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  • February

    Contractors assemble furniture at a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Far East District office in January. Huntsville Center's Furnishings Program awarded three contracts to replace furniture at 82 Army facilities. Due to the tremendous scope of the project, carefully crafting the Army’s request into multiple contracts streamlined the large project, and enabled the customer to receive the greatest benefits.
    5 Feb 2015

    Huntsville Center Furnishings Program replacing Army administration furniture in Republic of Korea

    At 82 U.S. Army facilities on installations across the South Korean peninsula, contractors are busy replacing more than 8,000 administrative desks, chairs and filing cabinets in one of the largest furniture projects ever taken on by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Military Integration Division's Furnishings Program.
  • Carolyn Harris, Huntsville Center's Program Improvement Manager, holds the star note from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commanding General Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick congratulating her on her Lean Six Sigma black belt project success.
    5 Feb 2015

    Continuous process improvement increases center efficiency, customer satisfaction

    Everyone has ideas about what is wrong, what could be done differently and how they might fix problems in their work areas. They just might not know how to go about getting it done. That’s something Huntsville Center's Program Improvement Manager Carolyn Harris wants to change.
  • January

    During the Jan. 23 Town Hall, Huntsville Center Commander Col. Robert J. Ruch discussed his priorities, thanked employees for their efforts and answered questions about upcoming building renovations, fitness center access and employee incentive awards.
    28 Jan 2015

    Looking ahead to new missions, building upgrades and delivering on promises

    Huntsville Center Commander Col. Robert Ruch led off a Jan. 23 town hall sharing praise he’s received from leaders across USACE and the Army, and looking ahead at work coming to the Center as a result of successful project delivery time after time.
  • From left, Tonju Butler and Lillian Fox of Huntsville Center's Contracting Directorate recently earned recognition in the 2014 Headquarters, USACE Excellence in Contracting awards.
    16 Jan 2015

    Huntsville Center Contracting professionals earn top USACE awards

    Two Huntsville Center contracting professionals received Excellence in Contracting awards Jan. 12.
  • Jamaya "Rocky" Smith, a contract specialist for Huntsville Center’s Information Technology Services Branch, talks to employees during the Jan. 12 Federal Acquisition Regulation lunch and learn program about the importance of understanding and clarifying definitions of contracting words and terms to avoid confusion.
    16 Jan 2015

    52 fun-filled weeks of the FAR

    Making the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) fun, conversational and relatable – as well as giving people the tools to use it more effectively – are the primary goals of a new training program at the Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.
  • This drawing of Hawaii's Schofield Barracks Town Center Area Development Plan, done by the contractor HB&A, demonstrates how the proposed parking structure would match the historic decor of the nearby quads. The Town Center ADP project, which won an American Planning Association Award, was managed by Huntsville Center's Planning and Programming Branch.
    5 Jan 2015

    Huntsville Center planners have full-spectrum worldwide focus

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s newest planner brings an additional set of capabilities and a fresh perspective to the Planning and Programming team.
  • December

    Col. David J. Luders, left, commander Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center; Congressman Dave Loebsack, who represents Iowa’s second congressional district and Col. Robert Ruch, commander, Huntsville Center, remove excess coal from the factory’s supply to symbolize energy savings to be realized in the Rock Island Arsenal JMTC Plating shop as a result of the changes made during the Energy Savings Performance Contract during a ceremony at Rock Island Arsenal.
    31 Dec 2014

    2014 a record year for Huntsville Center

    Among the many Huntsville Center accomplishments in 2014, are two Redstone Arsenal projects. The center’s Medical Repair and Renewal Program has been working with Fox Army Health Center on infrastructure upgrades, and its Power Purchase Agreement program is working with Arsenal officials to obtain a solar power facility.
  • An overhead view of the Pentagon shows possible locations of a vegetative roof for a feasibility study requested by Pentagon Services to reduce energy consumption. Although it was found the facility can't structurally support the weight associated with a 'green roof' Huntsville Center's Facility Repair and renewal program will likely be called upon in the future to provide similar assessments.
    24 Dec 2014

    Huntsville Center project managers explore 'green roof' option at Pentagon

    As part of an ongoing effort to reduce energy consumption at the Pentagon, Huntsville Center program
  • Solar panels on top of the Lichtenberg Tennis Center have become a visible sign of progress toward achieving West Point’s Net Zero Energy goals.
    15 Dec 2014

    West Point on track to achieve Net Zero goals with Huntsville Center help

    Huntsville Center's Energy Division met with DPW Matt Talaber at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in October to chart a way ahead for helping the institution achieve Net Zero.
  • Huntsville Center Business Director Dan Heinzelman, Commander Col. Robert Ruch, Deputy Commander Lt. Col. Kendal Bergmann, Programs Director Charles Ford and Tracy Edmonds, a project manager with the  Center’s Army Central Metering program, participate in a strategic off site Dec. 3 at Lake Guntersville State Park Lodge in Guntersville, Alabama. The meeting allowed Center senior and emerging leaders to look over recent guidance from Headquarters U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and determine the direction of Huntsville Center within the paradigms set by the new USACE Campaign Plan.
    5 Dec 2014

    Off site unfolds Center's strategic move forward

    The issues brought up in discussions and the decisions made at the off site are essentially a roadmap to how Huntsville Center will present its capabilities for Headquarters USACE staff during the upcoming CSR.
  • November

    Clay Weisenberger (standing), Huntsville Center Office of Counsel, conducts ethics training to Huntsville Center employees Nov. 25 in the Huntsville Center cafeteria. Ethics training is an annual mandatory face-to-face requirement for all government employees. Army Corps of Engineers policy states that deployed personnel are exempt from the annual training requirement but are required to take it as soon as possible after they return. Additional sessions are scheduled through Dec.10.
    26 Nov 2014

    Huntsville Center workers take Annual Ethics training

    Huntsville Center employees attended annual ethics training Nov. 24 to get an overview of the types
  • Col. Phillip Wright command chaplain for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, speaks at Huntsville Center town hall Nov. 20.
    21 Nov 2014

    Corps' chaplain encourages Huntsville employees to take care of each other

    Army Corps of Engineers Chaplain (Col.) Phillip Wright and his chaplain assistant, Sgt. 1st Class
  • John Trudell speaks to more than 250 students during a GIS Day STEM event at Williams Middle School Nov. 19.
    20 Nov 2014

    Engineers give geography lesson at middle school

    Students from the Williams Middle School saw up close what it is like to be part of a GIS team Nov.
  • Col. Robert Ruch welcomes some 40 biomass industry representatives to this morning's pre-proposal meeting for Redstone Arsenal's renewable combined heat and power project. Huntsville Center is managing the acquisition for the Office of Energy Initiatives project.
    13 Nov 2014

    Companies meet to learn about Redstone Arsenal renewable energy opportunity

    Biomass companies interested in competing for a renewable combined heat and power project on Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, met Nov. 13 to learn more about the opportunity and the acquisition process.
  • U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center  commander Col. Robert Ruch briefs a group of retired U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Senior Executive Service members and their spouses the Oct. 29 for the first Leaders Emeritus , visit to the Center. The group meets every 18 months and visits U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' organizations to keep current with USACE operation and how the Corps continues to provide service to the nation.
    6 Nov 2014

    Leaders Emeritus visit Huntsville Center

    Every year-and-a-half a group of a dozen or so retired U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Senior
  • October

    Hon. Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment; Huntsville Center ESPC team members Michael Norton, chief of the Energy Implementation Branch; Will Irby, program manager for the Energy Savings Performance Contracting Program; Bruce Forsberg, a mechanical engineer for the ESPC team; Margaret Simmons, command counsel; Paul Robinson, Energy Division chief; Lt. Gen. David Halverson, assistant chief of staff for Installation Management; and Mr. Richard Kidd, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Energy and Sustainability, at the ceremony Oct. 29.
    31 Oct 2014

    Huntsville Center’s ESPC team garners Secretary of the Army award

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Energy Savings Performance Contracting team received a 2014 Secretary of the Army Energy and Water Management Award for Renewable/Alternatives Small Group in a ceremony Oct. 29 at the Pentagon.
  • A foam test is conducted at Joint Base Andrews, Md.
    30 Oct 2014

    Facilities Repair and Renewal team 'fireproof' hangars at Joint Base Andrews

    A project to install a High Expansive Foam System and fire alarm system into all the maintenance
  • U.S. Space & Rocket Center crew trainer Chris Gorman supervises as Alfonso Santa, an architect with the Operations and Maintenance Medical Engineering Enhancement division under the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville's Engineering Directorate, simulates weightlessness as he travels along the bay of a space shuttle mock-up and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center during the Center's Leadership Development Program II exercise during a Space Camp corporate camp wich provides training and development programs tailored to achieve the objectives LDP II.
    24 Oct 2014

    Leadership Development Program II goes to infinity and beyond

    More than two dozen Center employees participating in the Leadership Development Program Level II
  • Hays Kinslow, energy manager for the 63rd Regional Support Command, and Bradley Brown, resource efficiency manager, measure the current draw of a newly installed scroll chiller at Camp Robinson in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Newly assigned to the Army Reserve's 63rd RSC, Bradley brings more than 20 years of energy related commercial, industrial and defense experience, with special focus on heating, ventilating and air conditioning and energy management control system technologies, to help the command meet its energy goals.
    23 Oct 2014

    Fast-growing Resource Efficiency Manager Program expands to Army Reserve

    The Army’s Resource Efficiency Manager Program grew 82 percent in fiscal year 2014 with the addition of 19 REMs, which includes 11 new REMs at Army Reserve locations.
  • Energy Information Management integrates, monitors and manages all the energy production and consumption activities on an installation.
    22 Oct 2014

    Developing an Army Energy Information Management plan from the ground up

    Huntsville Center is leading an effort to develop the Army’s energy information management standards and an Armywide implementation plan that identifies the optimal strategy to integrate, monitor and manage all the energy production and consumption activities on an installation.
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