Infrastructure
ARA leads in technologies and services to improve performance and sustainability of infrastructure for transportation, buildings, and aviation.
Communities rely on safe, secure, efficient networks of roads, airfields/airports, railways, and waterways. For decades, ARA has helped advance these critical national assets.
We support the full infrastructure lifecycle for military, civilian, and private organizations worldwide, enhancing performance, sustainability, and safety through research, consulting, asset management, and testing.
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Aviation
ARA supports commercial, general aviation, and military airports worldwide with innovative technologies that enhance safety and security, streamline airfield and facility management, and improve pavement performance. With decades of research experience, we deliver proven, cost‑effective strategies that help airports maintain reliable, high‑quality operations.
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Pavement Solutions
ARA delivers comprehensive pavement engineering research and consulting for roadways, airfields, parking areas, and intermodal facilities. We employ advanced testing technologies including automated surface condition assessment, structural evaluation, and multiple nondestructive methods to support accurate pavement analysis and design. As long-standing members of the transportation community, we’ve helped hundreds of municipal, state, federal, military, and private organizations improve pavement performance worldwide.
Combining research, manufacturing capabilities, and hands-on project delivery, we help agencies develop durable, sustainable, and cost‑effective pavement designs for both new construction and in‑service assets.
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Infrastructure Security
We strengthen national security through integrated intelligence, mission planning, and decision-support capabilities that deliver advanced insights for complex operations across land, sea, air, space, and cyber domains.
Our ISR systems, threat detection technologies, and situational awareness tools offer timely, mission-critical information. Leveraging digital mission planning, data science, and secure cloud-to-edge architectures, we enable actionable intelligence for operational planning and real-time decision making.
With a range of effective planning and assessment tools, we help defense partners anticipate threats, optimize operations, and maintain a decisive advantage against our adversaries.
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Asset Management
Transportation agencies rely on structured management processes, technical analysis, and clear communication to understand how their decisions impact system capacity, service quality, and long‑term infrastructure needs. Effective asset management helps maximize investment value, extend asset life, improve performance, and increase customer satisfaction.
ARA is a full‑service technology partner specializing in planning, data collection, modeling, performance management, system implementation, and outreach. We recognize that asset management is an integrated set of processes and policies — not just software. By first understanding an agency’s needs, data, and decision‑making workflow, ARA delivers a disciplined approach to data collection, modeling, and implementation that ensures reliable, effective solutions.
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Aviation
ARA supports commercial, general aviation, and military airports worldwide with innovative technologies that enhance safety and security, streamline airfield and facility management, and improve pavement performance. With decades of research experience, we deliver proven, cost‑effective strategies that help airports maintain reliable, high‑quality operations.
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Pavement Solutions
ARA delivers comprehensive pavement engineering research and consulting for roadways, airfields, parking areas, and intermodal facilities. We employ advanced testing technologies including automated surface condition assessment, structural evaluation, and multiple nondestructive methods to support accurate pavement analysis and design. As long-standing members of the transportation community, we’ve helped hundreds of municipal, state, federal, military, and private organizations improve pavement performance worldwide.
Combining research, manufacturing capabilities, and hands-on project delivery, we help agencies develop durable, sustainable, and cost‑effective pavement designs for both new construction and in‑service assets.
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Infrastructure Security
ARA supports more than 75 commercial airports and numerous sea and inland ports across the U.S., helping them meet TSA and FAA requirements through cost‑effective strategies that strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure.
Our experts assess potential physical threats to key facilities, structures, systems, and operations; identify vulnerabilities; and evaluate potential impacts on infrastructure performance and continuity.
With extensive experience evaluating infrastructure security posture, existing protective systems, and facility criticality, ARA delivers tailored recommendations to enhance structural robustness and operational resilience. Our deep capabilities in security engineering and applied sciences enable us to protect essential infrastructure, equipment, and systems that support the national airspace and intermodal transportation network.
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Asset Management
Transportation agencies rely on structured management processes, technical analysis, and clear communication to understand how their decisions impact system capacity, service quality, and long‑term infrastructure needs. Effective asset management helps maximize investment value, extend asset life, improve performance, and increase customer satisfaction.
ARA is a full‑service technology partner specializing in planning, data collection, modeling, performance management, system implementation, and outreach. We recognize that asset management is an integrated set of processes and policies — not just software. By first understanding an agency’s needs, data, and decision‑making workflow, ARA delivers a disciplined approach to data collection, modeling, and implementation that ensures reliable, effective solutions.
