Engineer Research And Development Center - Wikipedia

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers research and development organization Engineer Research and Development Center

Established	October 1999 (1999-10)
Research type	Research in support of the Army Corps of Engineers mission
Director	Elizabeth Fleming [1]
Address	3909 Halls Ferry Road
Location	Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.A.32°17′59″N 90°51′51″W / 32.2995921°N 90.8642709°W / 32.2995921; -90.8642709
ZIP code	39180-6199
Website	www.erdc.usace.army.mil

The Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is a US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) research and laboratory organization.

The main facility is located in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the site of an antecedent organization, the Waterways Experiment Station. It also has facilities in Hanover, New Hampshire, Champaign, Illinois, and Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

History

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In October 1999, the Corps of Engineers established a system of laboratories, called the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).[2] The ERDC was a consolidation of seven, pre-existing laboratories: the Coastal and Hydraulics, Environmental, Geotechnical and Structures, and Information Technology Laboratories in Vicksburg, Mississippi; the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois; the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire; and the Topographic Engineering Center in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.[3]

ERDC won the Army Research Laboratory of the Year award five times in its first eight years.[4]

The Topographic Engineering Center became the Army Geospatial Center (AGC) and started reporting directly to the Corps of Engineers as of 2009. As of 2014, ERDC still maintained a Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) collocated in Alexandria with AGC.[3]

List of laboratories

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• Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire
• Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, Illinois
• Geospatial Research Laboratory, co-located with the Army Geospatial Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia[5]

References

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1. ^ "Dr. Beth Fleming selected to head ERDC", US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi: Engineer Research and Development Center, retrieved 2025-04-01
2. ^ ERDC Public Affairs Office, ERDC History, archived from the original on 2011-07-21, retrieved 2011-01-09
3. ^ a b Public Affairs Office. "U.S. Army Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL), Alexandria, Va". ERDC. Retrieved 2014-10-30.
4. ^ ERDC Public Affairs Office (September 30, 2009), ERDC Named 2009 Army Research Laboratory of the Year -- 3rd Consecutive Year, archived from the original on January 24, 2011, retrieved 2011-01-09
5. ^ Engineer Research and Development Center. "U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC), Alexandria, Va". U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-23.

External links

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• ERDC Homepage
• ERDC library, with digitized copies of ERDC publications
• Discover ERDC[permanent dead link] USACE and DoD employees only
• US Army Corps of Engineers webpage
• ERDC DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC)
• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MS-2, "Waterways Experiment Station", 48 photos, 1 color transparency, 63 data pages, 5 photo caption pages

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Education	Institute of Education Sciences (IES) National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)
Energy	Office of Science (DOE SC) Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) National Laboratories
Health andHuman Services	National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Food and Drug Administration science and research programs Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Homeland Security	Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Coast Guard Research and Development Center (CG RDC)
Interior	United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Justice	National Institute of Justice (NIJ) FBI Science and Technology Branch
Transportation	Research and Innovative Technology Administration Federal Aviation Administration Research, Engineering, and Development Federal Highway Administration Research and Technology
Treasury	Office of Financial Research (OFR)
Veterans Affairs	Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development (ORD)
Executive Officeof the President	Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD) National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)
Legislative branch	House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) (defunct)
Judicial branch	Federal Judicial Center

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