Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is housed within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and offers insurance policies that are ...

Advanced computing capabilities are used to tackle a rapidly growing range of challenging science and engineering problems, many of which are compu...

The Standing Committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure (the DMMI standing committee) of the National Materials and Manufactur...

Understanding the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment and their implications requires a foundation of integrated...

Adapting to a Changing World was commissioned by the National Science Foundation to examine the present status of undergraduate physics education, ...

Floods take a heavy toll on society, costing lives, damaging buildings and property, disrupting livelihoods, and sometimes necessitating federal di...

The scientific and technological progress in inertial confinement fusion has been substantial during the past decade. However, many of the technolo...

Recent disclosures about the bulk collection of domestic phone call records and other signals intelligence programs have stimulated widespread deba...

New astronomical facilities, such as the under-construction Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and planned 30-meter-class telescopes, and new instrume...

The U.S. population is aging. Social Security projections suggest that between 2013 and 2050, the population aged 65 and over will almost double, f...

For the past decade, the U.S. Marine Corps and its sister services have been engaged in what has been termed hybrid warfare, which ranges from acti...

Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, miniva...

Critical Code contemplates Department of Defense (DoD) needs and priorities for software research and suggests a research agenda and related action...

Addressing climate change is essential and possible, and it offers a host of benefits - from better public health to new economic opportunities. Th...

Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the co...

The ability of the United States Air Force (USAF) to keep its aircraft operating at an acceptable operational tempo, in wartime and in peacetime, h...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) is a national user facility whose mission is to ensure...

Data mining of massive data sets is transforming the way we think about crisis response, marketing, entertainment, cybersecurity and national intel...

The primary human activities that release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere are the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) ...

In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technologic...

The mathematical sciences are part of everyday life. Modern communication, transportation, science, engineering, technology, medicine, manufacturin...

NASA's current missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and potential future exploration missions involving extended stays by astronauts o...

The ongoing development of military aerospace platforms requires continuous technology advances in order to provide the nation's war fighters with ...

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities have expanded situation awareness for U.S. forces, provided for more precise comb...