DEVCOM provides the in-house scientific and engineering expertise the U.S. Army requires to drive continuous transformation.
The DEVCOM Team executes the basic and applied scientific research and lifecycle engineering necessary to transform and empower the Army, and ensure war-winning future readiness.
DEVCOM’s team of world-class experts are fully focused on driving continuous transformation in support of the Warfighter.
1. Talent Management and Taking Care of People;
2. Army Readiness and Transformation; and
3. Outreach and Collaboration.
DEVCOM defines a Priority Research Area as a research area of particular significance or importance because it aligns with perceived warfighting gaps or opportunities.
The goal of Priority Research Areas is to unlock the realm of the possible by expanding the realm of the known to succeed against any adversary to ensure enduring Army Modernization.
The current Army and DEVCOM Priority Research Areas include: Disruptive Energetics; RF Electronic Materials; Quantum; Hypersonic Flight; Artificial Intelligence; Autonomy; Synthetic Biology; Material by Design; and Science of Additive Manufacturing.
Priority Research Areas should also have the following key characteristics:
- Knowledge product deliverable – a living document and reference, capturing the progression of discoveries to the scientific questions in scope and updated impact to the Army.
- Qualitative dramatic impact – fostering overmatch and characterizing opportunities in the future Army operating environment.
- Ambitious and challenging – requiring DEVCOM’s diverse talent, working collaboratively in an empowered capacity, to investigate the limits of possibility.
- High potential to seed future transformational capabilities and priority research.
- Envisioned to execute with 6.1-6.2 funding.