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Over at the research lab at Tyndall ,

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you know , our job is to work on

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developing and integrating new

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technologies to get them fielded . Um A

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lot of the work has been focused on the

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global power competition , ace the

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fight in the Pacific , you know , and

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things that are going on there . The

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lab has been at Tal since the late

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fifties , early sixties and it's

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continued to work for civil engineering

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that whole time expanding roles ,

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changing over time , the team in the

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Air Force R and D section is composed

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of 18 civilians . But then we've also

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got about 100 and 10 to 115 on site

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contractors that support the work as

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far as area of expertise . It's , it's

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a wide variety , you know , civil

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engineering is a broad career field .

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So it's a pretty big operation and

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we've got over 200 acres of test ranges .

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So I'm the research lead for a of

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manufacturing or 3D printing program .

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A lot of the work we've been doing

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recently is kind of looking into the

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application for construction , scale 3D

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printing and that can be applicable for

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military construction or expeditionary

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construction . Uh what keeps him

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motivated for supporting the A F I MS E

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goals is kind of the uh constantly

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changing environment , always having to

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adapt is very stimulating environment

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in terms of um goals , changing threats ,

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things like that . So it makes the

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research really fulfilling . And

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especially on top of that , we're

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supporting the war fighter and

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protecting our troops out there as an

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acquisition program manager , my job is

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to find contracting sources so that we

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can provide a staff of professional

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engineers and scientists in order to

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support research development , test and

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evaluation for Air Force Civil Engineer

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Center , I came up through the ranks as

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an enlisted civil engineer . And so our

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mission supports our civil engineers

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and that's very near and dear to my

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heart . What really keeps me motivated

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is that this is a very new aspect of

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Air Force civil engineering that I was

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not privy to before I came to work here .

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The RDT and E aspect of this job keeps

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me learning something new every single

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day . The action program focuses in the

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acquisition of commercially up the

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shelf uh systems or development of

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technologies that provide passive

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protections uh for our assets . Uh

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Basically increasing the survivability

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and uh for operation base . Basically

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we uh construct uh and create

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technologies that provide protection

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and eventually we get to blast it and

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shoot it away . My technology is

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eventually safe lives . You know , our

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job isn't um just to sit around and

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play with things and you know , it may

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seem that way to folks at sometimes ,

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but really what our job is , is to be

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able to evaluate those technologies ,

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understand the the needs of the users

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and be able to spend time working on it

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to perfect it . So it's militarily

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ready .