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Huntsville Center’s Furnishings Program filling cyberspaces at Fort Eisenhower
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and contractors begin demolition on Signal Towers to make way for a new Cyber Campus for the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence on Fort Eisenhower, Georgia, in 2022. Huntsville Center is furnishing the new facilities.
Huntsville Center’s Furnishings Program filling cyberspaces at Fort Eisenhower
A 2019 mock-up is shown of part of the future Cyber Center of Excellence campus. As each MILCON project is completed Huntsville Center is filling the spaces with furnishings. The CCoE is the largest military construction program in the continental United States and is scheduled for completion in 2028.
Radiation Survey
Julie Clements, health physicist, EM CX, performs a radiation survey at the Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada. (USACE Photo)
Technical Reviews
James Salisbury, a physical scientist with the EM CX, presents on independent technical reviews during a FUDS Program and Legal Review Meeting in November 2023. (USACE Photo)
Remediation
Jen Apell and Mike Felix with the EM CX document observations during a remediation optimization site visit at a groundwater treatment plant at the former Blaine Naval Ammunition Depot in Hastings, Nebraska. (USACE Photo)
Geophysical
An EM CX team collects advanced geophysical classification library data at Fort Gregg-Adams in Virginia. (Photo by Elise Goggin)

The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center Huntsville’s Ordnance and Explosives Directorate is the execution arm for the environmental work executed at the Center.  The Directorate is organized into four divisions: Military Munitions Design Center, Chemical/Biological Weapons Material Design Center, Global Operations and Ballistic Missile Defense. 

Capabilities: Ordnance removal (conventional, chemical, radioactive); Ordnance investigations and environmental studies; Environmental remediation; Training and capacity building; Independent operation capability to include security, logistics, and life support; Ability to reach out to other U.S. Army Corps of Engineers capabilities and assets; Service contract capabilities and in-place contracts for world-wide use; USACE Ballistic Missile Defense Mandatory Center of Expertise (ER 1110-2-8163)

Objectives: Support National Security; Rapid Response expeditionary mindset supporting Department of Defense and US Government Agency operations worldwide with qualified and responsive munitions and environmental support; Independent operation capability includes security, logistics, and life support; Provide DOD, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and USACE with acquisitions, architect-engineering services to include sustained subject matter experts fully supporting and executing the dynamic missile defense mission; Provide facility guidance in support of MDA Facilities associated with Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases

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