Our Mission
Ensuring continued United States military dominance against current and future threats requires a continuous, vigorous and innovative Defense Research Enterprise. In an era of declining budgets and resource constraints, however, managing this effort requires concerted effort by the Director, Defense Research and Engineering USD(R&E) to optimally balance effectiveness and efficiency in the pursuit of meeting the National priorities as defined by Departmental guidance. The USD(R&E) Laboratories Office supports this USD(R&E) mission by ensuring comprehensive, cogent insight into the activities and capabilities of the DoD Laboratories, who comprise a significant facet of the broader array of governmental, academic, and industrial research and engineering efforts.
DoD Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
DoD-supported FFRDCs are independent, not-for-profit, private-sector organizations that are established and funded to meet special long-term engineering, research, development, or other analytic needs that cannot be met as effectively by government or other private-sector resources.
DoD University Affiliated Research Center (UARC)
DoD-supported UARCs are all non-profit research organizations affiliated with a university and have a set of core competencies—areas of domain expertise or specialization - that are tailored to the long-term needs of the Department.
Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory (STRL)
A Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory (STRL) is an organizational designation, historically, through a National Defense Authorization Act, or designated as such by the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)).
Defense Laboratory Enterprise
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Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Aviation Training Research (Institutional Training)
ARI (ATR(IT))
Location: Ft Rucker • State: AL
Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center
Location: Redstone Arsenal • State: AL
Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center
SMDC TC
Location: Huntsville • State: AL
US Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory
Location: Fort Rucker • State: AL
- Reduce health hazards and improve human performance in Army aviation platforms, tactical combat vehicles, and weapons systems.
- Evaluate and mitigate health hazards of noise, acceleration, impact, visual demands, and stress and fatigue of systems operators.
- Enhance aviation and combat life support equipment through improved design and performance requirements.
- Assist in the development of entry and retention criteria for specialized high performance military occupations.
- Evaluate medical devices for use aboard military medical evacuation aircraft.
"Through research, the USAARL supports the U.S. Army Medical Departments mission to "conserve" the fighting strength."
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
ECBC
Location: Pine Bluff Arsenal, AR
The ECBC is the nation's principal research and development center for non-medical chemical and biological defense. ECBC develops technology in the areas of detection, protection, and decontamination and provides support over the entire life cycle - from basic research through technology development, engineering design, equipment evaluation, product support, sustainment, field operations and disposal.
ARL West
Thus far, the Department of Defense has had limited engagement with the small technology start-ups and the venture capitalists on the West Coast. The relationships ARL West is establishing--with the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, the University of California Santa Barbara, and Stanford University--provide opportunities to do business with a new set of innovators.
Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center
Location: Cambridge • State: MA
By combining its in-house technical expertise with those from academic and industry partners, ARL is able to maximize each dollar invested to provide the best technologies for our Soldiers. ARL's program consists of basic and applied research and survivability/lethality and human factors analysis. ARL also applies the extensive research and analysis tools developed in its direct mission program to support ongoing development and acquisition programs in the Army Research, Development, and Engineering Centers (RDECs), Program Executive Offices (PEOs)/Program Manager (PM) Offices, and Industry. ARL has consistently provided the enabling technologies in many of the Army's most important weapons systems.
Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center
Location: Natick • State: MA
- Develop new technology.
- Invest in the continuous development and provide quality of life for our workforce.
- Advance, assess and apply emerging technology.
- Create a collaborative environment between government, academia and industry on behalf of the Soldier.
Army Research Laboratory: Northeast
Location: Boston • State: MA
US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
Location: Natick • State: MA
Engineer Research and Development Center
ERDC: Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory
A CHL multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers and support personnel work in internationally known, unique facilities. This highly educated team has established experimental and computational expertise for solving water resource problems worldwide.
CHL research and development addresses water resource challenges in groundwater, watersheds, rivers, reservoirs, lakes, estuaries, harbors, coastal inlets and wetlands. Physical facilities of approximately 1.7 million square feet are the basic infrastructure for producing cutting-edge products for successful coastal and inland water resources management.
ERDC: Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory
ERDC: Information Technology Laboratory
New Hampshire Expand ERDC: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab
ERDC(CRREL)
Location: Hanover • State: NH
http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/CRREL/
Our mission is to solve interdisciplinary, strategically important problems of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Army, DOD, and the Nation by advancing and applying science and engineering to complex environments, materials, and processes in all seasons and climates, with unique core competencies related to the Earth’s cold regions. New Jersey Expand Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center army.pngarmy_ardec.jpg ARDEC (Headquarters)Location: Picatinny Arsenal • State: NJ http://www.ardec.army.mil/ Picatinny’s mission is to support Army transformation goals. In an effort to streamline the acquisition process and deliver the armaments that soldiers need exactly when they need them – and at an affordable price – Picatinny has established increasingly close partnerships with universities and industry partners, involving them in collaborative efforts early in the research and development process.
AFRL: Space Vehicles Directorate
Location: Gakona, AR
http://www.kirtland.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/389814/kirtland-welcomes-new-lab
With headquarters at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., the Space Vehicles Directorate serves as the Air Force's "Center of Excellence" for space research and development. The Directorate develops and transitions space technologies for more effective, more affordable warfighter missions. Primary mission thrusts include Space-Based Surveillance (space to space and space to ground) and Space Capability Protection (protecting space assets from man-made and natural effects). The directorate also leverages commercial, civil and other government resources that ensure America's defense advantage. Primary focus areas include: radiation-hardened electronics, space power, space structures and control, space-based sensing, space environmental effects, autonomous maneuvering and balloon and satellite flight experiments. The directorate also operates an additional research site near Gakona, Alaska. Leading the nation in space supremacy research and development, the Space Vehicles Directorate consists of an integrated team of 900-plus military, civilian, and on-site contractors.
AFRL\: Aerospace Systems Directorate
AFRL (RQ)
Location: Edwards AFB• State: CA
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl/rq
With headquarters at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and an additional research facility at Edwards AFB, Calif., the Aerospace Systems Directorate leads the effort to develop and transition superior technology solutions that enable dominant military aerospace vehicles. Areas of focus include vehicle aerodynamics, flight controls, aerospace propulsion, power, rocket propulsion, aerospace structures, and turbine engines. Programs advance a wide variety of aerospace technologies including unmanned vehicles, space access, advanced fuels, hypersonic vehicles, future strike, and energy management.
AFRL: Munitions Directorate
AFRL (RW)
Location: Eglin AFB • State: FL
http://www.eglin.af.mil/Units/AFRL-Munitions-Directorate
With headquarters at Eglin AFB, Fla., the Munitions Directorate develops, demonstrates and transitions science and technology for air-launched munitions for defeating ground fixed, mobile/relocatable, air and space targets to assure pre-eminence of U.S. air and space forces. The directorate conducts basic research, exploratory development, and advanced development and demonstrations. It also participates in programs focused on technology transfer, dual-use technology and small business development. The directorate is dedicated to providing the Air Force with a strong revolutionary and evolutionary technology base upon which future air-delivered munitions can be developed to neutralize potential threats to the United States.
Defense Microelectronics Activity DMEA
Location: McCellan • State: CA
The Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) is the organization within the Department of Defense with the unique mission to provide microelectronic components and assemblies for the Department’s legacy systems. DMEA is composed of highly specialized engineering facilities and microelectronic engineers that work in close partnership with the major defense contractors and the semiconductor industry to provide support for fielded systems across all U.S. military organizations. DMEA’s unique resources and transformational business model make it a one-of-a-kind organization. Because of DMEA's distinctive capabilities, its mission was extended to support the full spectrum of the U.S. Government agencies and allied nations.
Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
AFRRI
Location: Bethesda • State: MD
The unique resources of the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute enable advancements in the protection of soldiers and citizens. The AFRRI mission is to preserve the health and performance of U.S. military personnel and to protect humankind through research that advances understanding of the effects of ionizing radiation. To these ends, the institute collaborates with other government facilities, academic institutions, and civilian laboratories in the United States and other countries to research the biological effects of ionizing radiation. In addition, it provides medical training and emergency response to manage incidents related to radiation exposure.
Naval Undersea Warfare Center: Newport Division: South TOTO Acoustic Measurement Facility
NUWC: Newport: STOTOAMF
Location: Andros Island, Bahamas
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NUWC-Newport/What-We-Do/Detachments/AUTEC/
NUWC Division Newport provides the technical foundation that enables the conceptualization, research, development, fielding, modernization, and maintenance of systems that ensure our Navy's undersea superiority.
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- Naval Air Warfare Center: Weapons Division China Lake
- Naval Air Warfare Center: Weapons Division Point Mugu
- Naval Health Research Center
- Naval Research Laboratory
- Naval Surface Warfare Center: Corona Division
- Naval Surface Warfare Center: Port Hueneme Division
- Naval Undersea Warfare Center: Keyport Division
- Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Systems Center Pacific
Naval Air Warfare Center: Weapons Division China Lake
Location: China Lake • State: CA
While service to the Fleet underlies every program at NAWCWD, direct support is our most important activity. NAWCWD Fleet Weapons Support Teams are with naval forces throughout the world providing hands-on assistance. Division senior scientists and engineers serve in 1- to 3-year assignments as on-site Science and Technology Advisors stateside, at sea, and abroad. New operational flight programs and weapons capabilities are taken directly to Fleet squadrons by NAWCWD teams who train aircrews and maintenance personnel aboard ship.
Naval Air Warfare Center: Weapons Division Point Mugu
Location: Point Mugu • State: CA
While service to the Fleet underlies every program at NAWCWD, direct support is our most important activity. NAWCWD Fleet Weapons Support Teams are with naval forces throughout the world providing hands-on assistance. Division senior scientists and engineers serve in 1- to 3-year assignments as on-site Science and Technology Advisors stateside, at sea, and abroad. New operational flight programs and weapons capabilities are taken directly to Fleet squadrons by NAWCWD teams who train aircrews and maintenance personnel aboard ship.
Naval Health Research Center
Location: San Diego • State: CA
- Warfighter Performance
- Environmental Stress Studies
- Physical Stress, Load and Impact
- Physical Fitness and Weight Standards
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Stress & Performance
- Behavioral Sciences & Epidemiology
- Behavioral Trends That Impact Readiness
- Focused Intervention Strategies
- Behavioral Needs Assessment Survey
- PTSD/TBI Studies
- Career-Span Health & Wellness Studies
- Deployment Health Research
- Millennium Cohort Study
- Birth and Infant Health Registry
- Recruit Assessment Program
- Post-Vaccination Epidemiological Studies
Naval Research Laboratory
Location: Monterey • State: CA
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Corona Division
Location: Norco • State: CA
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Port Hueneme Division
Location: Port Hueneme • State: CA
Their job is to effectively design, develop, test, and certify the performance and safety of combat and weapon systems installed on Navy ships. Whether a system is involved in anti-air warfare, land attack/strike warfare, anti-surface warfare, littoral warfare, or theater ballistic missile defense warfare, it must provide the Sailor with key elements: the ability to work, and the ability to work safely.
NSWC Pt. Hueneme also has the responsibility to effectively train Sailors and support warfare systems with adequate spares and accurate technical documentation. The Sailor's ability to effectively operate and maintain equipment and systems in an optimum state of readiness is a direct result of engineered reliability, training and support.
Naval Undersea Warfare Center: Keyport Division
Location: San Diego • State: CA
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Systems Center Pacific
Location: San Diego • State: CA
Naval Air Warfare Center: Training Systems Division
Location: Orlando • State: FL
Naval Air Warfare Center: Training Systems Division
Location: Orlando • State: FL
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Carderock Division: South Florida Ocean Measurement Facility
Location: Fort Lauderdale • State: FL
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Panama City Division
Location: Panama City • State: FL
Naval Undersea Warfare Center: Newport Division: West Palm Beach Detachment
Location: West Palm Beach • State: FL
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Port Hueneme Division:White Sands Detachment
NSWC: Port Hueneme: WSD
Location: White Sands, NM
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Port-Hueneme/Who-We-Are/White-Sands-Detachment/
The White Sands Detachment offers facilities and personnel supporting storage, assembly, integration, live-fire testing, and recovery of missile, gun, and rocket systems. A vast array of test scenarios are possible at White Sands Detachment ranging from restrained rocket motor tests through all-up round engagement of ground, aerial, and theater missile defense targets. As part of a Tri-Service National Range test facility with expanding high-speed secure interconnectivity, a variety of network-centric and battle space management scenarios are possible. The White Sands' live-fire mission is critical to the acquisition and fielding of Navy weapons.
Naval Medical Research Unit: Dayton NAMRU: Dayton
Location: Dayton, OH
http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmrc/Dayton/Pages/HomeDayton.aspx
NAMRU-D's mission is to maximize warfighter performance and survivability through world-class aeromedical and environmental health research by delivering solutions to the field\, the Fleet and for the future. NAMRU-D is Navy Medicine's global research leader, solving tomorrow's warfighter challenges with today's innovative aeromedical and environmental health research solutions.
NAMRU-D is co-located with the Air Force's 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, enabling direct collaboration and facilitating access to their extensive research capabilities. As a result, NAMRU-D is the one -stop research lab for scientific questions on aeromedical and environmental health.
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Naval Sea Logistics Center
Location: Mechanicsburg • State: PA
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Philadelphia Division",
Location: Philadelphia • State: PA
NSWCCD-SSES is responsible for the machinery systems core equity of the Ship and Ship Systems Product Area for the United States Navy. As such, NSWCCD-SSES serves as a central point for academia and industry to join forces with Navy technical experts to develop solutions to needs in naval machinery. Consistent with its core equity responsibility, NSWCCD-SSES fulfills key functions including research, design, development, shipboard & land-based test & evaluation, acquisition support, in-service engineering, Fleet engineering, integrated logistics support & concepts, and overall life cycle engineering.
Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center
AMRDEC (Headquarters)
Location: Redstone Arsenal, CO
https://www.garrison.redstone.army.mil
The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), a subordinate laboratory to the Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), is the Army's focal point for providing research, development, and engineering technology and services for aviation and missile platforms across the lifecycle. AMRDEC has a long history of providing unparalleled service to its aviation and missile customers, while always striving to provide the greatest service to its ultimate customer, the warfighter, by providing technology and weapon system solutions to ensure his/her victory on the battlefield.
ARL: Simulation and Training Technology Center
ARL (STTC)
Location: Orlando • State:FL
Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Technology-based Training
ARI (TBT)
Location: Orlando • State: FL
Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Research Unit (Institutional Training)
ARI (RU(IT))
Location: Ft Benning • State: GA
http://www.benning.army.mil/mcoe/arifb/
ARI’s Science and Technology (S&T) research mission is to create and provide innovative behavioral and social science solutions that enable the Army to provide ready forces and force capabilities. As part of ARI’s effort to maximize personnel readiness and combat effectiveness, there are three main areas of focus; ARI is working (1) to develop innovative measures and methods to improve/enhance the Soldier lifecycle and human capital management, (2) to conduct scientific assessments and provide behavioral and social science advice to human resource policies, (3) to develop fundamental theories and investigate new research areas in the behavioral and social sciences with high potential impact on Army issues.
Communications and Electronics Research\, Development and Engineering Center
CERDEC (Headquarters)
Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground • State: NJ
The Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center develops and integrates C4ISR technologies that enable the warfighter to sense the battle space; deny and disrupt enemy efforts; and remain "connected" to achieve and sustain information superiority, strike with decisive lethality and survive.
Their many government-unique and world-unique facilities support a broad range of technical areas that leverage expertise in the radio/digital/electronic realms of information technology and systems engineering including command and control, communications, computers, electronic warfare, and sensors. CERDEC is headquartered at Fort Monmouth, N.J. with facilities at nearby Fort Dix, N.J. and Fort Belvoir, VA
ARL: White Sands Missile Range ARL (WSMR)
Location: White Sands • State: NM
https://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=45
White Sands Missile Range provides Army, Navy, Air Force, DoD, and other customers with high quality services for experimentation, test, research, assessment, development, and training in support of the Nation at war.
Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center
ARDEC
Location: Watervliet Arsenal, NY
http://www.ardec.army.mil/benet
Benet Laboratories performs technology, design, development, engineering and production & field support for large caliber armament systems, to include: cannon, mortars and recoilless rifles; tank gun mounts and recoil mechanisms and munitions handling systems.
AFRL: Directed Energy Directorate
AFRL (RD)
Location: Kihei • State: HI
http://www.kirtland.af.mil/Units/AFRL-Directed-Energy-Directorate
With headquarters at Kirtland AFB, N.M., the Directed Energy Directorate is the Air Force’s center of expertise for directed energy and optical technologies. The Directed Energy Directorate focuses in four core technical competencies: Lasers Systems, High Power Electromagnetics, Weapons Modeling and Simulation, and Directed Energy and Electro-Optics for Space Superiority.
AFRL: Directed Energy Directorate
AFRL pioneered the first and only megawatt class airborne laser and is a leader in ground-based space imagining using adaptive optics with our 3.5 meter telescope in New Mexico and a 3.6 meter telescope in Hawaii. The lab is transitioning game-changing counter-electronics weapon technologies that can degrade damage or destroy electronic systems with minimum collateral damage.
AFRL: Directed Energy Directorate
AFRL pioneered the first and only megawatt class airborne laser and is a leader in ground-based space imagining using adaptive optics with our 3.5 meter telescope in New Mexico and a 3.6 meter telescope in Hawaii. The lab is transitioning game-changing counter-electronics weapon technologies that can degrade damage or destroy electronic systems with minimum collateral damage.
AFRL: Space Vehicles Directorate
AFRL: Information Directorate AFRL (RI)
Location: Rome • State: NY
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl/ri/
With headquarters at Rome, N.Y., the Information Directorate develops information technologies for aerospace command and control, and its transition to air, space and ground systems. Its focus areas include a broad spectrum of technologies including information fusion and exploitation, communications and networking, collaborative environments, modeling and simulation, defensive information warfare and intelligent information systems technologies. Directorate scientists and engineers develop systems, concepts and technologies to enhance the Air Force’s capability to successfully meet the challenges of the information age. In addition to its primary mission, the directorate has partnered with other elements of the federal government, national intelligence agencies, numerous allied nations, state and local governments, and more than 50 major universities to work problems of common interest.
Naval Undersea Warfare Center: Keyport Division
Location: Pearl Harbor • State: HI
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Systems Center Pacific, Hawaii
Location: Pearl City • State: HI
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Carderock Division: Acoustic Research Detachment
NSWC: Carderock: ARD
Location: Bayview, ID
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Who-We-Are/Bayview-Idaho/
The NSWCCD Acoustic Research Detachment (ARD) is located on Lake Pend Oreille, which is Idaho’s largest, deepest (1,150 feet), and quietest body of water providing an ideal environment for acoustic testing without the attendant problems and costs of open ocean operations. The ARD operates and supports unique Large Scale Submarine Models, Test Ranges, and acoustic test facilities utilized in conducting Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) of submarine acoustic stealth technology.
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division
Location: Crane, IN
https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Crane/
The mission of NSWC Crane is to provide acquisition engineering, in-service engineering and technical support for sensors, electronics, electronic warfare and special warfare weapons. NSWC Crane also works to apply component and system-level product and industrial engineering to surface sensors, strategic systems, special warfare devices and electronic warfare systems, as well as to execute other responsibilities as assigned by the Commander, Naval Surface Warfare Center. It specializes in total lifecycle support in three focus areas: (1) Expeditionary Warfare ; (2) Strategic Missions ; and (3) Electronic Warfare
Naval Undersea Warfare Center: Newport Division
NUWC: Newport
Location: Newport, RI
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NUWC-Newport/
NUWC Division Newport, one of two divisions of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, is the Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering, and fleet support center for submarine warfare systems and many other systems associated with the undersea battlespace. NUWC Division Newport provides the technical foundation that enables the conceptualization, research, development, fielding, modernization, and maintenance of systems that ensure our Navy's undersea superiority. NUWC Division Newport is responsible, cradle to grave, for all aspects of systems under its charter, and is engaged in efforts ranging from participation in fundamental research to the support of evolving operational capabilities in the U.S. Navy fleet. The major thrust of NUWC Division Newport's activities is in applied research and system development.
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Systems Center Atlantic
SSC-A
Location: Charleston, SC
https://www.public.navy.mil/navwar/Pages/default.aspx
The mission of SPAWAR –Atlantic is to provide quality full-service systems engineering and acquisition to rapidly deploy capabilities to the Naval, Joint and National Warfighter through the development, test, evaluation, production and fielding of sustainable, survivable, and interoperable Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (C4ISR), Information Operations, Enterprise Information Services (EIS) and Space capabilities that enable knowledge superiority.
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Carderock
Division: Large Cavitation Channel NSWC: Carderock: LCC
Location: Memphis, TN
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Who-We-Are/Memphis-Tennessee/
This detachment, located on a 94-acre site on President's Island near Memphis, became part of the David Taylor Research Center (DTRC) in 1988. In 1992, DTRC consolidated with NAVSSES to become the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division. This detachment includes a nearly 500,000 square foot industrial facility with a 10-story clear space and associated RDT&E support spaces. This detachment was developed as the operating site for the Large Cavitation Channel.
Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
Location: Rock Island • State: IL
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
Location: Rock Island Arsenal • State: IL
ECBC develops technology in the areas of detection, protection, and decontamination and provides support over the entire life cycle - from basic research through technology development, engineering design, equipment evaluation, product support, sustainment, field operations and disposal.
ERDC: Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
Location: Champaign • State: IL
CERL works closely with its Army customers to develop quality products and services and to help customers implement new technologies. User groups and steering committees have been established to help identify existing problems, establish research priorities, and provide input into the development of products. Many CERL products developed under this teamwork approach are in daily use, both within the Department of Defense and the private/public sectors. An active technology transfer program ensures these products receive the widest dissemination among prospective users.
Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: The Leader Development Research Unit
ARI (LDRU)
Location: Ft Leavenworth • State: KS
http://garrison.leavenworth.army.mil/index.php
ARI’s Science and Technology (S&T) research mission is to create and provide innovative behavioral and social science solutions that enable the Army to provide ready forces and force capabilities. As part of ARI’s effort to maximize personnel readiness and combat effectiveness, there are three main areas of focus; ARI is working (1) to develop innovative measures and methods to improve/enhance the Soldier lifecycle and human capital management, (2) to conduct scientific assessments and provide behavioral and social science advice to human resource policies, (3) to develop fundamental theories and investigate new research areas in the behavioral and social sciences with high potential impact on Army issues.
Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Special Forces
Army Research Laboratory: Army Research Office
By combining its in-house technical expertise with those from academic and industry partners, ARL is able to maximize each dollar invested to provide the best technologies for our Soldiers. ARL's program consists of basic and applied research and survivability/lethality and human factors analysis. ARL also applies the extensive research and analysis tools developed in its direct mission program to support ongoing development and acquisition programs in the Army Research, Development, and Engineering Centers (RDECs), Program Executive Offices (PEOs)/Program Manager (PM) Offices, and Industry. ARL has consistently provided the enabling technologies in many of the Army's most important weapons systems.
Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center – Petroleum Laboratory
TARDEC (PL)
Location: New Cumberland • State: PA
https://usapc.army.mil/home.aspx
TARDEC develops, integrates and sustains the right technology solutions for all manned and unmanned DOD ground systems and combat support systems to improve Current Force effectiveness and provide superior capabilities for the Future Force.
AFRL: 711th Human Performance Wing
AFRL: Aerospace Systems Directorate
AFRL: Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
AFRL: Sensors Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory
AFRL's mission is leading the discovery, development, and integration of warfighting technologies for our air, space and cyberspace forces.
AFRL accomplishes its mission through eight component Technology Directorates, the 711 Human Performance Wing, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and a central staff. Headquarters AFRL operates the Major Shared Resource Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, one of four high-performance computing centers in the Department of Defense. The center is tackling large-scale problems previously beyond the reach of processing platforms and providing a vast array of services in a collaborative environment which includes government, industry and academia.
AFRL: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
AFOSR
Location: Arlington • State: VA
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl/afosr/
With a worldwide exchange program for scientists and engineers, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research is the basic research manager for AFRL at its headquarters in Arlington, Va. AFOSR invests in long-term, broad-based research into aerospace-related science and engineering. To accomplish this mission, AFOSR has formed a strong, productive alliance with other government agencies, U.S. industry and the academic community. Nearly 80 percent of the research is conducted in academia and industry and the remaining 20 percent is conducted within AFRL. AFOSR’s investment in basic research programs is distributed to about 300 academic institutions, 145 contracts with industry and more than 150 internal AFRL research efforts.
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Crane Division
NSWC: Crane
Location: Crane, IN
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/crane/default.aspx
The mission of the NSWC Crane Division is to provide acquisition engineering, in-service engineering and technical support for sensors, electronics, electronic warfare, and special warfare weapons. Apply component and system level product and industrial engineering to surface sensors, strategic systems, special warfare devices and electronic warfare/information operations systems. Execute other responsibilities as assigned by the Commander, Naval Surface Warfare Center.
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Systems Center
Atlantic SSC-A
Location: New Orleans, LA
http://www.public.navy.mil/spawar/Atlantic/Pages/Home.aspx?
The mission of SPAWAR –Atlantic is to provide quality full-service systems engineering and acquisition to rapidly deploy capabilities to the Naval, Joint and National Warfighter through the development, test, evaluation, production and fielding of sustainable, survivable, and interoperable Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (C4ISR), Information Operations, Enterprise Information Services (EIS) and Space capabilities that enable knowledge superiority.
Naval Medical Research Unit: San Antonio
NAMRU: San Antonio
Location: San Antonio, TX
http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmrc/NAMRU_SA/Pages/HomeSA.aspx
NAMRU-SA's mission is to conduct medical, craniofacial, and biomedical research, which focuses on ways to enhance the health, safety, performance, and operational readiness of Navy and Marine Corps personnel and addresses their emergent medical and oral/facial problems in routine and combat operations.
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Indian Head Division: Ogden Detachment
NSWC: Indian Head: OD
Location: Hill AFB, UT
The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (NSWC IHEODTD) is the Department of Defense (DoD) Energetics Center and serves as the DoD Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Program lead. NSWC IHEODTD focuses on the research, development, test, evaluation and in-service support of energetics and energetic systems as well as works to provide Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen worldwide with the information and technological solutions they need to detect/locate, access, identify, render safe, recover/exploit, and dispose of both conventional and unconventional explosive threats.
Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Joint Readiness and Training Center
ARI (JRTC)
Location: Ft Polk • State: LA
http://www.jrtc-polk.army.mil/index.htm
ARI’s Science and Technology (S&T) research mission is to create and provide innovative behavioral and social science solutions that enable the Army to provide ready forces and force capabilities. As part of ARI’s effort to maximize personnel readiness and combat effectiveness, there are three main areas of focus; ARI is working (1) to develop innovative measures and methods to improve/enhance the Soldier lifecycle and human capital management, (2) to conduct scientific assessments and provide behavioral and social science advice to human resource policies, (3) to develop fundamental theories and investigate new research areas in the behavioral and social sciences with high potential impact on Army issues.
Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center
TARDEC (Headquarters)
Location: Warren • State: MI
TARDEC develops, integrates and sustains the right technology solutions for all manned and unmanned DOD ground systems and combat support systems to improve Current Force effectiveness and provide superior capabilities for the Future Force.
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- Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center
- Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Army Research Laboratory
- Communications and Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center
- Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
- Medical Research and Materiel Command
- US Army Center for Environmental Health Research
- US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense
- US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center
Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground • State: MD
Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: APG Research Element (Organizational Performance Research)
Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground • State: MD
Army Research Laboratory
By combining its in-house technical expertise with those from academic and industry partners, ARL is able to maximize each dollar invested to provide the best technologies for our Soldiers. ARL's program consists of basic and applied research and survivability/lethality and human factors analysis. ARL also applies the extensive research and analysis tools developed in its direct mission program to support ongoing development and acquisition programs in the Army Research, Development, and Engineering Centers (RDECs), Program Executive Offices (PEOs)/Program Manager (PM) Offices, and Industry. ARL has consistently provided the enabling technologies in many of the Army's most important weapons systems.
Communications and Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center
Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground • State: MD
Their many government-unique and world-unique facilities support a broad range of technical areas that leverage expertise in the radio/digital/electronic realms of information technology and systems engineering including command and control, communications, computers, electronic warfare, and sensors. CERDEC is headquartered at Fort Monmouth, N.J. with facilities at nearby Fort Dix, N.J. and Fort Belvoir, Va.
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground • State: MD
ECBC develops technology in the areas of detection, protection, and decontamination and provides support over the entire life cycle - from basic research through technology development, engineering design, equipment evaluation, product support, sustainment, field operations and disposal.
Medical Research and Materiel Command
Location: Fort Detrick • State: MD
US Army Center for Environmental Health Research
Location: Fort Detrick • State: MD
US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense
Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground • State: MD
US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Location: Fort Detrick • State: MD
USAMRIID, an organization of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, is the lead medical research laboratory for the U.S. Biological Defense Research Program. The Institute plays a key role as the only laboratory in the Department of Defense (DoD) equipped to safely study highly hazardous infectious agents requiring maximum containment at biosafety level (BSL)-4.
As the center of excellence for DoD medical biological defense research, USAMRIID's challenge is to maintain its world-class scientific and technology base while being responsive to its primary customer-the warfighter.
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Location: Silver Spring • State: MD
Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Institutional Training
ARI (IT)
Location: Ft Jackson • State: SC
http://jackson.armylive.dodlive.mil/
ARI’s Science and Technology (S&T) research mission is to create and provide innovative behavioral and social science solutions that enable the Army to provide ready forces and force capabilities. As part of ARI’s effort to maximize personnel readiness and combat effectiveness, there are three main areas of focus; ARI is working (1) to develop innovative measures and methods to improve/enhance the Soldier lifecycle and human capital management, (2) to conduct scientific assessments and provide behavioral and social science advice to human resource policies, (3) to develop fundamental theories and investigate new research areas in the behavioral and social sciences with high potential impact on Army issues.
Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Army Research Laboratory: Vehicle Technology Directorate
By combining its in-house technical expertise with those from academic and industry partners, ARL is able to maximize each dollar invested to provide the best technologies for our Soldiers. ARL's program consists of basic and applied research and survivability/lethality and human factors analysis. ARL also applies the extensive research and analysis tools developed in its direct mission program to support ongoing development and acquisition programs in the Army Research, Development, and Engineering Centers (RDECs), Program Executive Offices (PEOs)/Program Manager (PM) Offices, and Industry. ARL has consistently provided the enabling technologies in many of the Army's most important weapons systems.
Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center
Communications and Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center
ERDC: Geospatial Research Laboratory
ARL South
Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center - The Southwest Research Institute
Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division: Patuxent River
Location: Patuxent River • State: MD
NAWCAD is one of two product centers within Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) that partner with industry to deliver high-quality, affordable products in support of military operating forces worldwide. Our products and services include aircraft, avionics, air-launched weapons, electronic warfare systems, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, launch and arresting gear, training equipment and facilities, and all air power equipment related to the Navy and Marine Corps.
As one of the three principal stakeholders in the Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE), NAVAIR is responsible for development, acquisition, and life-cycle management for all Navy and Marine Corps aviation systems.
Naval Medical Research Center
Location: Silver Spring • State: MD
In today's world, we face not only the medical threats associated with conventional warfare, but also the potential use of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism against our military forces and our citizens. Thus, research at NMRC is focusing on finding solutions to both traditional battlefield medical problems, such as bleeding, traumatic brain injury, combat stress, and naturally occurring infectious diseases, as well as to health problems associated with non-conventional weapons, including thermobaric blast, biological agents, and radiation.
Naval Research Laboratory - Scientific Development Squadron ONE
Location: Paxtuent River • State: MD
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Indian Head Division
Location: Indian Head • State: MD
Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division: Lakehurst
Location: Lakehurst • State: NJ
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Indian Head Division: Earle Detachment
Location: Colts Neck • State: NJ
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Indian Head Division: Picatinny Detachment
Location: Picatinny • State: NJ
Naval Research Laboratory
NRL: Stennis
Location: Stennis, MS
https://www.nrl.navy.mil/field-sites/stennis
NRL-SSC serves as the lead Navy laboratory for research in ocean and atmospheric sciences with special strengths in physical oceanography, marine geosciences, ocean acoustics, marine meteorology, and remote oceanic and atmospheric sensing.
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- Office of Naval Research
- Naval Surface Warfare Center: Dahlgren Division
- Naval Undersea Warfare Center: Newport Division
- Naval Surface Warfare Center: Carderock Division: Combatant Craft Division
- Naval Surface Warfare Center: Combat Division Systems Activity Dam Neck
- Naval Surface Warfare Center: Port Hueneme Division: Virginia Beach Detachment
- Naval Surface Warfare Center: Indian Head Division: Yorktown Detachment
Office of Naval Research
ONR
Location: Arlington • State: VA
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Dahlgren Division
NSWC: Dahlgren
Location: Dahlgren • State: VA
Naval Undersea Warfare Center: Newport Division
NUWC: Newport
Location: Newport • State: VA
NUWC Division Newport provides the technical foundation that enables the conceptualization, research, development, fielding, modernization, and maintenance of systems that ensure our Navy's undersea superiority.
NUWC Division Newport is responsible, cradle to grave, for all aspects of systems under its charter, and is engaged in efforts ranging from participation in fundamental research to the support of evolving operational capabilities in the U.S. Navy fleet. The major thrust of NUWC Division Newport's activities is in applied research and system development.",
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Carderock Division: Combatant Craft Division
NSWC: Carderock: CCD
Location: Norfolk • State: VA
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Who-We-Are/Memphis-Tennessee/
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Combat Division Systems Activity Dam Neck
NSWC: CDSA Dam Neck
Location: Virginia Beach • State: VA
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Port Hueneme Division: Virginia Beach Detachment
NSWC: Port Hueneme: VBD
Location: Virginia Beach • State: VA
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Indian Head Division: Yorktown Detachment
NSWC: Indian Head: YD
Location: Yorktown • State: VA
Naval Surface Warfare Center: Carderock Division: Puget Sound Detachment
NSWC: Carderock: PSDLocation: Silverdale • State: WA
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Who-We-Are/Silverdale-Washington/
This detachment is located at Naval Base Kitsap - Bangor and provides technical, management, and logistic support for west coast acoustic trials, fleet acoustic assistance, and machinery health monitoring. It is responsible for the operation of the Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility (SEAFAC) near Ketchikan, Alaska.
Naval Undersea Warfare Center: Keyport Division
NUWC: Keyport
Location: Keyport • State: WA
Naval Research Laboratory
NRL: Headquarters
Location: Washington, DC
NRL operates as the Navy's full-spectrum corporate laboratory, conducting a broadly based multidisciplinary program of scientific research and advanced technological development directed toward maritime applications of new and improved materials, techniques, equipment, systems and ocean, atmospheric, and space sciences and related technologies.
In fulfillment of this mission, NRL:
Initiates and conducts broad scientific research of a basic and long-range nature in scientific areas of interest to the Navy.
Conducts exploratory and advanced technological development deriving from or appropriate to the scientific program areas.
Within areas of technological expertise, develops prototype systems applicable to specific projects.
Assumes responsibility as the Navy's principal R&D activity in areas of unique professional competence upon designation from appropriate Navy or DOD authority.
Performs scientific research and development for other Navy activities and, where specifically qualified, for other agencies of the Department of Defense and, in defense-related efforts, for other Government agencies.
Serves as the lead Navy activity for space technology and space systems development and support.
Serves as the lead Navy activity for mapping, charting, and geodesy (MC&G) research and development for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).