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Lieutenant colonel caps career of engineering hope
Lt. Col. Hugh Darville, recieves a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flag signed by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville work force during his retirement ceremony at Sparkman Center's Bob Jones Auditorium July 20. Darville served with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville since 2017 as deputy commander and interim commander.
Huntsville Center at 475 Quality Circle
After more than 20 years at its location at University Place in Huntsville, Alabama, the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville is relocating most of its workforce to another facility. More than 600 Huntsville Center employees will soon operate at its new location at 475 Quality Circle, situated at the city's Thornton Research Park.
Some Center missions remain in University Square office suites
The majority of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s employees are now working from the Center’s new location at 475 Quality Circle, in the Thornton Research Park. However, one of the Center’s directorates and several other Center divisions and program offices are remaining in office suites geographically detached from the Center.
Huntsville Center
The main entrance at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center building on University Square in Huntsville, Ala. In 1995, the Corps redesignated Huntsville Division, calling it the “U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center.” That same year, Huntsville Center moved into its new office on University Square
SAFEGUARD
Designed constructed by Huntsville Division, the Stanley R. Mickelson SAFEGUARD Missile Complex in North Dakota, the only operational ABM system deployed by the United States.
SPRINT
Based on the threat by Soviet ICBMs and intelligence that Communist China could deploy ICBMs by the early 1970s, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered the U.S. Army to develop a deployment plan of its own, using existing SPRINT and SPARTAN interceptors.

Read our History

Our latest historical review, ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS: THE U.S. ARMY ENGINEERING AND SUPPORT CENTER, HUNTSVILLE 1967-2017 provides accounts of the Center's last 50 years.  

ONE DOOR to the CORPS: The U.S. ARMY ENGINEERING and SUPPORT CENTER, HUNTSVILLE HISTORICAL UPDATE, 1998-2007 was prepared by Senior Historians F. Patricia Stallings and Edward G. Salo, Brockington and Associates, Inc., and was published in 2009.

The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville CAPTURED ENEMY AMMUNITION AND COALITION MUNITIONS CLEARANCE MISSION, 2003-2008 is a history documenting how Huntsville Center oversaw a $1.5 billion program that worked with contractors and subcontractors to destroy more than 346,000 tons of explosives in Iraq.