"AFOSR manages all basic research conducted by the U.S. Air Force. One of the tools we use to accomplish this task is to solicit proposals for research through a general Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) and a number of specialized BAAs. AFOSR invites proposals for basic research in several broad areas, which include physics, solid mechanics and structures, chemistry, mathematics and computer sciences, and electronics."
Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
"The U.S. Army Research Laboratory executes fundamental and applied research to provide the Army the key technologies and analytical support necessary to assure supremacy in future land warfare."
Army Research Office (ARO)
"The U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) mission is to seed scientific and
far reaching technological discoveries that enhance Army capabilities.
Basic research proposals from educational institutions, nonprofit organizations,
and private industry are competitively selected and funded. ARO's research
mission represents the most long-range Army view for changes in its technology.
It is the only Army organization that transcends all of its mission areas:
commander-fire support; close combat; air defense; combat support; combat
service support; solider support; command, control, and communications.
In all respects, the ARO program is the designated organization for the
entire spectrum of Army activities extending from research to development
to acquisition. ARO priorities fully integrate Army-wide, long-range planning
for research, development, and acquisition."
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
(France)
Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) (European Union)
"The European Commission has launched a new initiative on Nanotechnology Information Devices (NID) aiming at future information processing and storage systems that operate at the atomic or molecular-scale in order to achieve superior functionality or performance. The NID initiative (1999-2003) draws from successful work under the previous Advanced Research Initiative in Microelectronics (1996-1999), while broadening the scope to cover any research field that could contribute in shaping future visions for information processing nano-systems, from quantum electronics to nano-mechanics and biology. It will therefore give increased emphasis to radically new approaches and cross-disciplinary integration."
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
"The Ultra Electronics program offers a platform for advanced microelectronics research in support of nanoelectronic technologies. The goals of the Ultra Electronics program are to explore and develop material, processing technologies, quantum and conventional devices and device architectures for a next generation of information processing systems and subsystems."
Department of Commerce (DOC)
"The Department of Commerce performs a wide range of Government functions requiring the collection and dissemination of scientific, technical, economic and, in some cases, personal information."
Department of Energy (DOE)"The Department of Energy is a leading science and technology agency whose research supports our nation's energy security, national security, environmental quality, and contributes to a better quality of life for all Americans."
ENEA (Italy)
"The Computational Materials Science Group is active in the Advanced Materials Division (MATAV) of the Technology Department, at the ENEA Research Center located in Casaccia (Roma, Italy)."
National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
"The IPT at NASA Ames has been set up in the Fall of 1996 to conduct basic research in:Computational device physics, Nanotechnology, Computational and Experimental Chemistry in Materials Processing, and Process / Equipment modeling. The objective is to conduct innovative research in the above areas utilizing Ames' traditional strengths in computational sciences and meet NASA's long term mission needs."
NASA Tech Briefs (NTB)
"When the U.S. Congress formed the National Aeronautics & Space
Administration in 1958, it mandated in the charter that NASA and its contractors
must report to industry any new, commercially-significant technologies
developed in the course of their R&D, so that engineers, managers,
and scientists could use this valuable information to improve their competitiveness
and productivity. For more than three decades, this has been accomplished
primarily through the publication of NASA Tech Briefs."
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
"The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. NIH works toward that mission by: conducting research in its own laboratories; supporting the research of non-Federal scientists in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country and abroad; helping in the training of research investigators; and fostering communication of biomedical information."
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), formerly the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), was established by Congress in 1901 to support industry, commerce, scientific institutions, and all branches of Government. For nearly 100 years the NIST/NBS laboratories have worked with industry and government to advance measurement science and develop standards."
"The Electron Physics Group has extensive ongoing research efforts in nanostructure measurement science including electronsurface interactions, surface and multilayer magnetism, laser focused atom deposition, electron interaction theory, electron spin polarization phenomena, and electron optics and instrumentation. Our facilities include ultrahigh-vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy (STM/STS), scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis (SEMPA), and atom optical deposition systems. The wide applicability of electronbased measurement technologies allows us to contribute to the solution of many diverse scientific and technological problems. We focus our efforts toward the study of microscopic phenomena and their influence on the macroscopic properties of surfaces and nanostructures."
National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)
"The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) - Leading to the Next Industrial Revolution is part of the President's proposed fiscal year (FY) 2001 Federal budget. The initiative supports long-term nanoscale research and development leading to potential breakthroughs in areas such as materials and manufacturing, nanoelectronics, medicine and healthcare, environment and energy, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, biotechnology and agriculture, computation and information technology, and national security. The impact of nanotechnology on the health, wealth, and lives of people could be at least as significant as the combined influences of microelectronics, medical imaging, computer-aided engineering, and man-made polymers developed in this century. This new Federal investment will lead to a near doubling of the government's total investment in nanoscale R&D. The NNI incorporates fundamental research, Grand Challenges, centers and networks of excellence, and creating a research infrastructure - activities that are high risk, high payoff, and broadly enabling. This initiative also addresses development of novel approaches to the education and training of future nanotechnology workers, the ethical, legal and social implications of nanotechnology, and rapid transfer of knowledge and technology gained from the research and development efforts."
National Science Foundation (NSF)
"The National Science Foundation funds research and education in science and engineering. It does this through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to more than 2,000 colleges, universities, and other research and/or education institutions in all parts of the United States. The Foundation accounts for about 20 percent of federal support to academic institutions for basic research.
Each year, NSF receives approximately 30,000 new or renewal support proposals for research, graduate and postdoctoral fellowships, and math/science/engineering education projects; it makes approximately 9,000 new awards. These typically go to universities, colleges, academic consortia, nonprofit institutions, and small businesses.
The agency operates no laboratories itself but does support National Research Centers, certain oceanographic vessels, and Antarctic research stations. The Foundation also supports cooperative research between universities and industry and U.S. participation in international scientific efforts."
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
President Clinton established the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) by Executive Order on November 23, 1993. This Cabinet-level Council is the principal means for the President to coordinate science, space, and technology to coordinate the diverse parts of the Federal research and development enterprise. The President chairs the NSTC. Membership consists of the Vice President, Assistant to the President for Science and technology, Cabinet Secretaries and Agency Heads with significant science and technology responsibilities, and other White House officials. An important objective of the NSTC is the establishment of clear national goals for Federal science and technology investments in areas ranging from information technologies and health research, to improving transportation systems and strengthening fundamental research. The Council prepares research and development strategies that are coordinated across Federal agencies to form an investment package aimed at accomplishing multiple national goals.
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
"The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the Navy's corporate research and development laboratory, created in 1923 by Congress for the Department of the Navy on the advice of Thomas Edison. Investigations have ranged widely from monitoring the sun's behavior, to analyzing marine atmospheric conditions, to measuring parameters of the deep oceans, to exploring the outermost regions of space."
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
"The Office of Naval Research (ONR) coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the United States Navy and Marine Corps through universities, government laboratories, and nonprofit and for-profit organizations. It provides technical advice to the Chief of Naval Operations and the Secretary of the Navy, works with industry to improve technology manufacturing processes while reducing fleet costs, and fosters continuing academic interest in naval relevant science from the high school through post-doctoral levels."
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