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  • January

    Maj. Gen. William D. Frink, Jr., 79th Sustainment Support Command commander addresses fellow Soldiers, community members and civic leaders at the opening of the Army Reserve Center at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, Calif., Jan. 12. The facility is certified LEED Gold under guidelines established by the U.S. Green Building Council who rates a project for its design and achievement in categories like sustainability, water efficiency, energy conservation and design innovation.

    Historic Los Alamitos base now home to state-of-the-art headquarters

    For a sustainable future, Corps projects like this one are designed using the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Program. LEED is how the U.S. Green Building Council rates a project for its design and achievement in categories like sustainability, water efficiency, energy conservation and design innovation.
  • Park Ranger Blake Cannon from Hugo Lake receives his certificate from Col. Michael Teague

    Two graduate ranger training program

    Two graduates of the Tulsa District Park Ranger Training Program were recognized in a ceremony held Jan. 10 at the district headquarters.
  • Jason Cade, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District Leadership Development Program team member delivers an e-lesson on the physics behind roller coaters to a Wiesbaden Middle School eighth-grade class via video conference at the district's headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany Dec. 19, 2012.

    Web conferencing brings Army engineers to DoDDS classroom

    WIESBADEN, Germany - A live video stream of eighth-grade physics students displayed on Jason Cade's computer screen. After a quick audio check, Cade, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District project manager and mining engineer, with the assistance of his colleagues, used face-to-face video conferencing to teach a lesson on roller coaster engineering to Wiesbaden Middle School students recently.
  • An aerial view of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ John H. Kerr Dam and Lake.

    ERDC EL develops assessment model for the John H. Kerr Dam Project

    Jan. 11, 2013, BOYDTON, Va.--ERDC Environmental Laboratory (EL) researchers have developed a model that assesses alternative scenarios for the John H. Kerr Dam and Reservoir recently approved by the Headquarters U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (HQUSACE) Model Certification Team.
  • Wayne Hodo

    GSL and ITL employees receive Modern-Day Technology Leader Awards

    Jan. 11, 2013, WASHINGTON, D.C.--ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) Researcher Wayne Hodo and Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Scientist Dr. Elaine Hulitt were recently selected as a Modern-Day Technology Leaders by the Council of Engineering Deans of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Lockheed Martin Corporation and US Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine.