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Huntsville Center Facility Reduction Program best in class for feds
An excavator separates materials at Huntsville Center Facility Reduction Program project site at Fort Stewart, Georgia, April 30. The Center’s FRP is an eco-friendly program ensuring building materials are recycled.
Huntsville Center Facility Reduction Program best in class for feds
Excavators demolish a section of the old Fort Stewart, Georgia, elementary school April 30. Huntsville Center’s Facility Reduction Program (FRP) has Best in Class (BIC) certification from Government Services Administration (GSA). The BIC designation identifies government-wide contracts that satisfy key criteria defined by the Office of Management and Budget. Huntsville Center’s FRP procures and centrally manages commercial demolition services. The program currently maintains five regional multiple award task order contracts (MATOCs) for abatement and demolition services.
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Will Casey, Luminace contractor, right, conducts training at the first solararray fire safety training session Feb. 29, 2024 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Huntsville Center is leading the effort to build more best-practices and training courses as there are limited industry standards and training currently offered to address solar array fires.
Geologist improves field for future professionals
Dave Becker, a geologist with the Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise at the Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, conducts an optimization study at the Charles Macon Superfund site in North Carolina in fall 2015.
Microgrid certification enhances energy program
Huntsville Center project in 2018 installed solar panels at Redstone Arsenal. The panels were designed and installed to connect to a micro-grid and contribute to the overall energy security of the installation. Huntsville Center recently implemented a certification process April 1-4 ensuring expertise among the Huntsville Center project managers working to deploy microgrids at military installations around the world.
Energy Savings Contract saving Fort Bliss millions, providing Soldier comfort
A base operations and facilities noncommissioned officer of the special projects and facilities section (S7) points out a couple of new billeting at Westbrook Forward Operating Base, McGregor Range Complex. A Huntsville Center Energy Savings Performance Contract is not only provides for the overall financial and environmental savings, but aids in the physical comfort of Soldiers training there after the contractor sprayed the Quonset huts with R-19 foam insulation resulting in a heating setpoint of 68°F and occupied cooling setpoint of 70°F.

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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