The Armaments Center, headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., and with additional offices at Watervliet Arsenal, N.Y., Rock Island Arsenal, Ill. and Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., has more than 500 buildings and over 100 specialized laboratories. We maintain some of the most advanced experimental and evaluation facilities in the world to support the development of breakthrough armament and munitions systems. We have a history of strong relationships with our community partners in academia, industry and the armed services.
The Armaments Center, headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal, is one of the specialized research, development and engineering centers within the U.S. Army Futures Command. It is an internationally acknowledged hub for the advancement of armaments technology and engineering innovation.
Benét Laboratories at Watervliet Arsenal performs technology design, development, engineering, production and field support for large caliber armament systems such as cannons, mortars, munition handling systems, tank gun mounts, turret components, recoil mechanisms and recoilless rifles.
Our engineering teams at Rock Island Arsenal execute and manage the lifecycle engineering processes required for items in production to include field support and demilitarization of ammunition, weapons, fire control and associated items.
Our Firing Tables and Ballistics engineering team at Aberdeen Proving Ground is responsible for the development of aiming data, ballistic fire control information and software (NATO Armaments Ballistic Kernel) for all unguided and certain guided combat weapons in the U.S. Army inventory, select tri-service systems and select foreign military sales.