What We Do:
The Department of Defense has designated ATC as the lead test center for automotive/tracked and wheeled, engineering equipment, direct-fire systems, shoulder-fired weapons, small arms systems, direct-fire weapons performance, emissions characterization, soldier systems, nonlethal weapons, unmanned ground vehicles, transportability, environmental mitigation technologies, vulnerability/lethality, and littoral warfare.
Major missions include:
- Automotive – Wheeled and Tracked Vehicles (conducting 80% of the Army Automotive testing)
- Firepower
- Survivability/Lethality
- Warfighter
- Soldier Systems and Support Equipment
- Training Exercises
- Military Environmental Technologies
- Maritime Systems
As a designated Federal Laboratory, ATC participates in technology transfer and dual-use partnership initiatives with industry.
In this single location, ATC can subject an item to a full range of tests.
Testing covers the full range of life cycle support from concept evaluation and research prototypes through Rapid Fielding Initiatives directly supporting the warfighters in Iraq and Afghanistan. Employees from ATC have been deployed to Iraq since 2006 supporting the Rapid Fielding Initiative process. Responding to Rapid Field Initiatives often requires establishment of new ranges or changing existing facilities and range use. These changes will be documented in future revisions of the ATC Master Plan.
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Last Updated: 23 August 2011