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  • April

    Huntsville Center Deputy Commander Lt. Col. Kendall Bergmann discusses the importance of quality award nomination packages during an April 9 lunch and learn workshop sponsored by the Center's Federal Women's Program.
    16 Apr 2015

    Quality nomination packages critical to effective awards program

    Award programs are a valuable tool leaders have to recognize individuals and teams and help tell their stories to the rest of the world. Preparing quality nomination packages – for both local and national awards – is critical to a successful program
  • Technicians install information technology equipment at the new U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Western Processing Center in Hillsboro, Oregon. Due to weight limitations at the Western Processing Center’s original location, all equipment had to be moved out by March 19 and in its new location and operational by March 22. Huntsville Center’s Information Technology Services ACE-IT branch supported the requirement awarding a single $1.3 million Firm Fixed Price contract to a Portland, Oregon area IT firm on Dec. 24. The work was completed within the allotted timeline and met all operational requirements.
    16 Apr 2015

    Huntsville Center’s Information Technology Services branch growing

    What began as a one-person-deep special projects program capturing unusual requests from customers seeking to purchase information technology, Huntsville Center’s Information Technology Service branch is one of the fastest growing branches within Huntsville Center.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's Huntsville Center's Leadership Development Program Level II graduates take a photo with Huntsville Center Commander Col. Robert Ruch during program April 14.
    15 Apr 2015

    Huntsville Center honors Class of 2015 emerging leaders

    A year of leadership training culminated April 14 as 24 Huntsville Center employees graduated the
  • VinCene McClain
    8 Apr 2015

    Engineering and Support Center gets new security chief

    Florida native VinCene McClain was welcomed as the new chief of Security and Law Enforcement for the
  • Wesley Malone, a project manager with the Army Corps of Engineers Huntsville Center, helps Rolling Hills student maintain a kite.
    3 Apr 2015

    Energy Team flies kites, teaches alternative energy concepts

    Kites and electricity may sound like Ben Franklin to some. But now, instead of using a kite to prove
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Huntsville Center employees Juan Pace and Dominic Ragucci give career talk at Monte Sano Elementary School.
    2 Apr 2015

    Corps subject matter experts showcase careers

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville participated in Career Day at Monte Sano
  • March

    Valerie Shippers, Huntsville Center's Installation Support and Programs Management director since 2011, retired from federal service during a ceremony at the Center March 30.
    31 Mar 2015

    Huntsville Center’s ISPM director Shippers retires

    Valerie Shippers, director, Huntsville Center’s Installation Support and Programs Management Directorate, retired from federal service March 30 during a ceremony at the Center.
  • Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Explosive Destruction System operators place a Department of Transportation bottle containing mustard agent in the Munitions Holder for destruction March 18. After safe detonation, the bottle, which will be a metal fragment, is removed from the vessel.
    26 Mar 2015

    First mustard agent destruction marks another milestone for Center's Chemical Demilitarization Program

    The March 18 destruction of the first item in the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Explosive Destruction System (PCAPP EDS) marked another milestone for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Chemical Demilitarization program.
  • Charles Twing is presented a memento by Col. Robert Ruch, Huntsville Center commander, during Twing's retirement ceremony March 20. Twing served more than 24 years with Huntsville Center and was a pioneer in the Center's ordnance programs.
    24 Mar 2015

    Chemical response pioneer Twing retires

    One of the ‘Founding Fathers’ of the ordnance program within USACE and Huntsville Center retires after 24 years of service.
  • From the top of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' dam at Stennis Lock on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Mississippi, Hon. Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, asks lock operations manager Rickey Saucer about the lighting in the dam recreation area parking lot. Darcy and Kate Brandt, Federal Environmental Executive, White House Council of Environmental Quality, visited the Mobile District lock and dam Jan. 21 to learn about their energy and sustainability efforts with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. Through the first-ever Energy Savings Performance Contract for a civil works project managed by Huntsville Center, Mobile District is retrofitting and replacing lighting at 46 locations along the 234-mile waterway, which will result in guaranteed savings of more than $172,700 in the first year alone.
    24 Mar 2015

    Assisting USACE, federal agencies with Energy Portfolio Management approach

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is executing a holistic energy portfolio management approach for helping Army organizations and other federal agencies achieve federal energy mandates, reduce energy consumption and enhance energy security.
  • Tammy Cinnamon, an employee at the Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville Center receives award recognition and designated parking space at the organization from Huntsville Center Commander, Col. Robert Ruch and deputy for programs, Charles Ford.
    18 Mar 2015

    Corps employee receives inaugural Employee of the Month award

    Tammy Cinnamon, P.E., acting chief of Architectural Engineering Contracts and Criteria Branch, at
  • Huntsville Center Commander, Col. Robert Ruch, shares fist bump with student as he hands out free books at Rolling Hills Elementary School.
    6 Mar 2015

    Engineers share love of reading, conduct book drive for local students

    Several Huntsville Center employees volunteered to participate in Team Redstone’s local “Read Across
  • Letterkenny Army Depot painters prepare to de-mask a freshly painted ground mobility vehicle (GMV) inside a paint booth similar to the booths being upgraded as part of a $43 million project to make improvements to the infrastructure on the depot. The GMV was road tested prior to going through the final paint process. The upgrades will allow paint to adhere to the asset more efficiency and across the entire asset in one paint cycle. Some booths are receiving an infrared drying system (IR). Other booths will be retrofitted with gas fired elevated temperature systems to maintain maximum capacity inside the booth.
    2 Mar 2015

    Work to upgrade Letterkenny Army Depot industrial facilities underway

    Work is underway at Letterkenny Army Depot that will modernize depot infrastructure, cut energy use by approximately 28 percent, reduce water usage by nearly 50 percent, and generate at least $4.1 million in annual energy and operational savings.
  • February

    Huntsville Center Deputy Commander Lt. Col. Kendall Bergmann addresses District Officer Introductory Course at the ULC. Bergmann volunteered to champion the course which provide training and resources necessary for military personnel and Army civilians to successfully perform duties with the Corps of Engineers.
    27 Feb 2015

    Introductory course provides students deeper understanding of Corps operations

    The course is designed to familiarize newly assigned personnel with military and civil works projects within USACE through topics such as project management business processes, civil works, military construction, contracting, legal areas and emergency management.
  • UMCS Program Director Steve Goolsby talks with contractors during the UMCS4 post-award kickoff Feb. 18 at the University of Alabama in Huntsville campus.
    24 Feb 2015

    13 businesses awarded Utility Monitoring and Control Systems contracts

    Huntsville Center awarded the last of 13 contractors to the fourth generation of its Utility Monitoring and Control Systems (UMCS) Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) in January. This past week representatives from the pool of contractors gathered at the Center for a post-award kickoff meeting and training.
  • Huntsville Center Commander Col. Robert J. Ruch talks with USACE Deputy Commanding General Maj. Gen. Richard Stevens during the Command Strategic review Feb. 13 at the Center.
    13 Feb 2015

    Strategic review keeps Huntsville Center moving in right direction

    Maintaining transparency, listening to and meeting the needs of customers and clearly defining measures of success were resounding themes throughout the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Command Strategic Review Feb. 12-13.
  • Sharon Howard, of the Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, receives the Army Corps of Engineers Steel Order of the de Fleury Medal for her efforts while deployed to Afghanistan.
    11 Feb 2015

    Corps workers honored for deployments

    The Corps of Engineers likes to recognize the achievements and contributions employees have made
  • James H. Harvey III (second from left) with other Tuskegee Airmen who won the Air Force's inaugural weapons meet in 1949. That year, Harvey competed in the first USAF Weapons Meet at Las Vegas Air Force Base, Nev. As a first lieutenant, he, along with Capt. Alva Temple and 1st Lt. Harry Stewart, represented the 332nd Fighter Group Weapons Team where they won the competition flying their P-47N Thunderbolts. However, their victory wasn't officially recognized until April 1995. Harvey served more than 20 years in the military and would go on to become of a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen and the first African-American pilot to fly combat missions over Korean airspace.
    10 Feb 2015

    Huntsville Center worker recalls uncle, Tuskegee Airman and decorated pilot

    When Robert Meekie, a contract specialist at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center's
  • During the Jan. 23 Town Hall, Huntsville Center Commander Col. Robert J. Ruch presents Mark Batchelor with a Certificate of Achievement on behalf of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Clark, Director of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
    10 Feb 2015

    Medical Division employees receive kudos from customer

    Two employees with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Medical Division received certificates of achievement from the director of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for support provided in fiscal year 2014 during a town hall Jan. 23. Huntsville Center commander Col. Robert Ruch presented Mark Batchelor and Lt. Cmdr. Brandon Groh with the certificates signed by Brig. Gen. Jeffrey B. Clark.
  • Follow the 3Rs of Explosive Safety:
Recognize
Retreat
Report
    10 Feb 2015

    Meeting informs public of actions to clean up formerly used defense site

    A public meeting Feb. 12 in Centreville, Mississippi, will provide interested individuals with information about a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers investigation for potential munitions at the former Camp Van Dorn, a 41,544-acre Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) located in Wilkinson and Amite counties, Mississippi.
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