2005-2006 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory (2007) / Chapter Skim
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The Board is charged to review the work only of ARL's six directorates -- and this excludes the review of two key elements of the ARL organization that manage and support basic research: the Army Research Office and the Collaborative Technology Alliances. While the primary role of the Board is to provide peer assessment, it may also offer advice on related matters when requested to do so by the ARL Director; the advice provided focuses on technical rather than programmatic considerations.
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The assessment panels engaged in many constructive interactions during their annual site visits in 2005 and 2006. In addition, useful collegial exchanges took place between panel members and individual ARL investigators outside meetings as ARL staff members sought additional clarification about panel comments or questions and drew on panel members' contacts and sources of information.
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Also, some Board members attended the annual ARL Program Formulation Workshop, at which the ARL directorates discussed their programs with the directorates' customers. In addition, several Board members attended the 2005 and 2006 symposia that highlighted progress among ARL's Collaborative Technology Alliances (CTAs)
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The following areas of particular opportunity are discussed below: high-performance computing, autonomous system common technologies, information fusion, information security, ad hoc wireless networks, and system prototyping and model verification and validation. High-Performance Computing It is clear that ARL views high-performance computing as a critical technology driven by requirements from a variety of applications across multiple directorates, including armor and armaments, atmospheric modeling, aerodynamics, and computational biology.
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During the last biennial assessment cycle, the Board reviewed, at the request of the ARL Director, robotics work being performed by multiple ARL directorates and their partners in the Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance. The Board found that the ARL robotics work was of high quality.
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To make real progress in the near term, the Board encourages ARL to explore multidivision and multidirectorate efforts to select some manageable set of problems and to develop reasonably robust solutions for those problems that will help define the overall information fusion landscape and thus more general architectures. Information Security The National Information Systems Security Glossary defines information systems security as "the protection of information systems against unauthorized access to or modification of information, whether in storage, processing or transit, and against the denial of service to authorized users or the provision of service to unauthorized users, including those measures necessary to detect, document, and counter such threats." This is clearly of real concern today in the wired computer network arena, both military 3NationalResearch Council.
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The Board encourages ARL to consider efforts to bring together these disparate groups so that fertilization of approaches, code, and subsystems can engender progress across the board. System Prototyping and Model Verification and Validation Virtually all hardware systems for environmental measurements, communications, signal processing and analysis, and data display and application have become completely dependent on system-integrated computers during the past 20 or so years, essentially in conjunction with the development of advanced microprocessor technology.
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The theoretical work, which lacked focus and integration, consisted of a set of dated work of unclear relevance addressing algorithm development, numerical solutions to nonlinear equations, and "quantum-inspired" algorithms. There were few peerreviewed publications representing the program, there were no examples provided to indicate that the work has been implemented in application software, and it was not clear that the patent submissions applied for were timely or well received by the U.S.
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