OU will expand its role as a national asset for defense-relevant research, workforce development, and rapid innovation.
Aerospace and Defense Systems: advanced flight systems, autonomy, and guidance
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing: aerospace materials, composites, coatings, metals for additive manufacturing, rapid qualification, and in-situ property prediction
Embedded Software & Cybersecurity: secure embedded systems, cyber-physical resilience, and trusted computing
Quantum Sensing and Advanced Sensing: Radio frequency/optical, quantum-enabled intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and sensing platforms
AI for Defense Applications: mission-driven AI, perception, decision support, and multi-modal data fusion
Defense Policy and Strategy: policy faculty bridging technology, security, and national readiness
The University of Oklahoma and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with the Air Force Sustainment Center, Air Force Research Laboratory and the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, will launch Phase II of a groundbreaking additive manufacturing research program to revolutionize how the military maintains and modernizes legacy weapon systems.
Sarah Sharif, a researcher with the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to create innovative light detectors that pick up mid-wave and long-wave infrared signals at higher temperatures than previously considered achievable.
Song Fang, a professor in the School of Computer Science, has been awarded funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation to create training-free detection methods and novel countermeasures to protect sensitive information from emerging wireless eavesdropping techniques.
The University of Oklahoma and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Department of Energy’s largest multi-program science and energy laboratory, have entered a strategic collaboration to establish a cutting-edge additive manufacturing center based in Norman, OK.
