Seminar Series - 2000-2001

Materials Science and the U.S. Army Transformation

Dr. David M. Stepp
Chief, Mechanical Behavior of Materials Branch
U.S. Army Research Office
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709-2211

Date: Thursday, June7, 2001
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: W128 Nebraska Hall

Sponsored by the Dept. of Engineering Mechanics


U.S. Army Research in materials science continues to address the need for novel high performance materials capable of providing superior capabilities for the soldier and vehicles in the battlefield; this need is even more pronounced since General Shinseki, Chief of Staff of the US Army, has called for a radical transformation of the Army's forces in order to meet the needs of recent military conflicts.  More specifically, it is critical for this future objective force to have dramatically more responsive, deployable, agile, versatile, lethal, survivable, and sustainable than the current Legacy Forces (developed circa 1970's).  This transformation will require significant advancements across broad ranges of science and technology with the recent advent of the U.S. Army Transformation.

Dr. David Stepp, Chief of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials Branch of the Materials Science Division of the United States Army Research Office manages approximately 45 research grants, totaling approximately $5M/year.  ARO is the U.S. Army's primary manager of basic research (6.1) funds.  Specific funding opportunities that will be discussed include: DoD Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR), Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI), Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR), Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR), and the grants described in the ARO Broad Agency Announcement [single investigator grants, conference / symposium / workshop grants, Short Term Investigative Research (STIR), Young Investigator Program (YIP), HBCU/MI program].


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