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2 REVIEW OF THE ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY TODAY
2 REVIEW OF THE ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY TODAY
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ARL directorate executives are responsible for implementing the Technical Program Annexes (Army Materiel Command, 1992b)
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developing the Army's Science and Technology Master Plan. Of particular importance to ARL is the fact that the ASA(RDA)
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ARL participates with other Army laboratories and engineering centers in writing planning documents such as the Army's Science and Technology Master Plan, which is the strategic plan for the Army's science and technology program. It is based on the leadership's vision of the future Army, as constrained by realistic funding limits.
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As experienced by many government laboratories and engineering centers, ARL suffers undue constraints on management, restrictions on hiring and promotion, unresponsive procurement systems, and reductions in personnel and funding. Unless corrected directly with administrative changes or indirectly with an organizational or management structure change (e.g., a
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. Many personnel reforms permitted by the Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act of 1990 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 have not yet been implemented (Army Laboratory Command, 1991~.
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scientists and engineers to 800. The Naval Research Laboratory credits its high levels of Ph.D.s to its innovative personnel office (which is highly sensitive to the special needs of 6 The large SES pay raise in 1991 encouraged SESs to stay in service until 1994 in order to maximize retirement pay, since it is based on a percentage of the average of the last three years of salaries.
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AMC recognizes this problem and has taken actions to attract highly qualified scientists and engineers, but AMC's hiring freeze and the Army's mandated personnel and budget cuts have limited the success of innovative recruitment efforts. An AMC-wide hiring freeze over the past two years has prevented ARL from hiring the young scientists and engineers that might bring the knowledge and the quality that ARL needs.
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The reasons why the Lab Demo initiatives have not been fully implemented at ARL could not be determined by the committee. In addition, the committee believes that some of the personnel management decisions of the Defense Management Review Decisions waif make a bad situation worse.
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Institutional Funding 50 Options for the Army Research Laboratory ARL would receive 50% of AMC's 6.2 funding. ARO would receive 17% of AMC's 6.1 funding.
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o Army Research Office 56.8 43/29 o Army Research Laboratory32.324/16 170.2 32/24 AMC Research,43.133/22 354.3 68/49 Development and Engineering Centers AMC Total132.2/67 Army Research Institute for3.7/02 Behavioral Sciences 524.5 /73 13.6 /02 The Surgeon General 49.7/2591.2 /13 The Corps of Engineers 10.9/0678.2 /11 Program Executive Office 09.4 /01 for Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Total Army 196.5 716.9
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, ARL is somewhat less limited, but it cannot contract out more than 30 percent of its work. Such restrictions were established to maintain an internal capability to conduct basic research and exploratory development, but do not provide ARL the flexibility to provide its customers the best research and technology available internally or externally.
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. ARL held an ARL Technology Opportunities Conference in October 1992, which brought together 600 bench-level ARL scientists and engineers, RDEC personnel, and representatives of TRADOC's battle labs for discussions of technologies and user needs.
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The team that developed the fuse for the Patriot air defense missile's new antitheater ballistic missile capability, in the buildup to Operation Desert Storm, was able to continue its involvement through the war, perfect the fuse, and get it to production for use in limited numbers against Iraqi Scud missiles. The team was able to do this only because in war the bureaucratic lines break down.
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The federal laboratory can grant these collaborating parties patent licenses or assignments in inventions made by federal employees under the agreements; and permit federal employees or former employees to participate in commercializing any resulting inventions. The federal partner receives a royalty-free, nonexclusive license to any copyrights or inventions.
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The Army has therefore embraced the methods of total quality management, and has begun development of its own program, called Total Army Quality. This program is beginning to identity measurable standards for gauging progress (Army Research Laboratory, 1993b)
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an expected activity throughout ARL; examine the potential of business process engineering; train at least two people as experts in the methods of Total Army Quality; and · expand employee quality survey participation to at least half of ABLE employees. However, the total quality management approach of emphasizing quantitative measurement of multiple tangible inputs and outputs is not always suited to R&D organizations.
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Regardless of the option chosen, carrying out these recommendations fully and quickly would give the Army Research Laboratory a more secure and unique mission, as the premier Army materiel laboratory.
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1992a. Charter for Army Materiel Command Board of Directors.
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Porter, Director, Mounted Battlespace Battle Lab, U.S. Army Armor Center, to the ARL option panel, Committee on Alternative Futures for the Army Research Laboratory, at Ft.
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1989. Holding the Edge: Maintaining the Defense Technology Base.
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