History was made this summer when the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) hosted cadets and midshipmen from each of the U.S. service academies for the first known complete inter academy internship.
As part of each academy’s Cadet Summer Research Internship, this opportunity provided an immersive research and development experience supporting field data collection at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JBMDL) in New Jersey and artificial intelligence model development at the ERDC Environmental Laboratory (EL).
Supporting research within the Intelligent Environmental Battlespace Awareness (IEBA) Program, Global Forest Characterization Task, this two-week internship included one week of field data collection...
A collaboration between the New York National Guardās 109th Airlift Wing and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory led to an aviation first and a new standard for ice landings that dramatically expands landing site options for military operations in cold regions.