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  • January

    Soldiers conduct a dismounted patrol at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin. Calif.

    Energy project provides resilience for Fort Irwin

    Huntsville Center’s Utility Energy Services Contracting developed the contract vehicle which provides for a 21-mile dedicated natural gas pipeline and a 16 MW combined heat and power plant for on-site energy generation at Fort Irwin capable of maintaining critical loads indefinitely during an electric outage.
  • An electric vehicle charges its battery at one of the seven solar-powered charging stations recently installed at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville awarded contracts and are providing technical oversight for nearly 500 of these stations at Army installations as part of the service's initiative to transition to a fully electric vehicle fleet by 2050. (Photo by Chris Putman)

    Huntsville Center answers charge to electrify Army’s vehicle fleet

    Electric vehicle charging stations have begun popping up at Army installations across the Nation, less than a year after the Army announced plans to reduce its climate impacts by decreasing fossil fuel use. The Army’s climate strategy, released in February 2022, outlines a plan to reduce its net greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent, in part by transitioning to a fully electric vehicle fleet by 2050. For its non-tactical, light-duty fleet, the service plans to be all-electric by 2027.
  • Kyle Shireman, Huntsville Center safety manager and visionary behind the Center’s new USACE Safety Trainer 360, explains how to use the virtual reality construction safety game’s headset and controllers to Shane Henry, audit technician, during a Occupational Safety and Health Administration 10-Hour Training Course held at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. (Photo by Kristen Bergeson)

    ‘The Way of the Future’

    Employees participating in a recent construction safety course at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville toured a construction site, identified safety hazards and experienced the dangerous outcomes of safety violations – all without leaving their classroom. This real-world experience was made possible by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Safety Trainer 360, a virtual reality construction site game created by the Huntsville Center Safety Office and the Army Game Studio.
  • Joshua Lecroy, safety and occupational health specialist, and Kyle Shireman, safety manager, interview Dawn Douglas, aka "Billy," during a simulated accident investigation during the Safety Investigation Board course at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville on Dec. 7, 2022. (Photo by Kristen Bergeson)

    Huntsville Center hosts Safety Investigation Board training

    Dozens of safety officials from across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) enterprise recently convened at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville to learn how to properly investigate, document and report safety incidents.
  • Of the 979 Federal Employee Viewpoint Surveys administered to Huntsville Center employees, almost 682 completed the survey for a response rate of 69.9 percent, the second highest response rate in USACE.

    Survey results addressed by leadership with action plan

    The Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, conducted throughout the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in June and July, measures employees' perceptions of whether, and to what extent, conditions characteristic of successful organizations is present.

  • November

    Amanda Sticker, Huntsville Center engineer, and Ellen Haapoja, geophysicist, teach students explosives safety during Columbia Elementary School's "Community Heroes Day" in Madison, Alabama, on Friday, Nov. 18.

    Huntsville Center heroes teach students to “Recognize, Retreat, Report”

    Representatives from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville taught munitions safety to students during Columbia Elementary School’s “Community Heroes Day” on Friday, November 18.
  • Students and instructors conduct test flights at the Small Unmanned Aircraft Safety Qualification Course held at the Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville.

    Huntsville Center aviation safety course improves USACE aviation mission

    Aviators from across the country attended a Small Unmanned Aircraft Safety Qualification Course (SUASQC) at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville October 28.
  • Rob Snyder, CMD Integration officer at the U.S. Army Evaluation Center presents Huntsville Center employee Allyn Allison a Commander's coin and 3-star note in honor of his 21 years of service.

    Huntsville Center hosts RCWM Quarterly meeting

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville hosted members of the Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel Program (RCWM) for their quarterly meeting November 2.
  • Huntsville ended the fiscal year with more than 4,300 contract actions totaling more than $2.57 billion in obligations for global stakeholders.

    Huntsville Center closes out FY22 with $2.57 billion in contract actions

    In fiscal year 2022, the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville awarded more than 4,300 contract actions totaling more than $2.57 billion in obligations for global stakeholders.

  • October

    Chip Marin speaks to a crowd at the Huntsville Center Small Business Industry Day.

    Small Business Industry Day draws large crowd

    The event featured a general overview of doing business with the Huntsville Center and covered major regulatory changes and upcoming acquisitions, followed by an opportunity for attendees to interact directly with program managers and contracting officials for the Center’s more than 40 programs.
  • Tara Payne, safety and occupational health manager, Huntsville Center, rings the bell signifying her final cancer treatment at Clearview Cancer Institute on September 29, 2022. (Photo by Kristen Bergeson)

    Breast cancer survivor shares experience, urges others to get screened

    It’s that time of year again. The weather is getting cooler, the leaves are falling, and football season is in full swing. That can only mean one thing: Breast Cancer Awareness Month has arrived!
  • An F-22 is parked on the flightline on a foggy morning, Dec. 2, 2018, at Joint Base Langley Eustis, Virginia. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Bryan Myhr)

    Planning and Programming team wins national awards

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Planning and Programming Support team received national recognition at the American Planning Association’s National Federal Planning Division Conference for the second year in a row.
  • Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Soldiers inventroy equipment delivered under a U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville contract developed to provide equipment and materiel to 43 Army Brigades around the world transforming to the Army’s Holistic Health and Fitness campaign.

    Contract provides for fit, healthy Soldiers

    Huntsville Center originally stood up the MO&T Program to support large Army replacement hospitals like Fort Bliss at a cost of $100 million. However, MO&T has outfitted medical projects as small as $400,000, and routinely provides medical outfitting support for all project sizes in between.
  • Coaches Team (Old Foxes)

    Shane Henry leads team to a second-place finish at the USAR Small Arms Championship

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Divisions’ Shane Henry led the 375th Engineering Company team to a second-place finish in the Combined Arms competition at the recent U.S. Army Reserves Small Arms Championship at Camp Robinson.

  • September

    Soldiers wash a tank at a Fort Riley wash rack.

    BaseOps program supports Big Red One

    The BaseOps program consists of executing defined services structured around preventive and corrective maintenance. The objective is to preserve and maintain systems in such a condition that they may be effectively used for their designated functional purpose.
  • award; AUSVI; Order or Prometheus

    Ryan Strange receives the Order of Prometheus Medallion and Award from AUSVI

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Divisions’ Ryan Strange received the Order of Prometheus Medallion and Award from The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUSVI) for the development of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) program, which began in 2017.
  • Russ Dunford, Business Management Division chief at Huntsville Center, speaks to BMD chiefs from across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers enterprise during the annual Business Management Chiefs Face-to-Face Meeting on September 14, 2022. (Photo by Kristen Bergeson)

    Huntsville Center hosts USACE business directors for annual conference

    For the first time ever, business directors from across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers convened at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville this week for the annual Business Management Chiefs Face-to-Face Meeting.
  • A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers geophysicist operates equipment used to detect and classify metal objects in the subsurface as potentially a target of interest, such as a munition.

    Munitions response programs improve with technological advancement, training

    In August, the EMCX hosted a technical training seminar for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers geophysicists focused on familiarization of simultaneous location and mapping, or SLAM, technology that will increase mapping production rates in thick vegetation where previously only tape measures or line-of-site robotic total station (RTS) technologies were available.
  • Bret Styers and his sons, Easton and Brecken, enjoy the beauty of the great outdoors in Alaska. Styers, senior program manager for Huntsville Center's Balistic Missile Defense Mandatory Center of Expertise, lives in Anchorage with his wife, Britta, and their four kids, including daughters Remy and Paige. (Courtesy Photo)

    Getting to Know Bret Styers, Huntsville Center's 'Snowshoes on the Ground' in Alaska

    Bret Styers is the senior program manager for the Ballistic Missile Defense Center of Expertise at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. Styers was born in Valencia, California, but moved to Alaska when he was a toddler. He now lives with his wife and four children in Anchorage and serves as the Center’s lead on missile-defense projects across the state.
  • Bret Styers, senior program manager for the Ballistic Missile Defense Mandatory Center of Expertise at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville explains the engineering challenges of Alaskan projects during a tour of missile field 4 at Fort Greely, Alaska, with Col. Sebastien P. Joly, Huntsville Center commander, and Jason Wilson, program manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District, in August. (Photo by Kristen Bergeson)

    From 'Folly' to Fortune

    What was once considered the foolish, costly act of a land-hungry politician is now considered to be one of the most profitable and strategic moves in U.S. history. The U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, a transaction negotiated by then Secretary of State William Seward, was initially ridiculed in the press as “Seward’s folly” because the arctic region was thought by many to be unusable and unhabitable. Fast forward more than 150 years to the present, and Alaska is not only one of the richest states in the nation but also a key part of America’s missile defense program.