Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce's Boulder, Colorado, campus:...

The United States manufactured significant quantities of chemical weapons during the Cold War and the years prior. Because the chemical weapons are...

The electromagnetic spectrum is a vital part of our environment. Measures of radio frequency emissions from natural phenomena enable both practical...

In 1993, the United States signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty outlawing the production, stockpiling, and use of ...

The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce's Boulder, Colorado, campus:...

Passenger screening at commercial airports in the United States has gone through significant changes since the events of September 11, 2001. In res...

Recent years have yielded significant advances in computing and communication technologies, with profound impacts on society. Technology is transfo...

New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NWNH), the report of the 2010 decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, put forward a v...

Historically, the United States has been a world leader in aerospace endeavors in both the government and commercial sectors. A key factor in aeros...

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a multiagency, multidisciplinary federal initiative comprising a collection of research programs an...

Owing to the expansion of network-centric operating concepts across the Department of Defense (DOD) and the growing threat to information and cyber...

Electricity is the lifeblood of modern society, and for the vast majority of people that electricity is obtained from large, interconnected power g...

People's desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures design...

Prior to 2012, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology had been primarily used by the military and hobbyists, but it has more recently transitio...

Information technology (IT) is widely understood to be the enabling technology of the 21st century. IT has transformed, and continues to transform,...

Spacecraft depend on electronic components that must perform reliably over missions measured in years and decades. Space radiation is a primary sou...

High energy density (HED) science has critical applications for society from fusion energy to sustaining the US nuclear deterrent, while also contr...

While there are examples of successful weapon systems acquisition programs within the U.S. Air Force (USAF), many of the programs are still incurri...

The development of technologies to modify natural human physical and cognitive performance is one of increasing interest and concern, especially am...

NASA proposed to make a hardware contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission in exchange for U.S. membership on the Euclid S...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is widely admired for astonishing accomplishments since its formation in 1958. Looking ahe...

Over the past 5 years or more, there has been a steady and significant decrease in NASA's laboratory capabilities, including equipment, maintenance...

The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineerin...

In the past few years, interest in plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has grown. Advances in battery and other technologies, new federal standards fo...

As part of its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently undertaking a broad program known as Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) to ...

The National Research Council has conducted 11 decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964 and released the latest four surveys in t...

Suborbital flight activities, including the use of sounding rockets, aircraft, high-altitude balloons, and suborbital reusable launch vehicles, off...

The U.S. Air Force has experienced many acquisition program failures - cost overruns, schedule delays, system performance problems, and sustainabil...

In 2012, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), section 818, outlined new requirements for industry to serve as the lead in averting counte...

The Air Force (USAF) has continuously sought to improve the speed with which it develops new capabilities to accomplish its various missions in air...

Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissio...

NASA operates a large number of space science missions, approximately three-quarters of which are currently in their extended operations phase. The...