Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

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 ...

To better support the need for timely, effective manufacturing technology development and transition, the Department of Defense (DoD) has establish...

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, with petroleum accounting for 90 percent of transportation f...

U.S. leadership in technology innovation is central to our nation's interests, including its security, economic prosperity, and quality of life. Ou...

During the 2016 presidential election, America's election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the V...

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

A convergent manufacturing platform is defined as a system that synergistically combines heterogeneous materials and processes (e.g., additive, sub...

Biomedical research results in the collection and storage of increasingly large and complex data sets. Preserving those data so that they are disco...

The needs and demands placed on science to address a range of urgent problems are growing. The world is faced with complex, interrelated challenges...

The U.S. space science community includes thousands of scientists across multiple disciplines that influence and are influenced by the many enginee...

Encryption protects information stored on smartphones, laptops, and other devices - in some cases by default. Encrypted communications are provided...

In response to a request from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - and with the support of the National Aeronautics and Space Admi...

Significant efforts are ongoing within the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to improve national security and competitiveness by harnessing the growing power o...

Established in December 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education wa...

Electric power is a critical infrastructure that is vital to the U.S. economy and national security. Today, the nation's electric power infrastruct...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)leads a nuclear security enterprise that includes three national laboratories, several productio...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has overseen significant upgrades to the technology used to manage aviation operations to increase the sa...

The goal of planetary protection is to control, to the degree possible, the biological cross-contamination of planetary bodies. Guidelines develope...

From daily commutes to cross-country road trips, millions of light-duty vehicles are on the road every day. The transportation sector is one of the...

The 2011 National Research Council decadal survey on biological and physical sciences in space, Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life an...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issues standards regulations for energy conservation pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975...

Modern software engineering practices, pioneered by the commercial software community, have begun transforming Department of Defense (DoD) software...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the workshop Applying Big Data to Address the Social Determinants of Health in O...

The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of t...

The mission of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to promote innovation...