RDECOM Director Dale Ormond speaks at the Detroit Arsenal during the Assumption of Leadership Ceremony for newly installed TARDEC Director Dr. Paul Rogers on Aug. 13, 2012. Ormond also spoke the following day at the 2012 GVSETS in Troy, MI.

The U.S. Army established the Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to coordinate its science and technology (S&T) activities just eight years ago, but Director Dale Ormond recently declared that the organization already faces its first crossroads.

“We have made progress in last eight years while the country’s been at war, and the Command’s developed the ability to generate a great deal of quick turnaround support for our warfighters, but there is more to do,” stated Ormond in his speech at the Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium (GVSETS) in Troy, MI, held Aug. 14-16, 2012. “There is more to achieve in our ability to deliver decisive technologies and capabilities in the coming era to smaller armies and with lower budgets. This is the challenge we face today.”