Subcommittees

The ASB maintains seven permanent subcommittees, each connecting with Army activities in their respective subject areas. Subcommittees stay abreast of matters including research and development, maintenance of the science and technology base, budgeting, policy, strategy, doctrine, and any other factors that further the ASB’s support to Army senior leaders. By maintaining cognizance of Army activities in their subject areas, the subcommittees support ASB study teams with the expertise and relevant context to provide timely, actionable recommendations to Senior Army Leaders. 

Subcommittees report solely to the ASB Chair and Parent Board. They do not make decisions or recommendations on behalf of the ASB. Neither the subcommittee nor any of its members provide updates or report to the DoD or any Federal officer, employee, or member of the Armed Forces.

Basic Sciences and Enabling and Disruptive Technologies Subcommittee
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Addresses basic sciences and enabling and disruptive technologies, to include Soldier performance enhancement, cognition improvement, and training; autonomous systems and human-machine teaming; Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE); Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD); energetics; material science; and emerging technologies.
Environmental Advisory Subcommittee
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Addresses engineering, construction, real estate, stability operations, and environmental management products and services as well as development of the Nation's water resources.

Environmental Advisory Subcommittee
Systems Engineering and Sustainment
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Addresses advanced physical and digital prototyping and experimentation in operational environments and advanced tools to support prototyping and experimentation; adoption, adaption, and integration of emerging technologies into existing weapons systems; sustainment, to include engineered resilient systems, agile logistics, and health management; disposal of weapons systems through foreign military sales, demilitarization, and other means to better use existing resources; and policies affecting the modernization of weapon systems and the organizations in which they are employed.
Intelligence and Assessment Subcommittee
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Assessment of threat technical and operational capabilities and their impact on the Army; Assessment of U.S. vulnerabilities and potential mitigation approaches; interactions/ integration with the other members of the Intelligence Community including access to classified intelligence up to TOP SECRET (TS) collateral, Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence (SCI), and Special Access Programs (SAP) levels as required.
Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) and Digital (Information Technologies) Subcommittee
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Addresses tactical edge command, control, and communications (C3) in contested environments; situational awareness overmatch; Information Operations (10); Electronic Warfare (EW); intelligence analysis processes and tools and visualization methods; and Information technologies embedded in systems.
Medical Operations Subcommittee
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Addresses systems that conserve the fighting strength of the Army through medicine; the identification, transportation and evacuation, treatment, and rehabilitation of Army personnel; health threats and issues related to foreign capabilities, infectious disease, environmental health risks, radiological and nuclear effects, developments in biotechnology and chemical/ biomedical subjects of national and military importance, and force health protection; human performance optimization; responsibilities as Department of Defense (DoD) Executive Agent for the Biological Select Agent and Toxin Biosafety and Biosecurity Program and for Medical Research for Prevention, Mitigation, and Treatment of Blast Injuries; and support and care for Soldiers from the Military Entrance Processing Stations through transition to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Weapons Systems Subcommittee
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Addresses rotorcraft Design Synthesis & Performance Assessment (DS&PA); ground combat vehicle DS&PA, Soldier interaction, and system integration; lethality, including impact physics, energetics, warhead DS&PA, effects modeling and simulation; survivability and protection; air & missile defense DS&PA.