Our Research

The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) serves as the Army's premier scientific laboratory dedicated to research and development within the personnel testing and leader development arenas. As a Field Operating Activity of Headquarters Department of the Army, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, ARI strives to drive scientific innovation to enable the Army to acquire, develop, employ, and retain professional Soldiers and enhance personnel readiness.

Applied Research

Provides validated non-cognitive (personality & interest) measures, criterion metrics, and compensatory models to more fully assess potential and better predict performance, conduct, attitudes, and resilience to allow for enhanced talent management. Creates innovations in test development and job analytic methods.

Provides a team-based personnel management system for optimal assignment to teams, enabling units to build, sustain, and assess in-garrison effectiveness and overall mission performance.

Provides effective methods to develop, assess, and accelerate the acquisition of competencies across the Soldier lifecycle – particularly those required to succeed in the future operational environment.



 

Provides models of technological fluency, methods and measures to assess and develop technological fluency across Soldiers’ careers, and technologies to maximize technological fluency resilience and performance. 

Basic Research 

Develop advanced psychometric theory for deriving valid measurements from complex assessments and continuous streams of data.

Develop multilevel theories and methods for understanding dynamic restructuring, coordination, and composition processes in complex organizations.

Develop holistic models of individual and collective learning and skill development across work settings and contexts throughout  the career span.