DOD National Security Science & Engineering Faculty Fellowship
(NSSEFF) Program

Solicitation for Proposals deadline: June 20, 2008

June 14, 2008

White papers submitted for this RFP will be due July 11, 2008. You
must be listed on the Letter of Intent signed by President Hockfield
in order to submit a white paper.

Those who are interested in submitting must email the information
listed below to Debra L. Martin, Programs Manager, MIT Vice President
for Research Office, at debra "at" mit.edu.

The deadline is Friday, June 20, 2008.

Required information:

1. Name, title, faculty position, department affiliation, email address
2. Proposed research topic
3. Technical subject category most appropriate for the proposed
   research topic:

Technical subject categories include:

1. astronomy, astrophysics and space sciences;
2. atmospheric sciences and meteorology;
3. aviation science, astronautics;
4. behavioral and social sciences, including psychology and training;
5. biological and medical sciences, including biochemistry and
   biotechnology;
6. chemistry (physical, organic, polymer) and chemical
   engineering;
7. communications and networks;
8. computer and information sciences;
9. earth sciences and oceanography;
10. materials-functional materials, including electronic and bio-inspired
    materials, textiles, adhesives, etc.;
11. materials-structural materials, metallurgy, ceramics, refractory materials;
12. mathematics;
13. mechanical, industrial, electrical, civil, and marine engineering;
14. physics, including acoustics, fluid mechanics, optics, spectroscopy, nuclear physics, etc.;
15. propulsion, engines, and fuels;
16. robotics, science of autonomy;
17. weapons and military sciences, countermeasures, including
    counter-WMD and counter-directed weapons science;
18. and other.

The full DoD solicitation is available here (.pdf).