Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) – Directory

Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) is home to 11 U.S. Army major commands and supports more than 80 tenants, 20 satellite and 17 private activities.

The installation provides facilities to perform research, development, testing and evaluation of Army materiel.

APG also supports a wide variety of training, including mechanical maintenance, health promotion and preventive medicine, chemical and biological defense, and chemical casualty care, chemical demilitarization.

Tenant groups include:

• Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD)
• US Army Research Lab (ARL)
• US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC)
• 20th Support Command (CBRNE)
• US Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC)
• Aberdeen Test Center (ATC)
• US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD)
• US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM)
• US Army Public Health Command (USAPHC)
• 48th Chemical Brigade, US Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA)
• US Army National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC)
• US Army Research Institute (ARI)

APG occupies a land area of over 70,000 acres and is composed of two major areas: the northern Aberdeen area and southern Edgewood Area that were combined in 1971.