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- ERDC supports disaster
relief in a lot of ways,

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So, the core of engineers
actually supports FEMA

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in its mission to responding to disasters.

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And what the ERDC can do, we
can do modeling and simulation

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so we can predict what
the inundation levels,

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or the water levels will be,
after a flood or a surge.

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We can come up with
temporary bridging strategies

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to cross rivers and streams,

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as the real bridges get washed away.

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We come up with reachback capabilities,

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so the people in field, who
desperately need solutions,

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can call right back in to us,
and come up with solutions

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that they're facing every day.

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So we support disaster
response in all kinds of ways,

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through the core of engineers, and others,

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in providing that kind of relief.

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- If there is a natural disaster,

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in something that the
military needs to respond to

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we have capability within ERDC

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to estimate what those impacts are,

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but also estimate the
timing and the scale,

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and the responses required.

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So the ERDC has capability for
assessing food, water, energy

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under changing environmental conditions.

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We do vulnerability assessments.

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- On a river flood situation
you might have areas

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where you have high water,
you might have inundation.

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You wanna look at how that overlays

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with your population centers,
your critical infrastructure.

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Total watershed decision
support is a integrated system

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of models starting from
the upper watershed.

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So you have the precipitation,
rainfall, snowfall,

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stream flow network that comes
through, flows over land,

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into rivers, and then down to the coast,

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where you have waves
and storm surge tides.

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And then through the modeling,

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we would come up with
almost a stop-light system.

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Green, things are good.

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Red, things are bad.

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So they could look at how
these different parameters

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overlay each other, to tell

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where they might have problems coming up.

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- 3D printing, what it allows us to do is,

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rather than do the
traditional concrete formwork

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that you see in most
construction, is we have a system,

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where, just like your little
3D printer that you see on TV,

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but now it's scaled up, and we're able

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to print that structure,
one small layer at a time.

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Well the benefits of 3D printing is,

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one, we believe we'll be able

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to use locally sourced
materials, so we don't have

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to ship them in from the United States,

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or other areas of the world.

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So 3D printing also reduces the amount

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of labor required to put up a structure.

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Because in those environments,

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especially in a disaster relief scenario,

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there's no local labor available.

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Everyone is just trying to recover.

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The fewer labor resources
you have to engage,

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the quicker you can get critical
infrastructure in place.

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- With building supplies in
particular, they're pretty bulky

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and represent a significant
logistics burden.

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We would take waste products in an area,

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like brush, or maybe even shipping pallets

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that were used to deliver
our other products,

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grind those up using something
similar to a wood chipper,

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and then coat that material with microbes,

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that then can be used to
grow a cellular structure

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that has properties very similar
to foam board insulation.

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- So I'm standing here in front

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of the Improved Ribbon Bridge,

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which is a portable bridge
the army has in its inventory.

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Now this bay, can fold
up into small pieces.

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It can be transported
by truck or helicopter.

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And assembled in a river, to
cross rivers of any width.

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And what we're doing at ERDC,
is trying to do testing,

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to take it to the next level.

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We're conducting hydraulic
and structural modeling,

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to see what the limits of the bridge are.

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And just how fast of a
flow, and how heavy a weight

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this bridge really can support safely.

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- Natural disasters affect
water treatment plants.

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They make it very difficult to
provide the local citizenship

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with clean water.

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This is called the decontamination

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effluent treatment system.

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It can treat virtually anything,

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including bleach, including
soaps that are in the water.

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It's a very robust system.

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It's what we call an agnostic system.

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This can treat anything,
any kind of water.

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It doesn't care what chemical it is.

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It can treat it.

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- Another piece of technology we have is,

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it's called the hybrid power trader.

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Think of it as a Prius, for operating

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in remote environments.

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The generator only runs at top efficiency

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to charge the batteries, and
when the batteries are charged,

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that supplies the power
to the actual facility.

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This particular system will
reduce your fuel demand

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over a standard generator by 80%.

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Instead of your fuel supply
lasting for two days,

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it would now last for 10 days.

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- What the ERDC does, is
provide assistance in things

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like water, and bridging,
and communications.

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Critical things that you need

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immediately following disaster,

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and then as we respond to that disaster.

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