Open Campus Model: Accelerating Innovation and Discovery at ARL and Beyond - The Nation's Premier Laboratory for Land Forces
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The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces
Open Campus Model: Accelerating Innovation and
Discovery at ARL and Beyond
Dr. Thomas Russell
Director
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
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The Future Army’s Emerging Path Forward
Deep Future (Could Do + Should Do)
Revolutionary, concept-based, technology informed investments to build an Army that is …
Significantly improved, organized, and enabled to conduct expeditionary maneuver with operationally significant forces able to respond and
influence events at speed
Leverages new operational concepts, technologies, and force designs to get the most force at the least cost in terms of money and manpower, Deep
balancing if not inverting the tooth-to-tail 2040
Focus is on new technologies, operational concepts, processes, and force design improvements that allow us to innovate as well as guide Force Future
2025
Force 2025 (Can Do + Should Do = Must Do)
Focused Investment, informed by concepts and technology, to …
Implement key changes to become leaner, more lethal, expeditionary, and agile, with greater capability
to conduct decentralized, distributed, & integrated operations
Focus on decisions and priorities regarding current technology that allows us to maintain overmatch, Force 2030
while driving critical capability and technology development needed for the future
2025
C APA B I L I T Y
2020
Army Army 2020
2020 Reinvesting in modernization, with selected improvements to …
Rebuild readiness and produce a more globally responsive and capable, and leaner Army, with an improved,
resilient network
Today Leverage leader development, human performance and professionalism
Focus on executing decisions already made, capturing lessons learned, and setting conditions for the future
Army 2014
2014
Taking risk in modernization, focusing on Intellectual and organizational change …
Reorganize the Army and develop an expeditionary mindset to be more responsive
Reorganize bureaucracy and processes to simultaneously adapt and innovate to maintain the Army’s position of relative advantage and
set conditions for the future
TIME
Victory Starts Here!
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U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) - http://www.tradoc.army.mil/
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Changing the Paradigm
S&T Campaign Plans Open Campus Business Model
Human Sciences
Transformation Principles
Flow, Agility, Quality, Efficiency & Effectiveness
Extramural Basic Research
Computational Sciences
Materials Research
Assessment and Analysis
Information Sciences
Sciences for
ATTRACT
Lethality & Protection AND RETAIN OPEN
SHARED
INNOVATION
MODERN
BEST & CAMPUSES PRACTICES
FACILITIES
BRIGHTEST
Sciences for Maneuver “We will need new technology over the next 10
years to make a leaner and more capable Army.”
GEN Raymond T. Odierno
38th Chief of Staff, Army
UNCLASSIFIED ARL Campaign Publications: http://www.arl.army.mil/publications
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Benefits of Open Campus
• Awareness/understanding of Army S&T problems as a part of the national conversation
on security, defense, science, and education
• Align/leverage Resources; ARL expertise, facilities, and capabilities
• Access to real data beyond simulating and emulation in cyber and mobile networking
domain
• Create an ecosystem to develop a joint workforce
• Collaborative network to attract / retain joint workforce
• Enhanced employment potential through collaboration between government, academia,
small business and industry
• Rapid transition of technologies to the marketplace
• Opportunities to shape technology maturation timelines
• Small business can gain an introduction to the Army, to ARL scientists and engineers
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What Has ARL Been Doing to Make
Open Campus Happen?
• Army Leadership Support
• Collaborative Mechanisms
• Cooperative Research and Development
Agreements (CRADAs)
• Patent License Agreements
• Educational Partnerships
• Partnership Intermediary Agreements
• Opportunities Advertised
http://www.arl.army.mil/opencampus/
• Openly Sharing Technical Strategies
• Infrastructure
• Enhanced Use Lease
• Collaborative Network and Data Sharing
• Layered Security
• Open Campus Open House
• People
• Flexible Work Places and Schedules
• Sabbatical Leave
• Entrepreneurial Separation
> 200 People Into and Out of Laboratory Under Open Campus Pilot So Far
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CRADA Development
70
60
~50% Industry / 50% Academia
50
40
Start of Open Campus
30
20
10
0
FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14
High Level of Interest to Partner in ARL Open Campus
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APG Pilot Area Proximity to
Enhanced Use Lease Area
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Corporate Outreach Initiatives
Army High Performance Computing Joint School of Nanoscience and Partnership in Research
ARL Summer Student Symposium Nanoengineering (JSNN)
Research Center (AHPCRC) North Carolina A&T State University Transformation (PIRT)
Graduate
College
Level
International Science and Engineering Fair For the Inspiration and USMA-ARL-HUD Junior Science and Humanities
(ISEF) Recognition of Science (FIRST) Outreach Initiative Symposium (JSHS)
Engage
9-12
Gains in the Education of Mathematics
Junior Solar Sprint (JSS) eCybermission
and Science (GEMS)
Excite
K-8
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Army Research Laboratory
Unprecedented Capabilities…
DISCOVERY: Advancing science and engineering
knowledge for the Future Force, and shaping the national
research investment in areas of vital interest to the Army.
Army in
2030-40
Future
CAPABILITY
Force
Army in
2020
Program INNOVATION: Identifying and providing
Force
novel applications of science and engineering
to enable Warfighter dominance in regionally
focused expeditionary operations.
Army in
2012-13
Current TRANSITION: Continuous focus on identifying
Force
and executing opportunities to provide the Current
TIME
Force with new capabilities in response to a complex
and rapidly changing world.
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