1. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Alaska Projects Office
Anchorage Field Office
Cold Regions Research
Engineering Laboratory
Engineer Research and Development Center
Disbursed Command of 7 unique technical laboratories at 4 locations
Research facilities and activities around the country and the world
Collecting Cosmic Dust in Antarctica
Searching for insects in South America
Advising NATO in Europe
Headquartered in Vicksburg, Mississippi

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Past Accomplishments
1956 Guidance for sea ice runways for construction of Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line
Camp Century Greenland
1966 First ice core from Greenland Ice Sheet (4550 ft)
1969 First ice core from Antarctic Ice Sheet (7100 ft)
Supports design &
construction of trans-Alaska
pipeline
1977 Supports Air Force relocation
of DEW Line radar on Greenland
Ice Cap

3. Mission Statement
CRREL serves the Army & Nation by advancing and applying cold regions science and engineering technologies and leveraging this knowledge to provide all-season solutions to a wide range of environmentally-driven problems
Solve national cold regions science and engineering challenges.
The Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, aka CRREL, was established in Our mission is as you see here. Cold regions constitute over 50% of the earth’s landmass, and many of the world’s current political hot spots are also in cold places, especially during winter. These include the Balkans, the Korean peninsula, and mountainous border areas, such as India-Pakistan and Equador-Peru.
As the Army’s center of expertise in cold regions science and engineering, CRREL closes the gap on the technology base needed for the Army and other DoD agencies to operate effectively in winter and cold regions conditions

4. Customer Diversity Navy • Air Force
DOT • USCG •  NSF • FAA •  NASA •  USFS
States: AK, ME, MD, MN, NH, NY, NV, VT, WA
Dartmouth College
Colorado State University
Ohio University
University of Alaska, Anchorage
University of CA, Berkeley
University of New Hampshire
University of New Orleans
University of Washington
American Museum of Natural History
Bechtel
CEA Technologies
Foster-Miller, Inc.
Gas Technology Institute
Institute of Ecosystems Studies
Michelin Research, Asia
Riverside County, CA
The Irvine Company
Unisphere, Inc.
Another evidence of customer satisfaction is the wide range of customers from not just the military, but other government agencies, such as Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Highways Administration, and NASA. We also do quality work for others in academia and industry. Half our income is reimbursable, and of the customers we have, over 70 percent are repeat customers, both strong indicators of satisfaction.

5. $1.2 Billion in Research Facilities & Equipment
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Unique Facilities
DoD Supercomputer Center
Centrifuge
Ice Engineering Facilities
Unique Facilities – $1.2 Billion in Research Facilities and Equipment
$1.2 Billion in Research and Development facilities
One of the 15 largest High Performance Computing facilities in the world (1,737 Gigaflops – or 1,737 Billion calcuations per second)
The largest research Centrifuge in the world
Very large refrigerated facilities for ice engineering
Triaxial Shock Test Facility
Hazardous & Toxic Wastes
Large physical models
$1.2 Billion in Research Facilities & Equipment

6. ERDC CRREL Unique Facilities
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ERDC CRREL Unique Facilities
24 Cold Laboratories
Frost Effects Research Facility
Permafrost Research Tunnel, Fox, AK
Ice Engineering Model Room