This panel, one of 11 to be organized over 2022-2024 to review individual technical competencies covered by the Army Research Laboratory's R&D portfolio, will focus on assessing work related to Energy Sciences. This panel provides input to the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board, which produces an annual report covering each year's partial assessment of ARL.

This panel may access controlled unclassified information (CUI) and classified information at the SECRET level.

Overall Statement of Task:

An ad hoc committee to be named the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB), to be overseen by the Laboratory Assessments Board, will be appointed to continue the function of providing annual assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). These assessments will include findings and recommendations related to the quality of ARL's research, development, and analysis programs. While the primary role of the ARLTAB is to provide peer assessment, it may offer advice on related matters when requested by the ARL Director. The ARLTAB will provide assessments over a four-year cycle. Years 1-3 will each examine ARL's work related to 3-4 different technical “competencies” for which ARL is responsible, producing in each of those years an interim report that provides an assessment of a portion of ARL's program. In Year 4 the ARLTAB may produce, when requested, an interim report on selected cross-cutting aspects of ARL's work, plus a final report that summarizes the 4-year assessment. The ARLTAB will be assisted by up to eleven separately appointed panels that will focus on particular portions of the ARL program.