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Huntsville Center Improves Targets for Range at Fort McCoy
Professionals from Huntsville Center's Range and Training Land Program Mandatory Center of Expertise conducted a Target Interface Inspection for a range at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin to ensure equipment interface points conform to standard design, identify deficiencies and verify final target requirements, November 20, 2024, photo by Lillian Putnam.
Demo project is refresher course in munitions response 3Rs actions
Crews demolish portions of the Smoke Bomb Hill Volar Barracks at Fort Liberty N.C. During the facility reduction project, workers discovered an object believed to be unexploded ordnance.
Small Business Industry Day helps stimulate nation’s economy
Attendees interact with other business representatives and Huntsville Center project development teams Oct. 23 during the Small Business Industry Day 2024 at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center’s Davidson Center for Space Exploration.
Huntsville Center ends year with more $2.6B obligated
The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville raced across the fiscal year finish line on Sept. 30 with more than 3,900 contract actions totaling approximately $2.6 billion obligated to support America’s warfighters and other federal agencies.
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.

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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