Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

The assessment of risk is complex and often controversial. It is derived from the existence of a hazard, and it is characterized by the uncertainty...

The United States possesses a treasure-trove of extraterrestrial samples that were returned to Earth via space missions over the past four decades....

We live in a time of extraordinary discovery and progress in astronomy and astrophysics. The next decade will transform our understanding of the un...

Overall Air Force weapon system sustainment (WSS) costs are growing at more than 4 percent per year, while budgets have remained essentially flat. ...

The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the pro...

In the fall of 2010, the Office of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Secretary for Science asked for a National Research Council (NRC) commit...

Over the past century, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from computational theory to everyday conversational technologies, capturing the at...

Despite the increase in funding for research and the rising numbers of peer-reviewed publications over the past decade that address the environment...

Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy is the summary of a workshop convened by the Air...

We depend on information and information technology (IT) to make many of our day-to-day tasks easier and more convenient. Computers play key roles ...

Fusion offers the prospect of virtually unlimited energy. The United States and many nations around the world have made enormous progress toward ac...

Space-based observations have transformed our understanding of Earth, its environment, the solar system and the universe at large. During past deca...

As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log recor...

The United States and the world face serious threats to nuclear stability and peace, now and in the coming decades. Within the nuclear arena, U.S. ...

On September 8-9, 2011, experts in solar physics, climate models, paleoclimatology, and atmospheric science assembled at the National Center for At...

The ocean is a fundamental component of the earth's biosphere. It covers roughly 70 percent of Earth's surface and plays a pivotal role in the cycl...

Combustion has provided society with most of its energy needs for millenia, from igniting the fires of cave dwellers to propelling the rockets that...

More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest consumer of energy in the federal government. In turn, the U.S. Air Force is the largest consumer of...

The U. S. Air force currently invests significantly in science and technology for directed-energy weapon (DEW) systems. Key elements of this invest...

While progress has been made in the development of decarbonization technologies, much work remains in scale-up and deployment. For decarbonization ...

In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a two-day workshop on evolving paradigms for design and m...

The convergence of imaging, pathology, and laboratory testing data, augmented with information technology, is referred to as integrated diagnostics...