ARA hosted our third Vertek Days event at our Randolph, Vermont facility on August 25 and 26, bringing together new and long‑standing customers for a day and a half of immersive learning and collaboration.
ARA will showcase advanced technologies and mission-focused capabilities at the 2026 Air, Space & Cyber Conference, September 14–16 in National Harbor, Maryland.
ARA will present its latest innovations in military health, medical readiness, and Warfighter performance at the 2026 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), held August 3–6 in Kissimmee, FL.
ARA has released DPlot Version 3, an updated edition of its graphing and data visualization software, designed for scientists, engineers, researchers, and technical professionals working with complex data.
ARA is pleased to announce the addition of Maggie Gendron as a principal of ARA Government Relations. Gendron brings 20 years of experience in policy development, legislative strategy, and federal…
ARA's Neya Systems Division, a leading provider of off-road autonomy and mission planning software, announced that it has won an RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for its cyber autonomy initiative, which is focused on…
ARA is a proud Visionary Sponsor of Creative Disruptors in the Desert, The Creative Defense Foundation’s inaugural conference scheduled for February 23–24 in La Quinta, CA. Creative Disruptors in the…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is pleased to announce it is ranked the 91st largest majority employee-owned company on the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) 2023 Employee Ownership 100…
ARA has been named one of the top 200 federal contractors in Bloomberg Government’s twelfth annual BGOV 200 report, which ranks contractors based on fiscal year 2022 data for unclassified,…
ARA is pleased to announce the appointment of Amanda Steffey as Senior Director, Washington Operations. Steffey joins ARA’s growing Government Relations enterprise where she will lead ARA’s Air Force program…
Since the 1990s, ARA has been making some of the world’s most dangerous jobs safer through advances in tele-operation and automation. With this technology continuing to evolve, we sat down…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. is a 100% employee-owned international research and engineering company that provides innovative solutions to the edge with technologies and capabilities that are proven to make a…
Fermat Capital Management, LLC (Fermat) recently signed an agreement to license ARA’s state of the art hurricane model, HurLoss™. The agreement was signed via a re-seller agreement with Nasdaq, who is the…
Peter Vickery is a Principal Engineer with ARA. Peter has over 40 years in the study of wind effects on structures and helped to develop ARA’s leading wind catastrophe model,…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is pleased to announce the appointment of James Myers as Vice President, Program Innovation and Growth, effective June 1. Myers, a three-decade Department of Defense Veteran…
Erin Flanigan, P.E., PMP has joined Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) as a principal for Transportation Operations and Safety. In this role, she will support clients nationwide in the advancement…
A crane replaces a bridge over the Ohmsett Oil Spill Response & Renewable Energy Test facility during refurbishment in spring 2022. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s National Oil…
The National Guard Bureau has taken a bold step toward securing and enhancing Warfighter brain health, and ensuring cognitive combat readiness with the launch of a new initiative to measure,…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) today announced the licensing of its patented Hydrothermal Cleanup feedstock pretreatment technology (“HCU Pretreat”) to Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company (Sinclair) for the development of a…
U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) announced Friday that Applied Research Associates (ARA) of Randolph, Vt., has received an award totaling $5,237,915 from the U.S. Army Corps…
ARA is a proud sponsor of Conjecture Mania, an innovative cross-disciplinary competition that challenges participants to develop creative, yet scientifically plausible, Conjecture µPubs (MicroPublications) to advance novel ideas that envision…
Security experts at Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) have authored an article published in the April 2021 edition of Security Business Magazine titled “Value Engineering for Security Design Projects.” Value…
Euglena Co., Ltd. (Euglena) (HQ: Tokyo, Japan, CEO: Mitsuru Izumo), Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), (HQ: Richmond, California, co-Managing Directors: Bharat Srinivasan and Ujjal Mukherjee), and Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA)…
Laboratory research conducted over the past two decades indicates that the Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Training (SMART) , developed by The University of Texas at Dallas’ Center for BrainHealth® can…
The VR/AR Association has released the 2021 Defense & Intelligence Industry Sector Report, co-sponsored by Applied Research Associates, Inc.’s (ARA) Virtual Heroes Division. “Given the world’s current pandemic situation with…
ASIS International has announced the release of the new Physical Asset Protection Standard. Kenneth Herrle, a senior engineer and security expert at Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA), served as a member…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) was part of a team of designers and contractors who recently completed a large, high-priority design/build project on Utah’s Tech Corridor on I-15. The project is…
ARA is a proud sponsor of the Evidence Madness, a competition to identify important scientific research published within the last five years that will lead to new, transformative industries by…
For the past seven years, ARA and its employee owners have proudly supported the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) and its mission to aid severely wounded special forces personnel and…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) recently delivered two of its Accelerated Transportation Loading System (ATLaS) to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in Virginia. ATLaS enables agencies like the FHWA to…
Applied Research Associates (ARA), in partnership with Xceedance, a global provider of strategic insurance consulting and technology, and the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework (Oasis LMF), announced the availability of on-demand exposure analysis and…
Effective Sept. 1, Will Goodman has joined ARA to establish and lead its new government relations enterprise. ARA has a proud 40-year history of supporting government programs in all aspects,…
An ARA employee and active K-9 search and rescue volunteer made masks for nurses, pharmacists, law enforcement officers, search and rescue volunteers, Fed-Ex delivery distribution center employees, family, friends, and…
An ARA employee has completed roughly 150 platelet donations, taking the time to donate every two to four weeks for many years. Platelets are used to clot blood and help…
ARA employees volunteered at an even held by the Eastern NC chapter of Society of Women Engineers. Second through fifth grade Girl Scouts problem solved, designed, and created a prosthetic…
ARA employees rolled up their sleeves and volunteered with Warmth for Wake in Raleigh, NC. During the winter, many are left without heat or the ability to obtain firewood for…
Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) and Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) are pleased to announce the successful startup of euglena Co., Ltd. (euglena Co.)'s integrated Biofuels ISOCONVERSION unit in Yokohama, Japan. The…
ARA proudly supports the Florida Department of Transportation in helping to keep drivers safe. ARA’s comprehensive testing capabilities and engineering services provide a solution for assessing the condition and performance…
Mike Royer has been selected as ARA’s new Chief Financial Officer, effective June 1, following the upcoming retirement of Jeff Wilkins. He was selected after a rigorous five-month selection process and…
ARA is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Signature Management Group from Enterprise Ventures Corporation (EVC), an affiliate of Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), on May 6. The Signature Management…
The Virtual Heroes Division of Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) has released free downloads of two of its serious games, Mission Biotech and HumanSim: Sedation and Airway in support of our nation’s educators, students,…
One of the greatest concerns facing health care workers on the front lines of infectious disease outbreaks such as COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is a shortage of personal protective equipment,…
ARA’s BioGears team has been selected to be a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code, an international program focused on introducing students to open source software development by completing a three-month programming…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is now operating an explosives test site in Moriarty, New Mexico, 45 minutes away from the Albuquerque International Sunport. The DoD- and ATF-approved explosive test…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) and Chevron Lummus Global LLC (CLG) are working toward a more sustainable future by developing novel solutions to meet the global need for sustainable aviation…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Consulting Division of Dynatest North America, a leader in pavement engineering services, as of February 3. Dynatest’s Consulting Division has…
Two teams with ARA employees received Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary for Science & Technology awards for Collaboration In a Matrix Dec. 6. The award "recognizes exceptional, collaborative efforts within…
An ARA engineer recently accepted an Outstanding Contractor Support award from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate after the team he leads went above and beyond the call…
Applied Research Associates, Inc.’s (ARA) shock wave experts perform research that will help protect the warfighter from the effects of blast exposure in training and on the battlefield. When it…
At Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA), national defense is at the heart of what we do. ARA has a proud 40-year history of supporting the warfighter in all aspects, from…
Two ARA security experts, Kenneth Herrle and Nancy Renfroe, will present “Lessons Learned Through a Security Design Review” at the 2019 Global Security Exchange on Sept. 11. The interactive discussion…
ARA was out in force at the 2019 Military Health System Research Symposium in Orlando, Fla., where ARA scientists and engineers highlighted their leading-edge work in support of military medicine.…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) was recently awarded a contract to continue support for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Technical Reachback program. ARA supports the DTRA Technical Reachback team…
The Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) Expeditionary Warfare Consortium has been established to develop innovative products, prototypes, and solutions to meet the expeditionary warfare needs of the Naval Surface Warfare…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) was recently recognized as a Flying 40 recipient, again topping the chart of New Mexico’s highest revenue-producing tech companies. The awards, which began in 1998,…
When utility companies, and others, make cuts into the pavement for utility installation or maintenance, the cuts and subsequent repairs/patching can reduce the structural integrity of the street and cause…
An Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) contract supports the Security Equipment Integration Working Group (SEIWG), which recently received a government-wide award for its efforts to improve interoperability of Department of…
Team Polaris, consisting of Polaris, ARA, and Neya Systems, recently demonstrated its MRZR® X at Texas A&M University for the U.S. Army in anticipation of a major robotic combat vehicle…
The U.S. Army awarded Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) a sole-source contract in January to integrate its patent-protected state-of-the-art Augmented Reality software (ARC4: Augmented Reality, Command, Control, Communicate, Coordinate) into…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) acquired Weston Geophysical Corporation, a preeminent nuclear test monitoring firm, on Feb. 28. For the past 20 years, Weston has conducted seismic and geophysical research…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is pleased to announce the release of two 40-minute web-based training sessions for the WINGARD PE and DCMS software to help users better understand the…
An ARA scientist is co-presenting a webinar as part of a series on the use of New Approach Methodologies in risk assessment. The webinar, co-presented by Bahman Asgharian, will discuss…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) has teamed up to work with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to combat one of the biggest threats to sustainable citrus production in…
Springer, a leading publisher of books on technical and scientific topics, has published Cognitive Biases in Visualizations with a chapter by Donald Kretz, a principal scientist at Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA).…
An Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) program director and group leader, Edward Urbanik, has been named an Edmond S. Gillespie fellow by the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA). The AMTA…
Early-stage high-fidelity real-time interactive virtual burn patients on mobile Android and iOS platforms The Virtual Heroes Division of Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) has won a contract with the Army…
Improved analytics complement and leverage DHS efforts for centralized data governance An Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) project, System of Systems Operational Analysis (SoSOA), has received the Under Secretary for Science…
Applied Research Associates Inc.'s (ARA) research, experimentation, and design capabilities can save lives and ensure human aspects of socio-technical systems are reliable, making our world – and our workplaces – safer…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) offers dependable solutions designed to make the world more secure. WINdow Glazing Analysis Response and Design (WINGARD) and Dynamic Component Modeling Software (DCMS) are two…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is leveraging its technical expertise to improve battlefield medicine by tackling some challenges related to assessing thermally-injured causalities. The Burn Medical Assistant (BurnMan) project is…
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) serves the families of Special Operations personnel who are combat wounded or lose their lives while serving our country and preserving American freedoms. The…
Multi-modal system incorporates visual, tactile, audible warnings Roadways are dangerous places for emergency personnel, and Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA), in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security Science &…
Ohmsett, the National Oil Spill Response Research and Renewable Energy Test Facility, is a national research asset within the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). The…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is leveraging its broad expertise in radio frequency (RF) and Electro Optical technologies (OE) to help meet cutting edge and emerging warfighter needs. ARA recently…
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) awarded an Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) engineer a three-year grant totaling $450,000 through its competitive Young Investigator Research Program (YIP). Dr.…
Applied Research Associate Inc.’s (ARA) matrix-solve technologies enable first-principle or full-wave radar cross section (RCS) characterization using computer simulation at unprecedented frequencies, solving problems with 10 million unknowns in hours…
Traditionally, military and local law enforcement personnel use pyrotechnic based flash-bangs to gain an advantage during entry operations. The blinding flash and concussive blast effect often leave an adversary momentarily…
ARA offers training in its state-of-the-art RF measurement facility Several years ago, engineers and scientists at ARA noticed a chilling trend: many trade schools, colleges and universities were no longer…
Technology demonstrations help protect the nation by developing, delivering, and sustaining affordable, technologically-advanced capabilities Applied Research Associates Inc. (ARA) organized and supported two large-scale technology demonstrations in conjunction with military…
Applied Research Associates Inc. Southeast Division (ARA-SED) in Raleigh, NC has won the prestigious James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award. ARA-SED security professionals accepted the award at the…
STE to modernize and standardize Soldier virtual training ARA is adapting its Government-owned, license-free ASCEND technology as a One World Terrain (OWT) solution Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) has been…
ACTIVE reduces dependence on water Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) was recently awarded a patent for transformative new technology that improves thermoelectric power plant cooling. The critical technology is emerging…
Innovation reduces environmental impact and cuts costs Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA), has helped the Illinois Tollway save more than $250 million in highway construction costs by offering consulting services…
Team Polaris® and its advanced MRZR® X multi-mode vehicle platform have been selected by the U.S. Army to be one of the robotic systems used by infantry brigade combat teams for the…
Pictured left to right are ARA’s Mike Rawus, and Francisco Robinson-Brown from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center. Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA), has earned one of the world’s most prestigious…
Security experts from Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) are offering comprehensive training to help federal employees stay safe from potential threats. ARA developed the customized training in response to high…
Public-Private Partnership aims to increase warfighter readiness ARA’s Virtual Heroes Division recently joined the Training and Readiness Accelerator (TReX) partnership that aims to expedite development, demonstration, and delivery of prototypes…
The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) recently awarded ARA’s Neya Systems Division Manager, Parag Batavia, the Ground Robotics Technology Innovator Award. Presented annually, the award goes to a nationally recognized…
Effective March 19th, Jeff Wilkins has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer and an ARA Senior Vice President. Jeff will also serve as Secretary and Treasurer of ARA Holdings, Inc.,…
Team Polaris is displaying its advanced MRZR® X multi-mode, connected vehicle platform for the first time this week at the AUVSI Unmanned Systems show. As military forces worldwide look to…
This September, ARA employees rose to the call with an end-of-year drive to support the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) with employee/director donations totaling $13,528.67. At fiscal year-end ARA presented…
Ensuring an adequate supply of respirators for first responders and health care professionals is critical to protecting the health of workers on the front lines responding to pandemics and other…
The University of Florida and its 10 partners, including Applied Research Associates (ARA), have won a $15 million contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish a carinata-based sustainable…
ARA’s Pathfinder is the premier footstep and vehicle detection system designed for both the commercial and military markets. We are pleased to announce that the Pathfinder client app is now…
Polaris, ARA and Neya Systems Collaborate with MRZR® X Submission Polaris Industries Inc., Applied Research Associates Inc. (ARA) and Neya Systems LLC have teamed to provide the U.S. Army with…
The Virtual Heroes Division of Applied Research Associates has been named an Innovation blue-ribbon winner in the 2017 Industry Simulation & Training Awards. The editors of Military Simulation & Training (MS&T) magazine give…
Albuquerque, NM - The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division in Maryland has awarded Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) one of four multiple-award, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity…
CFM56 engine ready for testing. Photo credit: Deutsche Lufthansa Lufthansa German Airlines, one of the largest airlines in Europe, has successfully completed emissions testing on a fully synthetic renewable jet…
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA), an employee-owned scientific research and engineering company, has today announced the acquisition of BerrieHill Research Corporation (BRC), a leading provider of Electromagnetic Modeling/Simulation, Design, Analysis and…