2005-2006 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory (2007) / Chapter Skim
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7 Weapons and Materials Research Directorate
7 Weapons and Materials Research Directorate
Pages 49-52
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WMRD also provides technical support to the Army Electromagnetic Gun Program Office, which is managed under the auspices of the ARL Director. WMRD also is responsible for the Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA)
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RESEARCH ASSESSMENT Methodology Judged against efforts at universities or at national laboratories, the WMRD work appears somewhat lacking in the basic research area. If, however, WMRD is judged for its mission as an engineering and applied science facility that supplies the Army with technological solutions that would be difficult to find elsewhere, then it is succeeding.
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• dynamic damage in armor Ceramics -- This program highlights one of the great strengths and successes at ARL over the past few years in the theoretical understanding of armor defeat through its computational modeling and simulation as well as its experimental validation. The progress in this area has been one of the most impressive contributions from WMRD and should demonstrate the reason why basic research is necessary to make significant progress in areas of great importance to the Army.
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The approaches were derived, in part, from a strategic plan formulated by the national community in energetic materials and include efforts in computational chemistry and application of a wide range of analytical diagnostic methods to characterize the properties and performance of the materials. WMRD has a long and distinguished record in the diagnostics area, and it competes favorably with rival institutions; the effort in computational modeling of energetic molecules falls short of the state of the art and needs a critical evaluation.
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