Conference and Grantee's Meeting: Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks; Arlington, Virginia; February 4-5, 2019

会议和受资助者会议：扰乱非法供应网络的运作；

• 批准号: 1906097
• 负责人: Naoru Koizumi
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-01 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1906097&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Grantee; Meeting; Disrupting; Operations

This award supports a conference that convenes researchers, educators, and representatives from a variety of government sectors to discuss challenges and explore opportunities for collaboration in disrupting illicit supply networks. Networks that illegally traffic in everything from people and drugs to human organs and nuclear material pose significant threats to U.S. health, prosperity and security. Unencumbered by national boundaries, they funnel illicit profits to criminal organizations, and fuel transnational and terrorist organizations. In FY2018, the National Science Foundation issued a Dear Colleague Letter (NSF 18-059) that solicited proposals for innovative, convergent approaches to understanding and mitigating the effects of illicit supply networks. Nine new EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) awards were made, representing 29 investigators from diverse fields, including operations research, the social sciences, computer science and materials science focused on advancing the scientific understanding of how such illicit supply networks function and how to disrupt them. This conference brings together these and other interested researchers, along with NSF program directors and representatives from many different governmental agencies and federally-sponsored Centers of Excellence, to nurture this emerging research community.The conference will bring together domain experts and quantitative researchers to explore new analytical approaches and engineering methods to disrupt and disable illicit supply networks. Day 1 of the conference includes keynotes and grantee lightening talks, as well as concurrent sessions on specific illicit supply network domains (human/organ/arms trafficking; narcotics/drugs/counterfeit products trafficking, financial fraud). Day 2 of the conference will include a keynote speaker, facilitated breakout sessions and discussion on topics related to this research area. These discussions will include representatives from a host of other government agencies whose missions involve various aspects of interdicting illicit supply networks but in the US and internationally. The conference also provides opportunities for student involvement. It will provide a unique forum to commune a variety of stakeholders to encourage research on this important societal topic.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持一场会议，该会议召集了来自各个政府部门的研究人员，教育工作者和代表，讨论挑战并探讨破坏非法供应网络的合作机会。 从人和毒品到人体器官和核材料的所有事物的网络对美国的健康，繁荣和安全构成了重大威胁。 他们不受国家边界的束缚，向犯罪组织筹集了非法利润，并助长了跨国和恐怖组织。 在2018财年，国家科学基金会发布了一封亲爱的同事信（NSF 18-059），该信征求了有关创新的，融合的方法，以理解和减轻非法供应网络的影响。 获得了九项新的探索性研究（急切）奖励的新的早期概念赠款，代表了来自不同领域的29名调查人员，包括运营研究，社会科学，计算机科学和材料科学，重点是促进对这种非法供应网络如何运作以及如何破坏它们的科学理解。 这次会议将这些和其他感兴趣的研究人员以及来自许多不同政府机构和联邦政府赞助的卓越中心的NSF计划董事以及代表汇集在一起​​，以培养这个新兴的研究社区。会议将召集域专家和定量研究人员，以探索新的分析方法和工程方法，以破坏和销售非法供应网络。 会议的第1天包括主题演讲和受赠人的降低谈判，以及有关特定非法供应网络领域的同时会议（人/器官/武器贩运；麻醉品/药物/伪造产品贩运，金融欺诈）。 会议的第2天将包括一个主题演讲者，促进与该研究领域相关的主题的促进突破性会议和讨论。 这些讨论将包括来自许多其他政府机构的代表，这些代表涉及封锁非法供应网络但在美国和国际上的各个方面。 会议还为学生参与提供了机会。 它将提供一个独特的论坛来交流各种利益相关者，以鼓励对这个重要的社会主题进行研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持的。