DEVCOM

The DEVCOM team provides scientific and engineering expertise to support six modernization priorities the U.S. Army established to accomplish Multi-Domain Operations:

• Long Range Precision Fires – DEVCOM Armaments Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the LRPF Cross Functional Team, with support from DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and the DEVCOM C5ISR, Aviation & Missile and Analysis Centers.
• Next Generation Combat Vehicle – DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the NGCF CFT, with support from ARL and the C5ISR, Chemical Biological, Armaments, Aviation & Missile and Data & Analysis Centers.
• Future Vertical Lift – DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the FVL CFT, with support from ARL, and the Armaments, C5ISR and Data & Analysis Centers.
• Army Network and Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing – DEVCOM C5ISR Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the Net CFT and APNT CFT, with support from the Army Research Laboratory and the Aviation & Missile, Soldier and Data & Analysis Centers.
• Air and Missile Defense – DEVCOM’s Aviation & Missile Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the AMD CFT, with support from DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, DEVCOM Armaments Center, DEVCOM C5ISR Center and DEVCOM Analysis Center.
• Soldier Lethality and Synthetic Training Environment – DEVCOM Soldier Center serves as the command’s lead integrator with the SL CFT and STE CFT, with support from the Army Research Laboratory and the Armaments, C5ISR and Data & Analysis Centers.

DEVCOM’s mission is to continually deliver capabilities by proactively exploring basic and foundational research.

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.

PRAs 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

Project Convergence is the Joint Force experimenting with speed, range and decision dominance to achieve overmatch, and inform the Joint Warfighting Concept and Joint All Domain Command and Control.

It’s a campaign of learning that leverages a series of joint, multi-domain engagements to integrate artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomy to improve battlefield situational awareness, connect sensors with shooters, and accelerate the decision-making timeline.

Project Convergence Technology Gateway

Technology Gateway is a great opportunity for industry to showcase their emerging capabilities in an operational environment and engage DEVCOM in preparation for Project Convergence.

Army Futures Command welcomes its industry, academia and non-traditional partners to collaborate with them.

Technology Collaboration Areas include:

• Sensor
• Robotics
• Effect (kinetic/non-kinetic)
• Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
• C2 (Maneuver; Fires; Intel)
• Medical
• Protection (EW; Physical)
• Sustainment
• Communications (SATCOM; Aerial; Terrestrial)
• Autonomy
• Cloud Computing
• Assured PNT
• Planning

Potential Partnership Mechanisms include:

·  Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)

·  Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs)

·  Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program

·  Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Program

·  Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs)

·  Many other opportunities to explore