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United States Army Aviation and Missile Center

US military research center

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4828687 ↗
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The U.S. Army DEVCOM Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC), (formerly known as the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC)) is a mainly a civilian organization that provides research, development, and engineering services for the Army's aviation and missile platforms. DEVCOM AvMC is headquartered at Redstone Arsenal in Madison County, Alabama.

DEVCOM AvMC is part of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM). DEVCOM is under the U.S. Army Futures and Concepts Command, a component of the U.S. Army Transformation and Training Command.

Locations

The DEVCOM Aviation and Missile Center is headquartered at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Other laboratories are located at Joint Base Langley-Eustis and Hampton, Virginia, as well as Moffett Field in California, where Army and NASA aviation facilities (such as instrumented test ranges and wind tunnels) are used. Personnel devoted to aviation sustainment and engineering are located in Corpus Christi, Texas, and serve as liaison engineers for global operations.

DEVCOM AvMC has over 1.9 million square feet of laboratory space that is used for: sensors and electronics, propulsion systems, aerodynamic structures, modeling and simulation, life cycle software development, and technical testing. DEVCOM AvMC employs approximately 12,000 civilian, military, and contractor personnel.

History

DEVCOM AvMC traces its origins back to October 1948, when the Army's chief of ordnance designated Redstone Arsenal as the center for research and development in the field of rockets.

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