Who We Are
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, or DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory, is the Army’s sole foundational research laboratory serving as the nexus between the military, academia and industry. ARL expertise drives cross-cutting advancements in science and technology to ensure the Army wins now and in the future.
Dr. Eric L.
Moore
COL Melissa
Johnson
Mr. Joseph
Alexander
Ms. Kimberly
Ploskonka
Mr. Dietrich
Wiegmann
Dr. Anne Marie
Petrock
Dr. Laura
Vanderhoef
Ms. Theresa
Straut
DEVCOM ARL is organized by a three-directorate structure that is designed to strengthen synchronization, coordination, and integration of the full ARL team and ensure that ARL supports Army priorities and achieves mission success of operationalizing science to ensure future war-winning readiness.
DEVCOM ARL seeks to remain at the forefront of executing the highest-quality research possible, building leaders in the scientific community, setting a bold Army-relevant science agenda, and pushing beyond existing boundaries in search of new ideas.
ARL fully integrates our internal and external foundational research efforts to shape future concepts by providing innovative solutions through technical expertise and groundbreaking scientific research for concept-driven Army transformation.
Army Research Office
ARL’s Army Research Office (ARO), founded in 1951 as the Army Research Office and based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., has more than 100 scientists, engineers and support staff, who manage the Army’s extramural research program. ARO drives cutting-edge and disruptive scientific discoveries that will enable crucial future Army technologies and capabilities through high-risk, high pay-off research opportunities.
Research Business Directorate
ARL’s Research Business Directorate (RBD) centralizes the laboratory’s business operations such as laboratory operations, strategic partnerships and plans, programs and budget synchronization, and focuses on facilitating strategic decision-making among cross-disciplinary internal and external teams.
Army Research Directorate
ARL’s Army Research Directorate (ARD) focuses on exploiting concept development, discovery, technology development, and transition of the most promising disruptive science and technology to deliver to the Army fundamentally advantageous science-based capabilities through laboratory’s research competencies. This intramural research directorate also manages the laboratory’s essential research programs, which are flagship research efforts focused on delivering defined outcomes.
DEVCOM ARL’s unique facilities and preeminent workforce comprise the largest source of world-class integrated research in the Army.
The laboratory’s facilities and regional locations focus on technology areas critical to performing disruptive foundational research to answer the hardest S&T questions for Army continuous transformation and future Army capabilities.
DEVCOM ARL operates laboratories and experimental facilities, offices and many one-of-a-kind facilities in several prominent locations around the United States. In many cases, the laboratory’s collaborations with other nations, laboratories, academia, and industry span the globe.
