DEVCOM

The DEVCOM Team provides the in-house scientific and engineering expertise necessary to drive the continuous transformation of the Army.

Our world-class team of scientists, engineers, analysts, technicians and support staff is fully focused on supporting the future Warfighter. We conduct the basic and applied research, lifecycle engineering and analysis that empowers the future Army.

The DEVCOM team provides scientific and engineering expertise to support 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, DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center, DEVCOM C5ISR Center, and DEVCOM Analysis Center.
• 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, DEVCOM Armaments Center, DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center, DEVCOM C5ISR Center, DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center, and DEVCOM Analysis Center.
• 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, DEVCOM Armaments Center, DEVCOM C5ISR Center, and DEVCOM Analysis Center.
• 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, DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center, DEVCOM Analysis Center, and DEVCOM Soldier Center.
• 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 DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, DEVCOM Armaments Center, DEVCOM C5ISR Center, and DEVCOM Analysis Center.
• 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, DEVCOM Armaments Center, DEVCOM C5ISR Center, and DEVCOM Analysis Center.

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
• 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.