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within Materials Research: biological and bioinspired materials, energy and power materials, and engineered photonics materials; (2) within Sciences for Lethality and Protection: battlefield injury mechanisms, directed energy, and armor and adaptive protection; (3)
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Overall these are all outstanding accomplishments and mark an advance over prior years. MATERIALS RESEARCH ARL's materials sciences efforts span the spectrum of technology maturity as they address Army applications, working from the state of the art to the art of the possible -- "25 years out," according to the ARL.
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A long-term vision for the battlefield injury mechanisms projects could have a philosophy to guide resource allocation and program direction. Almost all the battlefield mechanisms, human responses, and human protective equipment research topics presented had a combination of computational and experimental approaches, but the real-time interplay of experiment and computation is needed.
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A focused ARL DE program would benefit from a systems-level study addressing future Army missions in which DE could play a role and where DE effectiveness and alternatives to DE are traded off. A highlight of the overall program in DE is the project on adaptive and scalable high-power phase-locked-fiber laser arrays.
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In this context, research described as dynamic belief fusion allocates probabilities to sensor information based on prior performance and has shown an improvement in detection accuracy over conventional fusion methods. Radar signal processing work was of good technical quality and showed promising results.
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This is very high quality work with near-term applications. COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES In the research portfolio under computational sciences, projects in the broad categories of advanced computing architectures, computing sciences, data-intensive sciences, and predictive simulation sciences were reviewed.
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Its research approach provides a new method for characterizing spallation. The work related to the visual simulation laboratory focuses the use of a visualization-based framework to allow users to steer a multiresolution PDE simulation.
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HUMAN SCIENCES The elements of human sciences that were assessed were humans in multiagent systems, realworld behavior, and human variability. A component of the Assessment and Analysis campaign portfolio on assessing mission capabilities of systems was also reviewed.
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This description should include information on the project conception and initiation, project planning and scope, project performance and control, and project life cycle and should identify the percentage of each researcher's time allocated to the project, facilities and equipment required to support the work, and the inception date and anticipated completion milestone or termination date of the project. By referring to the portfolio description, ARL should provide to the review panels for each campaign answers to the following questions: (1)
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Facilities and Equipment Recommendation 3. ARL should work to complete formulation of 5-, 10-, 15-, and 20-year strategic plans linked to the technical goals for staffing, facilities, and capital equipment, and should present the plans to the panels during the 2016 reviews.
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