25 Aug 2020

Facilities Reduction Program continues to deliver the program through virtual contracting

Even programs that generally require intensive on-site visits are finding innovative solutions to maintain the high level of quality expected of Huntsville Center. One example is the Facilities Reduction Program (FRP), which provides contracting services and oversight of projects to eliminate excess facilities and structures at installations across the country, ultimately leading to a reduction in fixed installation costs and an increase in energy savings.

10 Aug 2020

Huntsville Center program keeps service members on target

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville is the designated Range and Training Land Program Mandatory Center of Expertise.

31 Jul 2020

Resource Efficiency Managers support modernization of defense industrial base

At the forefront of this mission is the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Resource Efficiency Manager (REM) program, which brings the best minds in the free world together to introduce new technologies and processes that extract every possible unit of energy from the most fuel-efficient and resilient energy-system technologies available. REMs, often called the “energy boots on the ground,” provide vital expertise to develop site energy plans encompassing projects that achieve sustainable, renewable, and secure energy management.

25 Jun 2020

REM’s exceed energy savings goals for the Army Reserve

With 579 facilities totaling more than 10 million square feet of facility space, Rachel Kemper, REM for the U.S. Army Reserve’s 88th Readiness Division, headquartered on Fort McCoy, Wis., continues to deliver the program and exceeded energy savings goals for the 88th RD throughout the COVID-19 crisis.

4 Jun 2020

Huntsville Center, Omaha District delivers range to Army special forces

Last September, Huntsville Center’s Range and Training Land Program prepared a programming cost estimate for a shoothouse at Fort Carson, Colorado, in support of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s project approval and funding process.

23 Apr 2020

Resource Energy Manager improves munition plant’s energy resilience

A Resource Efficiency Manager attending 2019 Energy Exchange and REM Workshop in Huntsville, Alabama, received updated 50001 Ready information that led him on a path to improve energy efficiency at Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Virginia.

18 Mar 2020

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.

16 Mar 2020

How unmanned aircraft systems could be range project force-multipliers

A group of Huntsville Center professionals gathered Feb. 27 at the Rocket City Radio Controllers complex in southeast Huntsville to evaluate the capabilities of three different unmanned aircraft systems to find ways to make range projects more efficient and less costly.

12 Mar 2020

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.

10 Mar 2020

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.

7 Feb 2020

Huntsville Center REM Program helps counterparts meet Army energy goals

The accomplishments of one resource efficiency manager with the U.S. Army Reserve at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, is proving that leveraging Huntsville Center’s expertise is a force-multiplier in meeting the Army’s energy goals.

17 Dec 2019

Fuels PDT named USACE ‘Team of the Year’ for contracting

The professionals of the Fuels Recurring Maintenance and Minor Repair Project Delivery Team gathered Dec. 16, 2019, to receive the 2019 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ “Team of the Year” Excellence in Contracting Award.

6 Dec 2019

Furnishings Program team focuses on ‘better, smarter, faster’ at VE workshop

A group of Huntsville Center professionals took part in a value engineering workshop for the Furnishings Program Nov. 4–6 with the goal of improving processes, reducing costs and boosting value for stakeholders.

31 Oct 2019

Huntsville Center’s new Position Hazard Analysis already revealing useful safety data

As part of the Huntsville Center Safety and Occupational Health Office’s recently developed SharePoint collaborative site, the interactive Position Hazard Analysis system is already revealing valuable safety data.

3 Oct 2019

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.

21 Aug 2019

Facilities Reduction Program to demolish unusable NASA structure

HUNTSVILLE, Ala -- The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville recently awarded an $11

2 Aug 2019

Energy Division’s expertise attracts dozens of contractors for dual workshops

Two Energy Division workshops brought dozens of contractors from throughout the country to the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, July 25.

30 Jul 2019

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.

19 Jul 2019

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.

12 Jul 2019

USACE senior leader gains deeper understanding of Huntsville Center’s unique mission

The chief of Interagency and International Services Division with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Military Programs Directorate visited the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, Alabama, July 10 and 11.