Description
This program seeks to provide revolutionary advances in the fundamental understanding of the physicals processes involved, and our ability to control and exploit, the interaction of electromagnetic energy and matter. This portfolio seeks to find novel experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches to the nonlinear, multi-scale, and multi-physics scenarios where the kinetic, potential, and electromagnetic field energy are of comparable order. Examples including the opportunity to provide useful work for a variety of applications, including directed energy weapons, high-energy density physics, sensors and radars/lidars, electronic and electro-optical warfare, and novel compact accelerators as well as an improved ability to operate and exploit a range of extreme environment and conditions. High-energy lasers, high-power electromagnetism, pulsed power, plasma physics, nuclear physics, regimes of atomic pressure, radiation damage, and high-energy density EM-matter interactions, including biological interactions, are all of interest to this portfolio.
Basic Research Objectives can be found in this program’s section of the BAA.You are highly encouraged to contact the Program Officer prior to developing a full proposal to briefly discuss the current state-of-the-art, how your research would advance it, and the approximate cost for a three (3) to five (5) year effort, and if there are any specific submission target dates. Collaborative efforts with researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory are encouraged when appropriate, but are not required.
SolicitationBAA
Contact InformationDr. Andrew Stickrath (Acting)AFOSR/RTB-1 Email: plasma@us.af.mil