Department of Defense 6.1 Basic Research Conference

 TBD 2024 9:00 AM
 TBD 2024 5:00 PM

Basic Research Innovation and Collaboration Center
4100 N Fairfax Drive Suite 450
Arlington, VA
United States (map)

 

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DoD 6.1 Basic Research Conference

*While it is our goal to accommodate everyone, we would like be mindful of the in-person capacity at our facility. If physical capacity is met or exceeded for any day, presenters will be given preference and others may need to attend online. Thank you for your understanding.

Last year, the 4-day hybrid inaugural 6.1 Basic Research Conference took place daily from September 6-9th with opening and closing remarks delivered by Ms. Heidi Shyu and Dr. Bindu Nair respectively. The conference was successful in its three primary goals: 1. to showcase transformative basic research across the DoD, 2. to foster collaboration within the intramural DoD enterprise, and 3. to inform DoD researchers of new and ongoing basic research opportunities. Presentations covered over 50 unique technical areas including Additive Manufacturing, Medical Readiness, AI, Nuclide Power, and 2D Materials, to name a few. 

This first conference drew over 750 participants that included more than 400 oral and poster presenters plus an additional 350+ attendees. The research arms of each military component were present among 50+ different DoD institutions that also included the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, DoD Information Analysis Centers, and the Defense Technical Information Center. 

Overall, the inaugural 6.1 Basic Research Conference was a highly well received and successful event that also demonstrated need and desire to further integrate ongoing basic research. We hope to continue this event in order to troubleshoot, network, and collaborate in a cultivated space of DoD basic researchers.

 

Facility Information:

Basic Research Innovation and Collaboration Center
4100 N Fairfax Drive Suite 450
Arlington, VA
United States (map)

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Please note the following dates:

Call for abstracts:  TBD 2023

Abstract submission deadline:  TBD 2023

Abstract selection/session planning:  TBD 2023

On-line registration: TBD 2023

Meeting start:  TBD 2024

Note: Should COVID-19 protocols prohibit the ability to have a hybrid event with limited in-person attendance, the conference will be postponed; this decision the will be announced no later than July 1, 2022.

About the DoD 6.1 Basic Research Conference

The goals of the conference are to showcase transformative basic research across DoD, foster collaboration, and inform DoD researchers of basic research opportunities. We plan to invite other members of the DoD R&D enterprise to get a glimpse of the basic science that will provide the foundation for future DoD-relevant technologies. The multi-day meeting will include breakout sessions focusing on specific topics aligned with the Emerging Military Technologies and frameworks in Services such as the Naval R&D Framework. The conference will also be an opportunity for Service laboratory researchers to make asks of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and to voice concerns and challenges they are experiencing.

The DoD 6.1 research conference is an outgrowth of the OSD Laboratory University Collaboration Initiative (LUCI). Established in FY16, the LUCI program supports collaborations fostered between the Service laboratory researcher and academic researchers of the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) and Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) programs on basic research topics in areas of critical interest to DoD.  The unique success of executing the LUCI program has improved the exchange between basic researchers across the DoD laboratories.

Click here for more information: FY23 LUCI Funding Opportunity Announcement

Finally, please check out the FY21 Winners here: FY22 LUCI Awardee Announcement

About the Basic Research Office

Dr. Bindu Nair
Director, Basic Research Office

The Basic Research Office is the Department-wide strategic thread in ensuring future capability and makes investments in areas where the Services may not be able to. We work with academia, industry, and government partners to foster collaborations, shape priorities, and forge pathways in scientific investment areas that aim to establish new and strengthened alliances with international allies, insertion of new innovations into programs of record, and long-term scientific and technological superiority.

 

Abstract Submissions have Now Closed

Abstract submissions have closed. If you wish to get in contact with the conference organizers and they will be touch with you.

Technical Areas

  1. Electrochemical energy
  2. Nuclide Power
  3. Phase change materials for thermal energy storage
  4. Ignition in Extreme Conditions
  5. Enabling Technologies for Hybrid-Electric Propulsion
  6. Emission Physics and Electron Sources
  7. Ceramic and Ceramic Composites Processing-Property Relationships for DoD Platform Development
  8. Materials Modelling: From Electronic Structure to Atomistic and Multiscale Theory and Computation
  9. Functional Nanoparticles
  10. 2D and 3D Frameworks for Energy, Electronic, and Sensing Applications
  11. 2D materials
  12. Topological materials
  13. 2D quantum materials for quantum sensors (single photon emitters)
  14. 2D materials for magnetic sensors (QNT)
  15. Novel quantum materials/structures to enable demonstration of quantum effects
  16. Ultra-Wide Band Gap semiconductors - the next generation RF technology
  17. Superconducting & hybrid quantum interfaces
  18. Light-Matter Interactions: a. Nano and Metaphotonics b. Nonlinear and Ultrafast Phenomena in Materials
  19. Integrated Photonics for RF-Microwave, PNT, EW and Sensors Application
  20. Electromagnetic concepts for advanced imaging
  21. Synthetic Biology for DoD Applications: Sensing and Biosynthesis
  22. Applying DNA nanotechnology
  23. Ecological Processes for Climate Change Adaptation: Elucidating biogeophysical and biogeochemical process for infrastructure protection and adverse climate adaptation in DoD Land
  24. Incorporating synthetic biology and biomaterials to create adaptive and dynamic materials and devices
  25. Understanding the Dynamic Littoral Environment: Advancing DoD Capabilities at the Land/Maritime Interface
  26. The Future of Soils Within DoD Operations: Unravelling the complexities in granular and colloidal physics in pursuit of manipulating the near-surface environment.
  27. Advancing Team Effectiveness Theory, Measurement, and Models to Increase U.S. Capabilities Across Land, Sea, Air, and Space.
  28. Does Research Progress in a Linear Fashion? A Discussion Exploring Alternative Ways to Conceptualize the Progression of Research from Idea to Practice (panel discussion)
  29. Positining, Navigation and Timing
  30. Olfactory Science- using odor for threat detection
  31. Foreign Military Training Programs
  32. Quantum Technologies
  33. Acoustic and Mechanical Metamaterials
  34. Additive Manufacturing
  35. Medical Readiness
  36. Human-Machine Interfaces for Data Science
  37. Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
  38. Multiferroics and Magnetoelectric Materials
  39. Continuous Time Systems and Event Driven Systems
  40. Systems Biology
  41. Networks and Communications
  42. Other

If you wish to organize a session on a subject that is not listed above, feel free to forward this announcement to potential participants and contact TBD with the name of the session and the participant list, including email addresses.

 



Please note that we will facilitate the publication of your abstract through the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).

For any questions about the conference, please contact:

Dr. Melissa A. Edwards

AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Basic Research Office

Email: melissa.a.edwards42.ctr@mail.mil

Phone: 571-422-6104

For any questions about the LUCI program, please contact:

Dr. Ololade Fatunmbi

Senior Program Scientist, SAINC

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Basic Research Office

Email:  ololade.fatunmbi.ctr@mail.mil

Phone: 571-372-8692