The DEVCOM Team provides scientific and engineering expertise to Army Futures Command Cross-Functional Teams in support of six modernization priorities the U.S. Army established to drive continuous transformation.
- Long Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team – DEVCOM Armaments Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the LRPF CFT, with support from the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and the DEVCOM Aviation & Missile, C5ISR, and Data Analysis Centers.
- Next Generation Combat Vehicles Cross-Functional Team – DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the NGCV CFT, with support from the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and the DEVCOM Armaments, Aviation & Missile, C5ISR, Chemical Biological, and Data Analysis Centers.
- Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team – DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the FVL CFT, with support from the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and the DEVCOM Armaments, C5ISR, and Data Analysis Centers.
- Command and Control Cross-Functional Team – DEVCOM C5ISR Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the C2 CFT, with support from the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and the DEVCOM Aviation & Missile, Data Analysis, and Soldier Centers.
- Air and Missile Defense Cross-Functional Team – DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the AMD Cross Functional Team, with support from the Army Research Laboratory and the Armaments, C5ISR, and Data Analysis Centers.
- Soldier Lethality, and Synthetic Training Environment Cross-Functional Teams – DEVCOM Soldier Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the SL CFT and the STE CFT, with support from the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and the DEVCOM Armaments, C5ISR, and Data Analysis Centers.
DEVCOM defines a Priority Research Area as a research area of particular significance or importance because it aligns with perceived warfighting gaps or opportunities.
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.