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  • July

    Spotlight on USACE Galveston District’s Rashid Sheikh-ali

    GALVESTON, Texas (July 18, 2012) - Full of hope and aspirations for a better life, Rashid Sheikh-ali (a native of Mogadishu, Somalia) set out on a life-changing journey in 1980 that would take him from Africa to America – where he would become a structural engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District.
  • BUCHAREST, Romania — Col. Winfield Keller (left), Global Deployments project manager, and Col. D. Peter Helmlinger, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District commander, attended the Romania Industry Day here, June 13, 2012. The objectives of these industry days were to provide information on the general scope of work, the required infrastructures and facilities, and potential construction and services opportunities to support a planned U.S. missile defense asset deployment in Deveselu, Romania.

    Industrious dialogue in Romania

    Representatives from the U.S. European Command, Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District came together to host two industry days in Bucharest and Caracal, Romania, to discuss information supporting contracts for the Aegis Ashore program June 13 - 14, 2012.
  • FLORIDA — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District employees and contractor, Kiewit Construction, work through the night to complete the first concrete pour on the bridge deck for theTamiami Trail Modifications project, July 13, 2012.

    USACE achieves major construction milestone at Tamiami Trail

    The U.S Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District reached a major milestone for the Tamiami Trail Modifications project was reached shortly after midnight July 13, 2012 as the first concrete pour on the bridge deck was completed.
  • Dresden Lock and Dam on the Illinois River near Morris, Ill., is one of 239 lock chambers at 193 sites nationally operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that provides half-hourly lock and daily vessel specific information through a new Lock Performance Monitoring System that is Web-based and available to the public at http://corpslocks.usace.army.mil/.

    USACE launches new navigation website

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announces the launch of a new website that will provide the public and industry with real-time data on U.S. flag and foreign vessels transiting USACE-owned and operated lock structures nationally.
  • Spc. Timothy Steely, a current Operation Warfighter intern, speaks with Charles Case from the Defense Criminal Investigation Service, one of the agencies represented at the meeting. Operation Warfighter is a federal internship program that places Wounded Warriors in positions at federal agencies while they are completing their medical board process. The Tulsa District has had multiple Operation Warfighter interns at the agency.

    Federal agencies meet to discuss Operation Warfighter

    Several federal agencies met at Keystone State Park to discuss Operation Warfighter, a Department of Defense federal internship program that places Wounded Warriors in positions at federal agencies while they are completing their medical board process.