ability of the nation's military to prevail during future conflicts, and to fulfill its humanitarian and other missions, depends on continued a...

The mathematical sciences are part of nearly all aspects of everyday life--the discipline has underpinned such beneficial modern capabilities as In...

The Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States was convened by the National Re...

Geotargeted Alerts and Warnings: Report of a Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps is the summary of a February, 2013 workshop convened b...

On November 19, 2001 the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created as a separate entity within the U.S. Department of Transportation...

Armor plays a significant role in the protection of warriors. During the course of history, the introduction of new materials and improvements in t...

Technological innovations are key causal agents of surprise and disruption. In the recent past, the United States military has encountered unexpect...

The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of ...

Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions examines the ways in which h...

Medium- and heavy-duty trucks, motor coaches, and transit buses - collectively, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, or MHDVs - are used in every secto...

The development and application of increasingly autonomous (IA) systems for civil aviation is proceeding at an accelerating pace, driven by the exp...

Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges is an independent assessment regarding...

Since the early 1960s, the U.S. strategic nuclear posture has been composed of a triad of nuclear-certified long-range bombers, intercontinental ba...

Research and development (R&D) organizations are operated by government, business, academe, and independent institutes. The success of their pa...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)recognizing that information and insights gained through continual examination of practice...

In the United States, we have come to depend on plentiful and inexpensive energy to support our economy and lifestyles. In recent years, many quest...

Big Data in Materials Research and Development is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council Standing Committee on Defense...

The United States has deployed commercial nuclear power since the 1950s, and as of 2021, nuclear power accounts for approximately 20 percent of U.S...

Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed gene...

In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. Tha...

Since the 1980s, national and international planetary protection policies have sought to avoid contamination by terrestrial organisms that could co...

Research in biological and physical sciences in space provides the critical scientific and technological foundations that make space exploration po...

The world confronts an existential challenge in responding to climate change, resulting in an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from a...

The Roman Space Telescope will measurably advance knowledge of dark energy and exoplanet demographics. Locally, it will likely enhance understandin...