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  • March

    Pennsylvania Silver Jackets' flood risk management website.

    Pennsylvania Silver Jackets release on-line flood risk management resource

    During a flood, residents and business owners are overwhelmed with pressing needs so information
  • Cody E. Hammer, Geospatial Information Systems Specialist at Piney Woods Regional Project, was presented with a Purple Heart December 17, for wounds received in action on Aug. 19, 2011 while serving as a U.S. Marine in Afghanistan. The ceremony was held at the Marine Corps League Building in Longview, Texas, and was attended by his wife Katie and family, friends, and coworkers from Lake O' The Pines and Piney Woods Regional Project.

    Marine veteran brings "can-do" attitude from one Corps to another Corps

    FORT WORTH, Texas - Cody Hammer graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in 2005, but it would be seven years before the Geography major would find his way to the Fort Worth District as a Geospatial Information Systems Specialist with the Piney Woods Regional Project.

  • Army Corps of Engineers and FLW to partner on efforts to connect America’s youth with the outdoors

    Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently announced it will partner with FLW and the FLW Foundation on future events and activities designed to connect America’s youth to their natural resources while promoting education, conservation and an active lifestyle.
  • College of the Atlantic students monitored the seal population at Mount Desert Rock, while the scientists were measuring sea spray. This grey seal pup was born in early January.

    Scientists measure sea spray at Mount Desert Rock

    CONCORD, Mass. -- Scientists from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and NorthWest Research Associates recently braved the wind and cold of the Gulf of Maine to collect data for an Office of Naval Research project on sea spray. The project, "Sea Spray Icing in the Emerging Open Waters of the Arctic Ocean," is an effort to better characterize sea spray formation in high winds and cold temperatures.
  • Aerial of navigation channels deepened to 50 ft leading to the four major port terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey. The deepening of the Arthur Kill Channel is expected to be completed in 2014 and will be the final milestone achieved in the overall project.

    New York and New Jersey Harbor Deepening Project Reaches Milestone

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District awarded the final construction contract to complete the deepening of the Arthur Kill Channel to 50 feet.
  • Aerial of navigation channels deepened to 50 ft leading to the four major port terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey. The deepening of the Arthur Kill Channel is expected to be completed in 2014 and will be the final milestone achieved in the overall project.

    New York and New Jersey Harbor Deepening Project Reaches Milestone

    Navigation channels leading to the four major container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey. The deepening of the Arthur Kill Channel is expected to be completed in 2014.
  • The interior of the main sanctuary of the new Chapel Center. The new chapel was built by the Philadelphia District of the Army Corps of Engineers.

    Army Corps of Engineers completes multi-purpose chapel at Dover Air Force Base

    DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. -- On February 25, 2013 the Philadelphia District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, together with officials from the 436th Airlift Wing and from Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, participated in a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony to officially open the newest building at Dover Air Force Base -- the Chapel Center.
  • Huntsville Center’s Information Technology Service Office supports the Defense Department’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program, which uses technology to research, develop, test and evaluate objectives like the flow efficiency in a turbine tank engine, seen in this advanced computer simulation.

    New Huntsville Center office offers DoD-wide information technology acquisition support

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala.– Customers looking for streamlined acquisition approaches to purchasing information technology now have a centralized place where they can get their support. At the end of FY12, the Huntsville Center’s Contracting Directorate noticed a surge in customer requests for procurement of information technology hardware, software and technical services.
  • A graphic rendition showing the before and after of the Arlington National Cemetery's Millennium Project. The project will add 30,000 burial and niche spaces to the cemetery.

    Arlington National Cemetery to share design for Millennium expansion project

    Arlington National Cemetery is interested in sharing information about the new design and obtaining public feedback about the project, and has scheduled an open house and site visit on Saturday, March 16 from 1 to 4 p.m. The open house will begin with a briefing at the Women In Military Service for America Memorial (WIMSA) and then transition to a site visit of three areas associated with the Millennium Project.
  • Langley Air Force Base, VA -- The new 2,700-square-foot veterinary clinic officially opened here Feb. 28, 2013. The clinic’s features – three exam rooms, a full dental suite, surgery room and radiology capabilities – expand on the simple vaccinations and minor routine procedures offered at the old location. The Army-staffed clinic, built to LEED Silver standards, is available to Airmen and military retirees and performs veterinary care for the security forces’ working dogs here. (U.S. Army photo/Kerry Solan)

    New veterinary clinic expands Langley's pet services

    Langley Air Force Base, VA – Army and Air Force officials made the transition to a new veterinary clinic official here Thursday. The clinic replaces an aging cinder block building that provided few pet services.

  • Army Corps completes multi-purpose chapel at Dover Air Force Base

    On February 25, 2013, the Philadelphia District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, together with officials from the 436th Airlift Wing and from Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, participated in a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony to officially open the newest building at Dover Air Force Base -- the Chapel Center.

  • February

    Barry Marcel of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, left, and ERDC-EL’s Dr. Burton Suedel measure and weigh Chesapeake Bay oysters for their unique research experiment on oyster responses to varying sediment levels found in the James River. The data will be used by the Norfolk District in addressing environmental concerns over yearly dredging operations.

    Toxicology Lab conducts unique oyster study

    NORFOLK, Va.-- With a heavy-duty pump steadily providing the heartbeat for a recent research operation, the Engineer Research and Development Center's Toxicology Laboratory cradled 75 electronically-wired oysters in a first-of-its-kind experiment, testing the effects of various sediment levels supporting the Corps’ Norfolk District dredging operations.
  • ERDC-CHL’s Field Research Facility in Duck, N.C. is shown in an aerial view.

    ERDC’s Field Research Facility deploys largest wave energy converter in U.S.

    DUCK, N.C.--The Engineer Research and Development Center's Field Research Facility in Duck, N.C., recently hosted Resolute Marine Energy for a full-scale test and evaluation of their surge wave energy converter (WEC). Resolute Marine Energy is a Boston, Mass.-based company developing technologies that produce clean energy from ocean waves.

  • FNOD Restoration Advisory Board meets March 7

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host its quarterly meeting of the Former Nansemond Ordnance Depot, or FNOD, Restoration Advisory Board Thursday, March 7, from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held at the Courtyard Marriott located at 8060 Harbour View Boulevard in Suffolk, Va.

  • Raising scaffolds, lifting spirits

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Afghanistan Engineer District is providing valuable engineering

  • Local Boy Scout completes Poplar Island service project, earns Eagle Scout rank

    Tree swallows have found homes in newly designed, assembled and installed bird boxes courtesy of
  • Huntsville Center Engineer Jason Page, advises his student team during a National Engineers Week activity at J.O. Johnson High School, Feb. 21.

    Huntsville Center shares National Engineers Week with local students

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala -- The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville celebrated National Engineers Week by meeting with more than 300 juniors and seniors at J.O. Johnson High School in north Huntsville Feb. 21.
  • The 2013 Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) Conference featured many talented speakers from the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) arenas, such as the award winners and leaders in the academic, federal, military, and private sectors. This year’s conference, held earlier in February, was at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Northwest, Washington D.C.

    USACE Announces Its 2013 Black Engineer of the Year Award Winners

    The 2013 Black Engineer of the Year Award Conference was held earlier in February, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Northwest, Washington D.C. The BEYA Conference, one of Career Communications Group, Inc. signature events, is designed to recognize the best and the brightest talent in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics career fields.
  • DNA seeps into water from a dead silver carp on a barge. Asian carp DNA surveillance programs determine the presence of Asian carp by detecting the genetic material (DNA from shed cells in slime, feces, urine, etc.) in water samples to correlate DNA detection with the possible presence of invasive silver carp or bighead carp.

    Army Corps of Engineers, other federal agencies release Asian carp environmental DNA study findings

    CHICAGO -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey, released an interim report for the Asian Carp Environmental DNA Calibration Study, today, which is a three-year study funded through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, as scoped by the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee Asian Carp Control Strategy Framework.
  • Cathleen Barry

    District employee recognized as a New Face in Engineering

    She may not have dreamed of getting lowered underground or working on the largest federal facility
  • WABASHA, Minn. – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District employees Al VanGuilder, left, survey technician, and Bill Chelmowski, marine machinery mechanic, use an airboat to measure ice on Lake Pepin, near Wabasha, Minn., Feb. 13, during the first Mississippi River ice surveys of the year. The district conducts the annual ice surveys to help the navigation industry determine when it is safe to break through the ice. Lake Pepin, located on the Mississippi River between Red Wing and Wabasha, Minn., is used as the benchmark because the ice melts slower in this area due to the lake width and the slower current.

    Army Corps of Engineers completes first Lake Pepin ice measurements

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, recently completed the first ice measurements of the year on Lake Pepin, near Red Wing, Minn. The measurements help the navigation industry determine when it might be possible to get tows upstream to St. Paul, Minn.
  • Amanda Shearer serves as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' link to 40 percent of the nation's federally recognized tribes.

    Living dream leads to tribal liaison work

    The Alaska District's tribal liaison fell into harmony with her passion for cultural anthropology. For Amanda Shearer, it's part of a bigger dream. Behind the neatly decorated cubicle walls is an employee that provides the district with more than a friendly face for Alaska tribes.
  • Bill Ryals closely examines the materials presented by the eventual overall science fair winner.

    Army Corps of Engineers judges local science fair

    WINCHESTER, Va. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provided professionals to help judge the local Feb. 6 Frederick County Science Fair. The Frederick County Science Fair reaches hundreds of students and involves all county middle and high schools.
  • Moveable coffer dams, temporary watertight enclosures, are positioned against the Point Pleasant Canal bulkhead, and contractors pump the area dry to expose the length of the steel bulkhead and make repairs possible.

    Army Corps repairs canal bulkhead with innovative project

    POINT PLEASANT, NJ -- When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needs to repair a dam outlet, marine bulkhead or any other infrastructure submerged in the water, it presents an engineering challenge. The added variable can make repairs more difficult, costly and time-consuming.
  • Tonju Butler(center) contracting officer in the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville's Contracting Directorate poses with Mr. Kim Denver, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement and the Hon. Ms. Heidi Shyu, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology during the Secretary of the Army Awards for Excellence in Contracting ceremony Jan. 28.

    Huntsville Center workers capture contracting awards

    Several contracting professionals at the Engineering and Support Center-Huntsville received awards during the 2013 Secretary of the Army Awards for Excellence in Contracting ceremony Jan. 28 in El Paso, Texas.

  • USACE People: When your spouse is your colleague

    WIESBADEN, Germany - Some say the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District is like a family.
  • Dr. Robert Wright, a program manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, was honored on Feb. 8 as a Modern Day Technology Leader at the annual Black Engineers of the Year Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.

    Baltimore District engineer honored as a Modern Day Technology Leader at BEYA ceremony

    Dr. Robert Wright, a program manager in the Programs and Project Management Division-Civil, was
  • From left to right, Jelani Ingram, Stephanie Woods and Ross Allen take win in USACE BIM Awards.

    Engineering center team wins award by design

    Building information modeling is a process involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. The resulting building information models become shared knowledge resources to support decision-making about a facility from earliest conceptual stages, through design and construction, through its operational life and eventual demolition.

  • Army Corps repairs canal bulkhead with innovative project

    When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needs to repair a dam outlet, marine bulkhead or any other infrastructure submerged in the water, it presents an engineering challenge. The added variable can make repairs more difficult, costly and time-consuming. Through resourcefulness and innovation, the Corps' Philadelphia District and its contractor are nearing completion of work at the Point Pleasant Canal.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District awarded a $648 million contract Jan. 29, 2013, for the construction of the Fort Bliss, Texas, replacement hospital. The new 1,132,000 square-foot facility will replace the existing William Beaumont Army Medical Center to accommodate the increased troop presence and dependent care resulting from the recent Fort Bliss expansion program.

    Corps of Engineers awards $648 million Fort Bliss replacement hospital

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District awarded a $648 million contract Jan. 29, 2013, for the construction of the Fort Bliss, Texas, replacement hospital. The new 1,132,000 square-foot facility will replace the existing William Beaumont Army Medical Center to accommodate the increased troop presence and dependent care resulting from the recent Fort Bliss expansion program.