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Bethel, Tuluksak and Chevak Communities Discuss Disaster Processes with the State FREE an edition of ALASKAthe POST The Interior Military News Connection Vol. 12, No. 14 Fort Wainwright, Alaska April 16, 2021 Bethel, Tuluksak and Chevak communities discuss disaster processes with the state Lt. Col. Candis Olmstead drinking water to the Joint Force Headquarters community until a por- table water plant can be Commissioner for the connected, and eventually, Department of Military a new permanent system and Veterans Affairs, can be installed. Maj. Gen. Torrence Saxe, While there, Saxe traveled to Western Alas- presented Alaska Com- ka last week to meet with munity Service Medals to Tribal leaders and citizens Tuluksak Tribal Council in Bethel, Tuluksak and secretary, treasurer and Chevak to discuss disaster utilities manager, Kristy assistance measures and Napoka,and Tribal ad- processes in light of recent ministrator, Elsie Allain, emergencies that have for their commitment occurred in the region, and dedication to disaster and in preparation for the response coordination in upcoming flood season. support of the community. Saxe and a small team “It is obvious that you of DMVA, Department of care about your communi- Environmental Conserva- ty, and that care turns into tion, and Department of action,” said Saxe. “We Commerce, Community, all appreciate your hard and Economic Develop- Community members in the small, rural community of Chevak, Alasak, watch from a safe distance work.” ment personnel, met with as representatives from the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, the Department Napoka and Allain community leaders in of Environmental Conservation, and the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic worked with the Yukon Tuluksak April 8 to dis- Development load onto an Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk in Chevak, Alaska 9 Kuskokwim Health Cor- cuss the disaster response April,$SULO 3KRWRE\'DQD5RVVR 2021. (Photo by Dana Rosso) poration, DEC, and other effort after the village’s agencies to coordinate community washeteria was destroyed in a fire Tuluksak School and were system and the drinkable point being used as a tem- See DISASTER on page 5 in January. They visited shown the reverse osmosis community water access porary solution to provide Advancement creates nanosized, foldable robots U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Systems at Army Research enormous scales as well,” Research Laboratory Public Office, an element of the said Prof. Paul McEuen, the Affairs U.S. Army Combat Capa- John A. Newman Profes- bilities Development Com- sor of Physical Science at Army-funded researchers mand, known as DEVCOM, Cornell University. “What created nanosized robots Army Research Laboratory. we haven’t learned how to that could enable locomo- “In addition to paving the do is build machines at tiny tion, novel metamaterial way for nano-robots, the scales.” design and high-fidelity scientific advancements This is a step in that ba- sensors. from this effort can enable sic, fundamental evolution Cornell University smart material design and in what humans can do, of researchers created mi- interaction with the molecu- learning how to construct cron-sized shape memory ac- lar biological world that can machines that are as small tuators that fold themselves assist the Army like never as cells, he said. into 3D configurations and before.” The researchers ongoing allow atomically thin 2D The research may result collaboration has generat- materials with just a quick in future applications 10 to ed a throng of nanoscale jolt of voltage. Once the 20 years from now, he said. machines and components, This graphic shows the location of each gate, the hours it will material is bent, it holds its In a peer-reviewed article each seemingly faster, beEHRSHQDQGWKHÀRZRIWUDI¿F open and the flow of traffic. shape, even after the voltage published in Science Ro- smarter and more elegant is removed. botics, researchers said this than the last. To demonstrate the work could make it possi- “We want to have robots technology, the team creat- ble for a million fabricated that are microscopic but Fort Wainwright to ed what is potentially the microscopic robots releasing have brains on board,” said world’s smallest self-folding from a wafer to fold them- Prof. Itai Cohen, professor origami bird. selves into shape, crawl free, of physics at Cornell Univer- begin major main gate “The research team is and go about their tasks, sity. “That means you need pushing the boundary of even assembling into more to have appendages that are construction work in May how quickly and precisely complicated structures. driven by complementary we can control motion at “We humans, our defin- metal–oxide–semiconduc- Staff Report Next year the Alaska the micro- and even na- ing characteristic is we’ve tor transistors, basically a Fort Wainwright Public Department of Transpor- no-scales,” said Dr. Dean learned how to build com- computer chip on a robot Affairs$IIDLUV2I¿FH Office tation and Public Facilities Culver, program manager plex systems and machines that’s 100 microns on a side. will begin construction of for Complex Dynamics and at human scales, and at The hard part is making the The U.S. Army Garri- an improved intersection materials that respond to son Alaska Directorate of at the Airport Way and St- the CMOS circuits.” Public Works will begin eese Highway intersection. This shape memory work to improve the main Our project being complet- actuator developed by the installation access point ed beforehand aids in their research teams allows them next month. This project final design and allows to drive with voltage and will better enable the the Main Gate to operate make the materials hold a Directorate of Emergency during their construction. bent shape. The machines Services to provide securi- USAG Alaska DPW fold themselves fast–within ty while managing vehicle coordinated with the City 100 milliseconds. They can traffic flow. of Fairbanks Engineering also flatten and refold them- The work will begin Department and AK DOT- selves thousands of times toward the end of the PF in the planning phase and they only need a single month, with the exact of the project. This was volt to be powered to life. start date to be an- done so they can monitor “These are major advanc- nounced when plans are traffic flows and adjust es over current state-of-the- final, and is expected to traffic lights as needed. art devices,” Cohen said. continue into October. As with any major “We’re really in a class of Planned changes construction project, there our own.” include the following: will be some accompany- These actuators can bend improved Visitor Center ing minor inconvenienc- with a radius of curvature parking and commercial es. Specifically, Visitor smaller than a micron–the vehicle layout, added elec- Center processing time highest curvatures of any trical power capabilities, will increase, and various voltage-driven actuator improved road surfaces access routes and gate op- Army-funded researchers create nanosized robots that fold by an order of magnitude. and the elimination of erating hours will change. themselvesWKHPVHOYHVLQWR'FRQ¿JXUDWLRQVDQGFRXOGHQDEOHORFRPRWLRQ into 3D configurations and could enable locomotion,This flexibility is important existing pot holes. This However, multiple traffic novelQRYHOPHWDPDWHULDOGHVLJQDQGKLJKO\¿GHOLW\VHQVRUV &RXUWHV\ metamaterial design and highly-fidelity sensors. (Courtesy will improve traffic flow Cornell University) See ROBOTS on page 2 and safety. 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