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  • May

    Workers perform maintenance on a fuel system at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Fuels Program will be the Center’s first program to use General Services Administration schedule recurring maintenance and minor repair service contracts for more than 400 Army, Navy and the Air Force fuel facilities sites around the world.

    Center’s Fuels Program first to use GSA maintenance contract schedule

    A Huntsville Center Fuels Program Project Delivery Team determined the GSA Multiple Award Schedule 03FAC, Facilities Maintenance and Management is a viable option for providing recurring maintenance and minor repair services for more than 400 Army, Navy, and the Air Force fuel facilities sites around the world.
  • Joe Falvey

    District counsel to serve as federal judge

    By Lynn Rose, public affairs chief, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit DistrictImagine how
  • Maj. Scotty Autin, deputy commander for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, briefs the media about the Corps’ Santa Barbara Debris Removal Mission May 11 in Ventura, California. Autin was one of several speakers who gave an update about the debris removal efforts in southern California, following the Thomas Wildfire in December and the Jan. 9 mudslide in Montecito, California.

    Corps of Engineers completes debris removal from Santa Barbara basins following devastating mudslide

    It was a dark, cold night in February in Santa Barbara County – in the low 30s – and freezing outside, as far as Mary Carmona was concerned. As she worked alongside a contractor during a 12-hour night shift at the Cold Springs Creek Basin in Montecito, she pondered why she was there. She missed her family and just wanted to go home and sleep in the comfort of her own bed. But going home wasn’t an option for Carmona – at least not for the next 20-some days, as she and about 60 other U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees set up temporary residence in the county to help clear vehicle-sized boulders, several feet of mud, trees and other debris from the community’s basins. It was a daunting task in less-than-ideal conditions, but these weren’t even less than ideal; they were catastrophic.
  • Fort Peck Spillway at Fort Peck Dam Montana

    Access to Fort Peck Spillway is limited

    To ensure public safety around the spillway structure, access to certain areas of the spillway will be closed or will remain closed until further notice.
  • The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) will be available to all eligible U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees from May 8 through June 19, 2018.

    Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey now available to eligible federal personnel

    The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) will be available to all eligible U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees from May 8 through June 19, 2018.