2013-2014 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory (2015) / Chapter Skim
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7 Crosscutting Findings and Recommendations
7 Crosscutting Findings and Recommendations
Pages 157-162
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ARL clearly desires to enhance its capability to innovate, and the DRI projects are a step forward with potential to shift the technical focus of ARL toward the innovative edge. Disruptive innovations with implications for military threats and capabilities appear more likely to come at the complex intersections of traditional scientific domains rather than at their center.
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While it is clear that the sequestration of government funding and travel restrictions have negatively affected staff interactions with the outside R&D community, the long-term curtailment of such interactions will have an even more significant adverse impact. Lack of interactions normally fostered through conferences and professional associations will negatively impact both collaborative programmatic efforts and maintenance of an edge in ARL's areas of expertise.
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Effective mentoring should include engagement in selecting research directions, facilitating communication with research peers, guidance on service and committee assignments in technical societies, and enhancing career development.
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OPEN CAMPUS CONCEPT The open campus initiative3 is a strategy intended to widen ARL's presence in the broader community and to elevate ARL's national and international stature. This laudable initiative serves to facilitate interaction and enhance collaboration with the scientific community; spark new ideas through the influx of information from the scientific community; attract and retain high-caliber scientists and engineers; offer students research opportunities with the possibility of future employment; energize ARL researchers by providing new research opportunities in other laboratories; and nurture a technology transfer environment where researchers can directly or indirectly transition research to useful products.
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ARL is the world leader in QWIP technology. To support development of lightweight, quiet, efficient, and reliable power sources for Army applications to enhance soldier combat capability, the project on fuel cells for military applications tests and evaluates commercial technologies -- namely, direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC)
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Large-amplitude motions are being created at the micron scale using integrated actuators, structures, and electronics, cofabricated on silicon. In the atmospheric sciences, the development of a laser-based tool for capturing, holding, and analyzing an individual aerosol or dust particle adds a unique ability to monitor changes in particle morphology, chemical composition, and optical properties under changing atmospheric conditions.
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