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Huntsville Center designs, furnishes Army’s largest Child Development Center
Huntsville Center procured furniture to fill the largest child development center in the Army at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.
Huntsville Center designs, furnishes Army’s largest Child Development Center
Huntsville Center designed and procured furniture for a new state-of-the-art child development center at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.
Huntsville Center designs, furnishes Army’s largest Child Development Center
Huntsville Center designed and procured furniture for a new state-of-the-art child development center at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.
Huntsville Center begins phase 2 of testing AI security systems at BGAD
Huntsville Center, alongside other organizations through the Army Physical Security Enterprise and Analysis Group, is leading the effort to test Artificial Intelligence integration into existing security systems at Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky.
Special program provides key support to USACE, Huntsville Center
Employees receive facility construction updates before getting a first-hand look at Huntsville Center’s new facility at Redstone Arsenal during a walk-through tour in 2023. Huntsville Center’s Special Projects Program, an unconventional, service-oriented program, provided integral support for Huntsville Center personnel relocation to 300 Redstone Gateway.
Furniture program supports Marine Corps quality-of-life improvements
Mitch Jackson, standing, provides training on an online furniture ordering system to Marine Corps Installation Management Command employees at Camp Pendelton, California. Jackson travelled to Marine Corps Installation Command regions for face-to-face training with the customers who will be purchasing replacement furniture for Marines living in unacompanied barracks.

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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