Huntsville Research Laboratory (HRL)

Contact Information

Barry Bullard

Laboratory Director
256-876-1301

Located in Huntsville, Alabama, HRL conducts world-class applied research for several government agencies located at the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal and local Huntsville area, including:

• The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center
• U.S. Army Program Executive Office Missile and Space
• U.S. Army Program Executive Office Aviation
• U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command
• The Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency

The laboratory’s multidisciplinary systems and software research skills include:

• Battlefield command and control modeling
• Simulation and analysis
• Analysis and modeling of complete air and missile defense systems
• Software development and engineering of rotary-wing aviation mission planning systems

The lab also conducts applied research in testing and evaluation of air and missile defense and aviation systems, including hardware-in-the-loop, live field testing and system-of-systems interoperability. Other significant research areas include war gaming and large-scale force-on-force simulations, missile guidance and control and safety critical tactical software development.