NJIT Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Funding Agency:
- Department of Defense
The Engineering and Complex Systems team within the Engineering and Information Science Branch leads the discovery and development of the fundamental and integrated science that advances future air and space flight. The broad goal of the team is to discover and exploit the critical fundamental science and knowledge that will shape the future of aerospace sciences. A key emphasis is the establishment of the foundations necessary to advance the integration or convergence of the scientific disciplines critical to maintaining technological superiority.
A wide range of fundamental research addressing electronics, fluid dynamics, materials, propulsion, and structural mechanics are brought together in an effort to increase performance and achieve unprecedented operational capability. The team carries out its ambitious mission through leadership of an international, highly diverse and multidisciplinary research community to discover, shape, and champion new scientific discoveries that will ensure novel innovations for the future U.S. Air Force and Space Force.
The central research direction for this team focuses on meeting the basic research challenges related to future air and space flight by leading the discovery and development of fundamental science and engineering in the following research areas.
Program Description: The objective of this portfolio is to understand critical chemical and physical behaviors in solid-state energy systems that arise due to compositional complexity under far-from-equilibrium conditions for game-changing advancements in critical DoD expeditionary systems. Research supported by the portfolio will build the foundational scientific knowledge to understand chemistry and reaction dynamics in heterogenous solid materials, causal pathways for energy release in mechanochemically-stimulated systems, energy localization and the interplay between continuum-level phenomena and molecular evolution, and the implications of shock dynamics on local state property and chemical behaviors. Solutions will necessarily arise from combined efforts utilizing empirical, numerical, and theoretical treatments to interrogate these uncertainties. Basic science advances supported by this portfolio will transition scientific discoveries that will inform the development of the next generation of Department of the Air Force (DAF) solid-state energy systems with a focus on improved energy and power density, operational reliability, ruggedized response to insult, effect-based optimization, and understanding system behavior as a function of age and operating conditions.
Basic Research Objectives: Research proposals are sought that endeavor to elucidate the mechanistic behaviors of energy systems that give rise to emergent property phenomena. Areas of focus include leveraging state-of-the-art capabilities in condensed matter spectroscopy and microscopy to achieve unparalleled resolution into the behavior of solids; advancing numerical techniques to interrogate poorly understood dynamic behaviors of solids under extreme temperatures and pressures; and developing solid-state energy systems with the intent to study the effects of local chemistry, fine-feature, and domain size on dynamic property behavior.
Research proposals funded between $100,000 and $300,000 per year are encouraged. Most of our awards are three (3) years in duration. Awards may be proposed for not more than five (5) years.
Approximately $200 million is anticipated to be available for support of actions awarded under this announcement, subject to availability of funds.
This announcement remains open until superseded.
JENNIFER BROWN, AFOSR/RBKC Procurement Analyst
Email: afosr.baa@us.af.mil
DANIEL SMITH, AFOSR/RBKC Procurement Analyst
Email: afosr.baa@us.af.mil