Army Research in the Engineering Sciences

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Army Research in the Engineering
Sciences Thomas L. Doligalski, Ph.D. Associate
Director (Acting) Engineering Sciences
Directorate U.S. Army Research Office tom_at_arl.aro.
army.mil
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Intent of the Chief of Staff, Army23 June 1999

• Heavy forces must be more strategically
  deployable and more agile with a smaller
  logistical footprint, and light forces must be
  more lethal, survivable and tactically mobile.
  Achieving this paradigm will require innovative
  thinking about structure, modernization efforts
  and spending.

The ST community is the key to the long term
transformation of the Army - - CSA
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The ChallengeLethal, Effective Early Entry
Forces
TODAY
2000
Red overmatch sets the conditions of battle
Capability
Mechanized Forces
Enemy Force Build Up
THE GOAL
Follow-On Heavy Forces

• Robotics
• Mobile C3
• Networked Fires
• Organic 3D Targeting

Light Forces
SOF
Time
Follow-On Heavy Forces (if Necessary)

• FCS
• Multi-mission
• Rapidly deployed
• Light logistically
• Variable lethality

Mechanized Forces
Capability
Enemy Force Build Up
Allows U.S. to set conditions on the battlefield
FCS / Medium Forces
SOF
Time
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The Army Transformation
. . . Responsive, Deployable, Agile, Versatile,
Lethal, Survivable, Sustainable.
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Army ST Strategy
FY 01-05 Develop and Demonstrate FCS Technology

• ST Investment Emphasis
• Focus ST on Objective Force
• Embark on new ways to manage risk and
• promote innovation
• Exploit opportunities for partnership
• with industry, other Services and Agencies

Todays Advanced Technology Development -
demonstrable

• FY 06-12
• Develop Block Upgrades
• for FCS
• Demonstrate New Capabilities for Objective Force

Todays Applied Research - feasible
Todays Basic Research - imaginable
FY 13-20 Provide Leap-Ahead Capabilities for
Objective Force
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Army Basic Research
FY01-05 690M
Basic Research
Medical Research Materiel Command
Corps of Engineers
New Knowledge Understanding for Army-unique
Problems
Exploring the Imaginable
ARI
In-house Research at ARL RDECs
University Single Investigator Program
Army Materiel Command
Primarily Intramural 42
Primarily Extramural 58
Fed Labs
Centers of Excellence
plus 300M focused on FCS

• Strategic
• Research
• Objectives
• Sustained investment
• High payoff potential
• 25 -gt 50 of 6.1

Creating Options for an Uncertain Future
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Operational Challenge - Moving the Full Spectrum
Force
Objective Force Drivers
Up to 70 Lighter 50 Smaller
C130
C17/C5
Future Concept - FCS FSCS 20 /-
Tons 300-400 Cu. Ft. Internal Volume
Current System 60-70 Tons 650 Cu. Ft. Internal
Volume

• Technology Challenges
• Survivability
• Lethality
• C4I
• Supportability

• Human Factors
• Mobility
• Training

Lighten the force, not just lighten the platform
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U.S. Army Research Office
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Basic Research Strategy

• Identify critical research areas that have a high
  potential to considerably improve the operational
  performance of present and future Army components
  and systems
• Focus the research capabilities of the Army and
  other government agencies, academia, and industry
  on these areas
• Leverage that effort through teaming with the
  application and manufacturing communities

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Single Investigator

• Broad Agency Announcement
• July 2000
• Initial white papers/program manager contact
  strongly encouraged
• Funding cycle
• April-May proposal receipt is optimal
• Two-tiered external review
• scientific merit
• Army relevance
• ARO Web Site http//www.aro.army.mil