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GSPEL Grand Opening Ceremony April 11, 2012 GSPEL Grand Opening visitors tour vehicles on display

The Ground Systems Power and Energy Laboratory (GSPEL) officially opened April 11 with a ceremony that featured top Washington D.C. dignitaries, Army leaders and Michigan's U.S. senators.

GSPEL, which contains 30,000 square feet of testing space housing eight different labs, offers an unprecedented range of testing capabilities for Army vehicles. Speakers at the Grand Opening ceremony said the lab also will play an important role in research to help move the country toward energy independence.

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INTERIM DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

Jennifer Hitchcock
Building Momentum Through Innovation and Leadership
Since its formation in 1946, the U.S. Army Tank...

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We want to hear your ideas about collaborating with TARDEC. If you have technology solutions that could improve ground vehicle technology, let's talk. Fill out this form and we will respond to you.
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  • 5/15/2012 — 5/16/2012
  • Michigan Defense Industrial Base Expo
  • Warren, MI
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2011 Annual Report

A Year in Review

2011 TARDEC Annual Report Cover.

This Annual Report gives us a unique opportunity to review TARDEC’s successes, capabilities and challenges over the past year. It shows where we are now and where we hope to be in fiscal year 2012 (FY12). View report >>

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FED Bravo Designed for Efficiency

FED Bravo at Detroit Ren Cen at 2012 SAE World Congress

One look at the Army's Fuel Efficient ground vehicle Demonstrator (FED) Bravo tells you this concept vehicle doesn't follow the usual rules for military design. Yes, FED Bravo has all the capabilities and protections to perform the same mission as a comparable Humvee. But this demonstrator vehicle achieves a 90-percent higher combined fuel economy rating (9.58 mpg) because it's equipped with a series of commercially available fuel-saving components and systems. Coordinated by TARDEC in a unique collaborative partnership, FED is the second of two demonstrator vehicles designed to help the Army reduce consumption and ease the burden of delivering fuel to Soldiers.

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