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    Lt. Col. Hugh Darville, recieves a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flag signed by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville work force during his retirement ceremony at Sparkman Center's Bob Jones Auditorium July 20. Darville served with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville since 2017 as deputy commander and interim commander.

    Lieutenant colonel caps career of engineering hope

    Deputy commander recalls the successes he achieved throughout his 26-year military career during his retirement ceremony July 20 at Bob Jones Auditorium.
  • Maj. Gen. Jeffrey L. Milhorn, center, deputy commanding general for military and international operations of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, presents Huntsville Center’s colors to Col. Sebastien P. Joly on Friday, July 23, as Col. Marvin Griffin, outgoing commander, looks on. (Photo by Michael May)

    Joly assumes command of Huntsville Center

    A new commander took over the leadership and direction of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville during a change of command ceremony Friday, July 23, at the Bob Jones Auditorium on Redstone Arsenal.
  • Members of Huntsville Center’s Resource Management Directorate’s Business Practices Division team pose for a photograph at the Huntsville Madison County Veterans Memorial. Members are Mary Hinson, Brian Tachias, Carolyn Harris, Amanda Odem, John Dodson, Angela Rackard, Russ Dunford, Susan Armstrong, James “Jimmy” Johnson. The team was recognized with the 2021 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Innovation of the Year Award.

    Data management solutions team wins USACE innovation award

    A Huntsville Center team was recognized for developing data management solutions and data visualization tools for project management
  • The Corp of Engineers Safety and Occupational Health and Management System, or CE-SOHMS for short, is a three-stage shift from the traditional compliance-based approach to safety to a process-based systems approach to safety by changing the thoughts and behaviors of employees. The Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is leading the way for USACE districts in implementation of the new system.

    Huntsville Center leads USACE in safety

    According to the results of its stage 3 assessment in June, Huntsville Center has met 94 percent of the new system’s total capabilities, making it the only USACE district to see green on almost all CE-SOHMS objectives, said Marty Werdebaugh, CE-SOHMS national program manager.
  • The Onyx Super Computer at the Engineering Research and Development Center, one of five DOD Supercomputer Resource Centers, consists of 212,000 processors and can perform 1.7 quadrillion (1,700,000,000,000,000) calculations per second. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center)

    Huntsville supercomputer team provides cradle-to-grave procurement

    Huntsville Center’s High Performance Computing team was created in 2012 to provide cradle-to grave procurement of supercomputers specifically for the HPCMP, but they are expanding their reach to offer their critical program-management and contract-support services to all government agencies. They are currently the only execution team within the DOD that has three major acquisition vehicles in place to provide key supercomputing deliverables in a cost-effective and efficient manner.