ARA delivers innovative solutions to assess, detect, deter, defeat, and respond to threats facing us at home and abroad.

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is globally recognized for applying technically-excellent, in-depth and diversified research, engineering, and technical support services to provide answers to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences.

Aug 16, 2018 · ARA has developed a direct-solve Domain Decomposition Method (DDM) to enable simulations beyond 10 million unknowns. The method constructs Macro Basis Functions (MBFs) on subdomains, clusters of mesh elements.

ARA developed PaVision® to provide agencies of all sizes an affordable, easy-to-use system to assess pavement conditions.

ARA can accurately assess both functional and structural characteristics of in-place pavements, project future performance, and identify when and how best to cost-effectively repair a pavement section for both near- and long-term considerations.

ARA operates some of the United States’ premier test sites for full-scale explosive testing of building cladding, structural systems, and other protective/hardened designs.

Jan 16, 2025 · Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) recently highlighted its expertise in transportation and infrastructure at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Robert Sues is President & CEO of ARA. He joined ARA in 1986, and has served as Division Manager, Sector Manager, and Executive Vice President for Corporate Development.

ARA has a proven history of meeting Warfighter requirements through our disciplined Systems Engineering processes that merge proven hardware and software development techniques with nationally-recognized weapon system expertise.

Pavement Data Collection PaVision is the low-cost pavement management data collection system that allows anyone to have high-quality management data.