2015-2016 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory Interim Report (2016) / Chapter Skim
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8 Crosscutting Conclusions and Recommendations and Exceptional Accomplishments
8 Crosscutting Conclusions and Recommendations and Exceptional Accomplishments
Pages 89-98
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Nurturing the research staff, tenured and early-career, requires a continuing effort. In this uncertain funding environment and the fast-moving global technological landscape, productivity is another essential element of institutional success.
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Such a rationale would include identification of how ARL expects to lead in a limited set of areas while watching and leveraging in others; how the chosen research focuses would enable ARL to be perceived by customers, peers, competitors, potential recruits, and its own scientists and engineers as an unparalleled provider of value in each of the niches in which it executes its program. Defining the rationale for leadership in a research niche could include such considerations as anticipated Army needs for such technological superiority and the feasibility of accomplishing them, cutting-edge facilities, ability to be agile and proactive in response to domain dynamics, acknowledged competency by peers and competitors, likelihood of effective transfer and transition; and capability for effective leverage and collaboration.
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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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A salient example of inadequate face validity is the selection of nonmilitary human subjects for study in human science experiments purported to yield results and conclusions generalizable to the military population. It is suggested that ARL survey communities in academia, industry, and other government agencies establish strategic baselines for investments in interdisciplinary areas.
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. The research on structural batteries using additive manufacturing combines novel fabrication methods with insight selection of compatible multifunctional elements that combine structural components with energy storage components.
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The development of a threaded message-passing interface for reduced instruction set, computing array multicore processors has yielded innovative solutions to the challenging problem of power-efficient parallel programming. The work on high-performance computing scaled quantum hardware description language is representative of one of the few efforts in the area of quantum networking; it is likely to have a strong influence on the development of future systems.
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Human Sciences In the human variability research, the initiative on individual variability, with its emphasis on high-quality R&D and peer-reviewed publications is making important contributions to the science of brain state measurement and individual differences. The recent peer-reviewed publication record indicated 5-10 journal articles per year since 2012, including 6 to date in 2015, with 10 additional articles submitted.
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