Benét Laboratories

Benét Laboratories, part of the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center, is the US Army's primary design, development, engineering and production and field support facility for large caliber armament systems, including cannons, mortars, and recoilless rifles. The facility also works on tank gun mounts and turret components and munition handling systems.

It has been providing weapon research, design, and development at the Watervliet Arsenal in upstate New York since 1887, but officially became the Benét Laboratories on 9 May 1962 and in 2012 employed more than 250 workers. It is a part of the Weapons & Software Engineering Center (WSEC), US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center, which is located at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey. Laboratory simulations are performed studying gun firing phenomena, and using static and dynamic load testing (up to 5 million lb), as well as environmental testing. It uses a Bruker D8 Advanced X-Ray Diffraction System for some of its testing.

The laboratories are named after the eighth chief of Army ordnance, Brigadier General Stephen Vincent Benét.

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