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  • July

    Huntsville Center is considered the Army’s expert in Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC).

    Huntsville Center helps Aberdeen Proving Ground create innovative facility

    The culmination of innovative thinking focused on conservation and sustainability was realized July 19, during the official opening of the new Combined Heat and Power plant on the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground. The effort was achieved through collaborations with the Huntsville Corps of Engineers and energy saving partnerships with defense contractor Johnson Controls and Baltimore, Gas and Electric, BGE.

  • New construction specifications created for Electronic Security Systems

    These guide specifications, pertain to Electronic Security Systems and Electronic Security System Acceptance Testing. The guidance includes the requirements security systems must meet and procedures on testing the systems once those requirements are met.
  • Airmen and Soldiers observe operations from range control facility June 8 during Red Flag-Alaska 16-2. A 9.5 million U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Base Operations Program maintenance and operational services contract ensures facility maintenance support for Fort Wainwright garrison as well as structures located on the Donnelly and Yukon Training Areas and the Black Rapids Training Site. The Donnelly and Yukon Training Areas are part of the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex that provides a realistic training environment allowing U.S. and multi-national military unit personnel to train for full spectrum engagements.

    BASEOPS contract supports Fort Wainwright garrison, covers Alaska training ranges

    A $9.5 million U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Base Operations Program (BASEOPS) maintenance and operational services contract calls for maintenance and operational services for all facilities and subsequent facility systems, components and equipment on Fort Wainwright, Alaska, as well as the 670,000 acre Donnelly and 260,000 acre Yukon Training Areas that are part of the 67, 000 square mile Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (JPARC) .
  • National Industries for the Blind employees Carlton Lane, Candace Cochran, Devin Shackleford and David Upchurch will be support Huntsville Center's contract closeout process.

    Huntsville Center reaches out to AbilityOne for contract closeout support

    Huntsville Center awarded a task order June 29 for contract closeout services using a strategic contract vehicle issued by Washington Headquarters Services. This task order was funded by Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy and awarded to National Industries for the Blind, through the AbilityOne Program.
  • The Mountain Outreach team builds a home for a family in need.

    Corps workers lend a helping hand

    Civil Engineer Tommy Hunt, Chief of the Electronic Security Branch Steve Willoughby and Civil Engineer Mike Gooding work together every June to build a home for an underprivileged family through Mountain Outreach.

  • June

    Matthew Urbanic, a Huntsville Center contracting officer, makes balloon animals.

    Contracting officer creates howling good time for kids

    Huntsville Center, Energy Division contracting officer entertained children at Organizational Day and Team Redstone in the Park by transforming into Sergeant Woof. Woof is a dog who teaches children about the dangers of unexploded ordnance and the three R’s of ordnance safety: recognize, retreat and report.
  • Jeffery Watts speaks during an Energy Huntsville meeting in April 2016.

    Energy team earns 2016 USACE sustainability award

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Division has earned the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 2016 Good Neighbor Award for its collaboration and partnership with Energy Huntsville, a non-profit dedicated to growing the region’s economy in the energy sector and establishing the city as the “go-to technology center for solutions to energy programs and projects.”
  • Betina Johnson, Huntsville Center's Military Munitions Design Center chief, briefs members of the National Association of Ordnance Contractors during their mid-year board of director’s meeting in Huntsville, Alabama, June 8.

    Ordnance and Explosives directorate representatives engage with military munitions association

    Representatives from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (Huntsville Center) Ordnance and Explosives (OE) and Contracting Directorates spoke to more than 30 members of the National Association of Ordnance Contractors (NAOC) during their mid-year board of director’s meeting in Huntsville, Alabama, June 8.
  • Nicklaus Sunstrom, 5 1/2, prepares for the ring toss, one of several children's activities at Huntsville Center's Organization Day.

    Huntsville Center honors employees, Corps of Engineers, Army at annual org day

    Employees of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville braved the temperatures to attend the annual organization day picnic at Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville June 10.
  • David Williams, Chip Marin, Maj. Gen. Ted Harrison, Bill Kelly, Richard Kidd, Col. Bill Marks and Michael McGhee symbolically break ground on Redstone Arsenal's solar project June 3.

    Sun shines on Redstone Arsenal energy savings

    Officials symbolically broke ground June 3 on a renewable energy solar project designed to bolster Redstone Arsenal’s energy security. The 10 megawatt solar power system, which will be located on approximately 66 acres off Redstone Road, is expected to be operational by December.

  • May

    For nearly four years Col. Robert Ruch commanded Huntsville Center, and in those years Ruch said he believes his legacy has been explaining Huntsville Center’s capabilities to other USACE districts and divisions. Huntsville Center executes more than 6,000 contract actions valued at more than $2 billion annually.

    Ruch looks back on 30 year career

    In three decades of Army service, Bob Ruch has served with four engineer battalions and a division, training Soldiers at the Army’s premiere training center, was staff officer for NATO, and commanded two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Districts (Philadelphia and Omaha). Most recently he has commanded the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.
  • Contracted unexploded ordnance technicians finish capping in a 5-ton demo shot outside of Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

    Munitions disposal mission wraps up in Afghanistan

    Huntsville Center’s Joint Munitions Disposal - Afghanistan (JMD-A) team has wrapped up its mission disposing of more than 5,629 tons of U.S. and coalition forces NATO Condition Code H unserviceable and “do-not-return” munitions, as well as captured enemy munitions and explosive remnants of war (ERW).
  • Paul Robinson, left, Huntsville Center Energy Division chief, and Mike McGhee, Army Office of Energy Initiatives executive director, engage with theHuntsville Center Energy Division team during a program overview at the Center May 6.

    OEI director visits Huntsville Center

    Mike McGhee met with the Center’s Energy Division team, which works closely with OEI to procure and manage large-scale renewable energy projects bringing energy security to Army installations worldwide.

  • April

    Huntsville Center's Sexual Assault Response Coordinator Victor Roberts presents annual SHARP training in the center cafeteria April 29.

    Center employees SHARPen their awareness of sexual harassment, assault

    Huntsville Center wrapped up a week of mandatory Sexual Harassment Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) training April 29 with its final presentation by Victor Roberts, the Center’s Sexual Assault Response Coordinator.
  • Jennifer McDowell, a U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center Huntsville Interior Designer, speaks to Ms. Pratt's fourth grade students about the differences between an interior designer and an interior decorator during Mill Creek Elementary School's career day April 8.

    Volunteers talk vocations during Mill Creek Career Day

    Volunteers from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville spent time discussing their careers with students at Mill Creek Elementary School April 8.
  • Paramedics and emergency department (ED) staff rush in a volunteer patient for a simulated trauma case during the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center "Day in the Life" event preparing the staff for the new hospital facility on Feb. 6. The ED moved into the new facility April 3.

    Initial Outfitting and Transition program equips Fort Hood hospital

    The Huntsville Center Initial Outfitting and Transition program played a major role in equipping the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Centerat Fort Hood, Texas. With the completion of the $90 million Fort Hood IO&T services and equipment procurement contract to Military Healthcare Outfitting and Transition (MilHOT) in 2012, the hospital opened April 3.

  • March

    Carol Elder, Interior Design Section team lead for the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, meets with Interior Designer Lauren Ploetze and other members of the Huntsville Center Medical Interior Design team. Elder played a key role in standing up the interior design mission, an effort that began in 2010.

    Faces of the Force: Carol Elder

    Carol Elder, Huntsville Center's Interior Design chief, is featured on "Faces of the Force," an online series highlighting members of the Army Acquisition Workforce.
  • Soldiers Plaza building 2602, a World War II wood building used most recently as an administrative building, is demolished at Fort Benning, Georgia, under the Facilities Reduction Program, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. This is one of 31 World War II wood buildings within the Soldiers Plaza that has been demolished to reduce the installation's footprint by removing excess infrastructure from its real property inventory.

    Facilities Reduction Program demolitions Fort Benning WWII buildings

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville is managing the Soldiers Plaza demolition project at Fort Benning, Georgia, as part of an existing Mid-East Region U.S. Facilities Reduction Program Multiple Award Task Order Contract.
  • Martha Cook, HNC executive officer, speaks to Ms. Maze's pre-kindergarten students about their project during the First Baptist Child Development Center & Academy science fair.

    Huntsville Center participates in local science fair

    U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville participated in the First Baptist Child Development Center & Academy science fair March 17. Six volunteers judged more than 95 group and individual projects that were created by students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.
  • Contractors scan property at Rock Island Arsenal to detect metal objects up to a two-foot depth. In the thorough scan of more than four acres, contractors found two grenades.

    Corps removes grenades from Rock Island Arsenal housing area

    A partnership among federal agencies and contractors has cleared property of explosives at a housing project at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. The Huntsville Center Military Munitions Design Center prepared and staffed the Explosive Safety Submission for Louisville District.