Laboratory Information:
U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Command
RDAR-EIB
Building 1, 3rd Floor
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
Website: http://www.pica.army.mil/PicatinnyPublic/index.asp
Technology Transfer Website: https://www.pica.army.mil/techtran/
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Army
Region: Northeast
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Mr. Timothy Ryan
Phone: 973-724-7953
Fax: 973-724-4111
Email: timothy.s.ryan@us.army.mil
Background/History of the Laboratory:
Headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J.,
the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
(ARDEC) is the U.S. Army's principal researcher, developer and sustainer of current and future armament
and
munitions systems. ARDEC consists of other sites in addition to Picatinny: Benet Laboratories at Watervliet
Arsenal, N.Y.; Ware Simulation Laboratory, Rock Island, Ill.; and a Fire Control element at Aberdeen
Proving
Ground, Md.
ARDEC, the largest tenant at Picatinny, provides the technology
for over 90 percent of the Army’s conventional
lethality and a significant portion of all other Services’ lethality through fully-integrated life-cycle
engineering
(from research and development to demilitarization). With synergy being maximized through the
consolidation
of Department of Defense (DOD) RDTE munitions, propellants and explosives functions, ARDEC is directly
contributing to DOD’s transformation efforts, and has numerous world-class and one-of a kind R&D
facilities,
utilities and the infrastructure in place to support additional joint missions and functions.
Located in a high
technology metropolitan area, near a multitude of industry and academic partners, it is easier to attract
and
retain strong science and engineering talent.
During 2007, ARDEC became the first DOD organization in history
selected to receive the Malcolm Baldrige
National Quality Award and is also the recipient of many other prestigious national awards that include
the
Presidential Award for Quality, two Army Communities of Excellence Awards and several Army Research
and
Development Organization of the Year Awards.
Mission of the Laboratory:
ARDEC’s mission is to develop and
maintain a customer-focused, world-class workforce that will execute,
manage, and continuously improve integrated life cycle engineering processes required for the research,
development, production, field support, and demilitarization of weapons, munitions, fire control, and
associated
items. This includes improving already fielded items; developing new items; maintaining a strong
armament
technology base in government, industry, and academia; and providing technical support to soldiers in
the field.
Representative ARDEC programs exist in the following phases of the acquisition process: technology base,
demonstration, development, production, and deployment. ARDEC’s core mission areas
are:
-
Advanced Weapons Systems
- Fire Control
- Advanced Energetics, Warheads, and Ammunition
- Ammunition Logistics RDTE
The success in ARDEC’s technology transfer program plays
an important role in demonstrating ARDEC as a
leader in technology innovation. ARDEC partners with a wide variety of organizations including
industry,
academia, and other government organizations to accelerate the development and transition of new and
innovative technologies for the Warfighter. While the center's efforts are concentrated in major
business areas,
ARDEC is also making strategic investments in new business development areas. ARDEC’s research
investment has demonstrated commercial spin-off benefits for our nation’s civilian economy as well. Under
Homeland Defense, ARDEC has been working to exploit core competencies such as sensors, non- lethal
systems, and knowledge management, as well as growth areas to include defeat of lethal mechanisms/IEDs,
biometrics, and training of medical and tactical personnel. ARDEC also has numerous alliances
with industry
partners and academic institutions and has strategically partnered through “Master” CRADAs
to advance
technologies supporting the Future Force. A one-of-a-kind organization, ARDEC provides virtually
all of the
lethal mechanisms used in Army weapon systems and those of the other military services; there is no
commercial or government equivalent.
ARDEC also uses technology transfer agreements such as CRADAs
and TSAs to enable military industry to
access the technology expertise and capabilities of ARDEC to support industry performance under DOD
Acquisition Programs. DOD acquisition policy requires flow down of extensive management control
tools that
are new to ARDEC, as we have historically been the “buyer” rather than the “supplier”.
Earned Value
Management (EVM) systems are just one example which is being implemented to improve management
processes accordingly.
To maximize ARDEC effectiveness, well-designed protocols
that expedite diverse tech transfer agreements
have been developed, all of which advance the Center’s ambitious strategic objectives: to
provide the latest
technology to today’s warfighter and simultaneously support the complete transformation of the
nation’s future
forces.
Through teaming with the Army’s Program Executive Office
community, Program Managers, and ARDEC
research managers, a new group of stakeholders who previously had not used technology leveraging tools
such as CRADAs, TSAs, or PLAs as part of their Defense Acquisition strategies has been developed.
As a
result, tech transfer from laboratory to marketplace is faster, less costly, and fully leverages ARDEC’s
own
human resources and its R&D facilities. This unusual inclusive approach has greatly enhanced
communication throughout ARDEC’s T2 system, with program managers consulting with the ARDEC
Technology Transfer Office well in advance of possible formal transfer to outside partners.
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Confidentiality Agreements
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Facility Sharing
- Independent Research and Development (IR&D)
- Patents and Licensing Agreements & Patents
- Procurement Contracts
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
- Test Service Agreements
- Unsolicited Proposals
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Aero Ballistics
- Automated Test Systems
- Autonomous Weapons
- Battlefield Digitization/SW Applications
- Beyond Line of Sight
- Demolitions
- Direct Fire
- Directed Energy
- Embedded System Software
- Energetics, Warheads, and Ammunition: Small, Medium, Large Caliber
- Environmental Technologies
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal
- Explosives
- Firing Tables: Ballisticsa
- Fuzes
- Grenades
- Indirect Fire
- Insensitive Munitions
- Line of Sight
- Logistics
- Maneuver Support Munitions
- Non Line of Sight Fire
- Non-Lethal Weapons Systems
- Packaging
- Precision Armaments Components
- Propellants
- Pyrotechnics
- Remote Weapons
- Scalable Effects
- Telemetry
- Warheads: Chemical Energy
- Warheads: EFPs
- Warheads: Fragmentation
- Warheads: Kinetic Energy
