Accelerate Change: Empowered Airmen

We live in a world that is driven by rapidly changing technology and an environment that includes aggressive and capable global competitors. Airmen are key to cutting unnecessary bureaucracy, recognizing and understanding our competition, and thinking of creative ways we can reshape the design of our Air Force. The Air Force must accelerate, must change, and must prepare for the future!

This page is dedicated towards highlighting the accomplishments of our talented Airmen at all levels and to show the impact they can make when they are informed and empowered to problem solve and make smart recommendations and decisions.

 

 

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Power of ERDC podcast Ep. #26: Sand Boil Filter: A more efficient tool to combat internal levee erosion
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center
Aug. 2, 2023 | 29:53
Samantha Lucker from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) talks about how ERDC's Sand Boil Filter kit is enabling better management of our nation's levees during an Aug. 2, 2023 episode of the Power of ERDC podcast. Lucker is a research geologist. She talks about what sand boils are and why they must be promptly addressed (5:04), and how ERDC’s new filters will improve on the current process (7:56) and enable better levee management (9:04). Lucker also discusses how this effort started (17:00), how it builds on ERDC’s deep expertise in studying the Mississippi River (22:54), and how researchers are improving the filter’s design (21:00) to increase its usage (25:23). The Power of ERDC podcast is a behind-the-scenes look at ERDC’s involvement in solving some of the nation’s toughest engineering challenges.
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