Proposed U.S. Army Research Laboratory Research and Technology Generation Processin the Context of the Army Budget Process

摘要

As part of the organizational transition to the U.S. Army Research Laboratory(ARL), a Process Action Team was formed to consider the issue of how research and technology will be generated in ARL. The result was a detailed process which accommodated transition ground rules and incorporated significant changes aimed at providing better customer service through the use of Total Quality Management Principles. The process has seven sequential subprocesses, Establish Customer Needs, Look for Solutions, Formulate Program, Obtain Approval to Execute, Technology Generation, Technology Transfer, and Accomplishments Based Evaluation. All subprocesses are fully integrated with a corporate investment strategy that serves as a guiding hand to all activities. in order to prepare this internal ARL process for implementation, it was adapted to satisfy the external global Army budget process. The status of implementation is presented and future plans are discussed. Process action team, Research management, Technology-transfer, Planning, Army budget system, Total quality management.