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  • November

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    USACE Recognizes Small Business and Contracting Excellence

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recognized excellence in contracting and small business partnerships during an awards ceremony on Nov. 20 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention center in New Orleans, Louisiana.

  • March

    A man holding a curved clear award stands to the left of a woman.

    USACE Planning and Policy Chief Receives Coastal Summit Award

    In a ceremony held at the Hart Senate Office Building, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Director of Planning and Policy, Eric Bush, was presented with the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association’s (ASBPA) Corps of Engineers Coastal Summit Award.

  • June

    A collage image showing two photos of a large construction project and a third image of a large group standing together for a photo.

    Baltimore District team behind the East Campus Building 2 project honored by industry award

    Following the completion of an 846,114 square-foot, seven-story National Security Agency operations facility on Fort Meade, Maryland, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, and its partners were recognized by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) with the Marvin M. Black Partnering Excellence Award.

  • April

    The location of the recently awarded task order to restore existing revetment and repair over-steepened banks. The future project will take place along the Mississippi River in Coahoma County, Mississippi, and Phillips County, Arkansas. Approximately 48,000 tons of graded C-Stone will be placed on the river training structures of the Mississippi River to protect from erosion and scouring.

    Rescue revetment task order awarded

    The Memphis District recently awarded a task order to restore existing revetment and repair over-steepened banks along the Mississippi River in Coahoma County, Mississippi, and Phillips County, Arkansas. A total of $1,344,000 was awarded on the current River Repairs IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity) Contract to Midwest Construction Company.

  • November

    Silver Jackets Coordinator 2019, Mr. Brian Rast, Kansas City District

    Rast named USACE Silver Jackets Coordinator for 2019

    The Silver Jackets Coordinator of the Year Award recognizes outstanding individual USACE efforts and contributions to a Silver Jackets team. The award recipient for 2019 is Mr. Brian Rast, of the Kansas City District. Mr. Rast serves as the USACE Silver Jackets Coordinator for the Kansas and Missouri Silver Jackets teams and has made significant contributions to meeting the states’ priorities for flood risk management in these roles. Mr. Rast has utilized the State Silver Jackets teams’ webpages to effectively communicate the teams’ partnership and interagency efforts and to keep past work readily accessible for reference. He has focused on building relationships between federal agencies to support the state teams, including co-facilitating a USACE-FEMA Partnering Meeting and establishing a Federal Partners Mitigation Workgroup. Mr. Rast readily shares his knowledge and expertise by conducting training sessions with partners on floodplain management plans and nonstructural flood risk management approaches.
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    Sacramento District Counsel earns USACE highest award

    Al Faustino, District Counsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, has been

  • October

    Lt. Gen. Scott A. Spellmon, Chief of Engineers and Command Sergeant Major Patrickson Toussaint, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with the Waterfront Alliance ‘Hero of the Harbor 2020’ Award.

    Army Corps of Engineers Honored by Waterfront Alliance as ‘Heroes of the Harbor’

    Army Corps honored by the Waterfront Alliance for its work and achievements.
  • The Corps was lauded by the Waterfront Alliance for its work in rendering assistance during a crisis, and for its navigation mission, ecosystem restoration wetlands restoration, and coastal restoration achievements.

    Army Corps Honored by Waterfront Alliance as ‘Heroes of the Harbor’

    Army Corps honored by the Waterfront Alliance for its work and achievements.

  • September

    Lt. Col. Nathan Branen, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District deputy commander, presents the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division 2020 Interpretive Excellence Award Sept. 2, 2020 to Park Ranger Robert Buck, natural resources specialist at Lake Barkley in Grand Rivers, Kentucky. Branen presented the award on behalf of Maj. Gen. Robert Whittle, commanding general. (USACE Photo)

    Lake Barkley park ranger garners interpretive excellence award

    GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (Sept. 8, 2020) – A Lake Barkley park ranger recently garnered the 2020 Interpretive Excellence Award from the commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division.

  • June

    A woman in a hard hat holds a baby in a bonnet near Bonneville Dam.

    Employee’s hustle during navigation lock outage leads to agency-level win

    The task: manage your first emergency contract to repair some broken concrete that has brought a stand-still to $24 billion worth of annual commerce moving on the Columbia River while battling morning sickness.

  • April

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    Big Island, Below Senath seepage remediation projects awarded

    The Memphis District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded Task Orders to construct two seepage remediation projects in Arkansas and in Missouri.

  • December

    Col. Marvin L. Griffin, commander of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, Alabama, presents the 2019 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ “Team of the Year” Excellence in Contracting Award to members of the Fuels Recurring Maintenance and Minor Repair Project Delivery Team in Huntsville, Alabama, Dec. 16, 2019.

    Fuels PDT named USACE ‘Team of the Year’ for contracting

    The professionals of the Fuels Recurring Maintenance and Minor Repair Project Delivery Team gathered Dec. 16, 2019, to receive the 2019 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ “Team of the Year” Excellence in Contracting Award.

  • November

    Jill E. Stiglich, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers directorate of Contracting, presents the “Best District/Center Award” to Lt. Col. Sonny B. Avichal, Nashville District commander, and Isaac Taylor, Branch Contracting chief, during the Society of American Military Engineers Federal Small Business Conference Excellence in Contracting Awards Program Nov. 21, 2019 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Angela Randall)

    Nashville District Contracting named best in USACE

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Nov. 26, 2019) – Companies can rest assure they are getting the very best contracting support in the entire U.S. Army Corps of Engineers when they do business with the Nashville District.
  • Col. John Litz, Baltimore District commander, presents Sean Dawson, Baltimore District value engineer, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2019 Value Engineer Professional of the Year award at the Baltimore District headquarters, Sept. 11, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by John Sokolowski)

    "Taxpayer Advocate” Sean Dawson, 2019 Value Engineer of the Year

    For Sean Dawson, personal connections have been the driving force throughout his four years as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District’s Value Engineer. It’s the connections, problem-solving skills and dedication that made Dawson the recipient of the Army Corps’ 2019 Value Engineer Professional of the Year award.
  • Col. John Litz, Baltimore District commander, presents Sean Dawson, Baltimore District value engineer, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2019 Value Engineer Professional of the Year award at the Baltimore District headquarters, Sept. 11, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by John Sokolowski)

    "Taxpayer Advocate” Sean Dawson, 2019 Value Engineer of the Year

    For Sean Dawson, personal connections have been the driving force throughout his four years as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District’s Value Engineer. It’s the connections, problem-solving skills and dedication that made Dawson the recipient of the Army Corps’ 2019 Value Engineer Professional of the Year award.

  • August

    Baltimore District offers dredging expertise for award-winning climate adaptation project on Eastern Shore

    A critical Maryland marshland project that provides habitat for the American Bald Eagle, as well encompasses the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park, was honored with an esteemed climate change adaptation award — thanks in part to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dredging expertise.

  • Baltimore District offers dredging expertise for award-winning climate adaptation project on Eastern Shore

    A critical Maryland marshland project that provides habitat for the American Bald Eagle, as well encompasses the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park, was honored with an esteemed climate change adaptation award — thanks in part to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dredging expertise.

  • Maryland man, Bay enthusiast receives national Army regulatory award

    Since joining the Corps, Woody Francis has assisted in the development of the first general permits for the nation and the Baltimore District in 1976 and worked his way up to become the technical expert for aquaculture activities in Maryland. It’s his most recent work for the aquaculture program that led him to receive the national Don Lawyer Regulator of the Year Award.

  • January

    Col. Michael J. Farrell, commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District.

    Safety award – Col. Mike Farrell ‘Gets It’

    In recognition of his emphasis on workplace safety, Col. Mike Farrell, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, has been named among the CEOs who ‘Get It’ by the National Safety Council.

  • August

    Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, U.S. Army, chief of engineers, presents Dave Robbins, Baltimore District geographer and study manager, with the 2015 Project Manager of the Year award at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Awards Ceremony, held at the Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2015. Command Sgt. Maj. Antonio S. Jones, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (right), is also pictured. (U.S. Army Photo by Jhi Scott)

    2015 Army Corps of Engineers Project Manager of the Year named, led expansive post-Sandy coastal flood risk study

    Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, U.S. Army, chief of engineers, presented Dave Robbins with the 2015 Project Manager of the Year award at the annual U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Awards Ceremony, held in Washington, D.C. in August. Robbins works within the Planning Division at the Corps’s Baltimore District. He is a geographer by trade and was the project manager for the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study, which was a massive, innovative interagency study that came to fruition as a result of Hurricane Sandy's devastating aftermath.
  • Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, U.S. Army, chief of engineers, presents Dave Robbins, Baltimore District geographer and study manager, with the 2015 Project Manager of the Year award at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Awards Ceremony, held at the Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2015. Command Sgt. Maj. Antonio S. Jones, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (right), is also pictured. (U.S. Army Photo by Jhi Scott)

    2015 Army Corps of Engineers Project Manager of the Year named, led expansive post-Sandy coastal flood risk study

    Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, U.S. Army, chief of engineers, presented Dave Robbins with the 2015 Project Manager of the Year award at the annual U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Awards Ceremony, held in Washington, D.C. in August. Robbins works within the Planning Division at the Corps’s Baltimore District. He is a geographer by trade and was the project manager for the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study, which was a massive, innovative interagency study that came to fruition as a result of Hurricane Sandy's devastating aftermath.
  • Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, U.S. Army, chief of engineers, presents Dave Robbins, Baltimore District geographer and study manager, with the 2015 Project Manager of the Year award at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Awards Ceremony, held at the Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2015. Command Sgt. Maj. Antonio S. Jones, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (right), is also pictured. (U.S. Army Photo by Jhi Scott)

    2015 Army Corps of Engineers Project Manager of the Year named, led expansive post-Sandy coastal flood risk study

    Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, U.S. Army, chief of engineers, presented Dave Robbins with the 2015 Project Manager of the Year award at the annual U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Awards Ceremony, held in Washington, D.C. in August. Robbins works within the Planning Division at the Corps’s Baltimore District. He is a geographer by trade and was the project manager for the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study, which was a massive, innovative interagency study that came to fruition as a result of Hurricane Sandy's devastating aftermath.

  • July

    Members of Fort Benning’s Project Delivery Team coalesce after the first piece of structural steel was placed at the site April 9, 2012.

    Fort Benning project team shines with delivery of industry-leading hospital

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – Fort Benning’s newly unveiled Martin Army Community Hospital brims with exceptionalism, earning the hospital’s area team the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 2015 Project Delivery Team of the Year for Excellence Award.

  • May

    District team recognized as USACE 2013 PDT of the year

    The task: build a state-of-the-art, world-class medical facility in five years. The result: the $1 billion Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, a model of modern military medical facilities that now stands where a golf course once existed on post.

  • October

    Col. Paul Brooks, Fort Lee garrison commander, presents the 2012 Directorate of Public Works Installation Support Program of the Year Award to Col. Paul B. Olsen, district commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District, as Greg Williams, DPW director, looks on. (U.S. Army photo)

    Norfolk District snags installation support award

    U.S. Army Installation Management Command awarded the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with the 2012 Director of Public Works Installation Support Program of the Year. The nomination noted Norfolk District’s “team approach in delighting the ultimate customer – the soldier.”

  • September

    A short-haul truck unloads Hurricane Sandy-related debris Nov. 21, 2012, at a collection point at Father Capodanno Park on Staten Island. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as part of the Interagency New York City Hurricane Sandy Debris Removal Task Force, worked to remove debris piles from this and other temporary storage sites within New York City.

    Hurricane Sandy Debris Removal Task Force receives United Nations’ 2013 Green Star Award

    The Interagency New York City Hurricane Sandy Debris Removal Task Force was awarded a Green Star Award, September 2, 2013, for its outstanding response efforts to Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in partnership with 24 other federal, state, and local agencies including Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the State of New York, and the City of New York, was an integral part of the Debris Removal Task Force.

  • August

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recognizes Allyson Walters as Interior Designer of the Year

    FORT WORTH, Texas – The Fort Worth District’s continued success in all of their numerous missions has made them a model district within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and that is once again exemplified by the recent naming of Allyson Walters, SWF Interior Designer, as the USACE Interior Designer of the Year. Prior to this award, she was also named the Southwestern Division’s Designer of the Year.

  • July

    ERDC, Fort Worth District share 2013 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Innovation of the Year Award

    FORT WORTH, Texas – Ten persons from one laboratory and one district share this year’s U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Innovation of the Year Award for development and deployment of the BUILDER Sustainment Management System.

  • May

    Army MATOC: First awards under $7 billion renewable energy contract

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, working with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force, awarded the first of its kind Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Multiple Award Task Order Contracts for the first technology under this contract to support renewable energy on Defense Department installations.

  • April

    Dr. Mlakar

    Senior scientist joins elite group

    “For his ability to effectively communicate technical issues to the public, fellow engineers and Members of Congress, his demonstrated leadership in forensic civil engineering; and for his significant contributions to structural assessments following catastrophic events." This citation was read April 22 when the American Association of Engineering Societies presented the Norm Augustine Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communications to Dr. Paul Mlakar.