Research and respond to Technical Inquiries (TIs) on topics interrelated to any mixture of IAC's chartered focus areas: Software Data & Analysis; Cyber Security; Modeling & Simulation; Knowledge Management & Information Sharing; Advanced Materials; Autonomous Systems; Directed Energy; Energetics; Military Sensing; Non-Lethal Weapons; Reliability, Maintainability, Quality, Supportability, Interoperability (RMQSI); Survivability and Vulnerability; Weapon Systems; Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR); Homeland Defense & Security; Critical Infrastructure Protection; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Defense; Biometrics; Medical; Cultural Studies; and Alternative Energy. They have also contributed their expertise to other vital national defense programs and technologies that involve survivability, cybersecurity, information technology/management, software engineering, unmanned aerial systems (UASs), and metrology/reverse engineering.