Sapper: Autonomous Tracked Platform
Reduce risk and increase performance with Otonos autonomy and robotics.
HurLoss Hurricane Catastrophe Model
HurLoss™ is ARA’s state-of-the-art hurricane catastrophe model for property insurers, reinsurers and brokers, so that you can plan for the future.
OTONOS: UNMANNED REMOTE CONTROL AND TELE-OPERATION
Reduce risk and increase performance with Otonos autonomy and robotics.
Retrofit Bumper for Light Rail Vehicles
ARA’s retrofit bumper for light rail vehicles significantly reduces injuries, repair and litigation costs, and system downtimes.
Natural Disaster Risk Assessment & Consulting
ARA is an industry leader with state-of-the-art capability in the hazard and vulnerability of wind modeling.
Explosive Testing
ARA operates some of the United States’ premier test sites for full-scale explosive testing of building cladding, structural systems, and other protective/hardened designs...
Cloud, Edge and DevSecOps Services
ARA's experienced DevSecOps engineers, cloud security engineers, and software engineers will architect and implement secure cloud solutions to address your most challenging problems...
ISC/UFC Security Consulting Services
ARA’s board certified staff of security professionals provide a comprehensive knowledge base to train and educate stakeholders in the requirements of the ISC and UFC criteria...
Protected: Software Development and Integration for Survivability, Lethality, and Vulnerability Analysis
ARA has a tremendous amount of software development and user assistance experience supporting the Army’s ballistic survivability/lethality modeling software development, including direct support of DAC for AJEM...
Protected: Requirements-Based Exercises
ARA supports DoD modernization efforts through the development of requirements-based exercises, helping to deliver the right solutions at the right time...
Protected: Scientific Engineering and Integration Support for Nuclear Modernization
ARA understands the interdependencies between all aspects of the Minuteman weapon system. Exacting knowledge of each element and how they interact in the overall system is essential for weapon system success...
Protected: Signature Management
ARA is ready and able to solve signature management needs across our DoD customer base and support fielding of survivability enhancements...
Protected: Enterprise Architecture Solutions
ARA provides enterprise architecture solutions that enable collaborative, cross domain capable workspaces providing near real-time notification capability...
Building Information Modeling and Civil Integrated Management Services
ARA provides innovative building information modeling (BIM) for transportation and civil integrated management (CIM) services for a broad range of transportation...
Roadway Safety
Leveraging technical excellence and innovation, ARA enhances infrastructure performance with advanced tools and technology, improving the safety of roadways for the traveling public…
Crashworthiness & Human Injury Protection
In the area of infrastructure, ARA’s M&S tools and software provide highly accurate, cost-effective alternatives to large-scale tests in crashworthiness, forensics, impact analysis, structural characterization, and fire protection...
Rail Crashworthiness Analysis
Our engineers model and accurately predict full-scale train crash tests and apply validated models to the design of new and improved structures and the analysis of real-world accidents...
Policy and Planning for Infrastructure
ARA experts develop international, national, state, local, and industry standards, specifications, test methods, procedures, and requirements...
Traffic Monitoring
ARA helps clients to assess federal and state traffic monitoring directives, as well as develop and implement standards and practices to improve efficiency and accuracy in traffic data collection...
Infrastructure Risk Management
ARA provides innovative risk management services for a broad range of transportation- and infrastructure-related projects and programs...
VAPO: Vulnerability Assessment and Protection Option
Since 2003, VAPO has provided vulnerability assessors with state of the art modeling and simulation capabilities...
Geotechnical & Structures
ARA uses our combined geotechnical and structures expertise to provide a range of innovative R&D, consulting, and training services…
Surface Transportation R&D and Technology Deployment
Through the integrated application of engineering expertise, innovative communication and outreach, and responsive program management, ARA has helped the FHWA...
Technologies & Modeling for Nuclear Material Identification
Using ARA’s advanced computer modeling codes the various types of radiation detector technologies can be modeled against varying parameters...
Software & Tracking Tools for Environmental Systems
Software & Tracking Tools for Environmental Systems ARA provides innovative solutions to complex, real-world problems in environmental research and tracking.Our experts can design, develop, and maintain complex database systems and…
Pavement Engineering & Testing
ARA provides comprehensive pavement engineering research and consulting services for roadways, airfields, parking areas, and intermodal facilities, and employs a range of pavement testing technologies...
Transportation Asset Management
Through effective asset management, agencies can maximize their return on investment, improve system performance, extend the life of critical assets, and increase customer satisfaction...
Pavement Marking Services
ARA has a comprehensive suite of testing capabilities designed to assess the performance of pavement markings. Our professionals are nationally recognized experts...
Infrastructure and Transportation Security
ARA protects our infrastructure and transportation systems with decades of experience providing blast and security consulting, developing advanced security systems...
Instructional Design, Technologies & Products
At ARA, our instructional systems designers develop client-specific training products and academic curricula to meet the needs of any student, anywhere, at any time...
Cognitive Solutions
ARA's results-oriented research and development abilities save lives and property, ensure human aspects of systems are ready when needed, improve performance, productivity, and organizational adoption…
Railroads
ARA's rail-related technologies and research have contributed to new safety standards, codes, and practices and improved crashworthiness and occupant survivability…
Highways
With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, ARA understands today’s highway transportation engineering challenges...
Security Support Services and Assessments
ARA has extensive experience supporting various agencies with a comprehensive range of security services such as physical and electronic security design, risk assessments, blast assessments and mitigation...
Progressive Collapse Analysis
ARA developed criteria and progressive collapse analyses can save lives and prevent injury, while also protecting buildings, functions, and assets in the event of severe structural damage…
E-Sim: Computerized Event Simulation Modeling for Egress/Ingress
ARA’s E-Sim serves as an assessment tool to determine optimal egress/ingress solutions for facilities and examine where bottlenecks or problems exist...
TIC/TIMs: Toxic Industrial Material Assessments for Military Bases
Terrorist tactics are known to include use of explosives as well as toxic industrial materials (TIMs) and toxic industrial chemicals (TICs)...
Ballistics Research of Common Building Materials
ARA is researching the impact of ballistic threats on these materials to determine to what degree, if any, these materials provide protection and how may they be affordably improved...
Window Vulnerability Analysis & Testing
ARA has experience helping government agencies assess and evaluate the facilities in their inventory to understand the window vulnerabilities to blast loads...
Vehicle Barrier Analysis & Design
ARA has extensive experience analyzing, testing, and designing vehicle barrier systems to develop a reliable validated model...
Blast & Security Consulting for Airports & Port Authorities
ARA is uniquely qualified to provide these services for even the most challenging threats and conditions to help protect people, facilities, operational capability, and critical equipment/systems...
Anti-Terrorism and Force Protection Design
ARA engineers and security specialists work as part of design-build teams beginning at the earliest stages of a project to develop and integrate innovative blast and progressive collapse mitigation strategies...
Firefighter Breeching Tutorial
ARA has developed a program to teach first responders, firefighters, facility tenants, and citizens about specialty windows such as blast, hurricane, and ballistic windows through classroom, live demonstration, and online training...
Disaster Management Planning and Training
ARA’s experts have decades of experience in the development and implementation of disaster management plans and training, as well as providing comprehensive reviews of existing plans...
DSEA: Defense Security Enterprise Architecture
Our DSEA support team provides program management, requirements development, strategic planning, technical analysis, and interagency coordination...
AT Blast
A.T.-BLAST calculates blast loading parameters from an open-air hemispherical explosion based on distance from the device...
3D Blast
3D Blast provides quick calculation and visualization of blast loads on different building shapes for an open-air explosion of a bare hemispherical charge...
DCMS: Dynamic Component Modeling Software
Dynamic Component Modeling Software (DCMS) assists engineers in the analysis and design of building structures (walls, roofs, frames, window frames, etc.) subjected to dynamic loads with a focus on blast analysis...
Airport Safety
ARA provides technical risk modeling for various components of the airport system, including runway safety areas, runway protection zones, and runway incursions...
Airport/Airfield R&D
With over three decades of serving the airport and aviation communities, ARA is well versed in helping aviation agencies to conduct critical R&D and deploy innovative technologies...
Airfield Pavement Management
ARA has implemented airside and landside pavement management systems for hundreds of commercial, general aviation, and military airfields worldwide...
Interagency Security Committee (ISC) Risk Management Process Training
ARA trainers have performed hundreds of security risk assessments for a wide range of federal government facilities. This hands-on experience...
Physiological Modeling & Testing
ARA provides translational science through the development of experimentally-validated algorithms, computational models, and software codes to offer state-of-the-art physiological modeling and testing capabilities...
Health & Human Safety
ARA pairs innovation with in-depth knowledge of physical, chemical, physiological and biological processes to solve complex health problems...
Pathfinder: Advanced Intrusion Detection
Our advanced intrusion detection system provides expendable, affordable, actionable, and undetectable vehicle movement, foot traffic, and equipment power status sensors that identify security threats BEFORE they cause damage or inflict harm...
Sustainable Energy Technologies
Sustainable Energy Technologies ARA is dedicated to developing sustainable and scalable energy technologies, continually pushing the boundaries of research and development to provide real-world energy savings solutions for our clients.…
Geotechnical Products & Services
ARA is the world leader in Cone Penetrometer Testing (CPT) manufacturing, sales, and support of advanced in-situ testing equipment for geotechnical and environmental site investigations. With more than 30 years of research and development experience and more than a million feet of field investigations conducted, we have leveraged our skills to design and manufacture the most robust and reliable direct push and CPT equipment....
Bioaerosols & Applied Microbiology
ARA’s bioaerosol and microbiology research is providing game changing solutions for government and industry…
Strategic Communications & Marketing
ARA's corporate and public communication experts understand consumer and target-audience behavior, and will develop a results-oriented plan for your organization...
Reactive Materials Testing & Detection
ARA provides analytically-defensible studies on time and budget to inform decisions that improve resource allocation, unity of effort, and operational effectiveness...
Airports/Airfields
ARA is a premier provider of state-of-the-practice airport security, infrastructure, and safety solutions for commercial airports and DoD airfield installations…
Unmanned Systems & Autonomy
ARA is a leading developer of advanced unmanned systems, offering solid technical solutions and industry-leading customer service...
Weapons Development, Testing & Effects
From penetration and detonation underground, to air-blast, to a nuclear attack against U.S. satellites in space, ARA scientists and engineers understand the range of complex physics associated with weapons effects...
Synthetic Environments
Our team has created many solutions for government customers in the areas of large-scale terrain, automated building generation, and synthetic environment export to a wide range of training platforms...
Risk Assessment & Management
ARA provides comprehensive risk assessment services and tools to maximize physical and electronic security within the government and private industry, and works with organizations to develop disaster management plans...
Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing
ARA engineers and scientists are well-versed in offering novel solutions and tangible prototypes that can be quickly deployed. Many of our products are highly reliable at a low cost to the customer...
Intelligence & Mission Support
ARA leverages novel Intel solutions and expertise through cognitively authentic training, scalable web- and cloud-based enterprise systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and data analytics and knowledge bases...
CWMD Technologies & Services
ARA has a robust team of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive subject matter expertise for planning, operations, and post-event analysis supporting the warfighter and emergency responders…
C4ISR & Space Technologies
ARA’s C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) solutions provide military decision makers and operators with the ability to gather, analyze, and dispense critical data...
WINGARD: Window Glazing Analysis Response and Design
WINdow Glazing Analysis Response and Design (WINGARD) provides an accurate analytical model of window response to the effects of an explosion...
Better Fuels
Better Fuels ARA has developed supercritical water-based cleanup and conversion technologies for over a decade. ARA’s fuels technologies solve critical problems and improve our safety, security and way of life.Our…
Electromagnetics & RF Technologies
ARA specializes in the areas of electromagnetic propagation and scattering, design and fabrication of antennas and radomes, RF measurement testing services...