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The ability of the nation's military to prevail during future conflicts, and to fulfill its humanitarian and other missions, depends on continued a...

The mathematical sciences are part of nearly all aspects of everyday life--the discipline has underpinned such beneficial modern capabilities as In...

The Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States was convened by the National Re...

Geotargeted Alerts and Warnings: Report of a Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps is the summary of a February, 2013 workshop convened b...

On November 19, 2001 the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created as a separate entity within the U.S. Department of Transportation...

Armor plays a significant role in the protection of warriors. During the course of history, the introduction of new materials and improvements in t...

Technological innovations are key causal agents of surprise and disruption. In the recent past, the United States military has encountered unexpect...

The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of ...

Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions examines the ways in which h...

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

The development and application of increasingly autonomous (IA) systems for civil aviation is proceeding at an accelerating pace, driven by the exp...

Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges is an independent assessment regarding...

Since the early 1960s, the U.S. strategic nuclear posture has been composed of a triad of nuclear-certified long-range bombers, intercontinental ba...

Research and development (R&D) organizations are operated by government, business, academe, and independent institutes. The success of their pa...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)recognizing that information and insights gained through continual examination of practice...

In the United States, we have come to depend on plentiful and inexpensive energy to support our economy and lifestyles. In recent years, many quest...

Big Data in Materials Research and Development is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council Standing Committee on Defense...

The United States has deployed commercial nuclear power since the 1950s, and as of 2021, nuclear power accounts for approximately 20 percent of U.S...

Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed gene...

In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. Tha...

Since the 1980s, national and international planetary protection policies have sought to avoid contamination by terrestrial organisms that could co...

Research in biological and physical sciences in space provides the critical scientific and technological foundations that make space exploration po...

The world confronts an existential challenge in responding to climate change, resulting in an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from a...

The Roman Space Telescope will measurably advance knowledge of dark energy and exoplanet demographics. Locally, it will likely enhance understandin...

The assessment of risk is complex and often controversial. It is derived from the existence of a hazard, and it is characterized by the uncertainty...

The United States possesses a treasure-trove of extraterrestrial samples that were returned to Earth via space missions over the past four decades....

We live in a time of extraordinary discovery and progress in astronomy and astrophysics. The next decade will transform our understanding of the un...

Overall Air Force weapon system sustainment (WSS) costs are growing at more than 4 percent per year, while budgets have remained essentially flat. ...

The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the pro...

In the fall of 2010, the Office of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Secretary for Science asked for a National Research Council (NRC) commit...

Over the past century, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from computational theory to everyday conversational technologies, capturing the at...

Despite the increase in funding for research and the rising numbers of peer-reviewed publications over the past decade that address the environment...

Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy is the summary of a workshop convened by the Air...

We depend on information and information technology (IT) to make many of our day-to-day tasks easier and more convenient. Computers play key roles ...

Fusion offers the prospect of virtually unlimited energy. The United States and many nations around the world have made enormous progress toward ac...

Space-based observations have transformed our understanding of Earth, its environment, the solar system and the universe at large. During past deca...

As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log recor...

The United States and the world face serious threats to nuclear stability and peace, now and in the coming decades. Within the nuclear arena, U.S. ...

On September 8-9, 2011, experts in solar physics, climate models, paleoclimatology, and atmospheric science assembled at the National Center for At...

The ocean is a fundamental component of the earth's biosphere. It covers roughly 70 percent of Earth's surface and plays a pivotal role in the cycl...

Combustion has provided society with most of its energy needs for millenia, from igniting the fires of cave dwellers to propelling the rockets that...

More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest consumer of energy in the federal government. In turn, the U.S. Air Force is the largest consumer of...

The U. S. Air force currently invests significantly in science and technology for directed-energy weapon (DEW) systems. Key elements of this invest...

While progress has been made in the development of decarbonization technologies, much work remains in scale-up and deployment. For decarbonization ...

In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a two-day workshop on evolving paradigms for design and m...

The convergence of imaging, pathology, and laboratory testing data, augmented with information technology, is referred to as integrated diagnostics...