The U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s Army Research Laboratory (ARL) mission is to serve as the Army’s principal extramural basic research agency in the engineering, physical, information and life sciences; developing and exploiting innovative advances to insure the Nation’s technological superiority. ARL priorities fully integrate Army-wide, long-range planning for research, development, and acquisition. ARL executes its mission through conduct of an aggressive basic science research program on behalf of the Army so that cutting-edge scientific discoveries and the general store of scientific knowledge will be optimally used to develop and improve weapons systems that establish land force dominance.