RIT Travels to New York City Fleet Week with High-Tech, Self-Monitoring ONR Humvee

On land and at sea, maintaining the nation’s military vehicles becomes critical in times of crisis, when planes, ships, tanks and trucks are in constant use, often under extreme conditions.

A project to develop technologies ensuring equipment readiness and reliability is underway at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery (NCR3), working with the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR). The high-tech project employs remote sensing and satellite communications to continuously monitor vehicle "health."

NCR3, invited to participate in Fleet Week in the New York Harbor, will demo a humvee ambulance outfitted with remote sensor technology.

RIT will display the humvee and its technology May 23-25 near the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, Pier 86, 12th Ave. and 46th St., New York City. Nabil Nasr, director of NCR3 and world-renowned remanufacturing expert, will be on hand Thursday, May 23.

Background: The U.S. Navy and New York City host the 15th annual Fleet Week, May 22-29 with 21 ships from the Navy, Coast Guard and international navies.

The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum served as the subject for Big Shot 1999, the 14th Big Shot photo taken by RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. More than 1,200 people, including 250 RIT students, 200 greater New York City area high school students and more than 500 alumni, filled the ship’s flight deck and lined 12th Avenue and Pier 84. Led by more than 35 RIT faculty and staff members, they bathed the 900-foot-long aircraft carrier in light during four two-minute exposures.