Current Activities

Materials Needs and R&D Strategy for Future Military Aerospace Propulsion Systems

The will committee will assess the needs and directions for a national materials research and development (R&D) strategy to respond to the challenge of developing materials for future military aerospace propulsion systems.

Sponsor: Department of Defense
Contact: Erik Svedberg, Program Officer

Research Opportunities in Corrosion Science and Engineering (ROCSE)

The committee will identify the science opportunities that have arisen from recent advances and accomplishments in the field of fundamental corrosion research and that will advance scientific understanding of the mechanisms of corrosion processes, materials degradation, and their mitigation, as well as prioritize a set of research grand-challenge questions to fill identified scientific gaps and make recommendations on a national strategy in fundamental corrosion research with the goal of gaining the critical understanding of materials degradation and mitigating technologies.

Sponsor: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and Department of Energy
Contact: Erik Svedberg, Program Officer

Review of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Corrosion Prevention Standards for Ductile Iron Pipe

A committee will review the coating requirements for ductile iron pipe in the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's TM 8140-CC-2004-1 and assess their appropriateness.

Sponsor: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Contact: Emily Ann Meyer, Program Officer

Roundtable on Biomedical Engineering Materials and Applications (BEMA)

The roundtable is focused on identifying issues of significance related to biomaterials and the medical devices constructed from them.

Sponsors: Various
Contact: Emily Ann Meyer, Program Officer

Understanding the Impact of Selling the Helium Reserve

A committee will assess the impact of selling the Federal Helium Reserve It will review the report "The Impact of Selling the Federal Helium Reserve" (NAP, 2000); examine the availability and reliability of worldwide helium supply, technical opportunities to increase that supply and the relationships among supply, demand, and market price; assess the current and projected helium marketplace; assess the role that organizational and financial factors play in meeting the goals of the Federal Helium Program ; and identify measures that would enable the Program to respond more effectively to the dynamics of the helium industry. This is a joint project with the Board on Physics and Astronomy

Sponsor: U.S. Department of the Interior
Contact: Michael Moloney, Senior Program Officer