1. Dr. Philip Perconti Director
ARL Corporate Lab
3,140 total workforce
62% civilians (1939)
38% contractors (1183)
1% Military (18)
About $1.3 billion
ARL S&T Campaigns $1,281M (FY17)
Mission
Discovery
Innovation
Transition

2. Discovery
Some pics
- Laser  other Army discoveries

3. Traditional Academic Model
“I’ve added another brick in the scientific knowledge wall.
Surely someone will discover my discovery.”

5. Innovation
Some pics
- Laser  other Army discoveries

6. Innovation: Disruptive and Incremental
1983
PASGT
Aramid/Kevlar®
Frag and some side arm protection
2012
ECH
UHMWPE
First helmet with a small arms specification
2017
Gen 2 ACH
UHMWPE
Significant weight reduction, no reduction in protection
2002
ACH
Improved Aramid/Kevlar®
and Twaron®
Reduced weight and improved protection
1942
M1 Steel Pot
Hadfield Steel
Frag Protection
Mangalloy was created by Robert Hadfield in 1882 steel alloy w/ manganese
M1 adopted during WWII 3.5 lbs
Kevlar is 5X STRONGER THAN STEEL
1964 Stephanie Kwolek – replace steel in tires

7. Disruptive & Rapid innovation: OIF and OEF
2004: Armor Survivability Kit for the HMMWV
2006: M1114 Humvee Interim Fragment Kit 5
2008: Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Armor Weight Reduction Spiral Program: The Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Armor Weight Reduction Spiral Program enabled the Army to directly meet MRAP program protection requirements for a high priority, anti-armor, improvised explosive device threat. The program's technical approach combined cutting-edge high-performance computing with highly instrumented terminal effects experimentation to exploit known heavy technologies used to defeat low-level, improvised explosive device threats to understand the most viable armor mechanisms for efficient penetrator defeat. The program's goal was to introduce lightweight composites, new materials, and enhanced ballistic mechanisms to reduce the add-on weight of final armor packages. The resulting composites were applied to individual platforms to maximize the vehicle and increase Soldier survivability
2006: M11114 Humvee Interim Fragment Kit 5: Fielded as a ballistic protection improvement against small arms fire and fragments for the M1114 Humvee in April 2006, and has been bought in quantity as an upgrade since then. The Hummers remain vulnerable to land mines, an issue being addressed at last by the MRAP program.
2008: Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Armor Weight Reduction Spiral Program

8. Today, war moves at the speed of the fight
iStock Photos
EW, Cyber, & Artificial Intelligence require accelerated transition timelines

9. Transition
Some pics
- Laser  other Army discoveries

10. Industry Academia Warfighter ARL
Close, early collaboration to accelerate transition of
foundational research for new Army capabilities
Industry
Proximity, Trust & True Partnership
Academia
Warfighter
ARL

11. Accelerate Transition by Fostering Academic Entrepreneurship
New Warfighting Concepts
Joint Patents, CRADAs, Cooperative Agreements & OTAs
Collaborative Research with Industry, Academia, and DoD S&T
Operational Environment
Tech Transfer Community
Accelerate Transition by Fostering Academic Entrepreneurship

12. ARL Open Campus Model

14. Accelerated Discovery, Innovation, & Transition through Open collaborative research