DOD
DoD's MURI program addresses high-risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts where more than one traditional discipline interacts to provide rapid advances in scientific areas of interest to the DoD. There are 25 topics, broken down by DOD agency:
ONR
Topic 1: Interventions in Large and Complex Networks: Prediction, Monitoring and Evaluation
Topic 2: The Deep Sea Benthic Boundary Layer; Interactions and Coupling with the Deep Seabed
Topic 3: Machine Learning Methods for Phase Change Heat Transfer Modeling and Design
Topic 4: Complexity Science Disorder-Promoted Synchronization
Topic 5: Theory and Algorithms for Learning and Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Systems
Topic 6: Reexamining Ocean Effects on Atmospheric Wind Drag and Enthalpy Flux
Topic 7: Understanding Thermal and Mechanical Behavior in High Temperature Materials
Topic 8: Understanding and Tailoring the Interactions between Metamaterials and Hypersonic Flows
Topic 9: Cognitive and Neuroscience-Inspired Problem-Solving for Autonomous Systems in Physical Environments
AFOSR
Topic 10: Plasmon-Controlled Single-Atom Catalysis
Topic 11: A New Mathematical Paradigm for Integrating Data, Models, Decisions
Topic 12: AlN Semiconductors for High-Power Electronics
Topic 13: Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) via Knowledge-Guided Pyrolysis for Hypersonics
Topic 14: Piezoelectric Materials Interfaced with Semiconductors for Integrated Quantum Systems
Topic 15: Space-Based Characterization of Arctic Permafrost Dynamics
Topic 16: Modeling and Measuring Multilevel Resonance
Topic 17: Fundamental Limits of Passive Heterodyne Photodetection of Incoherent, Broadband Sources
Topic 18: Tensor Networks and Low-Rank Methods for High-Dimensional Computing
ARO
Topic 19: Bioinspired Vibronic Coherence in Molecular and Solid-State Systems
Topic 20: Engineered Quantum Materials Approaches to Room-Temperature Single Photon Detection in Infrared Range
Topic 21: The Ecological Succession of Environmental Films at the Gas-Solid Interface
Topic 22: Predicting Performance Outcomes for Heterogeneous Materials under Complex Loading
Topic 23: Synchronization in Natural and Engineered Systems
Topic 24: Ferroelectric Group III and II-IV-Nitride Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics
Topic 25: SCAMP 3D- Synthetic Colloidal Assemblies for Meta-Photonics in Three Dimensions