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  • March

    John Trudell, Huntsville Center Resource Efficiency Manager program manager, and Dan Howett, Federal Account Representative, Carrier Corporation, discusses the Chillers 101 presentation Howett made during the Army REM Workshop 2020 at the University of Alabama-Huntsville campus March 10-12.

    Workshop networking for resource efficiency managers key for Huntsville Center energy program success

    The Army’s fifth Resource Efficiency Manager (REM) Workshop connected its more than 25 attendees with skills necessary to ensure the Army’s resource specialists can achieve federal energy reduction mandates.
  • Georgia Power Company representatives Jon Lewis and Heather Cantrell, Georgia Power Company brief Huntsville Center Utility Energy Services Contracting program staff Vick Peltier, Chad Edwards and Brandy Wilkerson during a meeting at Huntsville Center Feb.12. The meeting promoted a cohesive and collaborative project environment for a contract at Warner Robins-Air Logistics Center at Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

    Maintaining contracts vital to utility, energy program

    A $52 million contract (with a capacity of more than $200 million), awarded in 2017, supports Warner Robins-Air Logistics Complex with energy savings, resilience and security improvements for the principal enterprise located at Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

  • Resource efficiency managers converging in Huntsville for workshops

    A workshop for resource efficiency managers set for March 10-12 in Huntsville, Alabama, will provide a training and guidance enabling attending contracted subject-matter energy experts, company representatives, and REM program customers to enhance their installation energy program’s effectiveness.

  • December

    During the 2019 Society of American Military Engineers Federal Small Business Conference Excellence in Contracting Awards Program Nov. 21, 2019 in Dallas, Texas, Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite (left), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and USACE Command Sgt. Maj. Bradley Houston (right) presented Jeff Roberts, Huntsville Center contracting; Col. Marvin Griffin, Huntsville Center commander; Brandy Percell, Huntsville Center Office of Small Business Initiative; Colleen O’Keefe, Huntsville Center Contracting chief and Kristina Freese, Huntsville Center Business Director, with three Top Dollar awards. The Center took 1st Place in Small Business ($790 million), 1st Place in Small Disadvantaged Business ($416 million) and 2nd Place in Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business ($98.6 million.) Over the last decade, Huntsville Center contracts have allocated more than $6 billion to small business for their services in supporting the Center's global mission.

    Center’s mission feeds $6 billion to small businesses over last decade

    In fiscal 2019, the Center executed more than $2 billion in contract actions, pushing the Army Corps of Engineers’ Huntsville-based specialized technical support organization past the $6 billion mark over the last 10 years.

  • October

    Ron Brook, Huntsville Center Fuels program manager, updates his program's obligation numbers Sept. 23. August and September are two of the busiest months for the Center when stakeholders’ requests for projects surge as they obligate money before the end of the fiscal year.

    Center closes fiscal 2019 with $2 billion in obligations

    Of the $2.2 billion obligated, 44% went to support the Army and 37% for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Nine percent was dedicated to Army Corps of Engineers Information Technology. Four percent was earmarked for the Air Force and 3% for the Navy, and projects for NASA came in at 1%. More than $25 million was obligated in grants and cooperative agreements.

  • August

    Huntsville Center's Facility Reduction Program awarded an $11 million contract for the abatement a demolition of the 500,000 square foot administrative building located on NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. A tornado damaged the building resulting in its closing due to asbestos contamination.

    Facilities Reduction Program to demolish unusable NASA structure

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala -- The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville recently awarded an $11
  • Maj. Gen. Richard Kaiser, right, deputy chief of engineers and deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, presents the Huntsville Center’s guidon to Col. Marvin Griffin, as Albert "Chip" Marin III, Huntsville Center programs director looks on.

    Homecoming for Huntsville Center’s new commander

    Griffin will lead more than 1,000 employees at the Center’s headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, and its offices in Omaha, Nebraska, and Alexandria, Virginia.
  • The Huntsville Center and National Demolition Association partnership ensures benefits for the entire demolition industry.

    Center’s Facility Reduction Program partners with National Demolition Association

    The partnership will ensure the entire demolition industry benefits through increasing contractor’s access to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ education and training programs. The partnership also provides NDA members access to safety and risk management best practices and resources.

  • July

    Huntsville Center's High Performance Computing Program recently procured a new supercomputer system housed in a shipping container. The “HPC in a Container” is designed to be deployable.

    Huntsville Center program procures mobile, containerized supercomputer for Defense Department

    The new supercomputer will initially be based at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Developmental Command Army Research Laboratory DOD Supercomputing Resource Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
  • The U.S. Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville has the certified experts stakeholders count on to accomplish unique, complex, global missions.

    Certification, education at the core of Corps’ Huntsville Center

    To meet stakeholder's complex requests, Huntsville Center’s workforce is ticking the required academic and professional boxes to become experts in their arenas.

  • June

    Lt. Col. Hugh Darville, Huntsville Center commander, presents Sandi Zebrowski with a token of appreciation during a retirement ceremony at Huntsville Center in May. Zebrowski served as the director of the Center's Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise since 2008.

    Army Corps environmental pioneer Zebrowski retires

    As the director of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise, Sandi Zebrowski led more than 60 Corps employees in providing high quality engineering and scientific support to environmental remediation, munitions response and compliance programs around the world.

  • May

    Flooding from the Missouri River overtook one-third of Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, in March including the base "fuel farm," an area on the base set aside for fuel storage tanks, A Huntsville Center’s Fuels Recurring Maintenance & Minor Repair Program contract ensures fuel storage tanks and equipment are maintained and repaired as needed.

    Fuels project manager, contract instrumental in Offutt flood recovery

    A project manager with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, opened an email from the Air Force Petroleum Office notifying her of the flooding at Offutt AFB.

  • March

    Latosha McCoy, Brandon Lee and Tonju Samuels were selected the Defense Contract Audit Agency’s Director’s Development Program in Leadership, an 18-month long Department of Defense executive level program designed to hone leadership competencies for managerial and executive-level performance.

    Three acquisition leaders participating in development program

    Tonju Samuels, Latosha McCoy and Brandon Lee were selected the Defense Contract Audit Agency’s Director’s Development Program in Leadership.
  • LaShonda Smith, Center Contracting Pre-Award Division team lead, took one of two Contracting Professional of the Year awards in the 2018 Secretary of the Army Awards for Excellence in Contracting.

    Contracting officer named best in Army for 2018

    A contracting officer with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville took one of two Contracting Professional of the Year awards in the 2018 Secretary of the Army Awards for Excellence in Contracting.
  • Sigonella Elementary School was one of two schools on Naval Base Sigonella to receive with Uninterruptible Power Supply systems in January. Huntsville Center's Communication Infrastructure and Systems Support program, or CIS2, coordinated with Norfolk District to provide technical engineering, management and acquisition support for the project.

    Center program supports Sigonella schools

    Huntsville Center’s Communication Infrastructure and Systems Support program, or CIS2, coordinated with Norfolk District to provide technical engineering, project management and acquisition support to equip the DoDEA Europe South District’s Sigonella Elementary School and Sigonella Middle High School with Uninterruptible Power Supply systems.
  • Airmen perform last-minute checks on a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft before it takes from Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea. Huntsville Center’s Fuels team cleaned, inspected and repaired a fuel storage tank used to hold and dispense a jet fuel created specifically for the reconnaissance aircraft, an important part of the Air Force’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission enterprise.

    Fuels project quick-turn supports Dragon Lady mission

    Huntsville Center’s Fuels team had a very short period of time to clean, inspect and repair a fuel storage tank used to hold and dispense Jet Propellant Thermally Stable, a jet fuel created specifically for the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.
  • Karim Manji, Installation Management Command Sustainment speaks to Huntsville Center's Resource Efficiency Managers gatherd at the Center Feb. 28.

    Huntsville Center workshop good for taxpayers, environment

    Resource efficiency managers from around the world attended Huntsville Center’s REM workshop in Huntsville, Alabama, Feb. 26-28. Huntsville Center’s REM program provides contracted subject-matter experts to Department of Defense branch installations to increase energy program effectiveness by identifying programs and practices to reduce energy and water costs and meet resilience and security requirements.

  • February

    The majority of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s employees are now working from the Center’s new location at 475 Quality Circle, in the Thornton Research Park. However, one of the Center’s directorates and several other Center divisions and program offices are remaining in office suites geographically detached from the Center.

    Some Center missions remain in University Square office suites

    The Center’s Ordnance and Explosives Directorate, its Installation Support and Programs Management Directorate’s Military Support, Facilities and Electronic Technology divisions and its Engineering Directorate’s Environmental Protection, Utilities and Geosciences offices are remaining behind in leased office suites near the Center’s old main facility at 4820 University Square.

  • January

    Workers install portions of the 8.5 megawatt-per-hour battery system at Fort Carson, Colorado. Huntsville Center’s Energy Savings Performance Contracting program coordinated the project designed to reduce peak electricity use costs, especially during the summer cooling season.

    Huntsville Center ESPC program delivers Fort Carson energy storage system

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Savings Performance Contracting program managers and contracting specialists coordinated the project with AECOM, the energy service contractor, and the garrison’s directorate of public works.

  • Business director selected for development program

    Christina Freese, the business director of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, was selected to participate in the 2019 Veterans Affairs Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program.