Trusted Expertise
Proven expertise for informed decision-making
ARA subject matter experts are industry leaders who provide data-informed advisory and assessment services that deliver safe, effective solutions to complex problems. Our multidisciplinary teams bring deep expertise to help organizations solve complex problems with clarity – offering strategic guidance, technical support, and innovative approaches that enable smarter decisions, faster.
Enabling Competencies
Strategic Level Policy & Programmatic Support
ARA provides expert consulting in strategic-level policy and programmatic support, helping government and industry leaders navigate complex decisions. Our team provides insight, analysis, and actionable recommendations that drive effective programs, optimize resources, and advance organizational goals.
Natural Disaster Risk Assessment & Consulting
ARA provides natural disaster risk assessment and consulting to help communities, governments, and organizations prepare for, mitigate, and respond to hazards. To enhance response capabilities in the face of natural threats, our team of natural disaster experts deliver data-driven analysis, actionable strategies, and resiliency planning that reduces risk, strengthens preparedness, and protects assets.
Development of Standards & Procedures
ARA develops standards and procedures that ensure consistency, compliance, and operational excellence. Our expertise includes rigorous analysis and best-practice guidance that streamlines processes, enhances performance, and supports mission success.
Infrastructure Consulting
ARA provides infrastructure consulting to support planning, design, maintenance, and optimization of roads, bridges, airports, and critical transportation networks. Our experts deliver data-driven analysis, asset management strategies, and cost-effective solutions that enhance safety, performance, and sustainability for government- and private-sector clients.
Transportation Asset Management
ARA provides transportation asset management solutions to optimize the lifecycle of roads, bridges, airports, and other critical infrastructure. We provide data-driven planning, performance monitoring, and cost-effective strategies that improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability for government, military, and private-sector clients.
Health Effects & Risk Assessments
ARA delivers health effects and risk assessment services to evaluate potential hazards and protect human health. Our experts provide data-driven analysis, advanced exposure modeling, and comprehensive research to better understand human health.
Threat, Vulnerability & Physical Security Assessments and Testing
Advanced protective technologies and strategies are essential for critical facilities and operations. ARA’s experts lead physical security assessments, testing, research, and development to mitigate evolving threats and strengthen resilience and mission readiness.
Operational Planning
ARA provides operational planning support to help organizations execute complex missions with precision and efficiency. Our experts deliver strategic analysis, scenario modeling, and actionable plans that optimize resources, enhance readiness, and ensure mission success.
Systems Analysis & Decision Support
ARA delivers advanced system analysis and decision support to help organizations address complex problems using modeling, simulation, and data-driven insights to evaluate performance, assess risk, and provide actionable solutions that enable smarter decisions and mission success in dynamic environments.
Enabling Competencies
Strategic Level Policy & Programmatic Support
ARA provides expert consulting in strategic-level policy and programmatic support, helping government and industry leaders navigate complex decisions. Our team provides insight, analysis, and actionable recommendations that drive effective programs, optimize resources, and advance organizational goals.
Enabling Competencies
Natural Disaster Risk Assessment & Consulting
ARA provides natural disaster risk assessment and consulting to help communities, governments, and organizations prepare for, mitigate, and respond to hazards. To enhance response capabilities in the face of natural threats, our team of natural disaster experts deliver data-driven analysis, actionable strategies, and resiliency planning that reduces risk, strengthens preparedness, and protects assets.
Featured Products & Innovations
Enabling Competencies
Development of Standards & Procedures
ARA develops standards and procedures that ensure consistency, compliance, and operational excellence. Our expertise includes rigorous analysis and best-practice guidance that streamlines processes, enhances performance, and supports mission success.
Enabling Competencies
Infrastructure Consulting
ARA provides infrastructure consulting to support planning, design, maintenance, and optimization of roads, bridges, airports, and critical transportation networks. Our experts deliver data-driven analysis, asset management strategies, and cost-effective solutions that enhance safety, performance, and sustainability for government- and private-sector clients.
Featured Products & Innovations
Enabling Competencies
Transportation Asset Management
ARA provides transportation asset management solutions to optimize the lifecycle of roads, bridges, airports, and other critical infrastructure. We provide data-driven planning, performance monitoring, and cost-effective strategies that improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability for government, military, and private-sector clients.
Featured Products & Innovations
Enabling Competencies
Health Effects & Risk Assessments
ARA delivers health effects and risk assessment services to evaluate potential hazards and protect human health. Our experts provide data-driven analysis, advanced exposure modeling, and comprehensive research to better understand human health.
Enabling Competencies
Threat, Vulnerability & Physical Security Assessments and Testing
Advanced protective technologies and strategies are essential for critical facilities and operations. ARA’s experts lead physical security assessments, testing, research, and development to mitigate evolving threats and strengthen resilience and mission readiness.
Enabling Competencies
Operational Planning
ARA provides operational planning support to help organizations execute complex missions with precision and efficiency. Our experts deliver strategic analysis, scenario modeling, and actionable plans that optimize resources, enhance readiness, and ensure mission success.
Enabling Competencies
Systems Analysis & Decision Support
ARA delivers advanced system analysis and decision support to help organizations address complex problems using modeling, simulation, and data-driven insights to evaluate performance, assess risk, and provide actionable solutions that enable smarter decisions and mission success in dynamic environments.
Featured Products & Innovations
Trusted Expertise Solutions
ARA’s BioGears® Biomedical and Health Solutions Platform is a suite of physiology modeling and simulation tools that can be used for medical education & training, medical risk assessment, human factors analysis, medical device development, wearable sensors, protective device evaluation, combat casualty triage & care simulation, medical decision support, and more.
ARA’s HurLoss software provides state-of-the-art hurricane catastrophe modeling, combining proven, historically based methodology with a dynamic outlook for future climatology. Insurers, reinsurers, brokers, and ILS managers have relied on HurLoss to manage risk in hurricane-prone regions since 1998.
ARA’s innovative FAST-CT software provides accurate blast overpressure data to help evaluate potential blast incidents and their effects on service member brain health. FAST-CT uses physics-based algorithms to calculate incident blast metrics from blast events. This data can then be output directly to service member’s medical records for future reference or to a compatible database.
ARA’s Blast Mat is a user-friendly tool to help service members and law enforcement personnel optimize training and mitigate the effects of blast exposure risk when operating various weapons systems. The Blast Mat features color contours to help visualize more optimal positioning while operating various weapon systems.
A production-ready software tool to support the day-to-day pavement design functions of public and private pavement engineers.
Leveraging extensive experience and a suite of pavement testing equipment, ARA helps agencies build lasting infrastructure and understand the condition and expected performance of existing pavement structures.
Combining technical depth with communication expertise, ARA creates thorough, actionable, strategic communication plans that help you reach your target audiences and accomplish their goals.
BioGears
HurLoss Hurricane Catastrophe Model
The Blast Mat
AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design
Pavement Testing & Consulting Services
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ARA Contributes to New ASIS International School Security Standard
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