Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is responsible for the stewardship of the nation's living marine resources and their habitat. As part ...

Questions about the reproducibility of scientific research have been raised in numerous settings and have gained visibility through several high-pr...

In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The c...

In a world of increasing dependence on information technology, the prevention of cyberattacks on a nation's important computer and communications s...

The passive, receive-only Radio Astronomy Service (RAS) and the Earth Exploration-Satellite Service (EESS) provide otherwise impossible scientific ...

Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking presents a number of perspectives on the definition and applicability of com...

The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) is under construction near Richmond, Kentucky, two dispose of one of the two remaini...

This book presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held...

For a century, almost all light-duty vehicles (LDVs) have been powered by internal combustion engines operating on petroleum fuels. Energy securit...

Traditionally, the natural sciences have been divided into two branches: the biological sciences and the physical sciences. Today, an increasing nu...

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

At the request of the Advisory Committee for Geosciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF), a review of the Geospace Section of the NSF Divi...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computational algorithms and ...

Nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, often referred to simply as nanotechnology, is the understanding, characterization, and control of ...

It is not yet 60 years since the first artificial satellite was placed into Earth orbit. In just over a half century, mankind has gone from no pres...

The future security, economic growth, and competitiveness of the United States depend on its capacity to innovate. Major sources of innovative capa...

NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is engaged in the final stages of a comprehensive, agency-wide effort to develop a new strategic plan at a...

Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership: Fifth Report follows on four previous reviews of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership,...

Attaining meaningful cybersecurity presents a broad societal challenge. Its complexity and the range of systems and sectors in which it is needed m...

On January 30-31, 2019 the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, in collaboration with the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and th...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is the process in which a three-dimensional object is built by adding subsequent layers of materials. AM enables novel ...

One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produce...

The three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) national security laboratoriesLos Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Lawrence Livermore N...

The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters is the summary of a workshop convened in Februa...

Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics assesses whether the proposed A...

The electric vehicle offers many promisesincreasing U.S. energy security by reducing petroleum dependence, contributing to climate-change initiativ...

January 2012 saw the completion of the U.S. Army's Chemical Materials Agency's (CMA's) task to destroy 90 percent of the nation's stockpile of chem...

The charge of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) is to provide biennial assessments of the scientific and technical q...

The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world's energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, c...

The three National Security LaboratoriesLos Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and Lawrence Livermore National ...

The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness), referred to throughout this report as P&R, is responsible for the tot...

The 2012 National Research Council report Continuing Innovation in Information Technology illustrates how fundamental research in information techn...

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

The use of radio-frequency communicationcommonly referred to as wireless communicationis becoming more pervasive as well as more economically and s...

Biometric recognitionthe automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioral and biological characteristicis promoted as a way to help i...

In 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached the National Research Council's TIGER standing committee and asked it to develop a list o...

In 2008, the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council (N...

The Standing Committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure (DMMI) conducted a workshop on July 23-24, 2012, to share information ...

Leadership in gas turbine technologies is of continuing importance as the value of gas turbine production is projected to grow substantially by 203...

The Earth system - the atmospheric, hydrologic, geologic, and biologic cycles that circulate energy, water, nutrients, and other trace substances -...

The NASA Science Mission Directorate/Earth Science Division's (SMD/ESD's) Earth Venture (EV) is a program element within the Earth System Science P...

Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes ne...

The electric power delivery system that carries electricity from large central generators to customers could be severely damaged by a small number ...

Topology optimization is a digital method for designing objects in order to achieve the best structural performance, sometimes in combination with ...

Vehicle weight reduction is an effective strategy for reducing fuel consumption in civilian vehicles. For combat vehicles, it presents not only an ...