WORLD-CLASS
Shaping an engineer research and development capability for an uncertain future
by Dr. Jeffery Holland T
he Army science and technology (S&T) lab- S&T enhance Army capabilities and will
- ingly complex world.
Each research and development (R&D) organiza- and makes individual or collective contributions to technological improvements, but we all share some enablers and some challenges as we move into an uncertain future. Our number one asset now, and for the future, is a world-class team of engineers, scien- tists, and support staff. Army research cannot survive without retaining our current top-notch profession- als while concurrently developing the next generation of scientists and engineers.
Army S&T Reinvention Laboratories operate under a variety of laboratory personnel demonstration pro- grams that have helped us attract and retain some of the best science and engineering talent. Each person- nel demonstration is unique to various laboratories and organizations; together, these initiatives have - ing our individual workforces to meet our mission goals and future objectives.
BEST FOR SUCCESS Every organization realizes the importance of its team members, and hiring and retaining top-notch
scientists and engineers is critical for R&D. At the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), the research organization for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, we recognize that our people are our major resource, and we are plan- ning for two major social challenges in maintaining a world-class research workforce.
One, we are facing the retirement of “baby boom- ers” as our workforce ages. This is a challenge that DOD, other agencies, and even industry are facing as people, and their long-term expertise, leave the workforce. Some organizations are better prepared than others for this inevitability, but Army research organizations are not immune. Second, the number of American college students majoring in engineer- ing and sciences is declining. This is having a major impact on our organizations, as we must compete with industry and other agencies for the best and the brightest among a dwindling number of graduates.
Every organization has recruitment efforts of various types and scope, and they achieve varying success. Army laboratories are no different. But almost all such efforts focus only on recruitment; not many go beyond that. Several years ago, ERDC realized that to be a world-class research organization now and in the future, we had to change our strategy. We had to focus not only on hiring the best, but also provid- ing life-cycle career management. We had to become not only a hiring destination, but more importantly, a career destination.
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