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  • May

    Carolyn Goodman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , provides training to more than 80 resource efficiency managers attending Huntsville Center’s REM workshop April 20 at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, huntsville, Huntsville center manages the REM program and the annual workshop enhances REM's expertise supporting energy efficiency program at U.S. military installations and federal facilities around the world.

    Workshop tackles recent energy policy updates, changes

    More than 80 energy experts attended Huntsville Center’s REM workshop April 17-20 to ensure continuous professional development and focused training on state-of-the-art energy programs and initiatives while leveraging Huntsville Center reach-back capabilities through Huntsville Center energy experts.

  • March

    Center's installation support directorate reorganizes

    The directorate provides execution of more than 30 programs encompassing the technical, engineering, contracting and program management requirements of a variety of mission areas.

  • February

    Huntsville Center’s IT management program sunsets, transitions

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Corporate Information Office is delivering changes to the ACE-IT program and scheduled to turn over all work to Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity.

  • 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.

  • November

    David Nieman, Missile Defense Agency Mission Support Facilities director, present Huntsville Center’s Tara Clark, Branch Chief, Missile Defense Mandatory Center of Expertise, with a letter of appreciation Nov. 4 as Col. Sebastien Joly, Huntsville Center commander, and Rickie Stanford, MDAMSF facility engineer, stand by.

    MDA recognizes Huntsville Center project manager

    Expected to take over a year to complete, the project was finished in only six months.
  • The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, holds a groundbreaking ceremony Nov. 5 to mark the beginning of construction for the Center's new 205,000 square-foot facility on Redstone Arsenal. Pictured, left to right, are Huntsville Center's Chris DeMarcus, Martha Cook, Nate Durham, Chip Marin, Deborah Crosby, Kelly Larsen, and Lt. Col. Benjamin Summers; Col. Glenn O. Mellor, Redstone Arsenal Garrison Commander; Greg Hall, Corporate Office Property Trust Vice President; Jake Roth, Department of Public Works; Frank Nola and Christine Jones with Nola VanPeuresm Architects, PC; and Ryder Lett, USACE Mobile District Real Estate Office.

    Ground breaking signifies Corps of Engineers’ Huntsville Center move onto Redstone Arsenal

    The new 205,000 square foot facility is expected to be a purpose built, three story building allowing the Center to consolidate its off-post leases, consolidate the Center's workforce, and provide a more secure environment for the Center's staff.

  • October

    Arthur Martin, director of Installations Support and Program Management at U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, was recognized with an award for outstanding service and notable achievements during the 41st annual Department of Defense Disability Awards ceremony.

    ISPM director honored with DOD Disability Award

    Arthur Martin, director of the Center’s Installation Support and Project Management directorate, was one of only 21 servicemembers and civilians with disabilities to be recognized for their contributions to the DOD mission. The awards honor those whose attributes best epitomize the qualities and core values of their respective military department or DOD component, said Clarence Johnson, director of the DOD Diversity Management Operations Center.

  • September

    “Value engineering is a vital part of how we deliver projects and meet the needs of our customers, so it was crucial that all of our programs complete the workshop,” said Carlos Reis, value engineering officer. Huntsville Center's Value Engineering Program offered its last five VE workshops virtually in order to follow social distancing guidelines while ensuring the highest level of quality and efficiency.

    VE program stays course despite COVID shutdown

    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way Huntsville Center does business, but it has not changed the business we do. For the Center’s Value Engineering (VE) Program, that means implementing innovative solutions to continue helping the Center’s programs provide high-quality work in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. Through collaborative workshops to evaluate methods and processes, the program increases value and stretches taxpayer resources by proactively searching for and resolving issues. The Corps of Engineers requires all Huntsville Center programs to conduct a VE study once every five years.

  • March

    An Army helicopter crew arrives at Fort Knox, Kentucky’s Godman Army Airfield at sunset in May. A Huntsville Center energy savings contract replaced the airfield’s old electrical and lighting system making the airfield the Army’s first to have all LED lighting.

    Energy savings contract revitalizes airfield

    In 2019 Huntsville Center awarded a fully funded $5.4 million modification to the contract’s task order to improve mission readiness and secure infrastructure by upgrading lighting and replacing decades- old wiring on Fort Knox’s Godman Army Airfield.

  • February

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is joining other federal agencies and groups from around the world February 21 to 27 to celebrate National Engineers Week.

    Huntsville Center spotlights engineering during National Engineers Week

    The annual observance is a time to celebrate how engineers make a difference in the world, increase public dialogue about the need for engineers, bring engineering to life for students, and ensure a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce.

  • December

    The National Museum of the United States Army is now open to the public. Housing more than 1,390 priceless artifacts documenting the U.S. Army's illustrious history, the building is protected by guards and a complex electronic security system designed and installed with guidance from the Electronic Security Systems team at Huntsville Center. (Photo courtesy of National Museum of the United States Army, Duane Lempke)

    Huntsville Center provides security expertise for new U.S. Army Museum

    When the National Museum of the United States Army opened its doors for the first time, visitors and museum personnel could rest assured that the priceless artifacts and displays would be safe and secure thanks to the security-systems expertise of employees at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville.

  • November

    Albert "Chip" Marin III, U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center programs director, (pictured right) presents a U.S. Army Certificate of Achievement to Alan Fearns, contracting officer, for successful completion of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division's Executive Leadership Developmental Program.

    Huntsville Center contracting officer completes top USACE leadership program

    The USACE Executive Leadership Development Program is the top tier of a three-tier program designed to develop results-oriented leaders with the critical skills needed to lead change in complex environments. Applicants to the yearlong course must be at the GS-13 level or above and are selected based on their potential for continued accomplishments and future success.

  • October

    Completing Fiscal Year 2020 virtually due to ongoing COVID-19 safety precautions, Huntsville Center ended the FY with more than 5,000 contract actions totaling more than more than $2.4 billion in obligations worldwide.

    Army Corps' Huntsville Center closes out FY20 virtually, completes $2.4B in contract actions for global stakeholders

    The $2.4 billion in contract actions increased not only Department of Defense readiness and effectiveness through global medical facility renovations and modernization, resilient power and water utilities projects, military training facility updates and cyber security programs aimed at strengthening our nation’s defenses, it also provided vital support to ongoing federal, state and local programs and projects aimed at improving and increasing our nation’s health and safety during the continued response to the coronavirus pandemic.

  • August

    Seventeen Huntsville Center employees completed Leadership Development Program Level I and are now working with deeper insights into their personalities and leadership styles.

    Huntsville Center’s professional development program provides foundation for future leaders

    The eight-month long program utilized a variety of methods for delivering content to develop competencies including: communication, time management, conflict management, customer service, contribution to mission.
  • Soldiers of the 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team approach a target during a live-fire drill as part of the unit’s 2018 rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La. The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville is the designated Range and Training Land Program Mandatory Center of Expertise.

    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.

  • July

    In their efforts to increase energy efficiency and resiliency at installations worldwide, Resource Efficiency Managers explore the latest in renewable technologies, such as this wind turbine at Tooele Army Depot in Utah. (U.S. Army photo by John Prettyman/released)

    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.

  • April

    Dr. Charles Brandon, Director, Army Office of Business Transformation Process Improvement Program, awards Carolyn Harris, Huntsville Center's Program Improvement Manager, her Lean Six Sigma Master Black belt certificate in December. Harris is one of six MBBs in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

    Army awards Harris with Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

    Harris is the 163rd member to be awarded Master Black Belt in the Army and currently one of six Corps of Engineers’ MBBs since the Army Lean Six Sigma deployment began in 2005.
  • Evan Meier, the son of Thomas and Katherine Meier, and 6th grade student uses his 3D printer to create face masks and face shields for local hospital workers. Inspired by his aunt and YouTube program, "Smarter Every Day," the youth joined forces with 235 other Huntsville, Alabama, volunteers to make over 3,800 shields for area health care and first responders treating COVID-19 patients.

    Madison youth joins effort to help hospital workers

    Evan’s interest in making the masks, then face shields began earlier in March when his aunt sent them a link to a community project in Boston where they were making 3D filtered masks. That message resonated with the young student “engineer.”
  • Don Monk, a project management specialist with Huntsville Center's Medical Outfitting and Transition Division, delivers the program from his home office in Birmingham, Ala. Monk has been teleworking regularly for years and has a set routine.

    Telework is the norm for Huntsville Center workforce

    For some employees, working from “Fort Living Room” is a relatively new way of doing business

  • March

    John Trudell, Huntsville Center Resource Efficiency Manager program manager, and Dan Howett, Federal Account Representative, Carrier Corporation, discusses the Chillers 101 presentation Howett made during the Army REM Workshop 2020 at the University of Alabama-Huntsville campus March 10-12.

    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.