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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>In October 1999, the Corps of Engineers established a system of laboratories, called the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> The ERDC was a consolidation of seven, pre-existing laboratories: the <i>Coastal and Hydraulics, Environmental, Geotechnical and Structures, and Information Technology Laboratories</i> in <a href="/facts/Vicksburg%2c_Mississippi/tm8LAsc7">Vicksburg, Mississippi</a>; the <i>Construction Engineering Research Laboratory</i> in <a href="/facts/Champaign%2c_Illinois/WSYI1SH3">Champaign, Illinois</a>; the <a href="/facts/Cold_Regions_Research_and_Engineering_Laboratory/vPLuYuT5">Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory</a> in <a href="/facts/Hanover%2c_New_Hampshire/lqbAwekw">Hanover, New Hampshire</a>; and the <i>Topographic Engineering Center</i> in <a href="/facts/Fort_Belvoir/gIw8uyh7">Fort Belvoir, Virginia</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>ERDC won the Army Research Laboratory of the Year award five times in its first eight years.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>The Topographic Engineering Center became the <a href="/facts/Army_Geospatial_Center/T9QKNG4k">Army Geospatial Center</a> (AGC) and started reporting directly to the Corps of Engineers as of 2009. As of 2014, ERDC still maintained a <i>Geospatial Research Laboratory</i> (GRL) collocated in Alexandria with AGC.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="list-of-laboratories">List of laboratories</h2> <ul><li>Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, <a href="/facts/Vicksburg%2c_Mississippi/tm8LAsc7">Vicksburg, Mississippi</a></li> <li>Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi</li> <li>Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi</li> <li>Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi</li> <li><a href="/facts/Cold_Regions_Research_and_Engineering_Laboratory/vPLuYuT5">Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory</a>, <a href="/facts/Hanover%2c_New_Hampshire/lqbAwekw">Hanover, New Hampshire</a></li> <li>Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, <a href="/facts/Champaign%2c_Illinois/WSYI1SH3">Champaign, Illinois</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Geospatial_Research_Laboratory/8sDgY80H">Geospatial Research Laboratory</a>, co-located with the <a href="/facts/Army_Geospatial_Center/T9QKNG4k">Army Geospatial Center</a> at <a href="/facts/Fort_Belvoir/gIw8uyh7">Fort Belvoir, Virginia</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/">ERDC Homepage</a></li> <li><a href="https://archive.today/20141206003504/http://acwc.sdp.sirsi.net/">ERDC library</a>, with digitized copies of ERDC publications</li> <li><a href="https://wiki.erdc.dren.mil/ERDCpedia/">Discover ERDC</a>[<i>permanent dead link</i>] USACE and DoD employees only</li> <li><a href="https://www.usace.army.mil/">US Army Corps of Engineers webpage</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150724071154/http://www.erdc.hpc.mil/">ERDC DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC)</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Heritage_Documentation_Programs/0qPMrv7e">Historic American Engineering Record</a> (HAER) No. MS-2, "<a href="https://loc.gov/pictures/item/ms0176/">Waterways Experiment Station</a>", 48 photos, 1 color transparency, 63 data pages, 5 photo caption pages</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>ERDC Public Affairs Office, ERDC History, archived from the original on 2011-07-21, retrieved 2011-01-09 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110721195144/http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/pls/erdcpub/www_org_info.show_page?f_id=39773&f_parent=54984" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110721195144/http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/pls/erdcpub/www_org_info.show_page?f_id=39773&f_parent=54984</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Public Affairs Office. "U.S. Army Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL), Alexandria, Va". ERDC. Retrieved 2014-10-30. <a href="https://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/GRL/" target="_blank">https://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/GRL/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>ERDC Public Affairs Office (September 30, 2009), ERDC Named 2009 Army Research Laboratory of the Year -- 3rd Consecutive Year, archived from the original on January 24, 2011, retrieved 2011-01-09 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110124055444/http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/pls/erdcpub/www_org_info.show_page?f_id=6448042" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110124055444/http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/pls/erdcpub/www_org_info.show_page?f_id=6448042</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Public Affairs Office. "U.S. Army Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL), Alexandria, Va". ERDC. Retrieved 2014-10-30. <a href="https://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/GRL/" target="_blank">https://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/GRL/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Engineer Research and Development Center. "U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC), Alexandria, Va". U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-23. <a href="https://archive.today/20130616144058/http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/TopographicEngineeringCenter.aspx" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20130616144058/http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/TopographicEngineeringCenter.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>