2012 Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship Program
Research Solicitation # ICPDP-2012-0001
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2012 INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
2012 RESEARCH SOLICITATION # ICPDP-2012-0001
OVERVIEW INFORMATION
Federal Agency Name: Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Science and Technology,
Office of the Chief Scientist
Funding Opportunity Title: Fiscal Year 2012 Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship Program
Announcement Type: Federal Grant Announcement
Funding Opportunity Number: 2012 Research Solicitation # ICPDP-2012-0001
Dates: Proposal Due Date is Friday, 27 January 2012 at Noon Eastern Standard Time.
Concise Description: This Research Solicitation by the Central Intelligence Agency announces a
Fiscal Year 2012 solicitation for the Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Program. Funded primarily by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Central
Intelligence Agency’s Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS), the Program was created in response to
the Intelligence Community (IC) requirement to address long-term IC research and technology
needs. The Program serves the IC and research communities by engaging experts in the solution
of problems critical to IC goals and missions. Science and technology are fundamental drivers of
global developments, and the IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program facilitates the
necessary research in leading-edge technologies to support broad IC technology needs. The
Program awards multi-year postdoctoral research fellowship grants to address these needs. In
addition to facilitating research for the long-term needs of the IC, the mission of the IC
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program is to establish long-term mentoring relationships with
its Postdoctoral Fellows and provide research institutions with an understanding of the IC’s
research requirements. The Program fosters partnerships with these Fellows as they move into
career positions and provide innovative solutions to address critical IC problems.
Anticipated Amount/Number of Awards: Through this solicitation, the Program expects to
make twelve or more grant awards in the specific research topics described herein. If additional
funding becomes available from within the IC, the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program may
choose to make additional awards under the terms of this Research Solicitation from the remaining
selectable proposals. The grant will be awarded for two years and may be incrementally funded up
to $120,000 per year ($240,000 total), with a potential for a one-year option in the third year for up
to $120,000.
Proposal areas:
1.1. 3 Improving Robot Perception to Lower Energy Usage
1.2. New Forms of Robot Locomotion for Climbing Walls, Ceilings, and
Interiors
1.3. Advancement of Connectivity of Electronic Components within Textile
Substrate
1.4. Novel Semi-conductive Fibers
1.5. Advanced Signal Processing for Speech Analysis/ Enhancement
1.6. Automated Assessment of Cognitive and Emotional States
1.7. Advanced Techniques in 3D Printing
1.8. Advanced Ionospheric Physics for Improved High Frequency (HF)
Propagation
1.9. Detecting Purposeful Concealment and Unconscious Awareness of Affect
(Sentiment) and Cognitive Content
1.10. Models of Bias in Extreme Decision-making from Actionable
Intelligence
1.11. Introspective Marketing Methods for Intelligence Analysis
1.12. Mobile Social Networks for Narrowly Defined Groups
1.13. Identification of Cultural Aspects of Lying and the Implications for
Intelligence Methods and Techniques
1.14. Collection and Analysis of Tribal and Water Access/Supply Issues in
Middle Eastern and African Countries
1.15. Improved Efficiencies of Ultra-high Resolution Micro-calorimeter
Gamma Ray Detectors
1.16. Forecasting Vector-borne Disease Spread: The Impact of Long-distance
Human Movement
1.17. Forecasting Emerging Infectious Diseases and Their Impact through
Phylogenetic Techniques
1.18. Portable Biofuel Factory
1.19. Accurate and Efficient Computational Modeling of Subsurface Target
Defeat Strategies via Application of Advanced High-fidelity Scalable
Finite Element Methods
1.20. A Fast Running Simulation Approach for Progressive Collapse
Assessment
1.21. Numerical Characterization of Direct Shear Behavior in Concrete
1.22. Interpersonal Dynamics in Interviewing and Interrogation
1.23. The Role of Culture in Social Influence
1.24. Methods and Techniques for Eliciting Accurate Information from
Human Sources (HUMINT)
1.25. Vulnerabilities to Misinformation Effects
1.26. Human Classification and Identification in Images Based on
Characteristics of the Hands
1.27. Investigation of Adaptive Immune Response to Understand Previous
Disease Exposure
1.28. Hyperspectral Error Chain Analysis
1.29. A Cognitive Science Approach to Geospatial Visual-analytics
1.30. Geospatial Surrogate Warning Indicators of Disease
1.31. Use of Spatio-temporal Data Mining Techniques to Elucidate Climate
Impacts
1.32. Cyber Space Derivation of Social Patterns with Respect to Stressors
1.33. Optimizing Collection Capabilities with Compressive Sensing
1.34. Usage Patterns in Vernacular Place Names
1.35. Use of Remote and Satellite Sensing to Map Areas of Groundwater
Discharge
1.36. Supervised, Multivariate Pattern Recognition in Synthetic Aperture
Radar
1.37. Memory: Reconstitution of Key Events Prior to a Major Trauma
1.38. Computational Models for Strategic Deterrence Analysis
1.39. Computational Methods for Forensic Odontology
1.40. Activity-based GeoINT Exploitation from Open Source Data
1.41. Radiation Hardening of Electronic Components for Military and
Intelligence Space Applications
1.42. Ultra High Density Optical Data Storage Medium for National
Intelligence Library Systems
1.43. An Intelligent Front-end for Searching Large Repositories of Nontraditional Data Types on Different Storage Technologies for National
Intelligence Data Repositories
1.44. Dark Current Reduction in III-V IR Detector Materials
1.45. Enabling More Effective Speaker Recognition by Identifying Intrinsic
Sources of Variance among Speakers
1.46. Theoretical Quantum Computing Proposals in Group IV
Semiconductors