The nation’s critical infrastructure provides the essential services that support our society and serve as the backbone of our nation’s economy, security, and health.
ARA protects our infrastructure and transportation systems with decades of experience providing blast and security consulting, developing advanced security systems and sensor technologies, and performing crashworthiness analyses to establish new standards for crashworthiness of trains, highway vehicles, roadside hardware, and aircraft.
We also perform assessments of safety/security for rail, transit, and other transportation systems, and we serve as a member of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Center of Excellence in Finite Element Crash Analyses.
ARA is uniquely qualified to provide these services for even the most challenging threats and conditions to help protect people, facilities, operational capability, and critical equipment/systems…
ARA provides innovative building information modeling (BIM) for transportation and civil integrated management (CIM) services for a broad range of transportation…
In the area of infrastructure, ARA’s M&S tools and software provide highly accurate, cost-effective alternatives to large-scale tests in crashworthiness, forensics, impact analysis, structural characterization, and fire protection…
ARA’s experts have decades of experience in the development and implementation of disaster management plans and training, as well as providing comprehensive reviews of existing plans…
Reduce risk and increase performance with Otonos autonomy and robotics.
Our advanced intrusion detection system provides expendable, affordable, actionable, and undetectable vehicle movement, foot traffic, and equipment power status sensors that identify security threats BEFORE they cause damage or inflict harm…
ARA provides analytically-defensible studies on time and budget to inform decisions that improve resource allocation, unity of effort, and operational effectiveness…
Reduce risk and increase performance with Otonos autonomy and robotics.
ARA has extensive experience supporting various agencies with a comprehensive range of security services such as physical and electronic security design, risk assessments, blast assessments and mitigation…
ARA has extensive experience analyzing, testing, and designing vehicle barrier systems to develop a reliable validated model…
ARA has experience helping government agencies assess and evaluate the facilities in their inventory to understand the window vulnerabilities to blast loads…
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