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BASIC RESEARCH IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR AIR FORCE NEEDS

Committee on Directions for the AFOSR Mathematics and Space Sciences Directorate Related to Information Science and Technology

Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications

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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

This study was supported by Contract No. F1ATA04295M001 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the project.

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COMMITTEE ON DIRECTIONS FOR THE AFOSR MATHEMATICS AND SPACE SCIENCES DIRECTORATE RELATED TO INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ALAN J. McLAUGHLIN,

MIT Lincoln Laboratory (retired),

Chair

RUZENA K. BAJCSY,

University of California at Berkeley

ELWYN BERLEKAMP,

University of California at Berkeley

PHILIP A. BERNSTEIN,

Microsoft Corporation

ROGER W. BROCKETT,

Harvard University

VINCENT CHAN,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

STEPHEN CROSS,

Georgia Institute of Technology

EDWARD FELTEN,

Princeton University

OSCAR GARCIA,

University of North Texas

W. DAVID KELTON,

University of Cincinnati

KLARA NAHRSTEDT,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PRABHAKAR RAGHAVAN,

Yahoo, Inc.

RONALD W. SCHAFER,

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Staff

SCOTT WEIDMAN, Director,

Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications

BARBARA WRIGHT, Administrative Assistant

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BOARD ON MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

DAVID W. McLAUGHLIN,

New York University,

Chair

TANYA STYBLO BEDER,

Tribeca Investments, LLC

PATRICK L. BROCKETT,

University of Texas at Austin

ARAVINDA CHAKRAVARTI,

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

PHILLIP COLELLA,

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

LAWRENCE CRAIG EVANS,

University of California at Berkeley

JOHN E. HOPCROFT,

Cornell University

ROBERT KASS,

Carnegie Mellon University

KATHRYN B. LASKEY,

George Mason University

C. DAVID LEVERMORE,

University of Maryland

ROBERT LIPSHUTZ,

Affymetrix, Inc.

CHARLES M. LUCAS,

AIG

CHARLES MANSKI,

Northwestern University

JOYCE McLAUGHLIN,

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

PRABHAKAR RAGHAVAN,

Yahoo, Inc.

STEPHEN M. ROBINSON,

University of Wisconsin-Madison

EDWARD WEGMAN,

George Mason University

DETLOF VON WINTERFELDT,

University of Southern California

Staff

SCOTT WEIDMAN, Director

BARBARA WRIGHT, Administrative Assistant

For more information on BMSA, see its Web site at http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bms/, write to BMSA, National Research Council, 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20001, call at (202) 334-2421, or e-mail at bmsa@nas.edu.

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Acknowledgments

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the NRC’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

C. William Gear, Princeton University,

Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research,

John W. Lyons, U.S. Army Research Laboratory (retired),

Debasis Mitra, Bell Laboratories,

S. Shankara Sastry, University of California at Berkeley,

William Scherlis, Carnegie Mellon University, and

Sheila E. Widnall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by William H. Press, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Appointed by the National Research Council, he was responsible for making certain that an inde-

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pendent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

The committee thanks members of the AFOSR staff of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate; staff of the Air Combat Command; Thomas Cruse, Chief Technologist of the Air Force Research Laboratory; and Shankara Sastry and Janos Sztipanovits of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board for their helpful discussions and inputs to this study.

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The U.S. Air Force is developing new force capabilities appropriate to an emerging array of threats. It is clear that advances in information science and technology (IS&T) are essential for most of these new capabilities. As a consequence, the Air Force is finding it necessary to refocus its IS&T basic research program to provide stronger support for reaching these goals. To assist this effort, the AFOSR asked the NRC for a study to create a vision and plan for the IS&T-related programs within the Office’s Mathematics and Space Science Directorate. This report provides an assessment of basic research needs for Air Force systems and communications, software, information management and integration, and human interactions with IS&T systems. The report also offers a set of priorities for basic IS&T research, and an analysis of funding mechanisms its support.

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