Army engineers are fighting Covid-19 with virtual reality to design and build Alternative Care Facilities and using supercomputers to model predictions of viral spread. Three experts spearheading this vital work from the U.S. Army Engineers Research and Development Center (ERDC), Dr. David Pittman, Dr. Todd Bridges, and Mike Channell, join us today to describe their efforts to defeat the coronavirus and to share insights they have gained for moving forward.

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• Guests:  
  • Dr. David W. Pittman, Director of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) & Director of R&D and Chief Scientist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) 

• Host: COL(Ret) Dan Roper, AUSA’s Director of National Security Studies

Resources:

U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (DoD HPCMP)