Facilities & Capabilities
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) provides America's Soldiers the technological edge through scientific research, technology development, and analysis. We provide scientific and technological innovation in a variety of technical disciplines, through direct in-house laboratory efforts and joint programs with government, industry, and academia. We also analyze the performance of existing developmental weapon systems, with emphasis on factors such as survivability, lethality, man-machine interface, and battlefield environmental effects. To remain at the cutting edge of technology, we must maintain a wide range of resources. Among the most important of these resources are our facilities. We are able to conduct highly advanced and specialized research at our facilities because of their unique and sometimes one-of-a-kind features.
Should you wish to use a facility on a fee-based service, see here.
Computational and Information Sciences Directorate (CISD)
- DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC)
- Army Research Laboratory's Scientific Visualization Laboratory Facility (including Multimedia Laboratory)
- Information Assurance (IA) Facility
- Visualization Augmentation Laboratory for User Experiments (VALUE) Facility
Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED)
- Tactical Environmental Simulation Facility (TESF)
- Ground Vehicle Research Facility
- Mobility/Portability Research Facility
- Dismounted Infantry Survivability and Lethality Testbed (DISALT)
- Dismount Soldier Training Technologies Testbed (DST3)
- Shooter Performance Research Facility
- Environment for Auditory Research (EAR) facility
- Cognitive Assessment, Simulation, and Engineering Laboratory (CASEL)
- Neural Engineering and Research in Vehicle Environments (NERVE)
- Individual Movement Technique (MIT) Course
- Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Environments (LITE) Laboratory
Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (SEDD)
- Advanced Material Growth and Processing Facility
- Molecular Beam Epitaxy and MOCVD Semiconductor Growth and Characterization Facilities
- Specialty Electronic Materials Devices Class 100 & Class 10 Cleanroom Research Facility
- High-Temperature Power Electronics Facility
- Nonlinear Materials Characterization Facility
- Power Component Testbed Facility
- Millimeter-Wave Instrumentation Test Facility
- Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Research Facility
- Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM)
- Image Processing/Target Recognition and Signature Modeling Facility
- Anechoic Chamber for Antenna Research
- Signature Research Facility
- Electric Field Cage
- Electromagnetics Research Facility
- Magnetics Research Facility
- Electrochemical Facility
- Advanced Display Material and Device Research Facility
- Ultra Wideband (UWB) Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) Testbed
- Acoustic/Electro-Optics Propagation Range Site (AEOPRS)
- Advanced Microanalysis Facility
- JP-8 Fuel Reformation
- Acoustic Anechoic Chamber
- Bio-nano Technology Facility-BSL2
- High Energy Eye-Safer Research Characterization Facility
- Wide Band Gap Materials and Device Research
- RF Device Characterization and Modeling Facility
- Digital Waveform Synthesis Facility
- Integrated Circuit Design Facility
- Prognostics Prototyping Facility
- PiezoMEMS Material and Device Research and Prototyping Facility
- RF MEMS Automated Measurement and Characterization Facility
- mm-Scale Robotics Actuator Design Fabrication and Characterization Facility
- Nanoelectronics Design, Fabrication and Characterization Facility
- Nanoenergetics and Electronics Integration and Characterization Facility
- Giga-Hertz Transverse Electromagnetic Cell (GTEM Cell) for Susceptibility Experiments on Small Targets
- Anechoic Chamber for High Power and Electronic Warefare Research
Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate (SLAD)
- Intelligent Optics Laboratory
- Experimental Facility 6 (EF6)
- Small Arms Experimental Facility 20
- Electro-Optical (EO) Countermeasures Missile Flight Simulator
- Electro-Optical Vulnerability Analysis Facility (EOVAF)
- Electro-Magnetic Vulnerability Assessment Facility (EMVAF)
- Air Defense Electronic Warfare Facility
- Test Environmental Certification Complex (TECC)
- Field Mobile Management System (FMMS)
- Electronic Warfare Signature Measurement Facility
- Information Operations Facility
- Novel Energetic Research Facility (NERF)
- Aerosol Laser Facility
- Mobile Acoustic Source (MOAS)
- Environmental Sensing and Optical Spectroscopy Research Facility
- Explosive Detonation Simulator
- Ballistic Pendulum Facility
- Electro-Optical Data Acquisition and Tracking System (EDATS)
- Acoustic/Seismic Countermeasure Vehicle
- Open-Loop Tracking Complex (OLTC)
- Mobile Atmospherics Effects Instrumentation
- Profiler Testbed
- Directed Energy Anechoic Chamber
Vehicle Technology Directorate (VTD)
- Robotics research facility
- Micro and small-scale autonomous systems motion capture facility
- Ducted rotor experimentation facility*
- Microsystem closed-circuit wind-tunnel facility*
- Small hover test facility*
- UAV/UGA drive and controls facility*
- UAV Rolling Testbed facility*
- Micro-system Aeromechanics facility*
- Structural Integrity and Durability facility*
- Mechanical Components and Tribology facility*
- High Temperature Materials facility*
- Drive Train Systems facility*
- Heat Engine Systems Altitude Test Facility *
- Prognostics and Diagnostics Laboratory*
- Multifunctional Structures Facility*
ARL Leveraged Facilities
ARL operates many of the following VTD facilities under established agreements with NASA.
- Transonic Dynamic Tunnel
- Turboshaft Engine Research Facility
- 500 hp Helicopter Transmission Research Facility
- Small Engine Research Facility
- Single Gear Tooth Bending Research Facility
- Atmospheric and High Pressure Burner Rigs Centrifugal Compressor Research Facility
- Flow Visualization Tunnel Gears and Bearings Research Rigs Facility
- High Temperature Materials Processing Facility
- High Temperature Materials Characterization Facilities
*facilities under construction
Weapons and Materials Research Directorate (WMRD)
- Transonic Experimental Research Facility
- Cannon-Caliber Electromagnetic Launcher Facility
- Large-Caliber Terminal Ballistics Facility
- Enclosed Small and Medium Caliber Firing Experimental Facility
- Shaped-Charge Research and Shear-Forming Press Facility
- EFP Terminal Effects Research Facility
- Aerodynamics Experimental Research Facility
- High Rate Mechanical Characterization Facility
- High-G Gun Launch Simulation Facility
- Vertical Impulse Measurement Facility (VIMF)
- Composites Processing Research Facilities
- Materials Characterization Facility
- Target Assembly Facility
- Armor Experimental Facility
- Munitions Survivability Facility
- Large and Small-Caliber Armor Research Facility
- Nanobiotechnology Facility
- Ion Implantation Facility
- Light Gas Gun Facility