U.S. Army DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center > About us

The Army depends on DEVCOM AvMC to execute an integrated portfolio of research, development and engineering efforts that are responsive to the highest priorities as defined by our stakeholders and customers.

The depth and breadth of our missile and aviation core competencies serve as a unique national asset. Our technical competencies depend upon a preeminent, multi-disciplinary, adaptive workforce that conducts leading-edge research, development, and life cycle engineering while promoting discovery and innovation across government, academia and industry.

Technical domain
- Active and passive air defense sensor technology (S&T)
- Aerial autonomy
- Aerospace and aerodynamics
- Capabilities engineering
- Materials and structures
- Fuzing, guidance, controls, and seekers
- Propulsion, explosives, energetics, warheads
Capabilities engineering
- Software engineering
- Weapons assurance
- Modeling and simulation design, development, verification, validation, and assurance
- Configuration management
- Engineering prototype design and development
- Maintenance, life cycle cost reduction, and logistics engineering
- Manufacturing technology and production support
- Multidiscipline acquisition and project engineering
- Quality engineering and management
- Reliability, availability, and maintainability
- Sustainment, industrial base, and obsolescence
- Systems engineering, integration, and interoperability
- Test and evaluation
- Air defense radar (reimbursable)
- Airworthiness

Mission
Deliver collaborative and innovative aviation and missile capabilities for responsive and cost-effective research, development and life cycle engineering solutions.
Vision
Be a Warfighter-focused valued team of world leaders in aviation and missile technologies and life cycle engineering.
Values
- Loyalty
- Duty
- Respect
- Selfless Service
- Honor
- Integrity
- Personal Courage
- Caring
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Technical Excellence
Workforce
AvMC is a world-class organization with approximately 3,000 government civilian employees, more than 2,000 of which are engineers and scientists. We have approximately 20 military employees and over 8,000 support contractors. Click here to visit the Career opportunities page.
Locations
AvMC conducts operations in approximately 1.9 million square feet of facilities. Visit Locations for more information.
Annual revenue
Approximately $3.5 billion

Competencies

The Army depends on DEVCOM AvMC to execute an integrated portfolio of research, development and engineering efforts that are responsive to the highest priorities as defined by our stakeholders and customers.