Contingency Basing Integration Training & Evaluation Center (CBITEC)

What is CBITEC?

Located at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, CBITEC is a premier research and development facility operated in partnership with ERDC’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory and affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Spanning 70 acres, CBITEC is fully equipped to support a 400-soldier base camp, offering a real-world military environment for testing and evaluating contingency base capabilities and technologies, including power, water, waste, and construction.

Mission

The Contingency Basing Integration Training & Evaluation Center (CBITEC) field office is a venue for training, assessing, evaluating, and integrating ERDC capabilities in the areas of Warfighter Support and Installations into transferable technologies that enhance Department of Defense (DOD) capabilities in support of the Army’s Modernization Research Priority Areas.


CBITEC focuses on operational energy and storage, construction engineering, autonomous platform infrastructure and infrastructure life cycle management techniques and capabilities (from cantonment to contingency).

Focus Areas

Operational Energy

Capabilities

  • Alternative Energy
  • Energy Storage Technology
  • Flywheel Technology
  • Prime Power (500 kilowatts to 600 volts and above)
    • Power Plant
    • Line Distribution (medium voltage)
    • Secondary Distribution Center (SDC)
  • Tactical Microgrid

Operational Water

Capabilities

  • Gray Water Treatment and Reuse System (G-WTRS)
  • Hydro-panels
  • Mobile Water Resilience
  • Water Reclamation

Joint Construction

Capabilities

  • 3D Printing
  • General Construction
  • Materials Research
  • Modular Construction

Additive Manufacturing

Capabilities

  • 3D Printing
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Autonomous Infrastructure

Capabilities

  • Augmented Sensors

Partnerships & Collaborations

CBITEC is actively seeking forward-thinking industry, academia, and government partners to leverage CBITEC’s expertise and military environments to advance the next generation of contingency basing capabilities in operational energy, water, infrastructure, and force protection challenges in real-life expeditionary environments.

Ideal partners are those who can demonstrate:

  • Innovation: A strong track record of developing novel, field-ready technologies tailored to military needs
  • Scalability: The ability to expand and adapt solutions for large-scale deployment across diverse DOD operational settings
  • Reliability: Partners are expected to demonstrate a strong track record of dependable performance in field conditions
  • Security: Robust cybersecurity practices to safeguard sensitive systems and data
  • Cost-Effectiveness: Solutions that offer measurable return on investment and long-term value

Partnership Pathways

  • Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)
  • Testing Service Agreement (TSA)
  • Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) (Government)
  • Form 7600 A/B (Government)

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