Physical Design & Testing
Accurate, reliable results for performance evaluation
Our physical design and testing expertise transforms innovative concepts into reliable, real-world solutions. We combine advanced engineering practices with rigorous testing protocols to ensure that every design meets the highest standards of performance, safety, and durability.
Enabling Competencies
Pavement Engineering & Testing
ARA delivers pavement engineering and testing solutions that improve roads, runways, and other critical infrastructure. With decades of expertise, ARA provides research, consulting, and testing to enhance performance, safety, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.
Counter WMD RDT&E
ARA delivers advanced research, development, testing, and evaluation to counter weapons of mass destruction. Our expertise includes threat characterization and mitigation strategies to help organizations enhance detection, protection, and response capabilities, ensuring safety and operational readiness against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats.
Weapon Design & Testing
ARA delivers comprehensive weapon design, analysis, and testing services, ensuring performance, reliability, and safety. Our comprehensive weapon design and testing services optimize weapons systems for operational effectiveness and mission success.
Structural Design & Testing
ARA delivers expert structural design, assessment, and large-scale testing to ensure buildings withstand natural disasters, explosive threats, and other extreme events. Our expertise includes protective design, retrofitting, advanced modeling, and emergency planning to help organizations safeguard critical assets.
Human Health RDT&E
ARA delivers advanced biomedical human health research, design, testing, and evaluation to design, develop, and validate novel medical solutions that safeguard human health and translate testing into real-world impact.
Maritime Technology Evaluation & Testing
ARA provides comprehensive evaluation and testing of maritime systems and technologies to optimize vessels, equipment, personnel, and mission-critical systems for superior performance in challenging maritime environments.
Electromagnetic Testing
ARA delivers precision electromagnetic testing for a wide range of applications, including High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP), Intentional Electromagnetic Interference (IEMI), High Power Microwave (HPM), and ionizing radiation. Our capabilities also include comprehensive evaluation of radomes and frequency selective surfaces (FSS), state-of-the-art antennas and phased arrays, advanced antenna/array material treatments, and specialized aerospace RF structures.
Energetics Testing
ARA provides comprehensive energetics testing to evaluate explosive materials and energetic systems. Through controlled experiments, analysis, and safety assessments, we help organizations ensure performance, reliability, and safe handling under real-world operational conditions.
Geotechnical Testing
With more than 35 years of geotechnical expertise, ARA delivers advanced geotechnical testing services and equipment worldwide. These solutions provide high-quality data and reliable site characterization to reduce risk and meet complex engineering challenges with confidence.
Enabling Competencies
Pavement Engineering & Testing
ARA delivers pavement engineering and testing solutions that improve roads, runways, and other critical infrastructure. With decades of expertise, ARA provides research, consulting, and testing to enhance performance, safety, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.
Featured Products & Innovations
Enabling Competencies
Counter WMD RDT&E
ARA delivers advanced research, development, testing, and evaluation to counter weapons of mass destruction. Our expertise includes threat characterization and mitigation strategies to help organizations enhance detection, protection, and response capabilities, ensuring safety and operational readiness against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats.
Featured Products & Innovations
Enabling Competencies
Weapon Design & Testing
ARA delivers comprehensive weapon design, analysis, and testing services, ensuring performance, reliability, and safety. Our comprehensive weapon design and testing services optimize weapons systems for operational effectiveness and mission success.
Featured Products & Innovations
Enabling Competencies
Structural Design & Testing
ARA delivers expert structural design, assessment, and large-scale testing to ensure buildings withstand natural disasters, explosive threats, and other extreme events. Our expertise includes protective design, retrofitting, advanced modeling, and emergency planning to help organizations safeguard critical assets.
Enabling Competencies
Human Health RDT&E
ARA delivers advanced biomedical human health research, design, testing, and evaluation to design, develop, and validate novel medical solutions that safeguard human health and translate testing into real-world impact.
Enabling Competencies
Maritime Technology Evaluation & Testing
ARA provides comprehensive evaluation and testing of maritime systems and technologies to optimize vessels, equipment, personnel, and mission-critical systems for superior performance in challenging maritime environments.
Featured Products & Innovations
Enabling Competencies
Electromagnetic Testing
ARA delivers precision electromagnetic testing for a wide range of applications, including High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP), Intentional Electromagnetic Interference (IEMI), High Power Microwave (HPM), and ionizing radiation. Our capabilities also include comprehensive evaluation of radomes and frequency selective surfaces (FSS), state-of-the-art antennas and phased arrays, advanced antenna/array material treatments, and specialized aerospace RF structures.
Featured Products & Innovations
Enabling Competencies
Energetics Testing
ARA provides comprehensive energetics testing to evaluate explosive materials and energetic systems. Through controlled experiments, analysis, and safety assessments, we help organizations ensure performance, reliability, and safe handling under real-world operational conditions.
Featured Products & Innovations
Enabling Competencies
Geotechnical Testing
With more than 35 years of geotechnical expertise, ARA delivers advanced geotechnical testing services and equipment worldwide. These solutions provide high-quality data and reliable site characterization to reduce risk and meet complex engineering challenges with confidence.
Featured Products & Innovations
Physical Design & Testing Solutions
Due to their small size, microrobotics could be leveraged for numerous applications from pharmaceutical research to data encryption to defense.
With ATLaS, agencies can quickly and effectively evaluate, validate, and implement new construction materials, infrastructure design, construction practices, maintenance and rehabilitation technologies.
Due to their small size, microrobotics could be leveraged for numerous applications from pharmaceutical research to data encryption to defense.
Vertek is the world leader in the development and manufacturing of advanced in-situ soil testing apparatus with over 30 years’ experience developing new CPT technologies.
A.T.-BLAST calculates blast loading parameters from an open-air hemispherical explosion based on distance from the device.
3D Blast provides quick calculation and visualization of blast loads on different building shapes for an open-air explosion of a bare hemispherical charge, mapping the results to a 3D model.
Dynamic Component Modeling Software (DCMS) supports analysis and design of building structures subjected to dynamic loads with a focus on blast analysis.
ATLaS: Accelerated Transportation Loading System
PaVision Automated Pavement Condition Assessment System
Vertek CPT
AT Blast
Microrobotics
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