Chicago, IL
Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory  – ARL South
Description: ARL regional sites create strong, enduring S&T partnerships–working together to solve the Army’s current and future challenges. ARL regional sites leverage regional expertise and facilities to accelerate the operationalizing of science for transformational overmatch.
Technical Focus Areas: High Performance Computing, Impact Physics, Machine Learning / Data Analytics, Materials and Manufacturing, Power and Energy, Propulsion Science, Quantum Science
Registration: rolling basis

Champaign, IL
Site: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
Description: Under the guidance of mentors, you will conduct research alongside staff and primary researchers. Through your participation in the AEOP program at ERDC laboratories, you will be introduced to a real-world laboratory environment as well as modern research technologies and techniques. This experience will inspire you to continue to pursue STEM disciplines as a career pursuit. 
Research Areas Include: military installation and contingency bases sustainability, enhancing socio-cultural understanding in theater operations, improving civil work facilities and infrastructure, resilient facilities and infrastructure, smart sustainable materials, installation decision support and Urban and Stability Operations. 
Registration: rolling basis

Adelphi, MD
Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory  – ARL Adelphi Laboratory Center
Description: DEVCOM ARL seeks to remain at the forefront of executing the highest-quality research possible, building leaders in the scientific community, setting a bold Army-relevant science agenda and pushing beyond existing boundaries in search of new ideas. ARL fully integrates our internal and external foundational research efforts to shape future concepts with scientific research and knowledge, and deliver technology for modernization solutions to win in the future operating environment.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command  – Adelphi Laboratory Center- Data Scientist/Machine Learning for Recommender
Description: This opportunity is focused on information management research and development using the latest machine learning techniques. As a Data Scientist/Machine Learning Researcher, your primary responsibility will be to support the design and development of ML applications that align with the objectives of ARL’s Military Information Sciences. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams across the country to develop the ML algorithm to advance Army’s future capabilities.

You will be selected based on the following qualifications: • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think creatively to overcome technical challenges. • Outstanding communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a research-driven team environment. • Experience in developing AR/VR/XR and applications for various XR devices. • Experience in conducting user studies, usability testing, and data analysis to inform design decisions and research outcomes.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – Adelphi Laboratory Center -Heterogeneous and Low Probability of Detection Wireless Networks
Description: Summer interns are sought to support projects focusing on intelligent heterogeneous networks which have been shown to have the potential for enhancing the resilience and security of wireless communications networks by intelligently and adaptively exploiting multiple communications technologies operating at different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum (i.e., low-frequency RF to Optical). The interns will work closely with ARL researchers on a variety of research tasks including theory, analysis, and modeling, as well as experimental research.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – Adelphi Laboratory Center- Human-AI Collaboration Experimentation
Description: Interns will run human-subjects experiments to understand how to configure and plan human-AI collaboration for optimal performance and subjective outcomes.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – Adelphi Laboratory Center- Human-Guided System Adaptation
Description: This project addresses the rapid evolution of military and civilian AI technologies. It will develop methodologies allowing Soldiers to guide the adaptation of these technologies effectively. This includes creating interfaces and protocols for Soldiers to interact with and steer the development of intelligent systems, ensuring that these technologies remain relevant, useful, and upgradable in rapidly changing combat environments.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – Adelphi Laboratory Center – Meta-optics for photonic integrated circuits
Description: The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory serves as the fundamental research facility for the U.S. Army. During this summer project, student researchers will gain the chance to engage in numerical modeling and experimental characterization of nanometer-scale structures for applications in photonic integrated circuits.
Registration: rolling basis

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory  – ARL Aberdeen Proving Ground
Description: The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory is the Army’s research laboratory strategically placed under the Army Futures Command. ARL is the Army’s sole foundational research laboratory focused on cutting-edge scientific discovery, technological innovation, and transitioning capabilities for the future Army.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (Aberdeen Proving Ground (Edgewood Area)
Description: The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center) is the primary Department of Defense technical organization for non-medical chemical and biological defense.

DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center (CBC) has a unique role in technology development that cannot be duplicated by private industry or research universities. It fosters research, development, testing, and application of technologies for protecting warfighters, first responders and the nation from chemical and biological warfare agents. DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center is currently developing better ways to remotely detect these chemical and biological materials – before the warfighter or first responder ever enters the threat zone. DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center is also developing a new generation of technologies to counter everything from homemade explosives to biological aerosols to traditional and non-traditional chemical hazards.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command-Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD- Bi-Directional Adaptation
Description: This project aims to revolutionize communication between Soldiers and systems, going beyond traditional methods. By focusing on real-time multimodal interactions, it will explore innovative solutions for team-level trust calibration, cohesive team dynamics, dynamic information presentation, and optimizing human-system performance in real-time. This will involve researching and developing technologies that enable Soldiers to communicate with systems as naturally and efficiently as they do with fellow humans, utilizing speech, gestures, and other forms of body language. Army Research DirectorateCompetency: Human In Complex Systems. 
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command-Aberdeen Proving Grounds Composites with Tunable Thermal Properties
Description: Controlling heat flow in composite materials is of fundamental interest. In this project, the student will design, fabricate and test fiber-reinforced composite materials (e.g., carbon fiber with a polymer matrix) and explore methods of significantly changing the material’s thermal properties (i.e., thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity, thermal contact resistances). Students majoring in engineering, chemistry, physics or materials science are ideal for this project.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command-Aberdeen Proving Grounds Estimating and Predicting Human Behavior
Description: Focusing on the variability of human behavior within complex systems, this project will develop techniques to sense, interpret, and predict change in human states such as stress, fatigue, and intent. By understanding these human elements, the project aims to adapt technologies more effectively and infer the operational environment contexts, thus enabling intelligent systems to better comprehend and collaborate with their human counterparts.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command-Aberdeen Proving Grounds – GNC Research with the Julia Programming Language
Description: The Julia programming language aims to solve the “two-language” problem by being as easy to write as python and as fast to run as C. However, it is not widely used in guidance navigation and controls (GNC) communities. Transitioning work in flight simulation, control theory, state estimation, image-based navigation, reinforcement learning, and other areas goes far beyond syntax differences. We’re looking for candidates with strong coding and problem-solving skills to help us figure out how to do GNC research with this new tool.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command-Aberdeen Proving Grounds – Human-System Teaming
Description: This project seeks to understand and leverage dynamic interactions within human-system teams. It will develop principles for effective collaboration between Soldiers and intelligent systems, focusing on emergent team properties, variability in performance, shared situational understanding, and dynamic task allocation. Special emphasis will be on adapting to changing conditions, such as loss of capabilities, shifting goals, and adversarial interference.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command-Aberdeen Proving Grounds -Hybrid Human-Technology Intelligence
Description: The focus here is on anti-disciplinary research to enhance human-system teams in multi-domain operations. This involves pioneering hybrid approaches that integrate human cognitive capabilities with advanced technology. The project will study the bottlenecks in human cognition, develop technological solutions to overcome these, and explore new methods to leverage human neural processing for creating or enhancing intelligence within human-system teams.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command-Aberdeen Proving Grounds- Injury Biomechanics
Description: The position involves developing experimental procedures, analysis techniques, and advanced modeling approaches in a greater effort to measure, understand, or predict the biomechanics of biological tissue in high-rate impact scenarios. The work performed in this position will support a larger effort to improve computational human body models designed for simulating impact events by contributing to more biofidelic constituent materials and models and reproducing more realistic loading conditions.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command-Aberdeen Proving Grounds- Machine Learning for Security and Security for Machine Learning
Description: Machine Learning has become an integral part of many domains (e.g., image analysis, networking protocols, network security, etc.), resulting in increased integration of ML into cyber defense tools. One way in which adversaries have responded is by perturbing inputs to cause misclassification to achieve their objective. This type of attack is known as adversarial machine learning (AML). Cybersecurity-related defenses to AML should strive to defend against unseen attacks and not require constant updating based on newly discovered attacks. Increasingly, supervised learning relies on a significant amount of labeled data to perform supervised learning. To avoid the requirements of a significant amount of labeled data, it is necessary to innovate self-supervised methodologies in a resource-constrained domain for network communications in the cyber domain. In the network/communications domain, machine learning-based classifiers are generally trained within a closed environment. Specifically, datasets used for training and evaluation are static and do not vary. Conversely, network environments are dynamic over time. Adversaries’ attacks become more sophisticated and change in response to defenders’ actions, requiring a defender to retrain a classifier to reflect the new attacks in the intended environment for deployment. This research seeks to address key research questions, such as: • How do we design ML for cyber classifiers using a limited amount of data in a resource-constrained environment? • How do we innovate network communication classifiers that are adversarial resilient?”
Registration: rolling basis

Silver Spring, MD
Site: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Description: WRAIR provides unique research capabilities and innovative medical solutions to a range of Force Health Protection and Readiness challenges currently facing U.S. Service Members, along with threats anticipated during future operations.

Through both times of peace and war, infectious diseases have killed, sickened, and disabled far more Service Members than bombs and bullets. WRAIR has created a model of vaccine and therapeutic development that is unique, nimble, and responsive to dynamically evolving infectious disease threats of military importance. WRAIR, with its unparalleled expertise, facilities, and international network, has developed many vaccines and drugs in use today by military and civilian medicine around the globe.
Registration: rolling basis

Boston, MA
Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory  – ARL Northeast
Description: ARL regional sites create strong, enduring S&T partnerships–working together to solve the Army’s current and future challenges. ARL regional sites leverage regional expertise and facilities to accelerate the operationalizing of science for transformational overmatch.
Technical Focus Areas: Materials & Manufacturing Sciences, Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Systems, Cyber & Secured Comms at the Tactical Edge
Registration: rolling basis

Picatinny, NJ
Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center
Description: Interns will get world-class leadership in engineering, science excellence, quality and innovation, and we are relied upon to objectively evaluate armament solutions so that we know our true progress and how it relates to our adversaries.
Registration: rolling basis

White Sands, NM
Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Analysis Center
Description: The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (DEVCOM-ARL), as an integral part of the Army Futures Command, is the U.S Army’s foundational research laboratory that has the mission of operationalizing science. The DEVCOM-ARL mission essential task of foundational research has the objective to conduct research and reconnaissance to inform future Army science, technology, and engineering and invest in areas that ensure overmatch.
Registration: rolling basis

West Point, NY
Site: U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Description: At West Point, intern research is organized and executed through centers and institutes. These centers and institutes, along with the Academic Research Division provide the infrastructure necessary to tackle the Army and nation’s most challenging problems. Ongoing research is focused on solving current and future Army challenges using a diverse, interdisciplinary team of experts.
Registration: rolling basis

Site: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory  – ARL South (South, Austin/San Antonio/College Station)
Description: ARL regional sites create strong, enduring S&T partnerships–working together to solve the Army’s current and future challenges. ARL regional sites leverage regional expertise and facilities to accelerate the operationalizing of science for transformational overmatch.
Technical Focus Areas: AI/ML for Autonomy, Energy/Power, Cybersecurity, Bio, Materials & Manufacturing. 
Registration: rolling basis