Serving our Communities

Serving our Communities

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 […]

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AEF Internship Summer 2024

AEF Internship Summer 2024

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 […]

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Lizemores Progress Update

Lizemores Progress Update

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 […]

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AEF Internship Applications Due 3/31/24

AEF Internship Applications Due 3/31/24

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 […]

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CMI2 DIRT Lab Manager Co-Presents at 2024 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference

CMI2 DIRT Lab Manager Co-Presents at 2024 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference

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 […]

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CMI2 MINER Technology Featured at SXSW 2024

CMI2 MINER Technology Featured at SXSW 2024

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 […]

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Investing for the Long Haul

Investing for the Long Haul

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 […]

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CMI2 and Career Connections

CMI2 and Career Connections

Feb. 26, 2024 The successes of CMI2’s Adaptive Experimentation Facility in 2023 are undeniable, and we believe our people make us different. Among those who made a difference at the Clay County facility are those who participated in the Career Connections program.  In 2023, the CMI2 Adaptive Experimentation Facility hired our inaugural class of interns […]

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CMI2 Featured in ‘Workforce Unhinged’ Podcast

CMI2 Featured in ‘Workforce Unhinged’ Podcast

On Feb. 23, 2024, the Workforce Development Board Mid-Ohio Valley featured CMI2 in episode 46 of its Workforce Unhinged podcast. The podcast focused on the partnership between CMI2 and Career Connections, including interviews with Adam Landers, AEF Operations Manager, and site specialists Joshua Walker and Elijah Morton.   Career Connections is an employment and training program […]

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