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ERDC’s SUBMAT enables successful beach landings during JLOTS25 By Kaley Skaggs, ERDC public affairs specialist DINGALAN, Philippines— On the rocky shores of a remote beach in the Philippines, a team from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) rolled out an innovation designed to solve a tough expeditionary logistics challenge—getting heavy military vehicles from…
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Seabees, Army Engineers Test SUBMAT Innovation During BALTOPS 2025 Story by Chief Petty Officer Justin Stumberg During Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2025, U.S. Navy Seabees and U.S. Marine Corps engineers joined forces to test a new solution for enhancing mobility in littoral environments, one that could reshape how Joint Force commanders conduct distributed maritime operations. The experimental…
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Submersible Matting System (SUBMAT) Sturdy matting technology for traversing austere coastal environments SUBMAT is a new lightweight matting system that, when filled with indigenous sandy material at the deployed location, creates a stable roadway capable of supporting the movement of heavy vehicles such as military trucks and tanks in austere coastal environments. The SUBMAT is designed…