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  • 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.
  • Porscha Porter is one of two Huntsville Center employees to receive Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine's 40 Under 40 Award.

    Magazine honors two Huntsville Center engineers

    Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine named Porscha Porter and Africa Welch-Castle of Huntsville Center's Strategy and Business Management Branch, Energy Division, to receive the 40 Under 40 Award their commitment to excellence in their academic, professional, personal and community involvement.
  • Jeffrey Davis, an emergency management specialist with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, and taekwondo black belt master, leads students through various martial arts techniques and exercises.

    Black belt master champions student success

    Army veteran and emergency management specialist with U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, instructs student of diverse walks in the benefits of tae kwon do.
  • Huntsville Center’s Office of Small Business Programs and program manager and contracting officer for a Medical Facilities Support and Services II contract held the Center’s first Facebook live session for a Medical Facilities Support and Services II contract May 4.

    Office of Small Business Programs innovation results in success

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville has a team with thorough understanding of federal acquisitions, focusing their expertise and advocating for small businesses to compete for more than 5,000 contract actions, or portions of them, that Huntsville Center solicits annually.
  • Performers at Huntsville Center’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month program share Korean Nanta drumming known for its rhythmic upbeat style of percussion May 9. Traditional Korean fan dancing, Asian cuisine and a talk by Mr. Stacey K. Hirita, chief, Installation Support Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also highlighted the celebration.

    Huntsville Center celebrates AAIP Heritage Month

    A standing-room-only crowd of U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville employees gathered to celebrate and learn about Asian-American Pacific Islander heritage during a cultural presentation May 9.

  • April

    Col. John S. Hurley, commander U.S. Army Engineering Center, Huntsville and Abner Merriweather, president of AFGE Local 1858, place their signatures on Huntsville Center’s first collective bargaining agreement April 13.

    Huntsville Center, union reach fast agreement

    Officials with the Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville and the nation’s largest union representing federal employees signed a collective bargaining agreement April 13..
  • John Nevels, a structural engineer with the Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville shows Mill Creek Elementary School fifth- graders a primary fragment from previous blast demonstration during a STEM event.

    STEM outreach going strong at HNC

    Webb is just one among many at the Huntsville Center who, over the years, has felt called to reach out to local schools to reinforce the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math fields to the nation’s future. Huntsville Center has participated in in close to 20 such STEM events in the last three years.
  • Tara Clark, Ballistic Missile Defense Project Manager

    A career marked by big transitions

    Tara Clark, project manager for the Ballistic Missile Defense Branch
  • Col. John S. Hurley, Huntsville Center commander, unveiled his concept for a briefing chart that breaks down Huntsville Center's missions by portfolio at the start of day two of the Center's two-day strategic off-site March 23.

    Leaders meet to determine Center’s way ahead

    Leaders from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, gathered March 23 – the second day of a two-day off-site – to discuss strategic initiatives that would guide the organization into the future.
  • Col. John Hurley, Huntsville Center commander, presents Gina Elliott with a Meritorious Civilian Service Award during Elliott's retirement ceremony March 31. Elliott served as Huntsville Center deputy commander for four months in 2014 and most recently served as Huntsville Center's Facilities Division chief. Elliott retires from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with 37 years of service.

    Elliott retires after 37 years' service to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

    After 37 years of service to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gina Elliot has retired. Throughout her career, Elliott successfully managed complex, high priority projects spanning design, procurement, construction and service acquisitions.

  • March

    Charles Ford, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s program manager, retired March 3.Ford spent nearly four decades with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

    Center’s programs director Ford retires

    Ford isn’t just retiring from a career, he’s stepping away from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the organization with the greatest impact on his life.
  • During his visit to Huntsville Center Feb. 16, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commander Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite presented Commander's Awards for Civilian Service to Access Control Point Program’s Heather Wilburn and Ron Brook on behalf of Col. Eugenia Guilmartin, Fort Bragg’s director of emergency services. The awards were for exceptionally meritorious achievement in support of access control point projects there.

    Huntsville Center project manager’s phone call enhances force protection, saves millions

    With a simple phone call, a U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville project manager prevented the loss of use of vital access control points for an extended period of time as well as potentially saving her customer millions of dollars.

  • February

    Contracting Officer Oksana Joye receives the 2016 Secretary of the Army Awards for Excellence in Contracting for Specialized Services and Construction Contracting.

    Contracting officer receives Secretary of the Army award

    Former Huntsville Center contracting specialist receives 2016 Secretary of the Army Awards for Excellence in Contracting for Specialized Services and Construction Contracting.
  • Representatives from potential vendors attend Huntsville Center Base Operations Program's virtual industry day Feb. 2 . The vendors are at the Mahoning Valley Procurement Technical Assistance Center in Youngstown, Ohio while the Center representatives are in Colorado Springs, Colorado. More than 150 vendor representatives attended the virtual event at 32 PTACs in 19 states.

    First virtual industry day successful for BASEOPS program, vendors

    With support from the Colorado Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), six representatives from Huntsville Center set up shop at the El Paso County, Colorado, Regional Municipal Center and met with vendor representatives not only in person, but also virtually through Internet broadcasting capabilities.

  • Huntsville Center employs 'engineering solution' to track operation orders

    When Russ Dunford sketched his idea onto a napkin, little did he realize that it would take two years and an engineering solution to bring it to fruition. There were times, he admits, when he questioned whether a solution was even possible. Despite any misgivings, the chief of Operations, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, persisted. There had to be some sort of process to track and update operation orders, taskings and follow-on responses.
  • Quyet La, project manager, Ordnance and Explosives Directorate.

    Commentary: Sojourn to Afghanistan

    Commentary: Huntsville Center employee discusses his deployment to Afghanistan
  • Army Reserve Capt. Richard Locklair says good-bye to his family prior to deployment in August 2013. Courtesy photo

    Huntsville Center project manager goes where he’s most needed

    Huntsville Center Project Manager Richard Locklair enjoys solving engineering programs.

  • January

    Alan Fearns, contracting officer with Huntsville Center’s Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) team, received the 2016 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Excellence in Contracting Awards Program Procurement Contracting Officer of the Year Award. The award that recognized his assistance with the revision of ESPC procurement process.

    Contracting officer helps find solutions for energy program, recognized with USACE procurement award

    Fearns’ award is based on his close collaboration with multi-functional teams and facilitating information sharing that bridged gaps between operational technology and information technology, both used in energy systems.
  • Contract Closeouts

    Huntsville Center continues closing the books on contracts

    Alec Baldwin’s character in the 1992 film “Glengarry Glen Ross” said it best, “A, B, C; A – always,

  • Huntsville Center achieves Best in Class designation

    The Office of Management and Budget awarded this designation to the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Facility Reduction Program Dec. 15, 2016.