Improving Army Basic Research: Report of an Expert Panel on the Future of Army Laboratories (Rand Corporation Monograph)

This report describes the result of an expert panel assembled to consider how the Army can get the best long-term value from its investments in basic research. The panel examined trends in basic researchand R&D and profiled several top-quality research laboratories, to gain insight into how the Army might better structure and fund its own labs. The report offers a number of recommendations for improving the Armyresearch effort.