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  • July

    Lisa Doumont, lead deployment coordination administrator from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Contingency Recruitment Cell, speaks to employees of Huntsville Center about deployment opportunities for civilians.

    Deployment Roadshow team visits Huntsville Center

    A team of deployment coordinators visited the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, July 18 to give employees information on how they can support the Corps’ overseas missions.
  • Dominic Ragucci, program manager for the Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program, leads a group discussion as part of an ERCIP workshop at Idaho National Laboratory held June 12-14.

    ERCIP partners meet to revamp project validation process

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program validation team members met with their ERCIP partners from throughout the Army for a workshop at Idaho National Laboratory June 12-14 to update the program’s guidance and requirements.

  • Acquisition Soldiers attend contracting workshop

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville hosted U.S. Army Corps of Engineers military contracting professionals for a workshop on issues unique to the Corps’ contracting Soldiers June 26-27 at the Defense Acquisition University campus at Cummings Research Park in Huntsville, Alabama.

  • 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.

  • May

    Students from Sparkman High School explain their scientific payload project May 11, 2018, to Lori Cordell-Meikle, chief of Internal Review for Huntsville Center, as part of the Innovative System Project for the Increased Recruitment of Emerging STEM Students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

    Internal Review chief volunteers for UAH’s STEM outreach program

    A member of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, continued the tradition of volunteering her time and expertise helping burgeoning engineers as part of an engineering outreach program at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

  • April

    Meagan Brantley, Center Contracting, Kay Sommerkamp, Office of Counsel, Betina Johnson, Ordnance and Explosives Directorate, Lilian Fox, Center Contracting and Valerie Klinkenbeard, Engineering Directorate, spoke in depth about their experiences during the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Equal Employment Opportunity office-sponsored Women’s History Month 2018 event March 29. The theme, “Nevertheless She Persisted,” brought attention to each panelists’ persistence to succeed professionally and also shed light upon how the Center has changed over the years.

    Persistence empowers women to gender equality

    During the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Equal Employment Opportunity office-sponsored Women’s History Month 2018 event March 29, five female panelists of different ages and backgrounds sat before an audience and spoke in depth about gender-based obstacles and the persistence required to succeed in the workforce.

  • March

    Keanna Houston, Huntsville Center Contracting Directorate, received the “Michael Nobels Newcomer” Award for her work as a first-time consultant supporting the 43rd annual Alabama A&M University Youth Motivational Task Force Conference, March 11-13.

    Employees participate in 43rd Annual Alabama A&M University Youth Motivational Task Force

    Seven Huntsville Center employees served as consultants at the Alabama A&M University's annual Youth Motivational Task Force March 11-13. Keanna Houston, Contracting Directorate, received the Michael Nobels Newcomer Award for her work as a first-time consultant.
  • Employees of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, practice chest compressions on medical dummies during a first aid and CPR training and certification session March 1 at the Center. Along with their primary duties, the employees serve as first aid attendants for Huntsville Center and must certify annually.

    Huntsville Center first aid attendants train, certify

    Twelve Huntsville Center employees completed their certifications for first aid, CPR and automated external defibrillator operation during a March 1 session at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.

  • February

    Andrew Brand, second from left, project manager with Task Force POWER, Afghanistan, leads a pre-opening inspection of a new Dining Facility at Camp Oqab, Afghanistan, in September. Brand is deployed there on behalf of Ordnance and Explosives Design Center’s Global Operations Division.

    Electrical safety, repair mission in Afghanistan grows for Huntsville Center

    With a growing number of American troops in Afghanistan, there is no shortage of electrical safety and repair work for the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, Ordnance and Explosives Design Center.
  • Maj. Gen. Michael Wehr, deputy commanding general U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, right, and Col. Christine Beeler, left, listen as Col. John Hurley, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville commander discusses actions presented during the Center's command strategic review Feb. 13-14.

    Command Strategic Review strengthens communication, sets path forward

    The Command Strategic Review working session is a collaborative event between HQ USACE, Campaign Plan (UCP) Objective/Action Champions and the major subordinate command (MSC) counterparts to ensure alignment with the UCP and review progress of specific current year priority actions. Huntsville Center’s last CSR was in 2015.
  • Valerie Clinkenbeard, the acquisition liaison manager for Huntsville Center, is the most recent recipient of the Department of Defense’s Individual Achievement Award in Facilities Engineering.

    HNC employee earns DOD-level honors

    A long-time member of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is the recipient of the Department of Defense’s Individual Achievement Award in Facilities Engineering.
  • Col. John Hurley, commander of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, signs up for the 2018 Commander’s Fitness Challenge at the organization’s Wellness Center. Next to Hurley are members of the Huntsville Center Wellness Committee.

    2018 Commander’s Fitness Challenge is fit for all

    The commander of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, has launched this year’s fitness and health initiative for all members of the organization.

  • January

    Aaron Renfro, a Huntsville Center employee who serves as the construction lead at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Richmond, Kentucky, recently earned his Certified Construction Manager designation.

    Center engineer one of handful to earn 'CCM' designation

    One of the latest photos on the wall of professionals at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center is of Aaron Renfro, who in September earned his Certified Construction Manager designation.

  • December

    Arthur Martin III is the new director of the U.S. Army Engineering Support Center, Huntsville’s Installation Support and Programs Management Directorate.

    Martin named new ISPM director

    Martin began his U.S. Army Corps of Engineers career in the Mobile District’s Construction Division in 1986. In addition to Mobile District, Martin worked in Savannah District before joining Huntsville Center in August 1999 working in the Mechanical-Electrical Division of the Center’s Engineering Directorate.
  • Deputy Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. Michael Wehr joins Col. John Hurley, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (Huntsville Center) commander, and the Center’s Office of Small Business Programs team, Karen Baker (left) Rebecca Goodsell (center), Nicole Boone (right) at the Society of American Military Engineers 2017 Small Business Conference in Pittsburgh. During the conference, Hurley and the team accepted three awards on behalf of the Center.

    Center recognized for contribution to small business communities

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (Huntsville Center) Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) received three Top Dollar awards at the annual Small Business Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Nov. 15-17.

  • November

    Col. John Hurley, center, commander of Huntsville Center, goes over the results of the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute Organizational Climate Survey with Angela Morton, right, supervisory equal opportunity officer with the center’s Equal Employment Opportunity Office, Oct. 23, 2017. Sitting with them at the table, from left to right, are Valerie Ward, human resources strategic adviser who managed the results of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey; Dan Heinzelman, business director; Albert “Chip” Marin III, programs director; and Lt. Col. Hugh Darville, deputy commander.

    Workplace survey results prompt nearly 40 recommendations

    The results of two employee surveys at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center pointed out areas where Huntsville Center excels and also identified nearly 40 recommendations for improvements here.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in coordination with the Huntsville Engineering and Support Center, has awarded a contract toward the repair of the power grid in Puerto Rico.

    Huntsville Center awards contract for personnel and equipment for power restoration

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in coordination with the Huntsville Engineering and Support Center, has awarded a contract toward the repair of the power grid in Puerto Rico.

  • October

    Technicians with Kikkawa, a Japanese contracting company, adjust a wire rope to change the angle of counterweights on one of the newly overhauled marine loading arms at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo during final assembly.

    Huntsville Center oversees overhaul project in Japan

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Fuels Recurring Maintenance and Minor Repair Program at Huntsville Center completed a four-month-long overhaul project Sept. 23 on the first set of marine loading arms at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu.
  • Diver Max Schramm undergoes pre-inspection safety checks before a dive with the help of Erick Knezek, dive tender and owner of Truston Technologies, and Trent Webster, dive supervisor. The dive was part of an operation that took place Aug. 28 through Sept. 1 to repair the marine oil booms at the Pearl Harbor Hotel Pier off the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

    Teamwork, safety key to dive operation’s success at Pearl Harbor

    Numerous hazards confront professional divers during even simple operations, but they do not need to face their task alone. For a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dive operation, a team of professionals is behind them with a comprehensive plan.

  • September

    Following a natural disaster or emergency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can manage the construction of temporary critical public facilities for impacted communities as part of the federal government’s unified national response.

    Huntsville Center sends experts to support hurricane recovery

    Four U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville employees deployed to St. Croix, Virgin Islands, over the weekend to conduct critical public facilities assessments following Hurricane Irma.