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  • July

    ERDC’s Contributions Recognized by SAME Sustainability Citation

    ERDC recently received the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) 2011 Education & Outreach Sustainability Award Honorable Mention citation for education and outreach in federally mandated fossil fuel reductions and renewable energy integration through its team efforts with Bioengineering Group, University of Virginia and Arizona State University.

  • June

    West

    DOD HPCMP Receives IDC Innovation Award

    Department of Defense (DOD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) Director John West with ERDC’s Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) has led a program that recently won the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) 2012 Innovation Excellence Award.
  • Dr. Linkov

    ERDC Supports NATO Advanced Research Workshop

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory’s (EL) Dr. Igor Linkov recently organized and directed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Advanced Research Workshop on Sustainable Cities and Military Installations in Iceland.
  • The new Mark Center in Alexandria, Va., had all component data and documentation turned over to the customer in electronic format that uses the COBie data standard.

    Corps of Engineers Pilots COBie

    The Construction-Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) project, published as a part of the U.S. national Building Information Model (BIM) standard earlier this year, is being implemented on major Corps of Engineers projects.

  • ERDC Helps Student Earn Best Design Cognition Paper

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory (EL) Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Student Matthew Wood recently earned Best Design Cognition Paper with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University at the Design Computing and Cognition 12 Conference at the Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
  • Dr. Bill East

    ERDC’s East Keynote Speaker at ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering

    ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory’s Dr. Bill East gave the opening keynote address recently at the 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering.
  • Dr. Peggy Wright heads up the Human Capital Office.

    Wright Selected for Boss Lift Program

    ERDC Human Capital Office Assistant Director Dr. Peggy Wright has been selected to participate in the 2012 Employer in Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) Boss Lift.
  • An image from an advanced computer simulation of flow efficiency in a turbine tank engine; performed on the High Performance Computing Modernization Program’s supercomputers. Large-scale computer simulations like this one performed by Department of Defense (DOD) scientists and engineers help the DOD rapidly transition new technologies from idea to deployable product.

    DOD’s Supercomputing Program Relocates to Miss.

    ERDC has been named the lead organization for the Department of Defense (DOD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), following Congressional approval in December 2011.
  • Dr. Todd Bridges (left) and Dr. Tom Fredette

    ERDC Represented at the Scientific Group of the London Convention in Korea

    Environmental Laboratory (EL) researchers recently represented ERDC as delegates of the 35th meeting of the Scientific Group of the London Convention in Jeju, Republic of Korea.
  • ERDC’s Coastal Inlets Research Program, or CIRP, advances the state of knowledge and develops engineering technology for predicting the waves, current, sediment transport, and morphology change at and around inlets. Products of the CIRP improve management and design of coastal inlets through increased reliability of actions and reduction in operation and maintenance costs. The CIRP takes a variety of approaches, including developing concepts and theory for all relevant time scales, numerical simulation, field data collection, and laboratory experimentation.

    CHL Researchers Host CIRP Webinars

    Researchers with ERDC’s Coast and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) Coastal Inlets Research Program (CIRP) recently gave a series of two-hour webinars on "Coastal Modeling System Basics."

  • ERDC-U.K. Meetings on Advanced Materials

    A two-day meeting was recently held at ERDC-Vicksburg with internationally-recognized materials researchers from the United Kingdom (U.K.) and the U.S.
  • A Texas Rat Snake.

    CERL rat snake research featured in Journal of Zoology

    ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) Wildlife Biologist Dr. Jinelle Sperry, also an adjunct assistant professor with the College of ACES's Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois, is the lead author on an article published in the June issue of the Journal of Zoology.
  • Dr. Alessandra Bianchini

    ERDC researcher appointed to advisory committee BCRRA

    ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) Research Civil Engineer Dr. Alessandra Bianchini was recently appointed to the International Advisory Committee for the International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields (BCRRA).

  • ERDC-CRREL and Blue Mountain Union School sign educational agreement

    ERDC's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) recently signed an Educational Partnership (EPA) with Vermont's Blue Mountain Union (BMU) School.

  • High Performance Computing Modernization Program makes four petaFLOP upgrade for Department of Defense

    The Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (DOD HPCMP) has just completed its largest one-time investment in supercomputing capability supporting the science, engineering, test and acquisition communities of the DOD.

  • ERDC Researchers Receive Legends Award

    ContactPublic Affairs Office601-634-3188 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Recreation Coalition (ARC)

  • Internal Review Office Director Selected

    Dr. Jeffery P. Holland, director of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), has appointed Ernest W. Lutz, Jr. as chief of the ERDC Internal Review Office in Vicksburg, Miss.

  • ERDC Researchers Receive Legends Award

    ContactPublic Affairs Office601-634-3188The American Recreation Coalition (ARC) has recognized Dr.

  • Vicksburg Researcher Advances Career

    Dr. Ty Wamsley was recently appointed chief of the Flood and Storm Protection Division, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Miss. Dr. Jeffery Holland, ERDC director, made the announcement May 22.
  • ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Deputy Director Dr. Lance Hansen (left) looks on as a Kearsarge, N.H., Regional School District's Assistant Superintendent Mark MacLean signs the Educational Partnership Agreement that provides many benefits to both the students and laboratory.

    ERDC enters into educational partnership with N.H. school

    ERDC's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) recently entered into an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) with New Hampshire's Kearsarge Regional School District.