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Laboratory Information:

Redstone Technical Test Center
STERT-TE-P
Test Management Division
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-8052
Website: http://www.rtc.army.mil/home.htm
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Army
Region: Southeast

FLC Laboratory Representative:

Mr. Mac Lowry
Phone: (256) 313-6106
Email: Mac.Lowry@us.army.mil

Background/History of the Laboratory:

Mission of the Laboratory:

Facilities:

Technology Transfer Mechanisms:

• Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
  
• Facility Sharing
  
• Other
  
• Patents and Licensing
  
• Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
  
• Technical Assistance
  

Technology Areas of Expertise:

• Helicopter masking areas, varied terrain
  
• Helicopter/missile initial integration testing/flights
  
• High frequency structure simulation
  
• High-altitude static testing (Liquid fueled thruster testing)
  
• High-Explosive Warhead and Fuze/Safe & Arm (S&A)
  
• Highly flexible building block approach
  
• Human-in-the-Loop Distributed Testing
  
• Human-in-the-Loop Distributed Testing
  
• Humidity
  
• Hydrodynamic burst and proof testing
  
• Hypervelocity functioning
  
• Improving the actual test (test the test)
  
• Inerting of live rounds for display and test
  
• Infrared (IR) truth data collection for numerous programs that depend on high-resolution IR missile seekers
  
• Infrared Millimeter Wave Analysis (IRMA) scene simulation
  
• Insensitive munitions (MIL-STD-2105)
  
• Insertion of real-time simulations into test control
  
• Instrumentation Development
  
• Instrumentation of subsystems and equipment on ground or airborne platforms
  
• Instrumented air defense system/subsystem testing supported
  
• Instrumented Dirty battlefield testing for systems and subsystems
  
• Integration of unit-under-test models and simulations into data acquisition and analysis systems
  
• Integration of live and virtual components and environments
  
• Integration of seekers and sensors on fixed and rotary-wing aircraft
  
• Kinematics and dynamics
  
• Laboratory Testing
  
• Laser damage threshold tests
  
• Laser designator performance characterization
  
• Laser designators
  
• Laser rangefinder and designator testing
  
• Laser rangefinders
  
• Launch signature characterization
  
• Lens, mirrors, and optical component tests
  
• Acceleration
  
• Acoustical sensors and seekers
  
• Aircraft electromagnetic testing (i.e. noise floor measurements)
  
• All-up-round missile test sets (HUTS, JETS, and LETS)
  
• All-up-round test sets
  
• Antennas - Planar near-field (1-20 GHz) - Compact range (26.5-110 GHz)
  
• Automated test equipment
  
• Aviation flight safety parts testing
  
• Blast Overpressure
  
• Blowing Rain
  
• Blowing Sand
  
• Boresite and laser shearography inspection
  
• Cable integrity/reliability/interfacing
  
• Capability of real-time data to simulation organizations
  
• Captive carry flight tests
  
• Climatic
  
• Climatic Specification Development
  
• Compact Automated Centroid Tracker Instrumentation System (CACTIS) laser spot detection system
  
• Computer based distributed instrumentation
  
• Concept, design, modification, procurement, and fabrication of test vans for the remote collection and recording of field data
  
• Concept, design, modification, procurement, fabrication, test, and integration of instrumentation systems for R&D and fielded weapon systems - including the building of flight termination kits and Telemetry (TM) packages
  
• Conventional and high-energy radiographic inspection of weapon systems, rocket motors, targets, and components
  
• Creating of obscurants (i.e., fog oil, diesel, and phosphorus) and other countermeasures
  
• Custom databases, interfaces, and flexible data mining tools
  
• Custom instrumentation development, testing, integration, and engineering support
  
• Data acquisition / Networking
  
• Data acquisition and data analysis
  
• Data acquisition and signal analysis
  
• Data acquisition equipment
  
• Data analysis
  
• Data archive
  
• Data reporting/management
  
• Design Qualification and Product Assurance Services
  
• Detection/recognition tests
  
• Direct-view optic telescopes
  
• Disassembly of hypergolic-fueled propulsion systems
  
• Disassembly of munitions for failure analysis, reverse engineering, and component-level testing
  
• Distributed test capabilities to expand the envelope of test participants
  
• Distributed Testing
  
• Dust
  
• Dye penetrant and magnetic particle inspection
  
• Dynamic
  
• Dynamic Infrared Scene Projector (DIRSP)
  
• Electrical/electronic
  
• Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
  
• Electromagnetic Environmental Effects
  
• Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)
  
• Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)/Nuclear
  
• Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) -- Hazards (EMRH)
  
• Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) -- Operational (EMRO)
  
• Electromagnetic Vulnerability (EMV)
  
• Electronics testing
  
• Electro-Optic Sensor Flight Evaluation Laboratory (EOSFEL)
  
• Electro-Optics Sensors and Subsystems (Field Testing)
  
• Electro-Optics Sensors and Subsystems (Lab Testing)
  
• Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) -- Personnel (PESD) & Helicopter (HESD)
  
• Enhanced Test-the-Test capabilities to get it right the first time
  
• Environmental conditioning
  
• Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)
  
• Environmental testing (i.e., temperature, wind, rain, sand, and dust)
  
• EO/IR sensors and seekers (Lab Services and Field Services)
  
• Experimental modal analysis
  
• Explosive operations
  
• Far-field radar testing (radar system and antenna testing)
  
• Fatigue and life-cycle
  
• Field Testing
  
• Film and data reduction
  
• Finite element analysis
  
• Fire from enclosure test
  
• Flash radiographic imagery of penetrator events
  
• Flash radiography
  
• Flexible ground-truth database and post mission reporting tools and analysis
  
• Flight
  
• Flight testing with live warheads
  
• Foreign missile exploitation
  
• Fragments
  
• Freezing Rain/Ice
  
• Fully instrumented small rockets range (500 meter maximum)
  
• Fuze/S&A functional testing (electrical or mechanical)
  
• Gage laboratory
  
• Guidance section seeker performance tests
  
• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) Testing
  
• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) Testing
  
• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) Testing
  
• Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (HERO)
  
• Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (HERO)
  
• Live/virtual interfaces
  
• Live-fire testing, remote and manned firings
  
• LOCAITS
  
• Long-wave IR sensors and seekers
  
• Low/High Temperature
  
• MDOF motion replication
  
• Mechanical/electrical/electronic fuze Safe & Arm (S&A)
  
• Mechanical/functional/performance
  
• Metrology/physical measurements (weight, center of gravity, inertia, etc.)
  
• Mid-wave IR sensors and seekers
  
• MIL-STD-810 (C, D, E, & F) Testing
  
• Missile modifications
  
• Missile seeker testing
  
• Missile spin balancing
  
• MMWs and microwave sensors and seekers
  
• Mobile IR imaging platform
  
• Mobile Test Capabilities
  
• Modeling and Simulation (M&S)
  
• Modeling and Simulation (M&S)
  
• Modeling of test instrumentation to optimize the test
  
• Modeling, Simulation, and Hardware/Human-in-the-Loop Technology Integrated into Testing
  
• Modification of live munitions
  
• Modification/Assembly/Disassembly Operations
  
• Modularized/automated data acquisition
  
• Motor/engine performance
  
• Multi-body dynamics
  
• Multiple participants, real-time acquisition
  
• Multi-Spectral sensors and components
  
• Multi-Spectral terrain target Infrared (IR) signature measurement for high-resolution reconnaissance, target acquisition, and weapon systems
  
• Multi-Spectral/multimode sensors and seekers
  
• Munitions safety testing and hazard classification
  
• Near- and Direct Strike Lightning (NSL & DSL)/Lightning Effects (LE)
  
• Near- and direct-lightning strikes
  
• Near-IR sensors and seekers
  
• Noise
  
• Noise figure measurements
  
• Nondestructive Inspection and Physical Measurement
  
• Nondestructive Test (NDT) inspection
  
• Obscurants and obscurant characterization
  
• Optical components
  
• Other electromagnetic safety/hazards and operational testing
  
• Personnel and helicopter Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) testing
  
• Phase noise measurements
  
• Plume RF attenuation and signature testing
  
• Pneumatic/hydrostatic/hydraulic
  
• Power Quality measurement
  
• Propulsion
  
• Propulsion system static testing/firing
  
• Prototype production and shelf-life testing
  
• Radar Cross Section (RCS)/signature
  
• Radar cross-section measurements
  
• Radar systems test
  
• Radio Frequency (RF) Sensors and Subsystems
  
• Radio-frequency sensors and seekers
  
• Rail impact
  
• Range and lab creation and operation in remote areas throughout the world
  
• Range Operations Components for Integrated Testing (ROCIT)
  
• Range Operations Components for Integrated Testing (ROCIT), an ongoing range upgrade project to implement enhanced test capabilities
  
• Rapid Decompression
  
• RAVIN
  
• Real-time displays for test conductors, evaluators, and customers
  
• Real-time distributed testing across fiber optic networks
  
• Real-time laser spot position
  
• Real-time, medium-to-high energy X-ray capabilities
  
• Reconnaissance sensor testing
  
• Reverse ballistic tests
  
• RF emitter analysis
  
• RF safety analysis
  
• RF-hardened instrumentation
  
• Road/mobility
  
• Rocket motor dissection and propellant sampling
  
• Rotating warhead tests
  
• Ruggedized data acquisition systems integrated onto weapons platforms
  
• Ruggedized/fieldable hardware
  
• S&A tests
  
• Safety Analysis
  
• Safety test capability
  
• Safety Testing
  
• Safety testing for hazard classification
  
• Salt Fog
  
• Scene Generation
  
• Seeker sensor captive carry flight testing
  
• Sensors and Seekers
  
• Sequenced multiple-initiation points (up to eight)
  
• Shielding Effectiveness (SE)
  
• Shock
  
• Signal Analysis
  
• Simultaneous IR, MMW, and laser target projection
  
• Soft recovery acceleration tests
  
• Solar Radiation
  
• Special testing
  
• Spectrum analyzers
  
• Stabilized Electro-Optical Airborne Instrumentation Platform (SEAIP)
  
• Stabilized platform (SEAIP)
  
• State-of-the-art test instrumentation and data reduction capabilities providing reduced setup and data processing time
  
• Static and dynamic warhead tests
  
• Stockpile reliability and surveillance testing
  
• Structural and loading
  
• Submersion/Leak
  
• Supplying of a wide variety of moving and stationary targets
  
• Surveillance sensor testing
  
• Survivability and vulnerability testing
  
• Special inspection equipment
  
• Synthetic environment creation and insertion
  
• System of systems tests
  
• System, subsystem, and component level data
  
• System-level performance information from subsystem testing
  
• Target acquisition sensor testing
  
• Target signature characterization/signature measurement
  
• Telemetry
  
• Telemetry ground station facilities (both fixed and mobile) and data acquisition services to support flight and ground testing at RTTC and other remote sites
  
• Telemetry system concept, design, modification, procurement, fabrication, test, and integration of Airborne Instrumentation Systems for R&D and fielded weapon systems
  
• Temperature Shock
  
• Temperature/Altitude
  
• Test control
  
• Test Program Set (TPS) development for Intermediate Forward Test Equipment (IFTE) standard
  
• Test Station Development (Stand-alone systems)
  
• Testing and measurement to validate customer's models
  
• Testing of solid, liquid, and hybrid rocket motors
  
• Thermal
  
• Thermal ablative test capability
  
• Thermal Model Development
  
• Threat simulators
  
• Time of arrival switches for jet velocity profiles
  
• Time, Space, & Position Information (TSPI) collection [i.e. using Low Cost Airborne Interim Tracking System (LOCAITS), radars, laser tracker, etc.]
  
• Time/Space/Position/Information (TSPI-GPS) Õ other observable phenomena
  
• Toxicity
  
• Tracked and wheeled target array (domestic and foreign)
  
• Transmitters/receivers
  
• Turbo-shaft engine testing (Testing of helicopter engines)
  
• Ultrasonic inspection
  
• Ultraviolet (UV) sensors
  
• Vector network analyzers
  
• Versa Extensions for Instrumentation (VXI)/Versa Module Europa (VME)
  
• Vertical testing of liquid rocket engines
  
• Vibration
  
• Vibro-Acoustics
  
• Virtual prototyping of weapon systems
  
• Virtual Proving Ground (VPG)
  
• Virtual Range
  
• Visible/TV sensors and seekers
  
• Warhead air gun utilizing programmable electronic S&A
  
• Wave guides, cables, couplers, filters, etc.
  
• Weapon system safety testing
  
• Unit-Under-Test instrumentation
  
• X-Patch signature prediction