AN ABIDING MISSION T
he first issue of Army AL&T magazine—then the Army Research
& Development (R&D) Newsmagazine, the
monthly publication of the Army’s chief of research and development—appeared on Dec. 1, 1960, and declared its mis- sion clearly and succinctly. Richard S. Morse, the DA’s director of research and development, said about the fledgling publication:
“Te Army Research and Develop- ment Newsmagazine is the result of a long considered analysis of the prob- lem of maintaining more effective communication within the Army R&D establishment and with other Govern- ment agencies directly or indirectly contributing to the success of our pro- gram. Properly supported by submission of pertinent information from all Army R&D activities, this monthly periodical should perform a most valuable service in presenting reports on significant gains, overall progress and objectives, the views or policies of management, measures being taken to cope with problems of interest to all personnel, and accounts of
Despite the many changes affecting it in the past 54 years, including the found- ing in 1989 of the Army Acquisition Corps, this publication has not wavered from that mission. Te changes have been many—from monthly to bimonthly to quarterly publication, from black and white to full color, from the name Army Research and Development News- magazine to Army RD&A magazine to Army AL&T magazine, now available in an electronic edition that would have been the stuff of science fiction in 1960. Despite all this, Army AL&T magazine has continued to provide pertinent infor- mation of interest to all personnel. Tis magazine has been central, as Morse put it, to “maintaining more effective com- munication within the Army R&D” and acquisition community, now the Army Acquisition, Logistics Workforce.
and Technology
LTG Arthur G. Trudeau, then the Army’s chief of research and development, took a “keen personal interest in the founding of
STAYING THE COURSE From its early days as Army Research and Development Newsmagazine to its current iteration, AL&T Magazine has stayed true to its founder’s aim to foster teamwork in planning, integrating and coordinating acquisition programs.
how people are accomplishing their jobs and gaining deserved recognition.”
the magazine,” saying, “Many commer- cial publications are doing a fine job of reporting on what they consider news- worthy results of Army research and development insofar as they are designed to appeal to large segments of readers, or to satisfy specific interests of professional and scientific groups.
“From our viewpoint, however, none of the commercial publications has attempted to present, specifically for the audience toward which the Newsmagazine is directed, a broad picture of the overall depth and scope of the Army research and development program to fill a very real need for dissemination of the special kinds of information our new publication will contain. It should be clear that the Newsmagazine is not intended to com- pete with professional journals or other commercial news media.
“My desire is that the Newsmagazine will be able to furnish, through the complete cooperation of all agencies and individu- als concerned, the kind of information that will build pride of service, stimulate unity of purpose, and help to eliminate duplicatory or wasteful rivalry. Its aim will be to impose understanding of problems related to our mission and to foster teamwork in planning, integrating, and coordinating our programs. It will reflect the Army’s desire to blend its programs with all of the Nation’s other R&D activities, insofar as it is practicable, in solving problems of building military strength expeditiously.” Te emphasis was Trudeau’s.
People may have come and gone, orga- nizations may have changed entirely since 1960, but that desire and mission to inform what we today call the Army AL&T Workforce remains the heart of this magazine.
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