Automotive Test Instrumentation Facility

  • Supports both technical and engineering tests addressing performance and reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) issues for:
    - Automotive
    - Fire Control and Live-Fire/Vulnerability
    - Road Shock and Vibration
    - Transportability
    - Environmental Conditions
  • Includes resources to design, plan, and conduct testing:
    - Nearly $50 million of state-of-the-art instrumentation
    - Over 30,000 square feet of laboratory and shop space
    - On-site instrumentation and hardware fabrication facilities
    - Data acquisition, processing, analysis and reporting
    - Measurements traceable to NIST standards
  • Specialized off-site data transfer capabilities
    - Fiber optic and bi-directional microwave telemetry links that provide high speed data transfer and real-time test control
    - Secure, single source data access from any location in the world via the internet
  • Initial staging point for test preparations, instrumentation installation and calibration, and verification and centralization of data collection and reduction

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Automotive Directorate, 410-278-4493, email atcad@atc.army.mil

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