Assessment of the Information Sciences Directorate at the Army Research Office (2019) / Chapter Skim
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The panel's review was guided by the following statement of task provided by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: An ad hoc committee to be named the Panel on Review of Extramural Basic Research at the Army Research Laboratory, to be overseen by the Laboratory Assessments Board (LAB) of the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, will be appointed to provide annual assessments of the Army Research Office (ARO)
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ARO program managers engage in an interactive process with proposers to mature ideas into projects through discussion, white papers, and the Short-Term Innovative Research program. ARO program managers are hands-on managers of their projects; this may be a function of the process whereby program managers work with potential proposers (which NSF does not generally do)
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Across the division, program managers are actively seeking emerging developments in relevant scientific fields that can help move their programs forward in useful ways, as well as working to capitalize on recent major scientific advances. It is important that the program managers continue to seek ripe opportunities at the gaps between major fields (e.g., self-organizing biological network structures for applications in medicine)
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The directorate follows a system of establishing personal connections between the program managers and their PIs; this almost amounts to collaboration. This system is effective, but it runs the risk that research foci might not change on appropriate time scales and that promising alternative approaches to problems might be missed if they fall outside the knowledge and experience base of the program managers.
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The program managers in the Information Sciences Directorate evinced varying levels of engagement with other DoD research, development, and funding agencies such as the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DARPA, and other elements within the Army, such as the Research, Development, and Engineering Centers. Such engagement is important for the maintenance of shared situational awareness and is a key enabler for ARO to continue to "outpunch its weight." Recommendation 6: Program managers within the Information Sciences Directorate should maintain and seek to expand their engagement with other Department of Defense funding agencies such as the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and other elements within the Army.
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How, specifically, does the project address one or more critical challenges that the Army of the future will face?
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