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  • August

    Soldiers of the 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team approach a target during a live-fire drill as part of the unit’s 2018 rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La. The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville is the designated Range and Training Land Program Mandatory Center of Expertise.

    Huntsville Center program keeps service members on target

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville is the designated Range and Training Land Program Mandatory Center of Expertise.

  • July

    Resource Efficiency Managers have the challenging task of helping agencies create and maintain reliable and resilient energy to power high-energy laser weapons, like this one. (Image courtesy of DASA(R&T))

    Resource Efficiency Managers support modernization of defense industrial base

    At the forefront of this mission is the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Resource Efficiency Manager (REM) program, which brings the best minds in the free world together to introduce new technologies and processes that extract every possible unit of energy from the most fuel-efficient and resilient energy-system technologies available. REMs, often called the “energy boots on the ground,” provide vital expertise to develop site energy plans encompassing projects that achieve sustainable, renewable, and secure energy management.

  • June

    Army Sgt. 1st Class George Hummel, a biomedical equipment specialist with the 807th Medical Command, inputs data while maintaining medical equipment at the Medical Equipment Concentration Site for the 88th Readiness Division in Ogden, Utah, April 17. Huntsville Center’s Resource Efficiency Manager Program provides the 88th RD with site energy plans encompassing projects that achieve sustainable energy management at the 88th RD’s more than 250 sites located across 19 states.

    REM’s exceed energy savings goals for the Army Reserve

    With 579 facilities totaling more than 10 million square feet of facility space, Rachel Kemper, REM for the U.S. Army Reserve’s 88th Readiness Division, headquartered on Fort McCoy, Wis., continues to deliver the program and exceeded energy savings goals for the 88th RD throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
  • More than 800 Huntsville Center employees from Huntsville, Alabama, Omaha, Nebraska and Alexandria, Virginia, logged into an online meeting platform to hear the words of Huntsville Center leaders praise the workforce for a job-well-done during unprecedented times.

    Virtual town hall recognizes achievement, brings workforce up-to-date

    More than 800 Huntsville Center employees from Huntsville, Alabama, Omaha, Nebraska and Alexandria, Virginia, logged into an online meeting platform to hear the words of Huntsville Center leaders praise the workforce for a job-well-done during unprecedented times.
  • Paratroopers with 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), practice cordon and search tactics during warfighter training at Fort Carson, Colorado, in 2018. Huntsville Center’s Range and Training Land Program prepared programming cost estimates for a shoothouse at the post to support the U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s project approval and funding process.

    Huntsville Center, Omaha District delivers range to Army special forces

    Last September, Huntsville Center’s Range and Training Land Program prepared a programming cost estimate for a shoothouse at Fort Carson, Colorado, in support of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s project approval and funding process.

  • May

    Personnel apply absorbent rolls to a simulated hazardous material spill during a training scenario at U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz in 2019. U.S. Army Installation Management Command garrisons are more efficient and effective at management, tracking, and reporting of hazardous materials thanks to the Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health – Management Information System implementation team of Huntsville Center’s Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise.

    Huntsville Center improves hazardous materials management

    Previously, many installations used other more costly user licenses, such as the Hazardous Materials Management System, or other commercial databases that required annual renewal fees to manage their HM or HW data. Licensing costs were greatly reduced with the single EESOH-MIS application.
  • Technicians use electromagnetic metal detectors to determine if an item below ground is a military munition. Huntsville Center’s Ordnance and Explosives Military Munitions Design Center manages and executes many of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Military Munitions Response Program projects for Formerly Used Defense Site and Base Realignment and Closure sites.

    Huntsville Center plays key role in South Carolina remediation project

    Work to clean up former Camp Croft, a Formerly Used Defense Site, began following the April 1 contract between U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District, and a joint venture of Weston Solutions, Inc., of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, and Zapata Inc., of Charlotte, North Carolina.

  • April

    Dr. Charles Brandon, Director, Army Office of Business Transformation Process Improvement Program, awards Carolyn Harris, Huntsville Center's Program Improvement Manager, her Lean Six Sigma Master Black belt certificate in December. Harris is one of six MBBs in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

    Army awards Harris with Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

    Harris is the 163rd member to be awarded Master Black Belt in the Army and currently one of six Corps of Engineers’ MBBs since the Army Lean Six Sigma deployment began in 2005.
  • A Resource Efficiency Manager recently instituted a 50001 Ready team to meet energy and water security resilience and reduction goals at Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Radford, Virginia. Huntsville Center manages the REM program for the Army.

    Resource Energy Manager improves munition plant’s energy resilience

    A Resource Efficiency Manager attending 2019 Energy Exchange and REM Workshop in Huntsville, Alabama, received updated 50001 Ready information that led him on a path to improve energy efficiency at Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Virginia.
  • Evan Meier, the son of Thomas and Katherine Meier, and 6th grade student uses his 3D printer to create face masks and face shields for local hospital workers. Inspired by his aunt and YouTube program, "Smarter Every Day," the youth joined forces with 235 other Huntsville, Alabama, volunteers to make over 3,800 shields for area health care and first responders treating COVID-19 patients.

    Madison youth joins effort to help hospital workers

    Evan’s interest in making the masks, then face shields began earlier in March when his aunt sent them a link to a community project in Boston where they were making 3D filtered masks. That message resonated with the young student “engineer.”
  • Don Monk, a project management specialist with Huntsville Center's Medical Outfitting and Transition Division, delivers the program from his home office in Birmingham, Ala. Monk has been teleworking regularly for years and has a set routine.

    Telework is the norm for Huntsville Center workforce

    For some employees, working from “Fort Living Room” is a relatively new way of doing business
  • A mission-essential employee walks down a hallway at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville

    Deceptively Quiet – Huntsville Center’s army of unseen professionals

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville stands deceptively quiet. The hallways, workspaces and meeting rooms are empty. What you can’t see is the army of Huntsville Center professionals tucked safely away in their homes, working feverishly to do their part in fighting the coronavirus pandemic that has gripped our nation and launched us all into a historic, unified response. Huntsville Center engineers and technical experts are providing conceptual engineering solutions to very real challenges. And the Corps of Engineers, FEMA and our federal, state and local partners are turning them into reality in record time.

  • March

    James Buhr, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville project manager and Emergency Operations Center team member, listens during the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers daily commander’s telecon briefing March 25.

    Huntsville Center EOC streamlines COVID-19 response efforts

    Huntsville Center is supporting the Corps efforts in working with FEMA, the White House, DOD, and other federal, state and local partners by developing plans and specifications for the rapid conversion of hotels, barracks and arena-type facilities into ICU-capable hospitals for treating COVID-19 patients.
  • Jelani Ingram Huntsville Center Acting Branch Chief of Architecture, works to provide concept solutions and engineering sketches for alternate care facility assessments for Corps of Engineers districts to assist in the conversion of hotels, barracks and arenas into alternate care facilities capable of providing care during our nation’s efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

    Huntsville Center supports alternate care facility assessments

    As the Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for Medical Facility Design, Huntsville Center engineers were quickly brought in by Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, 54th Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of USACE.
  • General Services Administration has initiated a 60-day extension to the System for Award Management website.

    OMB provides relief in SAM.gov registration extensions

    This effort is intended as relief for those otherwise required to re-register during that time frame.
  • Pallets of supplies await to be craned aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) at Naval Base San Diego, March 21. Huntsville Center is providing an $187,000 information technology software acquisition for the Mercy as the ship serves as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients currently admitted to shore-based hospitals.

    Huntsville Center contract aids Navy hospital ship supporting COVID-19 efforts

    The statement of work calls for a software acquisition so the ship’s medical staff can perform tele-healthcare for patients on shore.
  • “Be Safe, Be Flexible, and Continue the GREAT Work!” ~ Col. Marvin L. Griffin, commander Huntsville Center

    First steps in doing business with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Government, register with SAM.gov

    The first steps in doing business with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Government, is for your company to register with SAM.gov (https://sam.gov/SAM/pages/public/index. jsf). Within SAM.gov is the Disaster Response Registry, where you can register your company's unique capabilities (https://sam.gov/SAM/pages/public/searchRecords/advancedDRSearc.hjsf).

  • SBA providing loans for small businesses

    The SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program provides small businesses with working capital loans
  • “Be Safe, Be Flexible, and Continue the GREAT Work!” ~ Col. Marvin L. Griffin, commander Huntsville Center

    Huntsville Center transitions to maximum telework

    “Be Safe, Be Flexible, and Continue the GREAT Work!” ~ Col. Marvin L. Griffin, commander Huntsville Center
  • John Trudell, Huntsville Center Resource Efficiency Manager program manager, and Dan Howett, Federal Account Representative, Carrier Corporation, discusses the Chillers 101 presentation Howett made during the Army REM Workshop 2020 at the University of Alabama-Huntsville campus March 10-12.

    Workshop networking for resource efficiency managers key for Huntsville Center energy program success

    The Army’s fifth Resource Efficiency Manager (REM) Workshop connected its more than 25 attendees with skills necessary to ensure the Army’s resource specialists can achieve federal energy reduction mandates.