Some of the specific objectives of battle labs include link emerging technologies and warfighting ideas: increase use of simulation and use troop units for testing; and allow industry to develop a focus for developmental work and potential for prototyping. This philosophy and the resulting objectives set up a natural, if not imperative, linkage between simulation and the battle labs.

United States Army aviation digest (alternate titles: U.S. Army aviation digest; Army aviation digest; Aviation digest) was published February 1955 -March/April 1995.