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    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Headquarters Building is decorated for the holiday season for ERDC Under the Lights. The annual holiday lights drive-thru event is a way for the organization to give back to the community. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo)

    Twinkling lights, holiday cheer return with ERDC Under the Lights

    Employees at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) have been hard at work stringing lights and hanging bows for ERDC’s annual holiday lights celebration. The public event is set for Dec. 7-8, from 6-8 p.m., with a separate employee-only night scheduled for Dec. 6. Visitors should enter through Gate 3, just south of the Main Gate at 3909 Halls Ferry Road.
  • Luke Gurtowski, a research chemical engineer with ERDC’s Environmental Engineering Branch (EL), pours graphene while researching the benefits of the nanomaterial.

    ERDC’s Environmental Laboratory’s graphene research leads to a collaboration with NASA

    Scientists and engineers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory (EL) are conducting research that could lead to sustaining and advancing technology more efficiently and at a lower cost, both on Earth and in space.
  • ERDC Robotics for Engineer Operations (REO) Team demonstrating their Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) at the 2023 Position, Navigation, Timing Assessment Experiment (PNTAX).3

    Unmanned Ground Vehicles successfully demonstrated at PNTAX ‘23

    The Robotics for Engineer Operations (REO) team at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) successfully conducted demonstrations of their Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) without the use of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) at the Position, Navigation, Timing Assessment Experiment (PNTAX).
  • The Global Hydro Intelligence provides engineers and scientists solutions to combat domestic risks and potential global conflict over water resources.

    Understanding Global Hydrology

    Scientists with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) are exploring potential opportunities by utilizing a collaboration between ERDC, NASA, U.S. Air Force, and other DOD agencies in the development of Global Hydro Intelligence (GHI).
  • Computer scientist Tung “Alex” Ly with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) invented the “Digital Buoy Systems and Method” in his laboratory at ERDC’s Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL), Alexandria, Virginia. He received a patent in May 2022 for his digital system which will help reduce operational costs to the U.S. Government and provide real-time, reliable and enhanced marine navigation safety for U.S. private, public and commercial industries.

    Army’s Digital Buoy System selected as R&D 100 finalist

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) collaborative effort with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Army Geospatial Center (AGC) on a Digital Buoy System has been selected as a 2023 R&D 100 Finalist in the IT/Electrical category.
  • Bovina Elementary students gather around the ERDC Mobile STEM Lab to learn more about its features and resources.

    ERDC Mobile STEM Lab connects elementary students to STEM

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is continuing efforts to introduce the community’s youth to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
  • An ice researcher at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory prepares thin sections from an ice block made with additives to increase strength and melt resistance of ice. The research is performed in a cold environmental chamber within the laboratory’s Cold Room Complex. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Joseph Bara)

    ERDC’s Asenath-Smith assists DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office program team

    Dr. Emily Asenath-Smith knows a lot about the science of ice, and as a research materials engineer with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), she is uniquely suited to take on a wide range of research challenges with ice.