AFOSR seeks proposals for fundamental research in the areas listed below.
Funding of USD$100,000 – $300,000 per year for 3 – 5 years is available.
Proposals received under this BAA will be assessed on an ongoing basis, although some topic areas may have suggested dates to align with funding cycles.
AFOSR also funds an International Student Exchange Program, providing up to USD$15,000 per year to support a US graduate student to work with an AFOSR research partner outside of the USA or a graduate student outside of the USA the opportunity to work with an AFOSR research partner in the USA in support of a current AFOSR-funded project.
This BAA currently has no closing date and will remain open until superseded.
Research Areas of Interest
Engineering and Complex Systems – discovering and exploiting the critical fundamental science and knowledge that will shape the future of aerospace sciences.
- dynamic materials and interactions
- GHz – THz electronics
- energy, combustion and non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- unsteady aerodynamics and turbulent flows
- high-speed aerodynamics
- aerospace composite materials
- multiscale structural mechanics and prognosis
- propulsion and power
- agile science for test and evaluation
Information and Networks – discovery of mathematical laws, foundational scientific principles, and new, reliable and robust algorithms which underlie intelligent, mixed human-machine decision-making to achieve accurate real-time projection of expertise and knowledge into and out of the battle space.
- computational cognition and machine intelligence
- computational mathematics
- dynamic systems and control theory
- dynamic data and information processing
- information assurance and cybersecurity
- mathematical optimisation
- science of information, computation, learning and fusion
- trust and influence
- complex networks
- cognitive and computational neuroscience
Physical Sciences – fundamental knowledge needed to advance US Air and Space Force operations, from the perspective of sensing, characterising and managing the operational environment as well as developing advanced devices that exploit novel physical principles to bring new capabilities to the warfighter.
- aerospace materials for extreme environments
- atomic and molecular physics
- electromagnetics
- optoelectronics and photonics
- high-energy radiation-matter systems
- quantum information sciences
- physics of sensing
- space physics
- ultrashort pulse laser-matter interactions
- condensed matter physics
- astrodynamics
Chemistry and Biological Sciences – identifying chemical and biological mechanisms, structures and systems with the potential to inspire future technology in all Air and Space Force systems.
- biophysics
- human performance and biosystems
- mechanics of multifunctional materials and microsystems
- molecular dynamics and theoretical chemistry
- natural materials and systems
- organic materials chemistry
- space biosciences
Document
BAA – AFOSR: FA9550-23-S-0001 Amendment 0004
