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Baseline Skills Assessment of the US Army Research

Laboratory

by Josephine Q Wojciechowski

ARL-TR-7181

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January 2015

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Army Research Laboratory

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ARL-TR-7181

January 2015

Baseline Skills Assessment of the US Army Research

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Josephine Q Wojciechowski

Office of the Director, ARL

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The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) started several corporate initiatives to benchmark and improve upon strategic areas

of the laboratory. These initiatives, designed to investigate a critical interest area, each began with a study led by a senior

leader. The intent was to propose recommendations and an implementation plan for the next several years. One of these

initiatives, Skills Assessment, was designed to examine the current state of the human capital of the organization. Dr Laurel

Allender, director of the Human Research and Engineering Directorate, was tasked to lead a team of representatives from each

of the other directorates in ARL and appropriate support functions in assessing the human capital of ARL. At the same time,

ARL began a process to realign the long-term direct mission program to a set of science and technology campaigns. The ARL

campaign plans would be collaborative and crosscutting focus areas for the mission program. The team used the campaign

taxonomy to define the competencies for ARL and collected data for each ARL scientist or engineer, including all post docs

and contractors based on the competency lists. A gap analysis was then completed. There were areas where ARL has little

competency but planned to lead or collaborate in that area as well as areas where we had large numbers of people claiming

competency yet we did not plan future efforts. Although the data were not exact, the study provides a place to begin to

benchmark the ARL skill mix.

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skills, competency, campaign plans, baseline, assessment

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Contents

List of Figures

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List of Tables

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Acknowledgments

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1.

Introduction

1

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Background

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Method

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4.

Results

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Discussion

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Conclusions and Recommendations

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References

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Appendix A. Campaign Competency Selections

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Appendix B. Extramural Basic Research Campaign Data

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Appendix C. Human Sciences Campaign Data

25

Appendix D. Information Sciences Campaign Data

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Appendix E. Sciences for Lethality and Protection Campaign Data

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Appendix F. Sciences for Maneuver Campaign Data

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Appendix G. Materials Research Campaign Data

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Appendix H. Computational Sciences Campaign Data

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