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Army first responders use multi-faceted System for Multi-Criteria De -
cision Analysis software to identify key geolocations for disaster support
allocations and mitigation efforts.
3. Civil Works and Water Resources
This area provides environmentally sustainable solutions to the
nation's water resources challenges and helps provide safe and
resilient communities and infrastructure. Technologies help
manage existing water resources infrastructure sustainably in the
face of expected climate change and land use change, invasion
by exotic species, demographic shifts, and aging structures.
Tools and resources improve the flow of commercial navigation
traffic on waterways, rebuilding locks and maintaining
channels, reducing the risk of damage to life and property
from flooding, and protecting fish and plant life.
4. Geospatial Research and Engineering
The Geospatial Research and Engineering area provides the
data, analytic tools, information, and decision framework capabilities
to ensure situational awareness of the battlespace environment
for the warfighter. It arms soldiers with information
superiority so they can accurately and quickly gauge battlespace
environment effects on personnel, platforms, sensors,
and systems. Research includes terrain analysis for signal and
sensor phenomenology, geospatial and temporal information,
geospatial reasoning, and imagery and geodata science.
5. Engineered Resilient Systems
The Engineered Resilient Systems area combines advanced
engineering techniques with high-performance computing to
develop concepts and tools that significantly amplify design
options examined during early stages of the acquisition
process. Techniques result in trade spaces that can be generated
in hours rather than months and are thousands of times
larger and hundreds of times more accurate than those created
via traditional methods.
Designs are also resilient - systems are dependable, easily
modified to meet future mission goals, and possess a predictable
lifecycle. Research has been applied to analyses of
fixed-wing planes, rotorcraft, ground vehicles, and ships.
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AVERT utilizes a mat connected to a barrier to stop vehicles by friction,
thus reducing the vehicle's traction to the ground. The system provides
immediate protection in temporary traffic control situations. A manual,
spring-assisted pop-up mechanism allows cleared vehicle traffic to pass
without moving the system.
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The Mobility System for Crossing Off-Road and Urban Terrain (MSCOUT)
unmanned aerial vehicle is a prototype warning system that
displays mobility obstacles on a map, detected from a sensor data
cloud onboard the drone. The live terrain data is combined with mobility
performance models to update routes and provide situational
awareness to convoy commanders.
Technologies
Engineers have invented a 3D concrete printer that can create
buildings. It can print with multiple different materials including
homogeneous materials such as cement paste or heterogeneous
materials such as concrete. It uses an additive manufacturing
process to " print " semi-permanent structures in a theater of
operation. The Automated Construction of Expe ditionary
Structures (ACES) has the potential to reduce building materials
shipped by half and reduce construction manpower requirements
by 62% when compared to plywood construction.
The Army conducts risk assessments to determine safe
levels and cleanup target levels for military relevant compounds
(MRCs). ARAMS™ is a highly adaptable, computerbased
dynamic modeling and analysis system that can assess
future or time-varying human and ecological health risks
using measured or predicted exposure data, making it an
indispensable resource for those managing sites for compliance
and sustainment. ARAMS can also be used to conduct
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