WORKFORCE
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OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE ARMY FOR ACQUISITION, LOGISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY
NEW DASA FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY Dr. Philip Perconti, director of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities
Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory, was named deputy assistant secretary of the Army for research and technology (DASA(R&T)) and Army chief scientist, effective Nov. 24.
In his new position, Perconti is responsible for Army research and tech- nology dedicated to empowering, unburdening and protecting Soldiers and modernizing the force. He answers to the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology. The DASA(R&T) fosters invention, innovation and demonstration of technologies to enable future force capabilities.
A member of the Senior Executive Service since January 2013, Perconti had been a senior leader at the Army Research Laboratory for nearly seven years. He first served as its Sensors and Electron Devices Direc- torate director, then became the acting laboratory director in April 2016. The Army selected him to be its official director in June 2017. Before join- ing the lab, Perconti was director of the Science and Technology Division of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Director- ate for 12 years.
During his tenure as laboratory director, Perconti expanded collaborative efforts with industry and academia by placing Army scientists and engi- neers alongside partners in Chicago, Boston and Austin, Texas. Under his leadership, the lab leveraged more than $70 million of in-kind con- tributions for Army-focused research through Open Campus initiatives.
His initiative of identifying and establishing 10 Essential Research Pro- grams is something he said he hopes will endure after his departure. During a Nov. 12 town hall at the lab’s campus in Adelphi, Maryland, Per- conti said, “There are certain things I value most. Probably the number one thing I value most is integrity. Integrity equals credibility in my mind. If you’re going to make a claim that you have 10 areas that are essential, then you had better deliver on those 10 areas.”
Someone needs to be the guardian of the future, he said. “We need to understand the threat that potentially exists for the United States with re- gard to materiel development and the science and technology that is be- ing developed worldwide,” he said. “We need to understand how we can
take that technology and apply it in ways that would bring new and dis- ruptive capabilities … transformative capabilities to the Army, long-term.”
Perconti, who replaces Dr. Thomas P. Russell, holds three degrees in electrical and computer engineering: a doctorate from George Wash- ington University, an M.S. from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. from George Mason University.
Perconti is a Fellow of the Military Sensing Symposium and a member of the Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society of the Insti- tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Army Acquisition Corps, the Technical Cooperative Program Sensors Multi-Sensor Integration Panel and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has published extensively on many aspects of military sensing and on coun- termine and counter-improvised explosive device technology. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 publications, including three book chapters, and holds two patents.
Dr. Patrick J. Baker was named the new director of the Army Re- search Laboratory.
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