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  • May

    A man standing over a table with a dozen people seated. The man standing, Mitch Jackson, is providing them with training.

    Furniture program supports Marine Corps quality-of-life improvements

    The Marine Corps Installation Management Command (MCICOM) learned of Huntsville Center’s Centralized Furnishing Branch via an employee that formerly worked for Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC), one of the Center’s furniture program’s largest barracks furniture customers.
  • A man in fall protection equipment.

    Safety emphases leads into June's National Safety Month

    The course focused on four main components of safety hazards: electrical, falls, struck by, caught in-between. Instructors reviewed OSHA regulations, proper personal protection and lifesaving equipment and arc flash safety, among many other safety protocols.
  • Col. Joly about to throw a baseball.

    Huntsville Center’s commander throws first pitch at Trash Panda Armed Forces Game

    Col. Sebastien Joly, Huntsville Center’s commander, and Joshua Gaines, Huntsville Center engineer, each threw out first pitches before the announced crowd of 6,668.

  • April

    A photo of solar panels.

    Microgrid certification enhances energy program

    Huntsville Center’s Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program (ERCIP) currently has nine microgrid projects in construction, 46 projects in the design process, and 48 potential projects coming their way.

  • March

    A man welding

    Partnerships set to improve, prepare Organic Industrial Bases for future

    The Army’s Organic Installation Bases Modernization Implementation Plan prioritizes and synchronizes resources toward critical facilities and capabilities to build the necessary capacity to sustain the Army’s enduring and future systems produced at the bases.

  • August

    Kevin Carse inspects a boiler located at the Army Reserve Center at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana. Carse, Electrical Engineering Technician, performs duties supporting BASEOPS out of the Louisville District’s Indianapolis Resident Office.

    BASEOPS continues supporting Army Reserve

    Huntsville Center’s BASEOPS Program executes defined services structured around preventive and corrective maintenance of the 88th RD’s more than 750 structures and facilities.

  • July

    A scientist at Aberdeen Proving Ground Maryland uses a supercomputer for mathematical simulations instead of mass fabrication, which result in the conservation of human and physical resources. For more than a decade the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (Huntsville Center) has maintained acquisition and contract management of the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program. However, changes to the program are underway to turn over the program to the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC), Vicksburg Miss., contracting activity as early as September.

    High performance computing program acquisition services moving to Engineer Research Development Center

    Changes to the program are underway to turn over the program to the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC) contracting activity, Vicksburg, Miss., as early as September.

  • June

    Huntsville Center Engineering Directorate's Robert Renz, Brendan Dingman and Stephanie Woods were recognized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for their work in their career fields.

    Three Center employees recognized as best in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

    Three people working in the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (Huntsville Center) Engineering Directorate (ED) received recognition as the best in USACE.

  • 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.

  • 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.