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: 

RTA1 Engineering and Complex Systems:

s Energetic Solid-State Physics and Mechanochemistry

s Energy, Combustion, and Non- Equilibrium Thermodynamics

s Aerodynamic Sciences

s High-Speed Aerodynamics

s Aerospace Composite Materials

sMultiscale Multifunctional Structures and Systems

Propulsion and Power

s Agile Science for Test and Evaluation (T&E)

RTA2 Information and Networks

s Computational Cognition and Machine Intelligence

s Computational Mathematics

s Dynamical Systems and Control Theory

s Dynamic Data and Information Processing

s Information Assurance and Cybersecurity

s Mathematical Optimization

s Science of Information, Computation, Learning, and Fusion

s Trust and Influence

s Complex Networks

s Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

RTB1 Physical Sciences

s Aerospace Materials for Extreme Environments

s Atomic and Molecular Physics

s Electromagnetics

s Optoelectronics and Photonics

s High-Energy Radiation-Matter Systems

s Quantum Information Sciences

s Physics of Sensing

s Space Physics

s Ultrashort Pulse Laser-Matter Interactions

s Condensed Matter Physics

s Astrodynamics

RTB2 Chemistry and Biological Sciences

Space Biosciences

s Biophysics

s Human Performance and Biosystems

s Molecular Dynamics and Theoretical Chemistry

s Natural Materials and Systems

s Organic Materials Chemistry

s Space Biosciences

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

Duration: 3-5 years