Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

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...