REBALANCING RESEARCH


regard, quantum communications and synthetic biology are two examples of key focus areas for the Army’s next 30 years.


OPEN-CAMPUS APPROACH An open-campus model will enable ARL to be a front door to engage academia, other government agencies, industry and nontraditional innovators. Open-campus benefits include:


• Ready access to world-renowned facilities, researchers and resources for all partners.


• Expansion of academic programs and collaboration spaces.


• Synergistic relationships with the Washington, DC-area entrepreneur community.


• Facilitating the creation of innovative spinoff companies.


ARL seeks to pilot a new business model for its Adelphi Laboratory Center cam- pus


create


in Maryland. Tis model would a more


efficient and effective


defense lab that can be adaptive and responsive to the challenges of the 21st century. Te impetus for this plan is the need to pull together the brightest minds to accelerate the pace at which the Army solves its toughest technologi- cal challenges.


Currently, ARL seeks to attract aca- demic and industry partners for summer 2014. Open campus opportunities are research areas in which academic and industry scientists and engineers would collaborate with Army scientists and engineers in government facilities. Tese research areas are part of ARL’s overarch- ing campaign plan for Strategic Land Power Dominance for the Army of 2030 and beyond, based on eight subordi- nate technical campaigns—extramural basic research, computational sciences,


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RESEARCH GETS RESULTS Dr. Harry Salem, left, who leads ECBC’s in vitro team, discusses research data with Dr. Russell Dorsey and Dr. Reginald Gray. Organ-on-a-chip development at ECBC enables testing of medicine and toxins on human tissue without using humans. (Photo by Conrad Johnson, RDECOM)


materials sciences, sciences for maneuver, information sciences, sciences for lethal- ity and protection, human sciences, and assessment and analysis.


RDECOM recognizes that the Army does not have a monopoly on great sci- entific and engineering thinkers. Lab synergy among universities, industry and government is critical to the discovery, innovation and transition of S&T that are vital to national security.


Formal and informal interactions among scientists lead to


knowledge-building


and research breakthroughs. Innovation depends on bringing multiple disciplines together to engage in collaborative proj- ects that often yield unpredictable but highly productive results.


Te inspiration for this concept of a defense laboratory was Tomas Edison’s vision of


“a great research laboratory” maintained by the government. Tis vision led to the creation of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in 1923. In 1945, the con- cepts that Vannevar Bush, director of the federal Office of Scientific Research and Development, documented in his report “Science: Te Endless Frontier” became a model for how the United States would pursue its scientific endeavors. Bush stressed the necessity for the establish- ment of a robust university, industry and government laboratory research system. During the past 60 years, organizational changes and consolidations have created the national laboratories structure and a DOD research laboratory structure now known as the Defense Laboratory Enter- prise (DLE).


However, the DOD laboratory’s structure and operation have not changed since its establishment, while university and


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