Defense Science & Technology
- Testimony by GEN Paul J. Kern, USA (ret.)
before the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, 7 Jul 2005 (local copy)
- It is no accident that DARPA, ONR, AFOSR have co-located themselves within easy walking distance of the National Science Foundation in Northern Virginia, with the ARO having a liaison office there as well.
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Defense Science Board (DSB)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
- Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Naval Studies Board (NSB)
- Navy Research Laboratory (NRL)
- Office of Military and Security Programs (OMSP) at Penn State
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- Army Science Board (ASB)
- Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
- Proteus USA
- Proteus USA is sponsored by The Office of the Director for National Intelligence and the U.S. Army War College's Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL).
- Proteus USA will promote further discourse, study and research, focusing on the refinement, development and application of new and emerging "futures" concepts, methods, processes and scenarios ....
- DoD Research & Engineering Enterprise
- Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
- Registering with DTIC, to get access to DoD science and technology research
- Research and Development Descriptive Summaries (RDDS) for the military services and Defense agencies, search page
- Department of Defense Information Analysis Centers (IACs)
Top 20 - CSAT Staff Favorites
- In addition to the laboratories (such as Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge, Argonne, Pacific NW, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab); the publications (such as Technology Review, Discover, Scientific American, Science, Nature, Jane's); and the think tanks (such as CSIS, IDA, IISS, RAND, MITRE), try these CSAT favorites
- Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF)
- Arlington Institute
- NewScientist.com
- Foresight Institute - "promoting transformative technologies"
- Federal government technology intiatives
- DARPA Technology thrusts
- airforce-technology.com - "news, views, and contacts from the global Air Force industry"
- Aviation Week web site
- National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
- Under Sec Def for Acquistion, Technology and Logistics website
- Biotechnology Industry Organization
- US government nanotechnology website
- BioSpace biotech website
- National Research Council website (all the national academies linked)
U.S. Government
- National Technical Information Service (NTIS) "serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today."
- Library of Congress Online Catalog
- Science.gov - searches more than 50 databases and 2100 selected websites, offering over 200 million pages of U.S. government science information, research, and development
- Science Conference Proceedings - "DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information's (OSTI) Science Conference Proceedings Portal. This distributed portal provides access to science and technology conference proceedings and conference papers from a number of authoritative sites (professional societies and national labs, largely) whose areas of interest in the physical sciences and technology intersect those of the Department of Energy. Proceedings and papers from scientific meetings can be found in these fields, among others: particle physics, nuclear physics, chemistry, petroleum, aeronautics and astronautics, meteorology, engineering, computer science, electric power, fossil fuels. "
- "Sensitive But Unclassified" and Other Federal Security Controls on Scientific and Technical Information: History and Current Controversy (local copy), Congressional Research Service report
- Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)
- The mission of the Office of Science and Technology Policy is threefold; first, to provide the President and his senior staff with accurate, relevant, and timely scientific and technical advice on all matters of consequence; second, to ensure that the policies of the Executive Branch are informed by sound science; and third, to ensure that the scientific and technical work of the Executive Branch is properly coordinated so as to provide the greatest benefit to society.
- Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) "invests in high-risk/high-payoff research programs that have the potential to provide our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries"
- Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA)
- CIA Directorate of Science and Technology
- Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP), NDU
- Department of Energy National Labs
- Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts, by CIA, 2000
- Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, by DNI, 2008
- We prepared Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World to stimulate strategic thinking about the future by identifying key trends, the factors that drive them, where they seem to be headed, and how they might interact. It uses scenarios to illustrate some of the many ways in which the drivers examined in the study (e.g., globalization, demography, the rise of new powers, the decay of international institutions, climate change, and the geopolitics of energy) may interact to generate challenges and opportunities for future decisionmakers. The study as a whole is more a description of the factors likely to shape events than a prediction of what will actually happen.
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- General Accounting Office (GAO) Home Page, with links to many reports and publications
International Resources
Other Sources
- RAND Corp., Santa Monica, CA
- Singularity University
- Singularity University is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges. With the support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business and government, Singularity University hopes to stimulate groundbreaking, disruptive thinking and solutions aimed at solving some of the planet’s most pressing challenges. Singularity University is based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley.
- Futurity
- An online news source featuring the latest discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health, and more from North America's leading research universities.
- Institute For The Future (IFTF)
- ... IFTF has partnered with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) on a project called MMOWGLI—massively multiplayer online war game leveraging the intern.
- The first pilot for MMOWGLI launches on May 16 [2011] with a reseach scenario of Somali piracy. MMOWGLI goes a step further than IFTF's earlier platforms that focused on rapid-fire ideation by hundreds and even thousands of players. This pilot also tests the potential to turn complex chains of crowdsourced ideas into more robust plans of action, to support self-organizing strategic teams and even networks, to expand the traditional mandate of the wargame to include diverse participants from beyond the military, and to consider responses to the Somali pirate situation that go beyond the kinetic solutions at sea.
- Military Strategy and Technology Collection, online books from the National Academies
- Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), Studies and Analyses FFRDC, Alexandria, VA
- Logistics Management Institute (LMI), McLean, VA
- Scirus - "comprehensive science-specific search engine"
- Laboratory Network.com, "a professional community" -- check out the news and analysis section
- Center for the Study of Technology and Society
- Wikipedia - open access encyclopedia built from user inputs
- Digital Universe - overseen by experts
- This Directory comprises a network of subject-specific web sites organized by topic into "Portals" – such as the Earth Portal or the Cosmos Portal – with reliable information from trusted sources covering a wide range of subjects.
- Science News - magazine of the Society for Science & the Public
- DefenseTech online journal
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - covering "free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals" - aiming for "all subjects and languages"
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