Research Funding Opportunities Available through the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD)

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1 Research Funding Opportunities Available through the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD) 18-August-2016 Ken Caster, Ph.D. Technical Advisor, Program Officer AFOSR/AOARD Air Force Research Laboratory August 18, 16 1

2 Organization - AFRL Research AFRL AFOSR AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY Basic and applied R&D 5000 scientists and engineers World-class equipment and facilities AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Discover, shape, and champion basic science that profoundly impacts the future Funding agency universities, institutes Fundamental, world-class research 34 program officers broad tech coverage International (AFRL/XPPI) Gov-to-Gov Agreements International Office (AFOSR/IO) Offices of Aerospace Research and Development AOARD - TOKYO EOARD - LONDON SOARD - Santiago 2

3 AFRL One Lab / Many Locations AFRL Headquarters 711 th Human Performance Wing Materials & Manufacturing Aerospace Systems Sensors Information Rome Research Site, NY International Sites London, UK Rome Research Site, NY Dayton, OH Tokyo, Japan Edwards AFB, CA Arlington, VA Albuquerque, NM AF Office of Scientific Research Santiago, Chile Space Vehicles Directed Energy San Antonio, TX Munitions Ft Walton Beach, FL S&E Education 20% B.S. 33% Ph.D. Employees Civilian Military 47% M.S. Maui, HI Total 5,827 79% 21% S&Es 3,455 80% 20% 3

4 International Offices. US Laboratories London. Tokyo Santiago. Support long-term basic research scientific impact Push scientific frontiers, unique approaches and capabilities Support collaborative research with laboratory scientists and engineers 4

5 Global R&D Changes US share declining Spending 38%! 31% Publications 26%! 18% 80% researchers outside US R&D Publications 2000 Total Publications , ,416 41% increase in total publications

6 Research Focus Areas Application of Magnesium(I) Compounds to Energy Storage Materials (Cameron Jones, Monash, Australia) Quantum Dot Superlattice Enabled Rational Design in Optoelectronics (Leong Chuan Kwek, Nanyang Technological Univ, Singapore) Aromatic and Antiaromatic Porphyrinoids (Dongho Kim, Yonsei University, S. Korea) Manipulating Heat Flow through 3-D Nanoscale Phononic Crystal Structure (Baowen Li, National Univ of Singapore) Projects in topological insulators and superconductors, including many world s first discoveries (Yuichi Ando, Osaka U) Chemistry: Combustion processes Catalysts and catalysis Molecular energy transfer mechanisms Interface chemistry Molecular dynamics Materials Novel lightweight, high-strength materials Novel processing Materials with tunable properties Multifunctional materials and structures Optoelectronics, Photonics, Phononics Electronic Device Materials & Physics High-temperature superconductors Metamaterials, graphene, 2D materials Nanomagnetic materials Novel sensors, THz sources Nanoscience & nanomaterials for power & energy 6

7 Research Focus Areas (Cont d) Advanced Ceramic Gain Media (Akio Ikesue, World Lab. Co., Ltd., Japan) Lasers, Optics, & Electromagnetics: Lasers and non-linear optics Laser materials RF and EO signal processing, RF science Electron Density Irregularities in Ionosphere (Youngsil Kwak, Korea Astronomy and Space Institute) Low-Temperature Distributed Combustion (RP Lindstedt) Plasmas & Nonequilibrium Processes: Atomic Physics Space Weather, solar and ionospheric physics High-energy plasmas, cold plasmas Propulsion and Aerospace Sciences Combustion, propulsion Aeronautics, novel fuel-saving approaches Hypersonic flows and combustion Polarization in mantis shrimp vision (Justin Marshall, Univ of Queensland, Australia) Novel protein transistor next gen DNA sequencer (G Steve Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) Natural Materials and Systems: Bio-inspired materials Synthetic Biology, Biophysics Bio-sensing 7

8 Awareness AFOSR Relevant Science Global Trends Leading Institutes Leading Researchers Unique Facilities Foreign Funding AFRL subject matter experts, AFOSR program reviews, AF/ DoD S&T guidance, participation on national and international panels, program officer experience Aggregated data and reports, science publications and news National/regional research council reports, science news, third party agencies (for example, Science & Technology Center in Ukraine), past trip reports, site visits Scientific publications, technical meetings & conferences, science news, professional society interactions, Windows on Science visits, focused data mining, site visits Science news, research council reports, legacy investments (for example, the von Karman Institute), site visits National/regional grant programs, involvement with foreign funding agencies (for example, the UK Defence S&T Lab) including letters of support, aggregated data and reports 8

9 Engagement AFOSR Research Grants Conference Support Windows on Science (WOS) Windows on the World (WOW) Engineer and Scientist Exchange Program (ESEP) Project and Data Exchange Agreements Typically single-investigator, modest funding, and generally shorter duration than domestic grants Promotes collaborations and research dissemination to enable advances in areas of high AF interest, often stimulates interest in working with AFOSR Provides travel support for foreign investigators to present research to AF/DoD audiences, typically leading to new or continued collaborations and grant proposals Provides travel support for AF scientists and engineers to work in a foreign lab (typically a university) for a couple weeks to 6 months Formal government-to-government personnel exchange program in which Air Force members are assigned overseas to work in a foreign government lab Program officers informally build relationships between AFRL and foreign researchers leading to formal government-togovernment cooperative agreements 9

10 Working with AFOSR/AOARD Begin by sending us a short idea paragraph, white paper No limit on number of idea paragraphs or white papers No deadline We check for interest in the idea with the lab Interest and relevance, full proposal encouraged Not all good projects are funded Don t be discouraged 10

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14 Intellectual Property (IP) Basic Investigator/Institution Retains rights, title, ownership of IP US government (terms are described in grant) Process Retains royalty-free license Retains use rights strictly For Government Use Only Prior to award of grant If for area of concern, PI should fully document status of the idea and layout how funds will be utilized within the grant Project Closeout File DD Form 882 (record of inventions) with final report 2 years to inform US government of intention to file patent application 14

15 Motivation Fund Basic Research to: Find new ideas, concepts, and expertise Advance State of the Art - Encourage publication Build relationships - Laboratory scientists and engineers - Potential collaboration Develop Future scientific workforce 15