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ARL - Army Research Office

Laboratory Information:

ARL - Army Research Office
AMSRL-RO-TT
P.O. Box 12211
Research Triangle Park, NC 27703-9142
Website: http://www.arl.army.mil/main/main/default.cfm?Action=29&Page=29
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Army
Region: Southeast

FLC Laboratory Representative:

Mr. Kurt Preston
Phone: 919-549-4234
Fax: 919-549-4248
Email: kurt.preston@us.army.mil

Background/History of the Laboratory:

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Army Research Office (ARO) mission is to seed scientific and far reaching technological discoveries that enhance Army capabilities. Basic research proposals from educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and private industry are competitively selected and funded. ARO's research mission represents the most long-range Army view for changes in its technology. ARO priorities fully integrate Army-wide, long-range planning for research, development, and acquisition. ARO executes its mission through conduct of an aggressive basic science research program on behalf of the Army so that cutting-edge scientific discoveries and the general store of scientific knowledge will be optimally used to develop and improve weapons systems that establish land force dominance. The ARO research program consists principally of extramural academic research efforts consisting of single investigator efforts, university-affiliated research centers, and specially tailored outreach programs. Each approach has its own objectives and set of advantages. Programs are formulated in consultation with the Army Research Laboratory Directorates; the Research, Development and Engineering Command's Research, Development and Engineering Centers; the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command; the Army Corps of Engineers; and the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. The programs are also jointly coordinated and planned through the Defense Science and Technology Reliance process under the Basic Research Panel.

Mission of the Laboratory:

  • Accelerating research results transition to applications in all stages of the research and development cycle.
  • Strengthening academic, industrial, and nonprofit laboratories research infrastructures which serve the Army.
  • Focus on those research topics that support technologies vital to the Army's future force, combating terrorism and new emerging threats.
  • Directing efforts in research areas relating to new opportunities for Army applications and which underscore the role of affordability and dual-use, especially as they provide new force operating capabilities and emerging threats.
  • Leveraging the science and technology of other defense and government laboratories, academia and industry, and appropriate organizations of our allies.
  • Fostering scientist and engineer training in the disciplines critical to Army needs.
  • Actively seeking creative approaches to enhance education and research programs at historically Black colleges and universities and at minority institutions.

Technology Areas of Expertise:

  • Information and signal processing
  • Information assurance
  • Interface engineering and surface modification
  • Life sciences
  • Atmospheric sciences
  • Atomic and molecular physics
  • Biomolecular and cellular materials and processes
  • Chemical sciences
  • Combustion and propulsion
  • Communications and Networking
  • Computational mathematics
  • Computing and information sciences
  • Condensed matter physics
  • Cooperative systems
  • Defect engineering
  • Discrete mathematics and computer science
  • Electromagnetics and RF circuit integration
  • Electronics
  • Engineering sciences
  • Environmental sciences
  • Fluid dynamics
  • Materials sciences
  • Mathematical and information sciences
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanical sciences
  • Microbiology and biodegradation
  • Modeling of complex systems
  • Modeling, simulation, and related mathematics
  • Molecular genetics and genomics
  • Neurophysiology and cognitive neurosciences
  • Optoelectronics
  • Physical sciences
  • Physics
  • Probability and statistics
  • Quantum computing
  • Quantum electro-magnetic devices
  • Quantum information science
  • Software and knowledge based systems
  • Solid mechanics
  • Solid state devices
  • Structures and dynamics
  • Synthesis and processing
  • Systems and control
  • Terrestrial sciences

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