Laboratory Information:
Developmental Test Command
Technology Management Division (CSTE-DTC-TT-M)
314 Longs Corner Road
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5055
Website: http://www.dtc.army.mil
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.dtc.army.mil/capabilities/techtrans.html
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Army
Region: Mid-Atlantic
Background/History of the Laboratory:
The U.S. Army Developmental Test Command
is the Army's premier materiel testing organization for weapons and
equipment. DTC develops, acquires and uses advanced test technologies - such as synthetic environments,
artificial intelligence, robotics and directed energy - to test a wide array of systems, ensuring they
meet rigorous
performance standards that make them safe, effective, reliable, user-friendly and easy to maintain.
With the
largest, most diverse assemblage of testing technology in the Department of Defense, DTC tests military
hardware of every description under precise conditions across the full spectrum of natural and controlled
environments on highly instrumented ranges and test courses. Our test technologies and facilities are
helping the
Army develop and acquire the equipment and systems it needs to transform into the responsive, lethal,
agile and
highly versatile military force of the 21st century envisioned by the Army Chief of Staff and senior
Army leadership.
The DTC family comprises thousands of highly trained, professional men and women, soldiers and civilians,
who
are dedicated to meeting the needs of their customers and, through them, proudly serving the American
soldier
and the American people.
Mission of the Laboratory:
DTC offers a full range of test services,
including providing unbiased test data on the technical feasibility of
early concepts, determining system performance and safety, assessing technical risks during system
development, confirming designs and validating manufacturers' facilities and processes at both system
and
component levels. DTC offers its testing capabilities to all U.S. military services and Defense Department
organizations, other federal agencies, state and local governments, foreign and allied governments and
private
industry.
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Commercial Procurement Contracts
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Government Inter/Intra Agency Partnerships
- Patent License Agreements
- Technical Assistance Program
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Hi-Speed Video/Film Documentation
- Hi-Velocity Gas Guns
- Horizontal and Air-to-Ground Rocket-Sled Threat-Delivery Systems
- Improved Packaging
- Individual Equipment
- Industry Testing
- Infantry Weapons Systems
- Infrared Temperature
- Interference Testing
- Acquisition/Tracking and Firing
- Aerosol/smoke Cloud Dispersion
- Air Defense Testing
- Air Delivery/Air Transport
- Aircraft Armament
- Aircraft Performance
- Aircraft Survivability/Vulnerability
- Armament and Munitions Testing
- Armor and Projectile
- Artillery
- Atmospheric transmittance
- Automotive Repair Shop
- Automotive Safety
- Aviation Testing
- Ballistic Measurements
- Ballistic Shock
- Blast Overpressure
- Combat Engineer Equipment
- Combat Vehicle Armament, Vulnerability, and Lethality
- Command, Control, Communication, and Computers (C4) and Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (IEW) Testing
- Congressionally Mandated Live Fire
- Depot-Level Machine/Welding
- Educational Assistance
- Electromagnetic Effects
- Electronic Training
- Environmental Systems
- Environmentally Safe Test Ponds
- Extinction
- Fire Suppression
- Flammability Testing
- Flash X-Ray
- General Equipment
- Ground Mobility
- Live Fire Testing
- Meteorology Programs
- Mine/Countermine
- Modeling and Simulation (M&S)
- Motion-based Flight Simulators
- Moving Target Simulator
- Natural resource protection
- Nuclear/Biological/Chemical (NBC) Survivability
- Optical Scintillation
- Other Environments
- Performance
- Personnel Body Shock
- Safety Verification
- Ship and Armor Structures
- Snow Crystal Characterization
- Solder and Support Equipment
- Survivability and Lethality
- Thermal Measurement
- Toxic Gas Monitoring
- Transportability
- Transportability
- Transportability
- Transportability
- Underwater/Surface Shock
- Vehicle Testing
- Virtual Battlefield Environment
- Virtual Proving Ground (VPG)
- Virtual Range System
- Vulnerability/Lethality
- War pollution cleanup
