
Address
Attn: FCDD-AMG-CST
Building 5400, Room B315
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000
United StatesLaboratory Representative
Description
The U. S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Aviation & Missile Center, is the Army's focal point for providing research, development, and engineering technology and services for aviation and missile platforms across the lifecycle.
CCDC Aviation & Missile Center is a world-class facility with approximately 2,500 employees, including more than 1,900 scientists and engineers who provide technical services and conduct scientific research and development in disciplines that support CCDC Aviation & Missile Center customer platforms and weapons systems.
CCDC Aviation & Missile Center has a history spanning over 50 years of excellence in aviation and missilery. From the rockets that gave birth to America's space program, to today's cutting edge use of UAVs in the Global War on Terror, CCDC Aviation & Missile Center leads the way in the development of new technologies that continue to defend America and our troops. As a result of Base Realignment and Closure, the Missile RDEC and the Aviation RDEC were combined in 1997. This presented unique organizational challenges but also created opportunities to share technologies across the two mission areas. Today, the CCDC Aviation & Missile Center directorates all provide support to both.
Mission
CCDC Aviation & Missile Center performs the following missions:
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Plan, manage and conduct research and development of guided missiles and free flight rockets.
- Provide life cycle system and production engineering and execute management of computer resources embedded in battlefield support of CCDC Aviation & Missile Center Project Managers and other Army Materiel Command (AMC) or Department of Defense (DoD) elements.
- Provide the necessary simulation to support exploratory, advanced and engineering development programs.
- Provide processing (ADP) activities to support the CCDC Aviation & Missile Center missions.
- Develop concepts and maintain long-range plans for weapon system acquisition and the supporting research and development.
- Conduct experimental demonstrations and develop proposed weapon systems through the proof of principal phases.
- Act as the CCDC Aviation & Missile Center interface with the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) to determine weapon system requirements and to maintain cognizance of current and future threats.
- Serve as AMC lead laboratory in high power/energy laser research and technology.
- Perform selective research and component development to generate new technology, reduce missile development lead time, and improve system reliability.
- Perform feasibility and design studies and prepares proposals for future weapon systems.
- Design, develop and fabricate prototype missile systems components.
- Ensure the transfer of technology from system to system and from current to future systems.
- Act as the Army focal point for exchange and synthesization of mission and high- energy laser technology with DoD, NASA and foreign governments.
- Plan, develop and manage the CCDC Aviation & Missile Center test and evaluation automated database.
- Operate the Army Inertial Guidance Management and Technology Center and the Army Rocket Propulsion Technology and Management Center.
- Serve as the lead laboratory for Guidance and Control-Terminal Homing and High Energy Lasers.
Technology Disciplines
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14 x 22 Foot Subsonic Wind Tunnel
Address:
Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA 23666
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Security Clearance : Non Security LabSquare Footage: 0 The Langley 14x22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel is a closed-circuit, atmospheric tunnel designed for powered and high-lift configuration testing up to 200 Knots. The test section can be configured in several ways: fully-closed, slotted, partially-open, or fully open using its movable walls and ceiling. Rotary wing platform testing includes: performance, loads, acoustics, and fluid physics. The non-intrusive flow measurement systems, resident in the facility, greatly complement the data productivity for complex powered lift configurations. Current model testbeds include complete rotorcraft experimental platforms of 15% and 25% scale, as well as an isolated rotor test system for basic flow investigations of i nteractional aeromechanics.
7 x 10 Foot Wind Tunnel
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Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
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Security Clearance : Non Security LabSquare Footage: 0 This wind tunnel is used for basic and applied research in aeromechanics on advanced and unique technology rotorcraft. It supports research on advanced concepts and on problem-solving for current rotorcraft. The test section of this wind tunnel has a maximum speed capability of 100 knots.
Advanced Prototyping Engineering & Experimentation (APEX) Laboratories I, II & III
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Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000
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Security Clearance : Non Security LabSquare Footage: 0 These interconnected simulation facilities provide unique collaboration of force -onforce, soldier-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and engineering level simulations. The APEX Labs provide two wraparound, out-the-window displays for immersive soldier-in-the-loop interaction with evolving aviation and missile system designs. The labs link virtual, live, and constructive models with geographically distributed participants. Doctrine, tactics, mobility, logistic support, command, control, and communication, and human reaction are modeled in a synthetic battlefield to allow rapid turnaround, realistic testing and analysis. The APEX III Lab provides the central node at the AMRDEC for distributed simulations (DS). This facility contains ten interconnected application rooms, permits connection of multiple local area networks, and supports hardware/software essential in conducting DS exercises (both DIS and HLA). It houses the Defense Research Engineering Network (DREN) gateway, which facilitates simultaneous distributed experiments between RDEC labs, TRADOC Battle Labs, industry participants, and academia. During FY03 System Simulation and Development Directorate made significant investments in APEX III to accommodate classified local and distributed simulation events, including FASTLANE encryption for wide area simulation activities.
Advanced Simulation Center
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Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-500
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Security Clearance : Non Security LabSquare Footage: 0 The Advanced Simulation Center consists of 10 individual facilities which provide missile and submunition hardware-in-the-loop simulation capabilities. The following types of guidance signals are included in the range of capabilities: microwave radar, millimeter wave radar, imaging and non-imaging infrared, visible, laser, combinations of radar and infrared signals, and inertial motion. Target signatures and backgrounds scenarios are radiated from special purpose signal generators and received and processed by the missile sensors to give real guidance signals for use in trajectory simulations.
Aerial Targets Laboratory
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Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000
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Security Clearance : Non Security LabSquare Footage: 0 The Aerial Targets Laboratory provides the capability to integrate and evaluate components and technologies on existing towed targets. It provides a facility to design, develop and assess performance of new target configurations. Information collected in this facility allows development and maintenance of detailed mathematical representations of flight dynamics of targets for use in high fidelity simulation. Development and maintenance of system level training hardware and software for fielded target systems is also performed in this unique facility.
Aero-Optic Evaluation Center (AOEC), Large Energy National Shock (LENS) Tunnels I & II
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Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000
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Security Clearance : Non Security LabSquare Footage: 0 The AOEC facility provides world class capability for aero-thermo-chemical, aerooptics and aero-propulsion testing in the Mach number range from 2.5 to 15 using the world's most powerful shock tunnels. The value of the AOEC facility stems from its capability to duplicate flight conditions experienced by supersonic and hypersonic vehicles. LENS tunnels can atmospheric conditions between sea level and 70 km. This ability provides the community an alternative to full scale flight testing at a fraction of the cost with improved variety and quality of data.
Aerophysics Research Center
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Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000
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Security Clearance : Non Security LabSquare Footage: 0 This facility, operated by the University of Alabama in Huntsville, houses three two-stage light gas guns capable of launching a variety of projectiles and missile component simulants at a vast array of targets and impact velocities. Projectiles weighing up to 8 kilograms have been launched at velocities in excess of 2 kilometers per second, and lighter payloads up to 8 kilometers per second. This facility can support testing against a variety of targets ranging from space dust protection to explosive reactive armor (ERA). This facility has extensive data collection capabilities including radar, thermal, event timing, flash x-ray, Schelarian and high-speed photography. A full machine-shop supports the facility with the capability to fabricate all projectiles, targets, and related support equipment.
Air Defense Radar Operations Facility
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Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000
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Security Clearance : Non Security LabSquare Footage: 0 Facility consists of laboratories, experimental test equipment including state-of-theart test bed radar, and test ranges. The facilities are used to design, develop, and test new advanced air defense radars as well as support of existing fielded systems. Hardware and software laboratory capabilities include development of advanced radar subsystem hardware and advanced signal processing algorithms with test on radar hardware. Advanced signal processing and algorithms include composite tracking with multiple radar platforms to perform data fusion and target identification.
Airborne & Field Sensors Facilities
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Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000
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Security Clearance : Non Security LabSquare Footage: 0 RTTC facilities include an 800' x 60' paved UAV operational area, clear approach/departure zone, concrete pads furnished with 208VAC, 3 phase, 200 amp power, 20,000 sq ft of climate controlled hanger space, with machine shop and integration facilities for sensors on fixed and rotary wing aircraft. Substantial ground sensor testing ranges are available, complete with range control facilities and a raised 5 meter mound with 18,200 sq ft work pad, 75' tower and instrumented trailers. Stabilized airborne instrumentation platforms are also available, as well as a wide variety of target and non-target entities. Capabilities for collecting multi-spectral signatures, ground truthing TSPI information is available, as well as dispensing and characterizing obscurants for supporting detection/recognition tests and system-of-systems tests, over varied terrain. RTTC also has a unique reconfigurable underground 6' concrete tunnel facility, with two connecting tunnels measuring 364' and 100' in length.
Anechoic Radio Frequency Test Chamber
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Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000
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Security Clearance : Non Security LabSquare Footage: 0 This chamber is used for characterization test of such systems as communications gear, tanks, radar, missiles, and helicopters. The dimensions of the chamber are 114 feet long, 26 feet high, and 43 feet wide.