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  • July

    Practicum instructor Brian Clark (right), research mechanical engineer at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineer Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL), observes students’ interactions with the equipment in the ERDC-CERL Central Utility Plant.

    Building the expertise behind installation readiness: Inside ERDC’s EBCx training

    Keeping Army buildings operating at their best helps strengthen installation readiness and resilience, and improvements don’t always require major renovations. Sometimes, they require a trained eye to identify hidden inefficiencies and optimize the systems already in place. Through a recent hands-on training at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), facility managers from across the Department of War and other federal agencies learned just that.

  • May

    Severl energy panels setup for a military exercise

    ERDC, LEMA Power the Fight During FLEX 2026

    As unmanned surface vessels carved through the waters off Key West, Florida, and autonomous aerial systems scanned the horizon for illicit trafficking targets, a quieter but equally critical mission was unfolding behind the scenes at U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. Fourth Fleet’s Fleet Experimentation (FLEX) 2026 exercise. Inside a network of command trailers operating advanced unmanned systems, researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) and industry partner LEMA were proving that the future of expeditionary operations depends not only on autonomous platforms and artificial intelligence, but also on resilient, unmanned energy systems capable of providing uninterrupted power in austere environments.
  • A graphic rendering of the Thermochemical Energy Storage charging and discharging sequences.

    ERDC, Cache Energy advance long-duration energy storage for Army installations

    Researchers at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) are advancing a next-generation energy storage capability designed to strengthen installation resilience during extended power disruptions.

  • April

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development and Select Engineering Services project team standing with the Mobile Insulation System for Energy Reduction (MISER) system at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. (Photo credit: David Shields, Select Engineering Service)

    ERDC Advances Transformational Arctic Sustainment Technology for Warfighters

    As the U.S. Army increases its operational focus in the Arctic, researchers at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) are delivering a proven solution for one of the region’s toughest challenges — sustaining Soldiers in extreme cold weather.
  • Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center’s (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) and technicians from industry partner, LEMA, install a system of four LEMA photovoltaic panels at the ERDC Forward Operating Base Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois.

    ERDC, LEMA Drive Innovation in Unmanned Power Capabilities

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL), in partnership with long-time industry collaborator LEMA, has reached two major milestones in the development of next-generation unmanned, resilient power generation systems designed to support military operations in austere and contested environments.

  • March

    The team that ensured proper delivery, placement, and installation of the nanogrid at Fort Bliss, Texas. From left: SFC Aileen Keemer, 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss; Patricia Cutler, wildlife biologist at U.S. Army Garrison White Sands; Carlos Molina, energy manager at Fort Bliss Directorate of Public Works; Benito Perez, research engineer at the Engineer Research Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

    ERDC Hydrogen Energy Node Installed at Fort Bliss Innovations Lab

    The 1st Armored Division (1 AD) Innovations Lab, located on Fort Bliss, Texas, is now at the forefront of Army energy modernization following the installation and operational validation of a cutting-edge hydrogen nanogrid, also known as an energy node, developed with industry collaboration at the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC)’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL).

  • February

    ERDC’s Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL) and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) teams that were involved in the successful EPA signing event.

    ERDC and UTEP sign Educational Partnership Agreement

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have entered into a new Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) designed to strengthen education, research and workforce development across critical Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

  • December

    U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade emplace a Patriot radar system under night conditions, July 19, 2025. The Janus Program, the Army’s next-generation nuclear power program, aims to deliver secure, resilient, and reliable energy to support national defense installations and critical missions.

    ERDC explores Nuclear Energy Systems to power future mission

    A strong, resilient energy supply is critical for military installations, and researchers at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) are evaluating domestically produced nuclear energy systems to provide critical research in support of the Army’s Janus Program.
  • The energy node, with photovoltaic (PV) panels fully deployed, at the ERDC Forward Operating Base Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois.

    ERDC advances Army readiness through resilient, off-grid power

    A small, self-contained electric power system unit called an “energy node” has been installed at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) to facilitate further research towards fulfilling the U.S. Army’s requirement for reliable and resilient energy to power the mission.
  • ERDC Researcher Dr. Andy Hur makes adjustments to the controls of the Heat Driven Atmospheric Water Generation (HeatDAWG) proof-of-concept experimentation apparatus located at ERDC’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois.

    ERDC partners with industry to advance fuel-efficient water-from-air capabilities

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) recently signed two Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with industry partners to accelerate the development of next-generation, fuel-efficient atmospheric water extraction systems.