Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research manages the basic research investment for the U.S. Air Force, seeking to foster revolutionary scientific breakthroughs enabling the Air Force and U.S. industry to produce world-class, militarily significant, and commercially valuable products.

Branches and topics: 

1. ENGINEERING AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS (RTA1)
   a. Dynamic Materials and Interactions
   b. GHz-THz Electronics and Materials
   c. Energy, Combustion and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
   d. Unsteady Aerodynamics and Turbulent Flows
   e. High-Speed Aerodynamics
   f. Low-Density Materials
   g. Multiscale Structural Mechanics and Prognosis
   h. Space Propulsion and Power
   i. Test Science for Test and Evaluation (T&E)
    
2. INFORMATION AND NETWORKS (RTA2)
   a. Computational Cognition and Machine Intelligence
   b. Computational Mathematics
   c. Dynamics and Control
   d. Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS)
   e. Information Assurance and Cybersecurity
   f. Optimization and Discrete Mathematics
   g. Science of Information, Computation, Learning, and Fusion
   h. Trust and Influence
   i. Complex Network
   j. Computational Social Science
    
3. PHYSICAL SCIENCES (RTB1)
   a. Aerospace Materials for Extreme Environments
   b. Atomic and Molecular Physics
   c. Electromagnetics
   d. Laser and Optical Physics
   e. Optoelectronics and Photonics
   f. Plasma and Electro-Energetic Physics
   g. Quantum Electronic Solids
   h. Quantum Information Sciences
   i. Remote Sensing
   j. Space Science
   k. Ultrashort Pulse Laser-Matter Interactions

    

4. CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (RTB2)
   a. Biophysics
   b. Human Performance and Biosystems
   c. Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials and Microsystems
   e. Natural Materials, Systems, and Extremophiles
   f. Organic Materials Chemistry

Funding: No fixed limit (usually $200,000 to $400,000 per year) 

Duration: 3-5 years 

As of 11.4.19