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  • October

    Lt. Col. Hugh Darville, Huntsville Center deputy commander, answers questions from WAFF reporter Stephanie Mills during the Small Business Forum at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Huntsville, Alabama, Oct. 18. The forum helps to identify government needs and business capabilities in order to meet the nation’s engineering challenges.

    Huntsville Center Small Business Forum brings stakeholders together

    Hundreds of business representatives from companies small and large descended on the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Huntsville, Alabama, to attend the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center’s annual Small Business Forum, Oct. 18. The event provides an opportunity for small business representatives to discuss their capabilities with Huntsville Center contracting officials and program managers and learn about upcoming opportunities to work with the Corps of Engineers.
  • Technicians with Kikkawa, a Japanese contracting company, adjust a wire rope to change the angle of counterweights on one of the newly overhauled marine loading arms at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo during final assembly.

    Huntsville Center oversees overhaul project in Japan

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Fuels Recurring Maintenance and Minor Repair Program at Huntsville Center completed a four-month-long overhaul project Sept. 23 on the first set of marine loading arms at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu.
  • Diver Max Schramm undergoes pre-inspection safety checks before a dive with the help of Erick Knezek, dive tender and owner of Truston Technologies, and Trent Webster, dive supervisor. The dive was part of an operation that took place Aug. 28 through Sept. 1 to repair the marine oil booms at the Pearl Harbor Hotel Pier off the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

    Teamwork, safety key to dive operation’s success at Pearl Harbor

    Numerous hazards confront professional divers during even simple operations, but they do not need to face their task alone. For a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dive operation, a team of professionals is behind them with a comprehensive plan.

  • September

    Following a natural disaster or emergency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can manage the construction of temporary critical public facilities for impacted communities as part of the federal government’s unified national response.

    Huntsville Center sends experts to support hurricane recovery

    Four U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville employees deployed to St. Croix, Virgin Islands, over the weekend to conduct critical public facilities assessments following Hurricane Irma.
  • SunPower Contractors use a backhoe to loosen dirt surrounding a support base at Redstone Arsenal's future solar array site. The project, developed by Redstone Arsenal's Directorate of Public Works, the OEI and the Huntsville Center's Energy Division, is the first Power Purchase Agreement Program project solicited through the renewable and alternative energy Multiple Award Task Order Contract awarded by Huntsville Center in 2013.

    Redstone solar project moving along

    The solar array project, developed by Redstone Arsenal’s Directorate of Public Works, the Army Office of Energy Initiatives and Huntsville Center’s Energy Division, is the first Power Purchase Agreement project solicited through the renewable and alternative energy Multiple Award Task Order Contract awarded by Huntsville Center.
  • Navy Cmdr. Walter Ludwig, representing the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations and Environment, addresses Energy Savings Performance Contracting Measurement and Verification Workshop attendees Aug. 29.

    Workshop explores ways to maximize savings under ESPC

    More than 50 government and industry representatives converged at the Bevill Center at the University of Alabama Huntsville Aug. 29 for the first Energy Savings Performance Contracting Measurement and Verification Workshop.The workshop allowed attendees to share information, experiences, and lessons learned on past and on-going ESPC projects.
  • Small business representatives speak with subject matter experts at the Small Business Forum in 2016.

    Huntsville Center’s Small Business Forum set for Oct. 18

    Registration is open for Huntsville Center annual Small Business Forum Oct. 18.

  • August

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    Huntsville Center welcomes new deputy commander

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville welcomes Lt. Col. Hugh Darville as its new deputy commander.
  • Dorothy Tiller

    Tiller to retire from Huntsville Center after 30-year career

    Human capital specialist Dorothy Tiller to retire after 30-year career with the federal government.
  • Col. John Hurley, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center commander, presents Lt. Col. Burlin Emery, Huntsville Center deputy commander, with a certificate of retirement during a ceremony at the Center Aug. 11.

    Center deputy commander Emery retires after more than 20 years of service

    Although most of his career was spent with the company, battalion and brigade side of Army engineering, Lt. Col. Burlin Emery said one of the greatest challenges he’s had during his Army career was serving as Huntsville Center’s deputy commander since 2015. Emery said his assignment here has also been one of the most rewarding.

  • July

    Dee Benson, left, provides motivation and encouragement to Amanda Sticker during a recent lunch hour strength and conditioning class at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. Benson says wellness helps employees perform better with customers and teammates.

    Benson aids others on wellness journey

    Dee Benson wants you to have a life of longevity filled with great physical and spiritual health. Each Monday and Thursday, here at Huntsville Center, she helps willing coworkers to achieve those goals. Benson, Business Practices Chief in the Business Management Office, leads a lunch time class from 12:30 -1:15 p.m. in the fitness center designed to improve an individual’s physical health.
  • U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville employees listen as Allan Malcomb with the Army Corps’ Nashville District explains ongoing efforts to shore up the saddle dam located at Center Hill Lake July 20.

    Huntsville Center group gains perspective at Center Hill Dam

    Participants in Huntsville Center’s current Leadership Development Program Level II traveled to Lancaster, Tennessee, to get a closer look at Nashville District’s ongoing rehabilitation project at Center Hill Dam, July 20.
  • Jayce Neal graduates from Space Camp Friday at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. A West Virginia resident, his stay in the Rocket City was made possible thanks to the Failure is Not an Option Scholarship Fund.

    Scholarship fund opens doors to space adventure

    Walking across the stage at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Space Camp graduation Friday, the possibilities before the two were endless. Possibilities they might not otherwise have seen growing up in Meadow Bridge, West Virginia, where the population is less than 400, at least a quarter of which lives below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

  • June

    Huntsville Center's Medical Outfitting & Transition program contracted the purchase of new equipment, like the stationary free-standing BSL-3 biosafety cabinets, for use in the new $677 million U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease laboratory. The Center’s Medical O&T projects support the Army’s medical mission by equipping and transitioning staff and patients into new and renovated facilities.

    Huntsville Center program supports research laboratory transition

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center Huntsville’s Medical Outfitting and Transition Program is assisting the U.S. Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases relocate into the largest and most complex bio-contamination facility ever designed.
  • William J. Eggleston III, right, a safety engineer with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville's Safety Office, explains a solar array project at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to summer hire, Lorraine Rosello Del Valle; Erika Cosper, a Pathways Intern; and Jacob Morrison, a summer hire during a recent trip to Fort Campbell. Work on the solar array began in 2012 when the Fort Campbell Directorate of Public Works partnered with the Huntsville Center and the Department of Energy to put together a renewable energy plan for the post.

    Phase II increases Fort Campbell solar array wattage

    A ribbon-cutting ceremony June 9 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, celebrated the completion of the final phase of Fort Campbell’s 5 megawatt solar array.
  • From left to right, U.S. Army Garrison Fort Riley Cmd. Sgt. Major James Collins; Albert "Chip" Marin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville; Joseph Cvetas, Executive Vice President, Southland Industries; H. Sandy Walker, Fort Riley Public Works; and Col. John Lawrence, Fort Riley Garrison Commander, turn ceremonial dirt during a groundbreaking ceremony June 13 at Fort Riley, Kansas. The ceremony highlighted the award of an energy savings contract to Southland Energy and commemorated the start of the construction phase.The contract is overseen by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.

    Fort Riley leaders, partners break ground on energy saving contract

    This first phase of a multi-phased ESPC project at Fort Riley will provide $37,721,463 in facility improvements across 280 buildings.
  • Kaitlyn Davis, a summer intern at the Huntsville Center, accesses a library of training tutorials developed by the Center. These tutorials were designed to capture the organization’s institutional knowledge as senior employees begin to exit the workforce.

    Huntsville Center harnesses technology to retain institutional knowledge

    Huntsville Center harnesses video capture technology to retain institutional knowledge as seasoned employees leave the workforce.
  • The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Medical Communications Infrastructure & Systems Support (MCIS2) Program is working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District and the Health Facility Planning Agency to ensure facilities-related communications systems and communications infrastructure maintenance and upgrades are installed.Data Center in the Weed Army Community Hospital.

    Communication system a go at Weed Army Community Hospital Data Center

    Huntsville Center’s Medical Communications Infrastructure & Systems Support (MCIS2) Program is working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District and the Health Facility Planning Agency to ensure facilities-related communications systems and communications infrastructure maintenance and upgrades are installed in the new Weed Army Community Hospital, Fort Irwin, California, before the hospital opens in September.
  • Albert "Chip" Marin III, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville's new programs director, speaks to his team during a recent director's meeting.

    Marin selected to be Huntsville Center's programs director

    Former Installation Support and Programs Management Director Chip Marin selected to be Programs Director at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.

  • May

    U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Hutnsville engineer Chad Braun stands in the grouting gallery 270 feet below the crest of the Mosul Dam in Northern Iraq in this undated photo. Braun is one of more than a dozen USACE team members designated the Mosul Dam Task Force as an element of the Army Corps’s Transatlantic Division.

    Huntsville Center’s Braun works to save Mosul Dam

    He’s a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with a history of stepping up to lend a hand after American communities face the worst. Now Chad Braun, a civilian civil engineer and senior project engineer with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is deployed thousands of miles from home to engage in a fight to prevent the worst from happening.