ARL Open Campus Concept Presentation

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The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces
Open Campus Model: Accelerating Innovation and
Discovery at ARL and Beyond
Dr. Thomas Russell
Director
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
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The Future Army’s Emerging Path Forward
Deep Future (Could Do + Should Do)
Revolutionary, concept-based, technology informed investments to build an Army that is …
 Significantly improved, organized, and enabled to conduct expeditionary maneuver with operationally significant forces able to respond and
influence events at speed
 Leverages new operational concepts, technologies, and force designs to get the most force at the least cost in terms of money and manpower,
balancing if not inverting the tooth-to-tail
 Focus is on new technologies, operational concepts, processes, and force design improvements that allow us to innovate as well as guide Force
2025
Deep
Future
2040
Force 2025 (Can Do + Should Do = Must Do)
Focused Investment, informed by concepts and technology, to …
 Implement key changes to become leaner, more lethal, expeditionary, and agile, with greater capability
to conduct decentralized, distributed, & integrated operations
C APA B I L I T Y
 Focus on decisions and priorities regarding current technology that allows us to maintain overmatch,
while driving critical capability and technology development needed for the future
Force
2025
2030
2020
Army
2020
Army 2020
Reinvesting in modernization, with selected improvements to …
 Rebuild readiness and produce a more globally responsive and capable, and leaner Army, with an improved,
resilient network
Today
 Leverage leader development, human performance and professionalism
 Focus on executing decisions already made, capturing lessons learned, and setting conditions for the future
Army 2014
2014
Taking risk in modernization, focusing on Intellectual and organizational change …
 Reorganize the Army and develop an expeditionary mindset to be more responsive
 Reorganize bureaucracy and processes to simultaneously adapt and innovate to maintain the Army’s position of relative advantage and
set conditions for the future
Victory
Starts Here!
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U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) - http://www.tradoc.army.mil/
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Changing the Paradigm
S&T Campaign Plans
Open Campus Business Model
Sciences for Maneuver
Assessment and Analysis
Sciences for
Lethality & Protection
Materials Research
Information Sciences
Computational Sciences
Extramural Basic Research
Human Sciences
Transformation Principles
Flow, Agility, Quality, Efficiency & Effectiveness
ATTRACT
AND RETAIN
BEST &
BRIGHTEST
OPEN
CAMPUSES
SHARED
MODERN
FACILITIES
INNOVATION
PRACTICES
“We will need new technology over the next 10
years to make a leaner and more capable Army.”
GEN Raymond T. Odierno
38th Chief of Staff, Army
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ARL Campaign Publications: http://www.arl.army.mil/publications
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Benefits of Open Campus
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Awareness/understanding of Army S&T problems as a part of the national conversation
on security, defense, science, and education
Align/leverage Resources; ARL expertise, facilities, and capabilities
Access to real data beyond simulating and emulation in cyber and mobile networking
domain
Create an ecosystem to develop a joint workforce
Collaborative network to attract / retain joint workforce
Enhanced employment potential through collaboration between government, academia,
small business and industry
Rapid transition of technologies to the marketplace
Opportunities to shape technology maturation timelines
Small business can gain an introduction to the Army, to ARL scientists and engineers
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What Has ARL Been Doing to Make
Open Campus Happen?
• Army Leadership Support
• Collaborative Mechanisms
• Cooperative Research and Development
Agreements (CRADAs)
• Patent License Agreements
• Educational Partnerships
• Partnership Intermediary Agreements
• Opportunities Advertised
http://www.arl.army.mil/opencampus/
• Openly Sharing Technical Strategies
• Infrastructure
• Enhanced Use Lease
• Collaborative Network and Data Sharing
• Layered Security
• Open Campus Open House
• People
• Flexible Work Places and Schedules
• Sabbatical Leave
• Entrepreneurial Separation
> 200 People Into and Out of Laboratory Under Open Campus Pilot So Far
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CRADA Development
70
60
~50% Industry / 50% Academia
50
40
Start of Open Campus
30
20
10
0
FY10
FY11
FY12
FY13
FY14
High Level of Interest to Partner in ARL Open Campus
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APG Pilot Area Proximity to
Enhanced Use Lease Area
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Corporate Outreach Initiatives
Army High Performance Computing
Research Center (AHPCRC)
ARL Summer Student Symposium
Joint School of Nanoscience and
Nanoengineering (JSNN)
North Carolina A&T State University
International Science and Engineering Fair
(ISEF)
For the Inspiration and
Recognition of Science (FIRST)
USMA-ARL-HUD
Outreach Initiative
Partnership in Research
Transformation (PIRT)
Graduate
College
Level
Junior Science and Humanities
Symposium (JSHS)
Engage
9-12
Junior Solar Sprint (JSS)
Excite
K-8
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Gains in the Education of Mathematics
and Science (GEMS)
eCybermission
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Army Research Laboratory
Unprecedented Capabilities…
DISCOVERY: Advancing science and engineering
knowledge for the Future Force, and shaping the national
research investment in areas of vital interest to the Army.
CAPABILITY
Army in
2030-40
Future
Force
Army in
2020
Program
Force
Army in
2012-13
Current
Force
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INNOVATION: Identifying and providing
novel applications of science and engineering
to enable Warfighter dominance in regionally
focused expeditionary operations.
TRANSITION: Continuous focus on identifying
and executing opportunities to provide the Current
Force with new capabilities in response to a complex
and rapidly changing world.
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