Defense Department Selects Scientists to Participate in LUCI Program

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The Defense Department announced selection of ten scientists working across Department of Defense (DoD) Laboratories to participate in the Laboratory University Collaboration Initiative (LUCI) program. These researchers will receive $600,000 over a three-year period to explore their proposed basic research ideas.

“LUCI strives to capitalize on the unrestrained curiosity driven research and innovative spirit of universities by focusing their energy and ideas on defense research,” said Dale Ormond, acting director for the Basic Research Office.

“We endeavor to realize this innovation through a partnership with a scientist at a DoD research laboratory and one of our current research fellows where the primary goal is to bring better capabilities to the future warfighter, and a secondary goal of introducing young scientists and engineers to our DoD hard problems,” Ormond stated.

The LUCI program supports a broad range of scientific topic areas including: applied mathematics, cognitive neuroscience, engineering biology, novel engineered materials, quantum information science, manufacturing science, and other areas of interest. LUCI also adds value to the defense enterprise by funding high risk basic research projects and providing adequate time to DoD researchers to cultivate their ideas for potential long-term research. This investment results in new knowledge and insight that can be used to fill capability gaps, generate patents, bring in human capital to the defense research enterprise, and build stronger relationships with academic researchers.

The scientists for the fiscal year 2018 LUCI class are the following:

FY18 LUCI Fellow	Topic Area	Service Laboratory
Nathaniel Bridges	Cognitive Neuroscience	Air Force Research Laboratory
Katherine Brodie	Oceanography/Remote sensing	Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory
Matthew Dickerson	Additive manufacturing and self-assembly	Air Force Research Laboratory
Alexander Efros and John Lyons	Nanophotonics/2D materials	Naval Research Laboratory
Elizabeth Goldschmidt	Quantum sensing	Army Research Laboratory
Michael Goodson	Synthetic Biology	Air Force Research Laboratory
Mark Griep	Nanoplasmonics	Army Research Laboratory
Michelle Johannes	Topological materials	Naval Research Laboratory
Keith Knipling	High temperature structural materials	Naval Research Laboratory
Matthew Marge and Gordon Briggs	Human Machine Interaction	Army Research Laboratory and Naval Research Laboratory

LUCI started in 2016 to promote, and competitively fund, three-year basic research collaborations between leading DoD scientists and Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows and Principal Investigators for Multi-disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) at U.S. universities in fields of critical interest to the defense enterprise. The DoD Basic Research Office, https://basicresearch.defense.gov/ oversees and manages the program.

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