Technical and Analytical Support for the U.S. Army Research Institute.

The objective of this contract was to provide technical and analytical support for the conduct of U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences ARI inhouse research. Area universities, through their membership in the Consortium of Universities, contributed to a wide variety of research projects and provided various technical and analytical support services. The majority of the support services were provided by Consortium Research Fellows CRFs, graduate students in the social sciences employed by the Consortium to act as research assistants to the scientists at ARI. Other services provided included sharing the Consortiums faculty expertise database, which allows ARI to search on-line and identify persons with particular expertise, experience, or capabilities necessary to provide assis tance on a given research task. ARI was given access to faculty expertise and laboratory facilities at Consortium institutions to cooperate in research projects directed by ART scientists, and Senior Consortium Research Fellows SCRFs provided assistance to ARI. The impact of the Consortiums assistance to ARI has been felt in the increased number of CRFs and SCRFs over the 3-year period, in the increased Continued number of scientific disciplines represented by CRFs over the 3-year period, in the total number of hours worked by Consortium personnel, in the number of ARI scientists who have acted as mentors to CRFs, in the number and quality of research publications resulting from professional relationships between contract personnel and ARI scientists, in the use of Consortium personnel for field research, and in the number and variety of outreach activities associated with the contract.