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  • March

    The Pathways Program has three sections: Internship Program for current students; the Recent Graduates Program for people who have recently graduated from qualifying educational institutions or programs (2 years from the date the graduate completed an academic course of study); and the reinvigorated Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program for people who obtained an advanced degree (e.g., graduate or professional degree) within the preceding two years. These programs, collectively the Pathways Programs, are streamlined developmental programs tailored to promote employment opportunities for students and recent graduates in the Federal workforce.

    The Workforce Awakens -- Millennials find their “Pathway” to success

    There is a tremor in the workforce. With a swell of retirement-eligible baby boomers leading the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a new band of heroes face a stiff challenge to quickly transform into future leaders of our nation’s premier public engineering agency. A collection of young professionals born from 1981-1996, millennials hold a cosmic cloud of information at their fingertips and are finding a new “Pathway” to success, designed to make them the most well-trained decision makers the Corps has ever seen.
  • Valerie Carlton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Contracting chief, speaks with Tina Reese, Avanti Environmental Group, and Gary Reese, AEG, during the 5th Annual Small Business Forum at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tenn., March 17, 2016.

    Forum highlights women-owned small businesses

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 17, 2016) – More than 350 business owners and managers visited Music City today to get more in tune with federal, state and local procurement systems during the 5th Annual Small Business Training Forum at the Tennessee State University Avon Williams Campus.

  • February

    Preston Brust (second from right) and Chris Lucas (Right) of the country music duo LoCash pose with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Park Rangers Jacob Albers (Left) and Brent Sewell at Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, Tenn, Oct. 19, 2015. The group filmed a water safety PSA that features LoCash’s hit song "I Love This Life," which is currently moving up the country music charts. It is being used to support the USACE National Water Safety Campaign “Life Jackets Worn, Nobody Mourns.”

    Country Music duo LoCash promotes water safety with ‘I Love This Life Jacket’

    WASHINGTON (Feb. 26, 2016) – Country Music Recording Group “LoCash” participated in a water safety public service announcement urging fans to be safe when recreating on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers waterways with the “I Love This Life Jacket” message, a spinoff from the title of their smash hit “I Love This Life.”

  • 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.

  • The Corps feasibility study – finding a balanced solution

    How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time, right? That one-liner serves as a metaphor for how an incredibly complex task can be accomplished by stating a goal, gathering facts, initiating action and formulating an overall plan from a series of achievable objectives using available resources. That also describes how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts a feasibility study for prospective projects, though we’d work hard to avoid harming an actual elephant.

  • CVIFMS -- A unified vision for water and ecosystem studies in California’s Central Valley

    Synergy between the Corps, the California Department of Water Resources and local government leaders is powering a unified vision to lower flood risk, restore ecosystems and aid water conservation in California’s Central Valley.

  • 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.

  • June

    Adalberto Meller, left, and Josimar Oliveira, engineers with Agência Nacional de Águas, Brazil, visit a Corps construction site in Sacramento, California, June 3, 2015.

    Sacramento District helps Brazil fast-forward their flood risk management

    Brazil’s water-related challenges are similar to those in present-day California, but the South American nation’s approach to flood risk management is more similar to the approach used by the U.S. in the early part of the 20th century. Sacramento District is helping fast-forward Brazil’s efforts.

  • May

    Learning about a commercial biodiversity mitigation site in Galt, California, an interagency team visits a 495-acre project operated by Westervelt Ecological Services. From left to right are Matt Gause, Westervelt senior ecologist; Sophie Menard, University of Versailles, France; Travis Hemmen, Westervelt market development specialist; Melissa France and Kaitlyn Pascus, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District regulatory specialists; and Ali Dunn, California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

    French grad student studies California biodiversity

    When a doctoral student from the University of Versailles needed to understand how America balances urban development with natural preservation, she visited the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District.

  • March

    NORFOLK, Va. -- James Baird Quinn became the commander of the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in late 1899. Quinn carried out work recommended by the Endicott Board, which had evaluated coastal defenses, and oversaw improvements to the harbor at Norfolk. (U.S. Army photo)

    Norfolk 135: James B. Quinn

    James Baird Quinn; born June 9, 1843; emerged from the U.S. Military Academy as a second lieutenant in 1866, the same year President Andrew Johnson formally declared an end to the U.S. Civil War.

  • December

    Scott Acone, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rescue engineer, emerges from wreckage of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during recovery efforts after the devastating earthquake of January 2010.

    Engineers with a rescuer’s heart

    Rescue engineers are specially trained volunteers whose job is to help prevent disaster rescue teams from also becoming victims. Six of these Corps volunteers are from the Sacramento District. Learn more about their challenging role.
  • Civil engineers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, held a panel discussion at the Morgan State University's Civil Engineering Honor Society meeting on Nov. 5, 2014. The panel contributed information regarding their education, career paths, and work with the Baltimore Corps. The night also included a Q&A session which provided students advice regarding work/life balance and career advancement opportunities in the field of civil engineering. Pictured from left to right: Leroy Samuels, Willie Smith, Jr., Cap. David Ewing, and Fontaine Jones.

    Baltimore Corps talks Civil Engineering at Morgan State University

    Civil engineers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, hosted a panel discussion

  • June

    Presidio upgrades critical to defense language training mission

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District manages construction on several major projects at the Presidio of Monterey in Monterey, Calif. The program incorporates the latest energy and water conservation technologies in order to operate more efficiently and in a sustainable, environmentally friendly manner. Most recently, the Corps broke ground on a new dining facility March 17, 2014, that is designed to feed up to 1300 personnel over a 90 minute period. The Corps is also constructing a new general instruction building for the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and is renovating the school’s cultural center. Both projects will be completed August 2014.

  • May

    Wiesbaden students get peek at engineer life

    A group of Wiesbaden Middle School students got a glimpse of engineer life recently while engaging in some hands-on demonstrations during “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” at the Amelia Earhart Center.

  • June

    U.S. Army and Army Corps Celebrate 238 Years

    Army and Army Corps celebrate 238 Years.

  • August

    LANCASTER, Tenn. — This fishing boat capsized in the tailwater of Center Hill Dam Aug. 16, 2012 during sluice gate releases. Two people were rescued thanks to quick-thinking, experience and teamwork between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District officials and a nearby fisherman.

    Quick thinking, experience, teamwork aid in rescue of two below Center Hill Dam

    Quick-thinking, experience and teamwork of individuals at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Center Hill Dam aided in the rescue of two people Aug. 16, 2012 after their boat capsized while fishing in turbulent tail waters during sluice gate releases.