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9 Crosscutting Conclusions and Recommendations and Exceptional Accomplishments
9 Crosscutting Conclusions and Recommendations and Exceptional Accomplishments
Pages 210-218
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Consistent Research Environment Multiyear research projects undergirding the development of future Army capabilities often rely on experimental tools and modeling capabilities that may require years to develop, followed by lengthy periods of data collection and analysis. Such long-term investigations are incompatible with the typical metrics used to assess research productivity and future funding, making this type of research risky for attraction, retention, and professional development of researchers.
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Enhancement of Approaches to Inform Theory To maximize useful and meaningful findings, the research needs to be approached in a systematic manner that includes the consideration of operational and environmental conditions, an understanding of interactive response to expected stimuli, and an understanding of the overall behavior of the system under consideration. ARL research efforts need to consider this broad systems research approach to develop and enhance research efforts.
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Systems Approach Every Army system needs to serve, enable, protect, and interact with the soldier within the system. Therefore, effective research assessment processes require clear articulation of the expected outcomes for each portfolio, including key technical milestones and metrics to be used for measuring progress and success, definition of an appropriate set of outcomes and metrics for each project within a research portfolio, and documenting and describing the actions resulting from the assessment process.
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Leveraging Internal Scientific Talent As research problems have evolved to include multidisciplinary interactions, there has been a concomitant growth in collaboration among researchers, both within ARL and with those from the larger external community. In this research environment, it is important to acknowledge that common foundational technical skills may exist in ARL in different campaign thrusts, where they are being applied in uniquely different ways.
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The quantum sciences program is an outstanding example of vision for a future Army need: defining specific areas that are Army-unique and are not well covered by universities or national laboratories, hiring recognized leadership and creating a well-funded, exciting program that has attracted an outstanding group of early-career scientists and postdoctoral researchers.
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In the disruptive energetics and propulsion technologies area, the following stood out as exceptional -- developing the full chain of material from theoretical conception, design synthesis, laboratory scale-up and performance (small quantity characterization) evaluation of an energetic molecule that surpasses Comp B; achieving Molecule of the Year; achieving synthesis of extended solids using a scalable method; and developing inexpensive and novel performance characterization methods for evaluation of small-scale materials.
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Impressive research leadership of this strong program has produced clear and compelling research presentation and poster materials and effective mentorship of early-career scientists. The low-power, low-frequency mobile networking program has produced innovative designs of very small antennas (1/50th wavelength in size)
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In the logistics and sustainability area, two specific successes were noted: the use of an acoustic emission sensing network to identify damage for a Blackhawk helicopter demonstrator composite section and composite damage inference via electrical impedance spectroscopy for carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites as used on General Atomic's Gray Eagle. These successes are commendable, show great promise, and need to be built upon.
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The Human Cyber Performance group within the Humans in Multiagent Systems program has demonstrated foresight into effective collaboration by its initiation of promising work in human aspects of cybersecurity utilizing the Cyber Human Integrated Modeling and Experimentation Range Army (CHIMERA) laboratory, jointly developed by ARL's Human Research and Engineering Computational and Information Sciences Directorate (CISD)
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