AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD)/United States Air Force/Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

PROGRAM: Research Interests and Broad Agency Announcement (AFOSR 2008-1)

OBJECTIVES: This program provides funding for basic research in support of the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program. The focus of AFOSR is on research areas that offer significant and comprehensive benefits to our national warfighting and peacekeeping capabilities. These areas are organized and managed in three scientific directorates:

(1) Aerospace and Materials Sciences:
Structural Mechanics
Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials & Microsystems  
Hypersonics and Turbulence
Flow Control and Aeroelasticity
Combustion and Diagnostics  
Space Power and Propulsion   
High Temperature Aerospace Materials
Organic Materials Chemistry
Theoretical Chemistry
Molecular Dynamics
Polymer Matrix Composites
Surface and Interfacial Science    

(2) Physics and Electronics:         
Electro Energetic Physics    
Atomic and Molecular Physics 
Physical Mathematics and Applied Analysis   
Electromagnetics
Laser and Optical Physics 
Remote Sensing and Imaging Physics  
Space Sciences   
Quantum Electronic Solids 
Adaptive Multi-Mode Sensing and Ultra-High Speed Electronics
Semiconductor and Electromagnetic Materials
Optoelectronics: Components and Information Processing and Storage
Sensing, Surveillance, Navigation

(3) Mathematics, Information and Life Sciences:       
Bioenergy
Complex Networks
Computational Mathematics
Distributed Intelligence and Information Fusion
Dynamics and Control
Mathematical Modeling of Cognition and Decision
Natural Materials and Systems
Optimization and Discrete Mathematics
Sensory Information Systems
Collective Behavior and Socio-Cultural Modeling
Systems and Software
Information Operations and Security

(4) Discovery Challenge Thrusts (DCT’s)
Integrated Multi-modal Sensing, Processing, and Exploitation
Robust Decision Making
Turbulence Control & Implications
Space Situational Awareness
Complex Networked Systems
Reconfigurable Materials for Cellular Electronic and Photonic Systems
Thermal Transport Phenomena and Scaling Laws
DCT: Radiant Energy Delivery and Materials Interaction