2007-2008 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory (2009) / Chapter Skim
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The Board is charged to review the work of ARL's six directorates but not to review two key elements of the ARL organization that manage and support basic research: the Army Research Office and the Collaborative Technology Alliances (CTAs)
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The assessment panels engaged in many constructive interactions with ARL staff during their annual site visits in 2007 and 2008. In addition, useful collegial exchanges took place between panel members and individual ARL investigators at outside meetings as ARL staff members sought additional clarification about panel comments or questions and drew on panel members' contacts and sources of information.
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In addition, several panel members attended the 2007 and 2008 symposia that highlighted progress among ARL's Collaborative Technology Alliances, and selected CTA projects performed by ARL researchers were presented during panel meetings. Assessment Criteria Within the general framework described above, the Board developed and the panels applied detailed assessment criteria organized in the following six categories (Appendix C presents the complete set of assessment criteria)
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The Board and its panels reviewed selected examples of the standards and measurements activities and the technological research presented by ARL; it was not possible to review all ARL programs and projects exhaustively. The Board's goal was to identify and report salient examples of accomplishments and opportunities for further improvement with respect to the technical merit of the ARL work, its perceived relevance to ARL's definition of its mission, and apparent specific elements of the ARL resource infrastructure that is intended to support the technical work.
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Advanced Computing ARL's Strategic Technology Initiative in Advanced Computing gives clear indication that ARL views high-performance computing as a critical technology driven by requirements from a variety of applications, including armor and armaments, atmospheric modeling, aerodynamics, and computational biology, across multiple directorates. In addition, ARL's strategic plans include attention to petascale computing and to the investigation of software developments that will be needed to take advantage of potential applications of advanced computing.
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ARL should develop advanced cognitive performance models to form the basis for hypotheses to be tested and to relate various neurological measurements to the prediction of human performance capabilities and mental workload. Information Fusion One of the most important new technology processes to emerge over the past few years is information fusion, or knowledge discovery, whereby disparate pieces of data are combined to yield higher-level knowledge, or information, that becomes actionable intelligence when presented in a sufficiently concise form and at the right time.
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System Prototyping and Model Verification and Validation A continuing challenge for ARL is to ensure that appropriate verification and validation activities -- validating that models developed during research programs actually reflect reality and verifying that the codes or systems that are supposedly constructed to match are in fact correct implementations of the models -- are applied to projects whose results rely heavily on models. ARL should continue to explore carefully opportunities to exploit its high-performance computer and model resources for applications such as the following: hardware prototyping, predictive performance modeling of systems, and verification and validation of multiscale analysis and forecast models, for use in areas such as battlefield weather and the HRED-Improved Performance Research Integration Tool (IMPRINT)
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In response, ARL and ARO presented to each panel summaries of those 6.1 programs that ARO sponsors which are relevant to the ARL work reviewed by the given panel. The level of ARO collaboration varies across the directorates; in general, ARO demonstrated increasing attention to such collaboration, and the Board looks forward to continuing improvements in ARO's cognizance and support of the missions of the directorates.
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