Program Areas
EPSCoR - Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
Department of Defense
Brief History of Program:
Nevada is home to many DoD facilities including Nellis Air Force Base, Fallon Naval Air Station, and the Hawthorne Army Ammunition Depot. However, only minimal research support for these installations has come from the NSHE. One of the chief long-term benefits of Nevada DoD EPSCoR program has been the development of capabilities among Nevada faculty for performing research related to these Nevada DoD sites and other DoD issues nationally and globally.
FY 2009 Solicitation: Nevada Call for State Preproposals
Research News:
DoD to Award $15.7 Million for Science and Engineering Research
Current projects:
Sushil Louis, University of Nevada, Reno, Co-evolving Tactics and Strategies for Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection Training and Decision Support (ONR)
The team will investigate, prototype, and evaluate a revolutionary genetic algorithm based artificial intelligence learning system that uses newly developed technology and learns from subject matter experts to generate realistic, adaptive, appropriately competitive opposing forces and control strategy for decision making simulations. First, a subject matter expert (training instructor) will be able to demonstrate a few courses of action in specific situations and our system will generalize and find a strategy underlying these courses of action and use that strategy in novel scenarios. To simulate a realistic adaptive opponent, the proposed system will evolve counter strategies. Counter-counter strategies are simply one step further. By automating this evolutionary cycle, we can co-evolve new robust offensive and defensive strategies and tactics that model the adaptability of real fighting forces.
Monica Nicolescu, University of Nevda, Reno - Understanding Intent Using a Novel Hidden Markov Model Representation (ONR)
The team will develop methodologies for understanding intent and apply them to tasks relevant to the military. The proposed approach relies on a novel formulation of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), which allows a robot to understand the intent of others by virtually assuming their place and detecting their potential intentions based on the current situation
Robert Schill, Jr. University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Stimulated Electron Desorption Studies from Microwave Vacuum Electronics/High Power Microwave Materials (AFOSR)
The team proposes that the materials and the environment contained in high power microwave devices play an important role in design efficiency and optimization
AFOSR - Air Force Office of Scientific Research
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/AFRL/afosr/
ONR - Office of Navy Research
http://www.onr.navy.mil/
ARO - Army Research Office
http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.htm
Contact
James Henson, DoD Project Director
http://www.ee.unr.edu/henson.html
