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News Stories

  • October

    Corps of Engineers Galveston District awards $1.1 million small business contract

    GALVESTON, Texas-- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract in the amount $1,172,000 to Inland Construction & Engineering Inc., -- a certified small disadvantaged business and HUBZone contractor -- to install impressed current cathodic protection systems at the Colorado River Locks in Matagorda, Texas.
  • (From left) Lt. Col. John Van Steenburgh, Office of Security Cooperation Chief for Ghana, Togo and Benin; Linda Smittle, Peace Corps Ghana volunteer and Marcelo Maier, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District special projects engineer pause to point out the location of the Nkwanta Nutritional Rehabilitation Center project on a map of Ghana during a meeting at the embassy in Accra.

    US, Ghana combat malnutrition with new center

    ACCRA, Ghana -- The U.S. and Ghana are teaming up to ease hunger in the West Africa nation. The project, a joint effort by U.S. Africa Command, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Embassy and the Ghanaian Ministry of Health, is designed to improve the health and prosperity of children in the Volta region.
  • Sgt. Maj. Terrence Taylor, left, and Sgt. 1st Class Richard St. Pierre update hurricane response plans in preparation for Hurricane Sandy at the Homeland Security Center of Excellence in Lawrenceville, N.J., Oct. 26, 2012.

    The power to save lives

    After the water receded and wind settled after Superstorm Sandy, the New Jersey National Guard was out rescuing citizens. Whether they found that young child under the rubble or safely guided an elderly man out of his home, was a direct result of the work being performed by the task force at the Homeland Security Center of Excellence, Headquarters in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

  • US, Ghana combat malnutrition with new center

    The U.S. and Ghana are teaming up to ease hunger in the West Africa nation.
  • Solar Power Project at the Homeland Security Center of Excellence in Lawrenceville, N.J.

    The power to save lives

    After the water receded and wind settled after Superstorm Sandy, the New Jersey National Guard was