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  • May

    Excavator seperates material.

    Huntsville Center Facility Reduction Program best in class for feds

    Huntsville Center’s Facility Reduction Program (FRP) received Best in Class (BIC) certification from Office of Management and Budget (OMB), with the support of the Government-wide Category Management Program Management Office in 2021.

  • November

    Photo of large, back-up generators at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

    Center’s OMEE contract keeps Walter Reed running

    The Operation and Maintenance Engineering Enhancement (OMEE) Program at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, provides a simplified process to respond to the growing operation and maintenance needs of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center using streamlined processes that delivers low-cost, quick- response contracts for the operation, preventive maintenance, and repair and replacement of equipment for the sprawling campus.

  • September

    Solar panels on a building at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, show signs of damage following Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. Their restoration is one of many projects resulting from the Navy’s expanded partnership with Huntsville Center’s Resource Efficiency Manager Program.

    Resource Efficiency Managers expand partnership with Navy installations

    REMs have been working with energy managers at Naval Base Guam for over six years to conduct building audits, identify energy conservation measures and develop project documentation for third-party financed energy projects, said Russell Moebes, REM Program project manager.
  • Soldiers wash a tank at a Fort Riley wash rack.

    BaseOps program supports Big Red One

    The BaseOps program consists of executing defined services structured around preventive and corrective maintenance. The objective is to preserve and maintain systems in such a condition that they may be effectively used for their designated functional purpose.

  • June

    Officials from Joint Base Langley-Eustis review the area development plan during the 43rd Formal Training Unit Bed down charrette in 2019. Planning and Programming Support Branch received national award their plan during the American Planning Associations 2021 National Federal Planning Division Conference.

    Planning and Programming Support branch wins national awards

    Huntsville Center’s Planning and Programming Support Branch’s worldwide mission provides cost-effective, centralized planning solutions while developing comprehensive installation and facility planning studies, programming/cost-estimating documentation, and a variety of unique studies for federal clients.

  • February

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Communications Infrastructure and Systems Support program, or CIS2, provided design and renovation support U.S. Army North’s Building 44.

    Huntsville Center CIS2 program supports Fort Worth District’s U.S. Army North renovation project

    The CIS2 program worked in concert with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Fort Worth District. The district is renovating several floors of U.S. Army North's Building 44 including the installation of Facility Communication Distribution Systems.

  • June

    Paratroopers with 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), practice cordon and search tactics during warfighter training at Fort Carson, Colorado, in 2018. Huntsville Center’s Range and Training Land Program prepared programming cost estimates for a shoothouse at the post to support the U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s project approval and funding process.

    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.

  • April

    A Resource Efficiency Manager recently instituted a 50001 Ready team to meet energy and water security resilience and reduction goals at Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Radford, Virginia. Huntsville Center manages the REM program for the Army.

    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.

  • March

    James Buhr, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville project manager and Emergency Operations Center team member, listens during the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers daily commander’s telecon briefing March 25.

    Huntsville Center EOC streamlines COVID-19 response efforts

    Huntsville Center is supporting the Corps efforts in working with FEMA, the White House, DOD, and other federal, state and local partners by developing plans and specifications for the rapid conversion of hotels, barracks and arena-type facilities into ICU-capable hospitals for treating COVID-19 patients.
  • Jelani Ingram Huntsville Center Acting Branch Chief of Architecture, works to provide concept solutions and engineering sketches for alternate care facility assessments for Corps of Engineers districts to assist in the conversion of hotels, barracks and arenas into alternate care facilities capable of providing care during our nation’s efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

    Huntsville Center supports alternate care facility assessments

    As the Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for Medical Facility Design, Huntsville Center engineers were quickly brought in by Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, 54th Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of USACE.
  • 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.

  • 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

  • March

    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.

  • December

    U.S. Army Colonel John Hurley, commander of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, listens to project updates during a monthly Project Review Board at the Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Dec. 12, 2018.

    Focus on communications emphasized at Huntsville Center Project Review Board

    From Alabama to Afghanistan, Huntsville Center is working and coordinating projects all across the globe. “Communications is the second most important thing we must do to be successful, second only to taking care of our personnel,” Marin said.

  • June

    Attendees at Huntsville Center’s fourth Resource Efficiency Manager Workshop speak with industry representative during the technology exposition portion of the two-day event.

    Resource managers network, learn at workshop

    Workshop topics focused on third-party financing, utility cost reduction and energy audit programs, cost engineering, energy security, sustainability and measurement and verification.

  • July

    Col. Robert Ruch, Huntsville Center commander, center, and Janet Phillips, HQ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Deputy Chief of Security Assistance, provided a capabilities brief to foreign military officers associated with the Army Program Executive Office-Aviation July 10.

    USACE briefs world-wide capabilities to allies

    USACE/Huntsville Center capabilities information briefing was set up to provide international officers a greater understanding of the Corps of Engineers in general and Huntsville Center’s specific missions.