Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

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...

The concept of utilizing big data to enable scientific discovery has generated tremendous excitement and investment from both private and public se...

One of the last two sites with chemical munitions and chemical materiel is the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colorado. The stockpile at this loc...

The Research and Analysis (R&A) program managed by NASA's Planetary Science Division (PSD), supports a broad range of planetary science activit...

The National Research Council (NRC) has been conducting decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964, and released the latest five su...

The standard incandescent light bulb, which still works mainly as Thomas Edison invented it, converts more than 90% of the consumed electricity int...

NASA's Earth Science Division (ESD) conducts a wide range of satellite and suborbital missions to observe Earth's land surface and interior, biosph...

The Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado is one of two sites that features U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons that need to be destroyed. The PC...

Carbon materials pervade many aspects of modern life, from fuels and building materials to consumer goods and commodity chemicals. Reaching net-ze...

The Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a three-part workshop series to investigate the...

At the request of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, Powering the U.S. Army of the Future examines the U.S. Ar...

The search for life is one of the most active fields in space science and involves a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including planetary sc...

At the request of the U.S. Army, the Board on Army Research and Development of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduc...

NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) currently operates over five dozen missions, with approximately two dozen additional missions in developme...

The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the corporate laboratory for the U.S. army, which bridges scientific and military communities. The ARL is cri...

In 2022, the United States installed its first exascale computing system for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, with an National Nuc...

Electric power is essential for the lives and livelihoods of all Americans, and the need for electricity that is safe, clean, affordable, and relia...

The U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) leads a continuous effort to modernize and innovate to support future warfighters. AFC now oversees Combat Cap...

Americans' safety, productivity, comfort, and convenience depend on the reliable supply of electric power. The electric power system is a complex c...

Rigorous operational testing (OT) of weapon systems procured by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is fundamental to ensuring that these sophisti...

This report evaluates the In-House Laboratory Independent Research (ILIR) conducted at the Research, Development, and Engineering Centers (RDECs) o...

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

The U.S. Army is working on a major science and technology development program to build the Strategic Long Range Cannon to fire a hypersonic projec...

Encryption is a process for making information unreadable by an adversary who does not possess a specific key that is required to make the encrypte...

Biological physics, or the physics of living systems, has emerged fully as a field of physics, alongside more traditional fields of astrophysics an...

Nanotechnology has become one of the defining ideas in global R&D over the past decade. In 2001 the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) wa...

The next decade of planetary science and astrobiology holds tremendous promise. New research will expand our understanding of our solar system's or...

One of the major challenges in materials science today is developing materials that can survive and function in extreme environments, such as the h...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial asse...

An international consensus policy to prevent the biological cross-contamination of planetary bodies exists and is maintained by the Committee on Sp...

The radio frequency spectrum is a limited resource with ever increasing demand from an expansive range of applicationsall the way from commercial, ...

Steel is a common component of U.S. infrastructure, but that steel can corrode when buried in soil, rock, or fill. Steel corrosion is estimated to ...

The widespread adoption of electric vehicles will play a critical role in decarbonizing the transportation sector as the nation moves toward net-ze...

Increasing renewable energy development, both within the United States and abroad, has rekindled interest in the potential for marine and hydrokine...

Interest in decarbonizing various sectors of the U.S. economy has produced a rich body of scholarly research, policy studies, and practitioner repo...

Global advances in medicine, food, water, energy, microelectronics, communications, defense, and other important sectors of the economy are increas...