Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#27: RAIL: Making it easier to transport armored vehicles to austere locations
Episode 27
Despite modern transportation advancements, rail remains a superior method for moving heavy military equipment over vast inland distances. However, t…
2 years, 10 months ago
#26: Sand Boil Filter: A more efficient tool to combat internal levee erosion
Episode 26
When river levels rise, so does the threat of sand boils, which occur when water bubbles out of the ground near the base of a levee, surrounded by a …
3 years, 1 month ago
#25: CorpsCam: Enabling more proactive coastal management through real-time monitoring and data
Episode 25
Monitoring large and constantly changing coastlines can be expensive, time consuming and dangerous. Traditional surveying methods are also limited be…
3 years, 2 months ago
#24: Providing Supercomputing Resources to Enable DOD Problem Solving
Episode 24
We talk with Dr. Ben Parsons, chief technology officer with the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), about how the program enabl…
3 years, 3 months ago
#23: Arctic Mobility
Episode 23
We talk with Dr. Orian Welling and Mr. Michael Parker from ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory about how ERDC’s cold weather mobi…
3 years, 4 months ago
#22: Using Augmented and Virtual Reality to Enable Next-Generation Engineering
Episode 22
We talk with Jeremy Herring and Kelly Ervin from ERDC’s Information Technology Laboratory about how ERDC is enabling next-generation engineering by a…
3 years, 6 months ago
#21: Enhanced Terrain Processing
Episode 21
Soldiers are often forced to operate using outdated geospatial data that may not accurately represent current ground conditions. This creates challen…
3 years, 11 months ago
#20: Operational Energy
Episode 20
Military operations require large amounts of energy to train, move and sustain forces, as well as to power weapons platforms – and this is known as o…
3 years, 11 months ago
#19: Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations
Episode 19
Managing a reservoir is a delicate balancing act. If you keep too much water, there may not be enough storage capacity when heavy rains hit, increasi…
4 years ago
#18: SandSnap
Episode 18
Knowing the size of sand grains on the nation’s beaches is important to many coastal management efforts. However, getting that information is labor i…
4 years, 2 months ago