The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) — also known as the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center (NSC), or simply as Natick Labs — is an element of the United States Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM), headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and a tenant unit on the installation of the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center (SSC) at Natick, Massachusetts.