Conference and Grantee's Meeting: Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks; Arlington, Virginia; 27-28 March 2023

非法贩运从人口和毒品到人体器官和核材料的网络对美国的健康、繁荣和安全构成重大威胁。该奖项支持一个会议和受赠者会议，召集由NSF的非法供应网络（D-ISN）倡议，其他感兴趣的研究人员和教育工作者，以及来自各种政府部门的代表支持的研究人员和教育工作者，分享研究成果，并探索在研究各种非法供应网络方面的合作机会。NSF的D-ISN计划支持来自不同领域的调查人员团队，包括运筹学，社会科学和计算机科学，专注于推进对此类非法供应网络如何运作以及如何破坏它们的科学理解。本次会议将汇集这些和其他感兴趣的研究人员，沿着NSF项目负责人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。会议将汇集领域专家和定量研究人员，探索新的分析方法和工程方法，以破坏和禁用非法供应网络。会议包括主旨发言和受赠方海报会议，以及关于特定非法供应网络领域（贩运人口/器官/武器;贩运麻醉品/毒品/假冒产品、金融欺诈等）的分组会议。将有足够的网络机会支持和其他感兴趣的研究人员讨论与此研究主题相关的主题。这些讨论将包括来自许多美国和外国机构的代表，他们的任务涉及侦查和拦截非法供应网络的各个方面，开始将学术研究转化为翻译。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Networks that illegally traffic in everything from people and drugs to human organs and nuclear material pose significant threats to US health, prosperity and security. This award supports a conference and grantees' meeting that convenes researchers and educators supported by NSF's Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks (D-ISN) initiative, other interested researchers and educators, and representatives from a variety of government sectors to share research outcomes and explore opportunities for collaboration in studying a variety of illicit supply networks. NSF's D-ISN initiative supports teams of investigators from diverse fields, including operations research, the social sciences, and computer 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. The conference includes keynotes and grantee poster sessions, as well as facilitated breakout sessions on specific illicit supply network domains (human/organ/arms trafficking; narcotics/drugs/counterfeit products trafficking, financial fraud, among others). There will be ample networking opportunities for supported and other interested researchers to discuss topics related to this research theme. These discussions will include representatives from many US and foreign agencies whose missions involve various aspects of detection and interdiction of illicit supply networks to begin to move academic research into translation. The conference also provides opportunities for student involvement.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.