IT’S ALL ABOUT THE SCIENCE


Right now, Army science and technology (S&T) is working to solve a lot of prob- lems. “We’re developing new capabilities or technologies that could serve to either help the military or help the commer- cial market space.” Tose capabilities, of course, are intended first for the mili- tary. And the problems to be solved are specific:


• Precision fires and air and missile defense.


• Next Generation Combat Vehicle. • Future Vertical Lift (FVL). • Te network and command, control, communications and intelligence. • Soldier lethality.


In addition, there are the people and the laboratories that make those things pos- sible, which includes the Army’s S&T laboratory enterprise network, S&T workforce development, Army collabora- tion with the other services, international partners and industry. Finally, there’s the issue of transitioning technology, or get- ting needed capabilities into the hands of Soldiers.


A REBALANCING ACT Russell earned his doctorate


in chem-


istry in energetic materials, which are substances that contain lots of energy and release it rapidly to “do work,” in the physics sense of the term—moving energy from one place or form to another. When he went to work for the U.S. military in 1990, Russell didn’t think it would become his career. However, like a lot of those in the acquisition, logis- tics and technology fields, he found the research meaningful, a way to be a part of something greater than himself. Plus, he found the hard problems DOD was trying to solve to be deeply engaging.


He started his career with DOD work- ing as a research scientist with the Navy,


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GETTING SMARTER


A Patriot missile radar system set assigned to 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment during the unit’s table gunnery training exercise on Kadena Air Base in Japan, in October. Precision fires and air and missile defense are top priorities in Army S&T research, and newer versions likely will be smarter and more accurate. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Adan Cazarez, 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command)


spent several years working with the Air Force and came to the Army in 2013 as the director of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.


It was, in fact, Russell who suggested the science and technology theme of this edi- tion of Army AL&T, and he backed up the suggestion with more than two dozen articles in this special section on rebal- ancing the Army’s S&T portfolio.


Rebalancing the portfolio is a process, he said, of “looking at the potential threats in the future from our adversaries. What I mean by that is, we’ve been operating at war for probably a decade and a half or more. And our adversaries have been watching the way we operate. Tey’ve been building capabilities


attempt to offset those strategic advan- tages we have today.” And that presents the possibility that, in the future, those


“threats may put us in a situation where we’ll be overmatched by our adversaries. So rebalancing is about how we strategi- cally align the S&T portfolio to address those emerging or evolving threats that our adversaries will present to us.”


Te emphasis is on the evolutionary nature of the threats. “Tat’s not just now in the near term. … We’re not focused on just where the puck is


where the puck will be in the future,” he said, paraphrasing hockey great Wayne Gretzky.


to offset or


Rebalancing, he continued, “is aligning ourselves to more effectively address the


today, but


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