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
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, on the site of an antecedent organization, the
Waterways Experiment Station. It also has facilities in
Hanover, New Hampshire
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,
Champaign, Illinois
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, and
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
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.
History
In October 1999, the Corps of Engineers established a system of laboratories, called the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). 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
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; the ''Construction Engineering Research Laboratory'' in
Champaign, Illinois
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; the
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in
Hanover, New Hampshire
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; and the ''Topographic Engineering Center'' in
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
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.
ERDC won the Army Research Laboratory of the Year award five times in its first eight years.
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.
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List of laboratories
* Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory,
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Vicksburg is a historic city in Warren County, Mississippi, United States. It is the county seat. The population was 21,573 at the 2020 census. Located on a high bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from Louisiana, Vicksburg ...
* Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi
* Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi
* Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi
*
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory,
Hanover, New Hampshire
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* Construction Engineering Research Laboratory,
Champaign, Illinois
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*
Geospatial Research Laboratory
The Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) is a component of the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), a US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) laboratory organization whose mission is to "Provide science, technology, and expertise in engine ...
, co-located with the
Army Geospatial Center at
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
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References
External links
ERDC HomepageERDC library with digitized copies of ERDC publications
Discover ERDCUSACE and DoD employees only
US Army Corps of Engineers webpageERDC DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC)*
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Mississippi River
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Organizations based in Mississippi
Vicksburg, Mississippi