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Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research (2005)

Chapter: APPENDIX C DOD Basic Research Organizations and Universities: Committee Site Visits and/or Interviews

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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX C DOD Basic Research Organizations and Universities: Committee Site Visits and/or Interviews." National Research Council. 2005. Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11177.
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APPENDIX C
DOD Basic Research Organizations and Universities: Committee Site Visits and/or Interviews

The site visits and interviews conducted by the Committee on Department of Defense Basic Research included discussions with approximately 140 people from 7 Department of Defense (DOD) research organizations and 14 universities, as listed in this appendix. (See Appendix B for a list of guest speaker presentations to the committee at its two meetings in Washington, D.C., in May 2004.)

DOD BASIC RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS VISITED

The committee conducted site visits at the seven (including the Army Research Office) DOD basic research organizations listed below. Committee members met with key organization leadership in addition to one or more groups of researchers and/or research managers at each site. Discussion topics included the DOD definition of basic research; the perceptions of those in leadership positions, researchers, and managers about how well their research fits this definition and about characteristics associated with basic research; trends; concerns; and suggested improvements. The basic research organizations visited are these:

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

    Arlington, Virginia

  • Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

    (included video conference participation by several AFRL directorates across the United States)

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX C DOD Basic Research Organizations and Universities: Committee Site Visits and/or Interviews." National Research Council. 2005. Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11177.
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  • Army Research Laboratory (ARL)

    Adelphi, Maryland

    (included participants from Army Research Office [ARO], Research Triangle Park, North Carolina)

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

    Arlington, Virginia

  • Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)

    Washington, D.C.

  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)

    Arlington, Virginia

VISITS AND/OR INTERVIEWS AT UNIVERSITIES

Committee members made site visits and/or conducted interviews with research leaders of 14 universities. Each visit included a meeting with the key person responsible for research at the university, as well as one or more groups of DOD-sponsored researchers. In addition to the same topics addressed during the DOD site visits, these discussions addressed the importance of DOD research funding to the university research enterprise. (These same topics were discussed during interviews of university research leaders who were not visited in person.) The 14 universities are these:

  • Cornell University

    Ithaca, New York

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

    Cambridge

  • North Carolina State University

    Raleigh

  • Northwestern University

    Evanston, Illinois

  • Ohio State University

    Columbus

  • Pennsylvania State University

    State College

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX C DOD Basic Research Organizations and Universities: Committee Site Visits and/or Interviews." National Research Council. 2005. Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11177.
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  • University of Arizona

    Tucson

  • University of California, Los Angeles

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor

  • University of New Mexico

    Albuquerque

  • University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

    Los Angeles

  • University of Texas at Austin

  • University of Washington

    Seattle

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX C DOD Basic Research Organizations and Universities: Committee Site Visits and/or Interviews." National Research Council. 2005. Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11177.
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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX C DOD Basic Research Organizations and Universities: Committee Site Visits and/or Interviews." National Research Council. 2005. Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11177.
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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX C DOD Basic Research Organizations and Universities: Committee Site Visits and/or Interviews." National Research Council. 2005. Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11177.
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The Department of Defense (DOD) supports basic research to advance fundamental knowledge in fields important to national defense. Over the past six years, however, several groups have raised concern about whether the nature of DOD-funded basic research is changing. The concerns include these: Funds are being spent for research that does not fall under DOD's definition of basic research; reporting requirements have become cumbersome and onerous; and basic research is handled differently by the three services. To explore these concerns, the Congress directed DOD to request a study from the National Research Council (NRC) about the nature of basic research now being funded by the Department. Specifically the NRC was to determine if the programs in the DOD basic research portfolio are consistent with the DOD definition of basic research and with the characteristics associated with fundamental research.

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