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PROGRAMS WITHIN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIRECTORATE The Army Research Laboratory's ARO describes its mission as:1 To serve as the Army's principal extramural basic research agency in the engineering, physical, information and life sciences; developing and exploiting innovative advances to ensure the Nation's technological superiority. Basic research proposals from educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and private industry are competitively selected and funded.
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The transition of fundamental physical science research funded by ARO to applications developed in the ARL intramural laboratories is another good indicator of the success of PSD. Physics Division The Physics Division supports research to discover and understand exotic quantum and extreme optical physics, where new regimes are expected to create revolutionary capabilities for the future warfighter.3 Four programs were reviewed: Atomic and Molecular Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information Science, and Optical Physics and Fields.
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Large advances in quantum information science are unlikely to occur unless there are correspondingly large advances in the development and analysis of algorithms. Little evidence was presented of any active engagement on algorithms between the Physics Division Quantum Information Science Program and its classical counterpart in the Information Sciences Division.
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Overall, the Chemical Sciences Division supports strong science and innovative research projects that have clear potential for improving the future performance of the Army. Notable examples of the impactful science funded by this division include the following: the development of melt-castable highly energetic materials made by co-crystallization; the design of self-regulating liquid crystals triggered by motile bacteria; the combinatorial synthesis and discovery of electrochemically active Perovskite materials; and the stabilization of biological materials using novel designer polymer coatings based on mapping of hydrophobic/hydrophilic regions on a targeted protein.
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There is great value in the Chemical Sciences Division's programs to support fundamental research, for the discovery of new science, and the development of new technologies for defense applications. Life Sciences Division The Life Sciences Division supports research efforts to advance the Army and nation's knowledge and understanding of the fundamental properties, principles, and processes governing DNA, RNA, proteins, organelles, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes, as well as multispecies communities, biofilms, individual humans, and groups of humans.
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For the Physics Division, the Army Research Office (ARO) should consider collaborative projects that involve both materials synthesis and condensed matter physics, as well as joint quantum information algorithms and information sciences projects, which would all be interdirectorate.
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That means that ARO is not seeing all the proposals from new PIs with different perspectives that it might. This limitation is of particular importance when it comes to attracting researchers in biology and other life science disciplines because a life scientist is very unlikely to think that an organization called Physical Sciences Directorate would be interested in what he or she does.
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and neutron sources, as well as genomic facilities (i.e., DOE, DOC, and NIH)
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