Air Force Research Laboratory

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1 Air Force Research Laboratory AFOSR International Activities 25 August 2014 Dr. Mark Maurice International Office North Air Force Office of Scientific Research Integrity Service Excellence Air Force Research Laboratory 1

2 Worldwide Coverage EOARD London Col Tim Lawrence All AFRL International Activity AFOSR Public Domain AFRL/XPPI Govt-to-Govt Agreements AFRL Int l Talent Scouts AOARD Tokyo Dr. Misoon Mah AFOSR/ION Arlington Dr. Mark Maurice The Sun Never Sets on AFOSR SOARD 2007/9 Santiago James Fillerup 2

3 International Mission Provide the US Air Force awareness of, and access to overseas basic research. London Arlington Tokyo Santiago 33 officers & AF civilians (plus 9 foreign nationals) 21 are International Program Officers 3

4 Strategy Build Relationships and the rest will follow Strengthening partnerships Promoting coalition interoperability Staying on the cutting edge Accelerating S&T achievement and transitions Basic Research Knows No Political Boundaries 4

5 Programs Window-on-Science (WOS) Sends top international scientists to present their research in the U.S. 78 WOS visits from 21 countries in FY13 Innonenti, Sponseli, Rossini Window-on-the-World (WOW) Allows AFRL scientists to do research at non-gov t institutes overseas 7 participants to 6 different countries in FY12 All travel frozen in FY13 5

6 Programs Engineer & Scientist Exchange Program (ESEP) Segredifesa, 5th Dept, Rome - Jaime Bestard, WPAFB Conference Support Program (CSP) Allows AFRL scientists to do research at non-gov t institutes overseas Supported 54 meetings in 22 Countries in FY13 Workshop on GNSS Data Application to Low Latitude Ionospheric Research, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014) 6

7 Research Projects 262 research grants with 35 countries in FY13 DIPARTIMENTO DI CHIMICA FISICA ED INORGANICA Zannoni, Claudio Modelling ferroelectric nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals (FERNANO) UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELL AQUILA Cortellessa, Vittorio Consistent evolution of software artifacts and non-functional models DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA DELL INFORMAZIONE ELETTRONICA E TELECOMUNICAZIONI POLITECNICO DI MILANO Marzano, Frank Masarati, Pierangelo HiRadProp - High-frequency modeling and prediction of troposheric radiopropagation parameters from ground-based multi-channel radiometric measurements between Ka and W band Real-time wing-vortex and pressure distribution estimation on wings via displacement and strains in unsteady and transitional flight conditions UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA Barni, Mauro AMULET - A MUlti-cLuE approach To image forensics ISTEC CNR ISTITUTO DI SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIA DEI MATERIALI CERAMICI Sciti, Diletta Characterization of Ultra High Temperature Ceramics via Transmission Electron Microscopy CNR CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE - ISTITUTO DI NANOSCIENZE - Affronte, Marco Quantum Properties of Molecular Nanomagnets UNIVERSITY DI PISA, DEPARTMENT DI INGEGNERIA UNIVERSIT DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA POLITECNICO DI MILANO UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CALABRIA UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA Greco, Maria Falcone, Maurizio Luini, Lorenzo De Sio, Luciano De Crescenzi, Maurizio Waveform Diversity and Frequency Sharing Techniques for Cognitive Radar Systems Efficient numerical methods for optimal control problems and games via Dynamic Programming equations Development of a Comprehensive Propagation Model for Satcom Systems at High Frequency in the Framework of the Alphasat Experiment Smart Mirrors for photorefractive control of light with Tim Bunning, RX-- Agile filters application 3D Carbon Nanotube Networks as Mechanical Transducer and Superhydrophobic Filter UNIVERSIT DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA Lacarbonara, Walter Bridging High Strength and Dissipation in Carbon Nanotube Composites 7

8 Questions How much funding does the Canadian MOD put into basic research? DRDC? Universities? Does DRDC monitor basic research funded by other Canadian agencies? Do DRDC researchers collaborate w/ universities? How do we transition collaborative 6.1 activity to DEAs and PAs? 8

9 Bilateral Programs Motivation for creating specific types of initiatives: Leverage unique research opportunity Large returns on investment that couldn t be obtained grant by grant Major country programs: Russian Plasma Initiative ( ) Based on 1994 announcement of weakly ionized plasmas used to improve performance in hypersonic flight For circa $600K/y we created a highly interactive partnership Taiwan Nanoscience Initiative (2002 present) Korean Nano/Info/Bio Initiative (2003 present) Ukrainian Materials Initiative (2005-present) African Materials Initiative (2008-present) AFOSR-CONACYT Mexican Initiative ( ) Australian Smart Sensing Initiative (2011-present) Italian Basic Research Initiative (2012-present) 9

10 Questions? ION DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A Unclassified, Unlimited Distribution 10