Student capstone effort supports Soldier-driven innovation A unique project initiative led by the Civil-Military Innovation Institute (CMI2), in collaboration with the University of Florida and the U.S. Army, was prominently showcased in the May 14 edition of the UF Innovate’s “Tech Tuesday.” Tech Tuesday is a dedicated video segment program for Gainesville, FL-based TV20. In […]
May 13, 2024 Big things are happening in Lizemores. This week, our team continued making progress on opening the new Adaptive Experimentation Facility (AEF) at Fort Andrew in Lizemores — we are raising the roof! Early Monday morning, the AEF staff signed the final steel beam before it was hoisted into place. […]
April 30, 2024 Our CMI2 Adaptive Experimentation Facility team, along with other sponsors, actively participated in the ‘Make Clay County Shine’ Highway Clean-up on April 22 and 23, 2024. This collective volunteer effort successfully managed two days of litter removal throughout Clay County along Routes 4, 36, and 16. The ‘Make Clay County Shine’ Highway […]
April 15, 2024 This week, we are starting the interview process for the CMI2 Adaptive Experimentation Facility Summer 2024 internship program. We enjoyed a tremendous response to these summer hiring opportunities and will interview more than 45 applicants in the coming weeks! Representatives of CMI2 will contact applicants directly to confirm a date and time to […]
Apr. 5, 2024 The future of the CMI2 Adaptive Experimentation Facility at Fort Andrew in Clay County is taking shape. Over the past four weeks, our Adaptive Experimentation Facility (AEF) team has worked hard to clean up the new-to-us existing structure for our location in Lizemores. The property was purchased on March 4, and as soon as […]
The Army Chief of Staff included a published article by a CMI2 manager in Army University Press’s “Chief of Staff of the Army Recommended Articles” for March 2024. CMI2 Pathfinder Warfighter Innovation Chief (PWIC) Robert Leach published his original article “The Four Pillars of Tactical Innovation: A Path For Impactful Disruption” in February via the […]
Mar. 26, 2024 In mid-February, we announced our plans for the 2024 CMI2 Adaptive Experimentation Facility (AEF) High School Summer Internship opportunities. These full-time opportunities begin in late May and go through early August in Clay County. The application deadline is five days away on March 31, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. The available positions for […]
On March 11, Randy Emert, Marne Innovation Center Manager (a Civil-Military Innovation Institute (CMI2) DIRT lab), co-presented the paper “Accelerating Army Tactical Innovation: A Five-way University-Military-Government-Nonprofit Collaboration to Speed Soldier-Ideated Technology Development” at the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education Southeastern Section Conference at Kennesaw State University. Randy presented with one of his co-authors, Dr. Matthew Traum, from the University of […]
The Mobile Immediate-Need Engineering Resource, or MINER, was featured as a TECHTALK Pop-Up during South by Southwest 2024 activities at the DoDxTech events at the 800 Congress venue in Austin, TX. The MINER, a testament to the collaboration between the U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and the Civil-Military Innovation Institute (CMI2), is a mobile […]
Mar. 11, 2024 Last week, CMI2 finalized the acquisition of more than 200 acres in the Lizemores, WV, area for the permanent location of our Adaptive Experimentation Facility (AEF). The property, including a former apple orchard and processing plant facility, was purchased from Betty and Frank Murphy, of Clay, WV. As soon […]