

Program managers within AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, who identified this year’s Grand Challenge topic, wrote the initial call for proposals and ultimately selected the winning team, will oversee the team’s research efforts and provide technical direction over the course of the nine-month challenge effort. Department of the Air Force and the Department of Defense.

The winning team proposed a solution to accelerate chemistry and materials research to advance warfighting capabilities for the U.S.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) - The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, has selected a joint research team from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the Phase I winner of AFRL’s Active Artificial Intelligence, or AI, Planners for Chemistry/Materials Optimization and Discovery Grand Challenge.
