Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch

The Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch (AVTB) mission is to plan, execute, analyze, and report developmental and integrated testing and evaluation events in order to characterize the performance of expeditionary combat vehicle systems and equipment to enable informed acquisition decisions. AVTB is the Department of Defense’s (DoD) only test center specializing in the test, evaluation, and development of the Marine Corps’ present and future amphibious combat platforms.
 
Since its inception in the 1940s, AVTB has been at the forefront of amphibious vehicle testing. AVTB has been the focal point for all generational upgrades of amphibious vehicles since the Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT), which was key to the success of the Pacific island hopping campaign of World War II. During the decades that followed, AVTB maintained an integral role in the testing of many variants and upgrades of the Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV), and the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV). More recently, AVTB conducted testing of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) and continues to support testing of the ACV Family of Vehicles (ACV FoV). AVTB is now preparing to conduct testing of the Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) replacement, the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV).
 

MUCH MORE THAN AMPHIBIOUS AND GROUND COMBAT VEHICLE TESTING

AVTB is staffed and ideally organized to support DoD requirements for autonomous and uncrewed systems demonstration, experimentation, and test and evaluation.
 
Our structure, organic and contracted capabilities, test procedures and practices, unique instrumentation, and location make AVTB uniquely postured to link Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting (C5ISRT) technologies and processes with Littoral expertise.
 
AVTB is mission funded and provides a low cost and responsive test capability to Program Managers. We can mitigate cost, schedule, and performance risk for Program Managers executing Rapid Prototyping efforts while concurrently supporting Marine Corps Programs. 
 

Organizational Email: AVTB@usmc.mil
 
Front Desk: (760) 725-2601
 
Duty NCO Cell: (760) 421-2008
 
Mailing Address:
Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch
Box 555217
Camp Pendleton, CA 92055-5217
 
Shipping Address:
Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch
Building #210536 Kraus St
Camp Pendleton, CA 92055-5217