- Analysis, modeling and simulation of individual defense systems, families-of-systems and system-of-systems architectures to quantify capabilities, limitations, anticipated performance and cost-effectiveness
- Basic and applied research, design, development and prototyping of advanced systems engineering tools and frameworks
- Human systems integration and performance analysis & modeling
- Basic and applied research, design, development and prototyping of high performance computing architectures and optimization tools for complex systems modeling, simulation & performance analysis
- Basic and applied research, design, development and prototyping of open architectures for software and hardware applications
- Basic and applied research in aerodynamics and flow control, aeroacoustics and computational aeroelasticity
- Analysis, modeling and simulation of energy systems and advanced alternative energy and storage technologies
