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  • April

    Jennifer McDowell, a U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center Huntsville Interior Designer, speaks to Ms. Pratt's fourth grade students about the differences between an interior designer and an interior decorator during Mill Creek Elementary School's career day April 8.

    Volunteers talk vocations during Mill Creek Career Day

    Volunteers from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville spent time discussing their careers with students at Mill Creek Elementary School April 8.
  • Paramedics and emergency department (ED) staff rush in a volunteer patient for a simulated trauma case during the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center "Day in the Life" event preparing the staff for the new hospital facility on Feb. 6. The ED moved into the new facility April 3.

    Initial Outfitting and Transition program equips Fort Hood hospital

    The Huntsville Center Initial Outfitting and Transition program played a major role in equipping the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Centerat Fort Hood, Texas. With the completion of the $90 million Fort Hood IO&T services and equipment procurement contract to Military Healthcare Outfitting and Transition (MilHOT) in 2012, the hospital opened April 3.

  • March

    Carol Elder, Interior Design Section team lead for the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, meets with Interior Designer Lauren Ploetze and other members of the Huntsville Center Medical Interior Design team. Elder played a key role in standing up the interior design mission, an effort that began in 2010.

    Faces of the Force: Carol Elder

    Carol Elder, Huntsville Center's Interior Design chief, is featured on "Faces of the Force," an online series highlighting members of the Army Acquisition Workforce.
  • Soldiers Plaza building 2602, a World War II wood building used most recently as an administrative building, is demolished at Fort Benning, Georgia, under the Facilities Reduction Program, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. This is one of 31 World War II wood buildings within the Soldiers Plaza that has been demolished to reduce the installation's footprint by removing excess infrastructure from its real property inventory.

    Facilities Reduction Program demolitions Fort Benning WWII buildings

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville is managing the Soldiers Plaza demolition project at Fort Benning, Georgia, as part of an existing Mid-East Region U.S. Facilities Reduction Program Multiple Award Task Order Contract.
  • Martha Cook, HNC executive officer, speaks to Ms. Maze's pre-kindergarten students about their project during the First Baptist Child Development Center & Academy science fair.

    Huntsville Center participates in local science fair

    U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville participated in the First Baptist Child Development Center & Academy science fair March 17. Six volunteers judged more than 95 group and individual projects that were created by students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.
  • Contractors scan property at Rock Island Arsenal to detect metal objects up to a two-foot depth. In the thorough scan of more than four acres, contractors found two grenades.

    Corps removes grenades from Rock Island Arsenal housing area

    A partnership among federal agencies and contractors has cleared property of explosives at a housing project at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. The Huntsville Center Military Munitions Design Center prepared and staffed the Explosive Safety Submission for Louisville District.

  • Huntsville Center exceeds President’s energy savings goal for 2016

    Two task orders awarded to Honeywell Building Solutions by Huntsville Center to perform civil works projects for the Pittsburgh District and Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity are 11 months ahead of schedule and exceed the Army’s President’s Performance Contracting Challenge goal of $12 million in energy-efficiency performance contracts at federal facilities through 2016.
  • Sue Engelhardt, USACE Director of Human Resources, delivered two engaging presentations for Huntsville Center supervisors and employees March 2 to kick off Women's History Month.

    Workforce success = understanding, embracing team member differences

    Identifying, understanding, appreciating and making the most of employee differences within teams and across the organization was the theme echoing throughout two interactive, engaging, laughter-filled presentations by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Director of Human Resources Sue Engelhardt.
  • Raúl Alonso, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center Huntsville Energy Division program manager, dressed as a lemur to read to Mill Creek Elementary School kindergarten students during National Education Association's Read Across America Day, March 2.

    Huntsville Center volunteers encourage students to read

    U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville volunteers joined in Team Redstone’s Read Across America effort Feb. 29 through March 2 by reading to students at local elementary schools.

  • February

    Workers stage washers and dryers prior to delivering them to a U.S. Army Cadet Command barracks laundry rooms at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Two Huntsville Center Furnishings Program contracts, valued at more than $5.8 million, filled more than 400 rooms in 14 buildings with the beds and mattresses, chests, wardrobes and other furnishings used by more than 8,000 cadets during Cadet Summer Training, the largest single source of new officers for the Army.

    Furnishings Program fills cadet barracks

    Two contracts, valued at more than $5.8 million, filled more than 400 rooms in 14 buildings with the beds and mattresses, chests, wardrobes, lounge furnishings for dayrooms, and washers and dryers for laundry rooms.
  • Brian Spear, Engineering Directorate site development civil engineer, discusses the merits of the sUAS with educators throughout Alabama during the Alabama Community Education Association’s annual conference at the Huntsville Marriott Feb. 25.

    Engineers share STEM career paths with Alabama educators

    Huntsville Center engineers, engaged more than 350 educators from throughout Alabama by discussing their career fields during the Alabama Community Education Association’s annual conference at the Huntsville Marriott Feb. 25.
  • Financial management personnel race the clock to complete certification

    Financial management personnel race the clock to complete certification

    Huntsville Center has 27 personnel required to complete the DOD Financial Management Certification Program by June 2016. So far, 18 have been certified, with the remaining nine not far behind.
  • Huntsville Center civil engineer and administration contracting officer Darren Mulford competes at a USPSA shooting event. Also a part-time gunsmith, he builds all of his competition handguns. (Courtesy photo)

    Full-time engineer excels as part-time gunslinger

    Efficiency and focus drive Darren Mulford in everything he does. The civil engineer and administrative contracting officer at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is also a competitive pistol shooter ranked in the top 15 percent of classified shooters in the U.S. Practical Shooting Association (USPSA).
  • Tiffany Torres is a value engineering officer with the Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.

    Engineer steps outside comfort zone

    Tiffany Torres discusses her experience as an engineer, her challenges and hopes for the future of females in engineering.
  • Huntsville Center’s Arkie Fanning, April Rafael-Adams, Pat Haas and Boyce Ross are part of the team receiving the Procurement Team of the Year in the 2015 USACE Excellence in Contracting Awards Program.

    Team supporting Veterans Affairs receives 2015 USACE Excellence in Contracting Award

    The Aurora Veterans Affairs Hospital Replacement Alpha Contract Team was named the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 2015 Procurement Team of the Year in the Excellence in Contracting Awards Program. The nucleus of the team included employees from USACE’s Omaha District and the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.
  • Chart showing which courses are available at each grade level.

    Civilian Education System provides for leader development, career path progression

    The Civilian Education System or CES is a progressive and sequential leader development program that provides enhanced educational opportunities for Army Civilians throughout their careers. CES is not the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) nor is it under the guidance of the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) certification process.

  • Succession planning big part of strategic off-site discussions

    During the Huntsville Center strategic off-site Jan. 19-21, the group discussed succession planning as a way to meet staffing challenges during transition, as well as various other topics.

  • January

    The Huntsville Center Ensemble, from left, Tina Maye, Angela Morton, Lillian Fox and Reneda Kelly sing gospel music during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Day Celebration Jan. 22, as Elder Dwight Clark, an associate minister and minister of music at the Douglas Tabernacle Primitive Baptist Church, Huntsville, Alabama, accompanies them on the keyboard.

    Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Day Celebration encourages fellowship

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville held a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Celebration Jan. 22
  • Lynn Daniels received an award July 20, 2015, from Col. Robert Ruch, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville commander, recognizing her as the Huntsville Center Project Manager of the Year. Daniels, a virtual project manager from Seattle District, provides full-time support for the Huntsville Center’s Facilities Reduction Program. In 2014, she managed projects on eight military installations from Georgia to Alaska, removing 2.8 million square feet of real property (217 facilities) for $22.7 million.

    Virtual project managers bridge gaps in Corps workforce

    After more than a decade of employee growth due to military construction projects that are completed, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking for creative ways to retain its employees. Huntsville Center has the solution by employing virutal project managers from other districts.
  • John Nevels, a structural engineer with the Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville judges Lydia Fairchild's "How Music Affects Our Bodies" fifth grade science fair project during the Challenger Elementary School Science Fair Jan. 20.

    Volunteer judges help science fair inspire students to pursue STEM

    Eight volunteers from the Huntsville Center offered their STEM field expertise to help judge more than 110 projects during the annual Challenger Elementary School Science Fair Jan. 20.