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    U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Hutnsville engineer Chad Braun stands in the grouting gallery 270 feet below the crest of the Mosul Dam in Northern Iraq in this undated photo. Braun is one of more than a dozen USACE team members designated the Mosul Dam Task Force as an element of the Army Corps’s Transatlantic Division.

    Huntsville Center’s Braun works to save Mosul Dam

    He’s a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with a history of stepping up to lend a hand after American communities face the worst. Now Chad Braun, a civilian civil engineer and senior project engineer with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is deployed thousands of miles from home to engage in a fight to prevent the worst from happening.
  • Porscha Porter is one of two Huntsville Center employees to receive Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine's 40 Under 40 Award.

    Magazine honors two Huntsville Center engineers

    Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine named Porscha Porter and Africa Welch-Castle of Huntsville Center's Strategy and Business Management Branch, Energy Division, to receive the 40 Under 40 Award their commitment to excellence in their academic, professional, personal and community involvement.
  • Jeffrey Davis, an emergency management specialist with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, and taekwondo black belt master, leads students through various martial arts techniques and exercises.

    Black belt master champions student success

    Army veteran and emergency management specialist with U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, instructs student of diverse walks in the benefits of tae kwon do.
  • Huntsville Center’s Office of Small Business Programs and program manager and contracting officer for a Medical Facilities Support and Services II contract held the Center’s first Facebook live session for a Medical Facilities Support and Services II contract May 4.

    Office of Small Business Programs innovation results in success

    The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville has a team with thorough understanding of federal acquisitions, focusing their expertise and advocating for small businesses to compete for more than 5,000 contract actions, or portions of them, that Huntsville Center solicits annually.
  • Performers at Huntsville Center’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month program share Korean Nanta drumming known for its rhythmic upbeat style of percussion May 9. Traditional Korean fan dancing, Asian cuisine and a talk by Mr. Stacey K. Hirita, chief, Installation Support Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also highlighted the celebration.

    Huntsville Center celebrates AAIP Heritage Month

    A standing-room-only crowd of U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville employees gathered to celebrate and learn about Asian-American Pacific Islander heritage during a cultural presentation May 9.