Characteristics: 950 feet long, 100 feet wide. One 75-ton overhead crane, two 30-ton overhead cranes with five-ton auxiliaries, Eight 1-ton jib cranes, three 3-ton jib cranes and numerous service jibs. Equipped with high tech energy efficient metal halide lighting.  Processes workload from the Marine Corps, Air Force, Army, Navy, FBI and any other services as required.

Characteristics: Concrete, mile long oval for testing wheeled and tracked vehicles. The vehicle test tract is a one-mile banked oval concrete testing facility. It contains an additional drive run way with spaced humps to test vehicle suspensions and weapons tracking equipment. The track has imbedded steel vehicle neutral steer turning pads. The 1-mile oval dirt track provides the ability to test cross-country performance of vehicles

Characteristics: 15 foot deep concrete pool holding 3.75 millions gallons of water. Contains thrust-measurement propulsion system equipment.

Characteristics: Elevated, concrete test ramp with 30 and 60 percent grades.

Capability to Repair/Rebuild reverse osmosis water purification unit, generators to 1000 KW, air conditioners, heaters, floodlights, laundry units and other general support equipment.

Used to calibrate Beta/Gamma radiation-measuring instruments.

The 100-meter completely enclosed range contains one state of the art wet snail bullet traps that eliminated employees lead exposure and two targets, one target at 100 meters and one removable target at 30 meters plus test fire fixture for all small arms up to .50 cal. The function fire range located in building 2200 is completely enclosed and complete with test fire fixture and state of the art wet snail bullet trap that eliminated employees lead exposure. Function fire range will accommodate all small arms up to .50 cal. An additional range contains one shotgun / pistol snail trap.

Test Fire Range

CNC machines available utilizing computer numerical control to automatically perform a number of machining operations start-to-finish. Capabilities to manufacture obsolete components, long lead time items, or are not in the Federal Supply System.

The engine dynamometer facility contains six engine testing cells with separate air conditioned sound proof control rooms, male and female toilet / shower facilities and office/ storage room. The engine test cells are provided with two 250 HP, two 500 HP, one 750 HP and one 1,200 HP eddy current water in-gap power absorption units. Each test cell contains one fuel control system that supplies the engines with clean and pressurized fuel. The fuel is metered to provide fuel consumption data. Each cell is provided with a smoke meter. The control room contain state of the are computer controls with manual over ride ability. The computer control system exercises complete control over the engine being tested and the power absorption unit during the testing cycle. This computerized data acquisition system provides real time engine and power absorption unit performance information to the operator. At the end of the testing cycle the computer generates an engine performance form. The dynamometer cooling units are completely self-contained and recycle all cooling fluid. Each testing cells engine exhaust and cell ventilation system insures the complete elimination of exhaust gases in the testing area. Located in engine repair/rebuild section is one 1,800 HP (maximum 4,000 RPM) water break dynamometer. This dynamometer is located in a testing cell with self contained and recycling cooling liquid system. These dynamometers support not only the Marine Corps but also the US Air Force, US Army and Georgia National Guard. And have supported the US Cost Guard and the FBI.

The maintenance center has two identical units the model HTDE Hicklin is a 150hp/240hp momentary in line transmission dynamometer, it operates on 208 volt 3 phase electrical power. The power units requires 200 amps. Maximum RPM is 3600. The Hicklin will test any in line transmission up to 150 continuous horse power in addition it is used to test transfers, drop boxes and gear housings.

The model EDECT is a 400hp in line and cross drive transmission dynamometer it operates on 440 volt 3 phase electrical power. The drive unit is a 400hp electric vera-drive. This unit was installed September 25, 2002. Used mainly for the 525 AAV transmission. It will test the electric shift transmission on new Marine Corps equipment.
 

The Clayton's will absorb 200 road horsepower at speeds of 48 to 90 MPH. Maximum operating speed with fly wheel engaged is 75 MPH. The 3 axle Clayton has an over all wheel base of 282 inches and is used for all 2 and 3 axle vehicles. The 4 axle Clayton is used exclusively for the LAV.

The HTB is a hydraulic test bench with a 100hp electric motor. Maximum RPM is 2,400 with a flow rate of 35 GPI maximum pressure is 4,500 PSI. The HTB is used for testing hydraulic components. The Maintenance Center has two HTB. Power Systems International hydraulic test bench with a 0-3,000 RPM variable speed motor, 10 gallons per-minute flow at 4,000 PSI.

Completely enclosed to reduce noise. Can test-fire gun in or out of vehicle. Used for the chain gun, primary LAV-25 weapon. Test fires motor driven M242 using dummy rounds. Provides ability too monitor gun while firing to aid troubleshooting. Potable test set can troubleshoot the M242 while in vehicle. Building 2226 is the M242 live fire facility. The LAV-25 is driven in to the building and the M242 can be tested with live ammunition. Test firing at this facility is conducted by remote control posing no danger to operating personal. The building contains one M242 test-firing fixture for test firing the weapon with live ammunition when removed from the vehicle. The facility contains a sand bullet trap.

The Coatings Branch provides an environmentally compliant, high volume state of the art painting process using five drive through paint booths capable of using water borne or solvent based paints, five drive through ovens, powder coating facilities and two paint conveyor chains.

The abrasive blast facility is comprised of 6 vehicle size blast booths that have multi media capabilities and 8 hot water cleaning stations.  Three of the hot water cleaning stations have pits for cleaning underneath a vehicle.  The facility also has various blasting tables as well as capabilities of chemical cleaning and coating.

Provides safe staging of hazardous waste awaiting disposition. Ensures control of hazardous waste, under full compliance with all Federal, State, and local environmental regulations, until properly disposed.

The Industrial Waste Treatment Facility can process over 200,000 gallons of effluent a day. The facility treats industrial waste material before entering the city sewage system, 24-hour, 365 days a year. Maintenance Center Albany is installing point of usage water recycling systems as part of various processes such as dyno testing, air compressor systems, boiler systems, steam cleaning operations, and chrome plating operations as part of the base overall waste reduction plan.

APSs provide hardware and software to allow automatic testing of Weapon Systems or equipment. ATEP Branch is the initiation point for all APSs and is the technical lead for APS development and production. The Branch provides a full range of automatic test expertise in the area of analysis, planning, developing, establishing support, and manufacturing APSs for the Marine Corps.

ATEP Branch is responsible for hardware, software, and instruction documentation necessary to perform complete automatic testing and fault isolation of a particular component in a weapon system.

ATEP Branch provides Life Cycle Management of all ATE within the Marine Corps to include hardware/software support and configuration management. In addition, this Branch is responsible for the procurement and upgrade of all ATE within the Marine Corps.

Capabilities in Night Vision include support and rebuild of I square or passive night sights to include night vision goggles, crew served night sights, driver night viewers for rolling stock such as the AAV and LAV

Capabilities to troubleshoot and repair all Marine Corps thermal systems. Capable of working both nuclear and battery powered systems used in conjunction with thermal imaging, and laser range finding to complete the weapons system suite.

State-of-art facility to undercoat vehicles and equipment with environmentally friendly undercarriage corrosion prevention coating. Facility has undercoating pit area, 25 ton vehicle lift, and drive bay to tailor the undercoating process to the vehicle and equipment as required.

Undercoating Facility

1 each 12’-0" three axis and 1 each 20’-0" five axis Computer controlled high-pressure high-speed low temperature water jet cutter to multi-cut, multi-task for greater production. Ability to convert and cut at high speeds any two-dimensional drawing, to produce parts, and or components for use to rebuild all types of Marine Corps Technical Vehicles and any other items in the USMC inventory.

The welding facility consists of two buildings which provide specialized and certified welding capabilities on various steel and aluminum vehicles and equipment which include both wheeled vehicles and tracked vehicles such as the LAV and AAV. There are eleven bays available in the welding facilities providing 24 hour, 7 day a week, and inclement weather capability. Spray metalizing is also available to provide a corrosive resistant coating process. For small welding jobs welding stations are also provided. Additional welding capabilities are provided in the body shop and engineering equipment areas as needed. Also self contained mobile welding vehicles are available to go wherever welding processes are required quickly and efficiently throughout the Maintenance Center. Either plasma torch or water jet cutting as needed to provide armor plating to the required specification provides cutting capability. Our existing facility has ability to accomplish High Velocity Particle Consolation once the process is experimentally proved.