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Featured Work

An Innovative Approach to Military Cargo Operations Worldwide

Different modes of transport moving loads of cargo on a background map of the world

Volpe and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (UK MOD) Royal Air Force have a longstanding working relationship using agile development to quickly develop software.

Inside the Federal Aviation Administration’s Proving Ground on Cape Cod

Front sign at the Aviation Weather Research Facility

The Volpe Center maintains a 155-acre Aviation Weather Research Facility (AWRF) located at Joint Base Cape Cod (JBCC) in Falmouth, Massachusetts. This facility is uniquely capable of performing validation and verification of a wide variety of complex atmospheric and meteorological sensors that measure visibility, rainfall, wind, and cloud ceiling.

Modernizing Rail for the Department of Defense

USAX 6515: a three-engine 2,100-horsepower GenSet Road-switcher U.S. Army locomotive, shown here on a track at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Volpe is helping DoD modernize locomotives and rail equipment critical to the mission of the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.