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Spotlight: Mar 16, 2025

Air Force engineer and PhD student Randall Pietersen is developing a drone-based system to detect pavement damage and unexploded munitions after an airfield is attacked. “We’re still only prepared to do this on foot, and that’s where my research comes in,” he says.

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