Defence Scientific Service DS Classification Standard Research RE Group Definition The Research Group comprises positions that are primarily involved in the

							Defence Scientific Service (DS) Classification Standard

Research (RE) Group Definition

The Research Group comprises positions that are primarily involved in the application of
comprehensive scientific and professional knowledge to the planning, conduct,
evaluation and management of fundamental research, knowledge enhancement,
technology development and innovation relevant to defence science, historical research
and archival science, mathematics and the natural sciences.

Inclusions

Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, for greater certainty, it includes
positions that have, as their primary purpose, responsibility for one or more of the
following activities:

   1. the planning, conduct and evaluation of research and development and directly
      related programs designed to advance defence science and technology;

   2. the development of new and improved military equipment, systems and
      operational capabilities;

   3. the provision of analysis, advice and information related to national, international,
      strategic and military matters affecting the security of Canada;

   4. the conduct of research and related programs in history, history of art, archival
      science, anthropology or archaeology designed to promote and disseminate
      knowledge of the history and culture of civilization, including the location,
      selection, analysis, classification and exhibition of relevant material;

   5. the development or application of mathematical and analytical methods, models
      and programs including those of mathematical statistics; the solution of problems
      in the natural, physical or social sciences that require the application of
      mathematical and statistical techniques and analysis; and the conduct of
      fundamental or applied research in one of the following or related fields:
      mathematics, statistics, survey methods, operational research or generalized
      systems;

   6. the planning, conduct and evaluation of research and development and
      innovation in the natural sciences within or outside the federal government,
      sometimes in collaboration with other agencies, designed to advance scientific
      knowledge and technology through significant and original additions to current
      understanding, concepts and theories;

   7. the management or co-ordination of organizations in the federal government
      conducting programs of research, knowledge enhancement, technology
      development and innovation in the natural sciences, and the provision of
      scientific advice on the direction, conduct and management of these programs;

   8. the provision of advice on the above research programs; and

   9. the leadership of any of the above activities.

Exclusions

Positions excluded from the Research Group are those whose primary purpose is
included in the definition of any other group or those in which one or more of the
following activities is of primary importance:

   1. The application of comprehensive scientific and professional knowledge to one of
      the applied science and engineering programs involving the following: actuarial
      science, agriculture, architecture, landscape architecture, urban and rural
      planning, biology, chemistry, engineering, land surveying, forestry, meteorology,
      physical sciences, which include physics, planetary and earth sciences, patents
      and scientific regulation as defined in the Applied Science and Engineering
      Group;

   2. the application of computer systems knowledge to the planning, development,
      installation and maintenance of information technology processing systems to
      manage, administer or support federal government programs and activities;

   3. the conduct of surveys, studies and projects in the social sciences; the
      identification, description and organization of archival, library, museum and
      gallery materials; the application of a comprehensive knowledge of economics,
      sociology or statistics to the conduct of economic, socio-economic and
      sociological research, studies, forecasts and surveys; the research, analysis and
      evaluation of the economic or sociological effects of departmental or
      interdepartmental projects, programs and policies; the development, application,
      analysis and evaluation of statistical and survey methods and systems; and the
      development, analysis and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative
      information and socio-economic policies and recommendations; and

   4. the performance, inspection and leadership of skilled technical activities.

      Also excluded are positions that do not require the application of comprehensive
      scientific and professional knowledge relevant to defence science, historical
      research and archival science, mathematics and the natural sciences.