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.

该奖项支持召开一次会议，该会议聚集了来自各个政府部门的研究人员、教育工作者和代表，讨论在破坏非法供应网络方面面临的挑战并探索合作机会。 非法贩运从人口和毒品到人体器官和核材料等各种物品的网络对美国的健康、繁荣和安全构成了重大威胁。 它们不受国界限制，向犯罪组织输送非法利润，并助长跨国组织和恐怖组织。 2018 财年，美国国家科学基金会发布了一封致同事的信 (NSF 18-059)，征求有关创新、趋同方法的建议，以理解和减轻非法供应网络的影响。 颁发了 9 项新的早期概念探索性研究资助 (EAGER) 奖项，代表来自不同领域的 29 名研究人员，包括运筹学、社会科学、计算机科学和材料科学，重点是促进对此类非法供应网络如何运作和运作的科学理解。如何扰乱他们。 本次会议汇集了这些和其他感兴趣的研究人员，以及 NSF 项目主管和来自许多不同政府机构和联邦资助的卓越中心的代表，以培育这个新兴的研究社区。本次会议将汇集领域专家和定量研究人员，共同探索新的领域破坏和禁用非法供应网络的分析方法和工程方法。 会议第一天包括主题演讲和受赠者闪电演讲，以及关于特定非法供应网络领域（人体/器官/武器贩运；麻醉品/毒品/假冒产品贩运、金融欺诈）的同期会议。 会议第二天将包括主旨演讲人、主持的分组会议以及与该研究领域相关的主题的讨论。 这些讨论将包括来自许多其他政府机构的代表，这些机构的任务涉及拦截非法供应网络的各个方面，但在美国和国际范围内。 会议还为学生提供了参与的机会。 它将提供一个独特的论坛来交流各种利益相关者，以鼓励对这一重要社会主题的研究。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。