The City College of New York

AFRL ML-RCP Partner Institution Strengths & Capabilities

 

 Contact Information

Name: Rosemarie Wesson

Title: Interim Associate Provost for Research

Email: rwesson@ccny.cuny.edu

 

Research

1. Please select the research areas in which your institution currently engages:

a. Structural materials

b. Radio frequency sensing

c. Aerospace vehicles

d. Bio effects

e. Functional materials & applications

f.  Manufacturing technology

g. Electro-optical sensing

   h.     Layered sending exploitation & enabling sensor devices/components

i.  Control, power, & thermal management systems

j.  Turbine engines

k. Human centered intelligence surveillance & reconnaissance

l.  Training & decision making


2. Of these areas of research, please provide a faculty contact for each area.

Given multiple faculty may be involved in one research area, we prefer that the Office of Research at CCNY to be the single POC for any inquiries to facilitate the collaboration.

3. Please note, in detail, any research areas of strength not listed above. This may include fundamental sciences (e.g. math, physics, biology, etc.). Please provide a faculty contact for each area.

Given multiple faculty may be involved in one research area, we prefer that the Office of Research at CCNY to be the single POC for any inquiries to facilitate the collaboration.

4. Are there any emerging areas of research your institution is actively seeking to develop? If available, please provide a faculty contact for each area.

Given multiple faculty may be involved in one research area, we prefer that the Office of Research at CCNY to be the single POC for any inquiries to facilitate the collaboration.

5. Does your institution have any internal research centers or participate in any research consortia? If so, please describe briefly and if possible include the URL. Please provide a faculty contact for each center.

Yes. CUNY is home to more than 100 research centers, institutes and consortia, which provide research opportunities for faculty and students, employment, internships, and special events. These centers focus their efforts on a wide range of areas, including aging, applied sciences, corporate integrity, transportation systems, ethnic studies, performing arts, sustainable energy and urban studies, to name a few. 

CCNY-affiliated ones can be found at https://www.cuny.edu/about/centers-and-institutes/

6. Please provide a list of relevant facilities and equipment.

We have attached two facilities-resources documents associated with our CUNY facilities, and links to lists of core facilities at various CUNY sites:

1. CUNY School of Medicine (CSOM) and CCNY Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI), both on CCNY Campus Ground:

https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/csom/facilities-other-resources

2. CCNY Division of Science (DOS, on CCNY Campus Ground):

https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/science/ccny-core-facilities

3. CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC, on CCNY Campus Ground):

https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/facilities/

7. Does your institution have a relationship with any other academic institution or research organization(s) that enables your access to their facilities and equipment? If so, please note the name(s) of the partners and nature of the access.

Office of the General Counsel (OGC) at the Central Office of CUNY enters facility use agreements with various institutions and research organizations on behalf of the CUNY system or specific CUNY campuses that enables CUNY community to access facilities and equipment at these collaborators’ sites.  For example, CCNY has ongoing relationship with FermiLab and Brookhaven National Labs.  At the same time, CUNY facilities are also shared within CUNY and with other non-CUNY entities.

8. Has your institution collaborated with Department of Defense in the past?

Yes, most of the branches, including ARO, ONR, and AFOSR.

9. Is your institution involved in any federal STEM funding efforts?

Yes, CCNY annual research expenditures was 52.7 million dollars in the 2019 NSF Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD) and was ranked #199 in the nation.  In FY21, CCNY received 59 million in total funding, including 35 million from various federal agencies, mostly in the STEM research.

10. This program requires documentation (i.e. theses, dissertation, presentations, etc.) to go through the AFRL public affairs review process. Would this present a challenge for your institution?

CCNY is familiar with ITAR regulations and other publication review process by the federal agencies before publish. This would not be an issue to CCNY, as long as the process takes reasonable time for the review to complete.

 

Research Administration and Compliance

11. Is your institution registered with the US State Department Directorate of Defense Trade Controls?

Yes, under CUNY

12. Does your institution currently perform Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI/ NIST 800-171 compliant) research?

Yes

13. Does your institution currently perform research subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations?

Yes

14. Does your institution have a DoD Facility Security Clearance (FCL)?  

No

ML-RCP Program Expectations

15. The objective of the AFRL ML-RCP is to enable and enhance the research capabilities of the HBCU’s/MSIs through collaborative research efforts with AFRL. What would be necessary for you to receive to meet this objective? 

A. Enable frequent opportunities for AFRL program managers to visit (in-person if possible in the future, virtual under current pandemic situation) CCNY and interact with our faculty and researchers so that they can have a far better understanding about our research activities, capabilities and capacities. 

B. ML-RCP may consider to provide travel grants for CCNY faculty members and researchers to visit onsite, or short term onsite research opportunities.  We understand that Air Force already have a faculty summer program allowing so.  But the opportunity is limited and does not offer non-faculty members the opportunity.  It would be great to leverage ML-RCP to offer students, postdocs, research associates, and more faculty to be onsite for short-term visit/collaborative research.

C. Facilitate our research community the access to AFRL/DOD major facilities and equipment/resources, such as HPC clusters, wind tunnels and other.

D. Regular webinars on AFRL research focus areas to member institutions.