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The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for various research and development topic areas. The ERDC consists of the Coastal and Hydraulics Lab (CHL), the Geotechnical and Structures Lab (GSL), the Reachback Operations Center (UROC), the Environmental Lab (EL) and the Information Technology Lab (ITL) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire, the Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL) in Champaign, Illinois, and the Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) in Alexandria, Virginia. The ERDC is responsible for conducting research in the broad fields of hydraulics, dredging, coastal engineering, instrumentation, oceanography, remote sensing, geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, soil effects, vehicle mobility, self-contained munitions, military engineering, geophysics, pavements, protective structures, aquatic plants, water quality, dredged material, treatment of hazardous waste, wetlands, physical/mechanical/ chemical properties of snow and other frozen precipitation, infrastructure and environmental issues for installations, computer science, telecommunications management, energy, facilities maintenance, materials and structures, engineering processes, environmental processes, land and heritage conservation, and ecological processes. The BAA is available as an attachment to this posting and is also available at http://erdc.usace.army.mil. The BAA is open until superseded. Proposals may be accepted at any time.

For questions regarding proposals to CHL, GSL, EL, ITL, CRREL, and UROC submit your question to the following e-mail address: ERDC-BAA@usace.army.mil. You may also contact Frank Spears at 601-634-3908 or via email at Frank.Spears@usace.army.mil.

For questions regarding proposals to CERL and GRL, contact Andrea Thomas at 217-373-6746 or via email at Andrea.J.Thomas@usace.army.mil.

Contact the technical personnel listed at the end of each topic area for questions concerning the topic areas themselves.