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  • October

    Partnering with the U.S. Army Health Facilities Planning Agency and Fort Worth District, Huntsville Center’s Medical Outfitting and Transition program is assisting with the transition process at the 1.1 million square foot William Beaumont Army Medical Center replacement hospital at Fort Bliss, Texas.

    Efforts continue at Fort Bliss medical center

    Huntsville Center's Medical Outfitting and Transition program provides total turn-key project support for the equipping and transitioning of staff and patients associated with new William Beaumont Army Medical Center replacement hospital at Fort Bliss, Texas.

  • June

    Acquisition Support Specialist Bonnie Patterson (left) receives a certificate recognizing her award as the Huntsville Center Employee of the Month for June from Colleen O’Keefe (right), Center contracting chief. Patterson is a 17-year employee at the Center and was chosen for her tireless efforts in supporting three different energy programs as well as her many other contributions.

    Patterson recognized as Employee of the Month

    Huntsville Center recently recognized acquisition support specialist Bonnie Patterson as the June Employee of the Month.

  • February

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    Engineers Week puts spotlight on people at Huntsville Center

    National Engineers Week takes place annually the third full week of February and provides the engineering community an opportunity to highlight the field’s contributions to society. Huntsville Center employees are using this year’s National Engineers Week to share the triumphs and challenges of their careers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

  • January

    New CAC certificates

    CAC Updates

    The Department of Defense Common Access Card (CAC) holders have until March 31, 2019 to activate their Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Authentication certificate to avoid losing access to military networks, according to a release from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters.

  • December

    Three U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville employees, Marsha Jackson with Engineering Directorate, Tara Clark with Ordnance and Explosives Directorate, and Lisa Hendrix with Contracting Directorate, have been selected to participate in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 2019 Special Projects and Professional Development program. They will each work at Headquarters USACE in Washington D.C., for 120 days.

    Three selected for special projects program

    Three employees working at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville have been selected to participate in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 2019 Special Projects and Professional Development program.

  • March

    Huntsville Center auditing course destined for D.C.

    Auditing course destined for D.C.

    A government auditing class developed by internal review (IR) professionals at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville may be on its way to the Pentagon after its recent debut at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Learning Center (ULC) last week.

  • October

    Lt. Col. Hugh Darville, Huntsville Center deputy commander, answers questions from WAFF reporter Stephanie Mills during the Small Business Forum at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Huntsville, Alabama, Oct. 18. The forum helps to identify government needs and business capabilities in order to meet the nation’s engineering challenges.

    Huntsville Center Small Business Forum brings stakeholders together

    Hundreds of business representatives from companies small and large descended on the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Huntsville, Alabama, to attend the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center’s annual Small Business Forum, Oct. 18. The event provides an opportunity for small business representatives to discuss their capabilities with Huntsville Center contracting officials and program managers and learn about upcoming opportunities to work with the Corps of Engineers.

  • July

    Dee Benson, left, provides motivation and encouragement to Amanda Sticker during a recent lunch hour strength and conditioning class at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. Benson says wellness helps employees perform better with customers and teammates.

    Benson aids others on wellness journey

    Dee Benson wants you to have a life of longevity filled with great physical and spiritual health. Each Monday and Thursday, here at Huntsville Center, she helps willing coworkers to achieve those goals. Benson, Business Practices Chief in the Business Management Office, leads a lunch time class from 12:30 -1:15 p.m. in the fitness center designed to improve an individual’s physical health.
  • U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville employees listen as Allan Malcomb with the Army Corps’ Nashville District explains ongoing efforts to shore up the saddle dam located at Center Hill Lake July 20.

    Huntsville Center group gains perspective at Center Hill Dam

    Participants in Huntsville Center’s current Leadership Development Program Level II traveled to Lancaster, Tennessee, to get a closer look at Nashville District’s ongoing rehabilitation project at Center Hill Dam, July 20.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • January

    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,