EP 1110-3-6
14 Aug 92
HQUSACE, involving HQUSACE technical proponents and Research and
Development Directorate personnel, plus laboratory staff members,
in conjunction with a combination of USACE MSC and District
Command, Major Army Command (MACOM), and Army Installation
personnel. This process provides a means for recommending and
confirming the need for new research, and the establishment of a
priority and funding level for each recommended project each
fiscal year. A Mission Area Deficiency Statement (MADS) is
developed to express the need for a research project. Once the
need for a research project is confirmed by laboratory personnel,
working in coordination with the HQUSACE technical proponent and
research directorate personnel, project scope and funding levels
by fiscal year are developed. A technology transfer plan is
developed between the laboratory principal investigator and the
HQUSACE technical proponent to insure that the research product
can be readily absorbed into the USACE criteria and standards
data base once the research is completed. Thus, R&D project
initiators (whether individuals or user groups), technical
proponents and research area personnel can participate in a
cradle-to-grave initiation and development of each research
project. This includes the modification or development of
revised technical policy based upon the results of that research
project. Within the general structure of the USACE R&D program
are the Facilities Engineering Applications Program (FEAP) and
the Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR)
Program. These are briefly described below:
(1) Facilities Engineering Application Program (FEAP): The
purpose of FEAP is to transfer new and emerging technologies from
the research environment directly to users at installations. FEAP
provides for the demonstration of such technologies in the field
to determine whether or not they will work as well in the
operating environment as predicted by research results. Field
results are used to determine potential savings in money or
energy, or their effectiveness in attaining a greater efficiency
of operation than technologies already in place. User guides are
developed as a further result of the hands-on field experience
obtained through FEAP, with the overall goal of permitting
installation users to use the technologies being demonstrated.
FEAP demonstrations are conducted in seven areas, i.e.,
buildings, corrosion, energy, environmental quality, management,
natural resources, and pavements and railroads.
(2) Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR)
Program: The CPAR program resulted from the Water Resources
Development Act of 1988, 33 USC 2313, Section 7; and the
Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980, as amended by
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