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  • September

    A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers geophysicist operates equipment used to detect and classify metal objects in the subsurface as potentially a target of interest, such as a munition.

    Munitions response programs improve with technological advancement, training

    In August, the EMCX hosted a technical training seminar for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers geophysicists focused on familiarization of simultaneous location and mapping, or SLAM, technology that will increase mapping production rates in thick vegetation where previously only tape measures or line-of-site robotic total station (RTS) technologies were available.

  • July

    The decontamination team works to clean any potentially contaminated personnel and equipment at the Redstone Arsenal restoration site.

    Safety top priority at Redstone Arsenal restoration site

    The US Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville manages over 40 Military Munitions Response Program sites worldwide and at each of those sites, safety is the top concern.

  • May

    Personnel apply absorbent rolls to a simulated hazardous material spill during a training scenario at U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz in 2019. U.S. Army Installation Management Command garrisons are more efficient and effective at management, tracking, and reporting of hazardous materials thanks to the Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health – Management Information System implementation team of Huntsville Center’s Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise.

    Huntsville Center improves hazardous materials management

    Previously, many installations used other more costly user licenses, such as the Hazardous Materials Management System, or other commercial databases that required annual renewal fees to manage their HM or HW data. Licensing costs were greatly reduced with the single EESOH-MIS application.
  • Technicians use electromagnetic metal detectors to determine if an item below ground is a military munition. Huntsville Center’s Ordnance and Explosives Military Munitions Design Center manages and executes many of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Military Munitions Response Program projects for Formerly Used Defense Site and Base Realignment and Closure sites.

    Huntsville Center plays key role in South Carolina remediation project

    Work to clean up former Camp Croft, a Formerly Used Defense Site, began following the April 1 contract between U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District, and a joint venture of Weston Solutions, Inc., of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, and Zapata Inc., of Charlotte, North Carolina.

  • November

    Remediation, Environmental Services industry day set for Jan. 15

    Huntsville Center has an industry day set from 1— 4 p.m., Jan. 15, for International Remediation & Environmental Services and Strategic Environment Enterprise Resources.

  • 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.

  • January

    Huntsville Center engineers solutions by asking, 'What's your vision'

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville does more than assist global stakeholders in accomplishing their project goals. Huntsville Center helps organizations reach their vision.

  • September

    Maj. Kayla Ramotar, second from right, Holistic Health and Fitness action officer and command dietitian from the Army Center for Initial Military Training, leads a group discussion during a Value Engineering workshop at Huntsville Center in March to examine the Army’s proposed Soldier Physical Readiness Centers.

    Workshop highlights strengths of Value Engineering

    Like a woodsman sharpening an axe before chopping down a tree, a project manager must devote time to the planning phase of a construction project before a single cubic yard of concrete is poured into the foundation. If a project is the axe, then a project team can use Value Engineering in the planning phase as the sharpening tool.
  • Vernon Petty, fourth from left, project manager with the Center of Standardization at Huntsville Center, and Tiffany Torres, fifth from left, former Value Engineering officer and value program manager, help facilitate a Value Engineering workshop in March of 2018 with members of the Army Center for Initial Military Training. Due to the COVID-19 shutdown, the Huntsville Center VE program has offered the last five VE workshops virtually.

    Getting the most out of the Value Engineering process

    Huntsville Center’s Value Engineering process offers stakeholders a way to analyze their military construction project during the planning phase to improve the final product for the best possible value.

  • July

    The Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville has a program available to keep this process as streamlined and focused as possible: a virtual team comprised of representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers serves as liaison between states and components.

    Department of Defense Memorandum of Agreement Program fosters collaboration

    The Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville has a program available to keep this process as streamlined and focused as possible: a virtual team comprised of representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers serves as liaison between states and components.

  • February

    John Lewis, third from right, describes a training site layout to Col. John Hurley, commander of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, and Huntsville Center Program Director Albert “Chip” Marin, during the leaders’ Jan. 11 visit to Redstone Arsenal. Accompanying them, from left to right, are Bill Sargent, director of Huntsville Center’s Ordnance and Explosives Directorate; Roger Young, project manager with APTIM; Jason Watson, Redstone environmental site manager; and Ashley Roeske, project manager with Huntsville Center’s Chemical/Biological Warfare Materiel Division.

    Munitions site removal project makes progress

    The mission to investigate and remove World War II-era chemical warfare materiel suspected to be buried in 17 sites at Redstone Arsenal has reached a new milestone as Huntsville Center’s Chemical Warfare Design Center prepares to lead fieldwork at the post’s 10th such site.

  • June

    Kaitlyn Davis, a summer intern at the Huntsville Center, accesses a library of training tutorials developed by the Center. These tutorials were designed to capture the organization’s institutional knowledge as senior employees begin to exit the workforce.

    Huntsville Center harnesses technology to retain institutional knowledge

    Huntsville Center harnesses video capture technology to retain institutional knowledge as seasoned employees leave the workforce.

  • November

    Bob Selfridge, a Huntsville Center geophysicist uses an inert munition during a Visual Sample Plan training session Oct. 27. The training focused on the footprint reduction and remediation of unexploded ordnance sites module of Visual Sample Plan, a software tool used to support Formerly Used Defense Sites remediation processes.

    Training session provides insight to software tool used for munition remediation

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville recently sponsored a training session for more than 20 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees and members of the National Association of Ordnance Contractors on new or improved methods for performing characterization and remediation of military munitions.