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  • November

    Woman in orange life vest and glasses smiles off camera to the right while working outside on a plastic tube used for oyster reef restoration

    USACE scientist keeps conservation, construction coexisting

    Although the basic functions of USACE are vital, there’s more to the Norfolk District team than digging, dredging and directives. Student, educator, scientist and whale disentagler Shannon Reinheimer is featured in this installment of the Norfolk District feature series Builders of Bulwark.
  • Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, left, and Command Sgt. Maj. Bradley J. Houston, far right, present Huntsville Center’s Office of Small Business Initiatives Chief Rebecca Goodsell and Huntsville Center Commander Col. John S. Hurley with one of several awards and recognitions during the recent 2018 Society of American Military Engineers Small Business Conference in New Orleans.

    Huntsville Center recognized for inclusive small business policy

    Huntsville Center awarded more than $800 million to small business last fiscal year, 500 contracts valued at more than $211 million went to small business in Alabama.
  • Corps, VA breaks ground for new Long Beach facilities

    Corps, VA breaks ground for new Long Beach facilities

    Two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commanders helped break ground on new medical facilities on Veterans Day at the Tibor Rubin Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach.
  • (Left to right) Myles Emsele, 1LT Zachary Hawkins, and 1LT Joshua Jang discuss Project Integration Management tools and techniques at the PMP study group on Nov. 20, 2018 to prepare for the PMP exam.

    FED takes on the PMP

    Members of the Family Housing Residence Office (FHRO) and the Program and Project Management
  • Col. Aaron Reisinger, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District, speaks to community members during a public meeting about the Westminster/East Garden Grove Flood Risk Management Study, as Col. Aaron Barta, the Corps' Los Angeles District commander, looks on Nov. 7 in Westminster, California.

    Corps partners with Orange County on study to reduce flood risk, receive public input

    Close to a half million people within the Westminster watershed could be affected by flood risk. That is the number one reason the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago and Los Angeles districts, in partnership with Orange County Public Works, are collaborating on the Westminster/East Garden Grove Flood Risk Management Study – a proposed project they hope will reduce that risk.