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  • September

    Robert A. Jones, center, an auditor with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command / Army Forces Strategic Command, debates some auditing nuances with Teresa Pender, right, an auditor with Defense Finance and Accounting Services, Sept. 12 during a four-day government auditing foundational course led by the Internal Review team at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, at the nearby Bevill Center. (U.S. Army photo by Stephen Baack, Huntsville Center Public Affairs)

    Interest in auditing class grows, spreads to DOD

    Huntsville Center’s Internal Review office wrapped up its fourth government auditing foundational course of the year Sept. 14, but if interest continues to grow throughout the Army and the Department of Defense, it likely won’t be the last.
  • An Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program solar microgrid project at Fort Hunter Liggett, California, is managed by the Sacramento District. A fiscal 2016 ERCIP project added additional rooftop solar panels and a second battery energy storage system.

    Huntsville Center finalizes ERCIP updates

    The biggest update in years to the Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program validation process has been finalized after months of work from members of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, and the energy managers they partner with throughout the Army.
  • Sally Parsons, chief of the Information Technology Systems Division at U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, won the “Redstone Women Who Rock!” award in the leadership category from the North Alabama Chapter of Federally Employed Women.

    Huntsville Center’s Woman Who Rocks honored for leadership

    Not all women who rock have guitars. In Sally Parsons case, she is an Army civilian working to support the employees of Redstone Arsenal and our U.S. military, and she rocks.

  • August

    Cheyenne Christian, a student intern with the Furnishings Branch at Huntsville Center, makes a presentation to members of the command and staff of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, July 30. Christian and 10 other students have been working through the summer at Huntsville Center in various departments to build their real-world skills before completing their college degrees.

    Pathways Internship Program affords college students flexibility, long-term opportunities

    College interns at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, may be returning to class, but that doesn’t mean their time with Huntsville Center is coming to an end.
  • Huntsville Center awarded a $90 million Single Award Task Order Contract to a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business to deliver the Vocera Wireless Hands-Free Internal Communication System for Defense Health Agency use. The device improves communication by instantly connecting physicians, nurses, and support staff via text and voice while also connecting them to medical records and live patient clinical information.

    Center awards unusually large contract to small Texas business

    A $90 million Single Award Task Order Contract was awarded to Government Marketing and Procurement, LLC, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business. GMP is a Government Services Administration schedule contractor providing information technology procurement services.
  • Shah Alam, Huntsville Center ESPC post-award team lead, addresses attendees at the second annual Energy Savings Performance Contracting Measurement and Verification Workshop Aug.1 at the Bevill Center on the University of Alabama Huntsville campus. More than 70 government and industry representatives shared information, experiences, and lessons learned during the event.

    Second annual ESPC workshop dialogue focuses on communication

    More than 70 government and industry representatives shared information, experiences, and lessons learned during the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s second annual Energy Savings Performance Contracting Measurement and Verification Workshop July 31-Aug.1 at the Bevill Center on the University of Alabama Huntsville campus.
  • Jason Walsh, Huntsville Center safety specialist, and Brenda Miller, U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center senior safety adviser and Career Program-12 functional chief representative, take a moment to pose for a photo during Miller’s visit to the Center Aug. 14. Walsh was one of 25 safety careerists to receive the Army Emerging Safety Leader Award.

    Center safety specialist chosen for Army Emerging Safety Leader Award

    A U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville employee was among 25 recipients of the Army Emerging Safety Leader Award. The award is sponsored by the Army Combat Readiness Center, at Fort Rucker, Alabama.

  • July

    Lisa Doumont, lead deployment coordination administrator from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Contingency Recruitment Cell, speaks to employees of Huntsville Center about deployment opportunities for civilians.

    Deployment Roadshow team visits Huntsville Center

    A team of deployment coordinators visited the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, July 18 to give employees information on how they can support the Corps’ overseas missions.
  • Dominic Ragucci, program manager for the Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program, leads a group discussion as part of an ERCIP workshop at Idaho National Laboratory held June 12-14.

    ERCIP partners meet to revamp project validation process

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program validation team members met with their ERCIP partners from throughout the Army for a workshop at Idaho National Laboratory June 12-14 to update the program’s guidance and requirements.

  • Acquisition Soldiers attend contracting workshop

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville hosted U.S. Army Corps of Engineers military contracting professionals for a workshop on issues unique to the Corps’ contracting Soldiers June 26-27 at the Defense Acquisition University campus at Cummings Research Park in Huntsville, Alabama.
  • The Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville has a program available to keep this process as streamlined and focused as possible: a virtual team comprised of representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers serves as liaison between states and components.

    Department of Defense Memorandum of Agreement Program fosters collaboration

    The Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville has a program available to keep this process as streamlined and focused as possible: a virtual team comprised of representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers serves as liaison between states and components.

  • June

    Attendees at Huntsville Center’s fourth Resource Efficiency Manager Workshop speak with industry representative during the technology exposition portion of the two-day event.

    Resource managers network, learn at workshop

    Workshop topics focused on third-party financing, utility cost reduction and energy audit programs, cost engineering, energy security, sustainability and measurement and verification.
  • A team of safety professionals recently completed the first stage Corps of Engineers Safety and Occupational Health Management System assessment of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Safety Offices’ safety program.

    First stage assessment of new safety system complete

    The Stage 1 assessment was the first milestone in the implementation of the new safety management system. The Army-wide system enables the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to meet the Army’s goal of modernizing safety and occupational health programs.

  • May

    Students from Sparkman High School explain their scientific payload project May 11, 2018, to Lori Cordell-Meikle, chief of Internal Review for Huntsville Center, as part of the Innovative System Project for the Increased Recruitment of Emerging STEM Students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

    Internal Review chief volunteers for UAH’s STEM outreach program

    A member of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, continued the tradition of volunteering her time and expertise helping burgeoning engineers as part of an engineering outreach program at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
  • Contractors work along the rugged terrain of Cranberry Mountain near West Point, New York, during the winter as part of an ongoing project to emplace heavy targets on the post’s indirect-fire range.

    Huntsville Center helps move multi-ton targets onto West Point range

    U.S. Army Garrison West Point’s Training Support Division is giving kudos to the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, for their work placing heavy targets on the post’s indirect-fire range on Cranberry Mountain.
  • The 2018 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey is open now through June 19 to most Huntsville Center employees.

    2018 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey open through June 19

    The 2018 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey is open now through June 19 to most Huntsville Center employees.
  • Jack Porter, chief of the Business Operations and Integration Division for the Fort Huachuca Directorate of Public Works, speaks to leaders and community members of Fort Huachuca, Arizona, during a public unveiling of a multimillion-dollar energy-savings infrastructure project awarded through a Huntsville Center Energy Savings Performance Contracting task order award.

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Division awards task order to Schneider Electric for Huachuca project

    Thanks to Huntsville Center’s latest Energy Savings Performance Contracting task order award, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, is on track to receive a series of multimillion-dollar energy-savings upgrades to existing infrastructure – all without the burden of upfront capital costs.
  • Workers perform maintenance on a fuel system at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Fuels Program will be the Center’s first program to use General Services Administration schedule recurring maintenance and minor repair service contracts for more than 400 Army, Navy and the Air Force fuel facilities sites around the world.

    Center’s Fuels Program first to use GSA maintenance contract schedule

    A Huntsville Center Fuels Program Project Delivery Team determined the GSA Multiple Award Schedule 03FAC, Facilities Maintenance and Management is a viable option for providing recurring maintenance and minor repair services for more than 400 Army, Navy, and the Air Force fuel facilities sites around the world.
  • Karl Gullatte, a project manager and community planner with the Center’s Engineering Directorate, center, shows fifth-graders a set of working solar panels during Redstone Arsenal's Earth Day outdoor educational event April 19, 2018.

    Huntsville Center employees discuss renewables at Redstone Earth Day event

    Two members of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, participated in Redstone Arsenal’s Earth Day outdoor educational event last month at the post’s Path to Nature Wetland and Indian Education Center.

  • April

    Meagan Brantley, Center Contracting, Kay Sommerkamp, Office of Counsel, Betina Johnson, Ordnance and Explosives Directorate, Lilian Fox, Center Contracting and Valerie Klinkenbeard, Engineering Directorate, spoke in depth about their experiences during the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Equal Employment Opportunity office-sponsored Women’s History Month 2018 event March 29. The theme, “Nevertheless She Persisted,” brought attention to each panelists’ persistence to succeed professionally and also shed light upon how the Center has changed over the years.

    Persistence empowers women to gender equality

    During the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Equal Employment Opportunity office-sponsored Women’s History Month 2018 event March 29, five female panelists of different ages and backgrounds sat before an audience and spoke in depth about gender-based obstacles and the persistence required to succeed in the workforce.