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  • June

    Dr. Peggy Wright heads up the Human Capital Office.

    Wright Selected for Boss Lift Program

    ERDC Human Capital Office Assistant Director Dr. Peggy Wright has been selected to participate in the 2012 Employer in Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) Boss Lift.
  • An image from an advanced computer simulation of flow efficiency in a turbine tank engine; performed on the High Performance Computing Modernization Program’s supercomputers. Large-scale computer simulations like this one performed by Department of Defense (DOD) scientists and engineers help the DOD rapidly transition new technologies from idea to deployable product.

    DOD’s Supercomputing Program Relocates to Miss.

    ERDC has been named the lead organization for the Department of Defense (DOD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), following Congressional approval in December 2011.
  • Graphic of Report Cover for Port and Inland Waterways Modernization Strategy: Options for the Future

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Releases the U.S. Port and Inland Waterways Modernization: Preparing for Post-Panamax Vessels report

    WASHINGTON (June 21, 2012) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) submitted to Congress
  • WIESBADEN, Germany — The Gen. John Shalikashvili Mission Command Center will be the new home for most of the staff of U.S Army Europe and is located at the Gen. Lucas D. Clay Kaserne, U.S. Army Airfield in Wiesbaden, Germany. The quality, sustainable, state-of-the-art facility was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District in 22 months. The building, named during a June 14, 2012 ceremony is a memorial to Gen. John Shalikashvili who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936 and was the first foreign-born American Soldier to be appointed as a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

    U.S. Army Europe names USACE built Mission Command Center

    The new Gen. John Shalikashvili Mission Command Center will be the new home for most of the staff of U.S Army Europe and is located at the newly named Gen. Lucius D. Clay Kaserne, U.S. Army Airfield in Wiesbaden, Germany.
  • LAS VEGAS -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District's Nellis Resident Office is working on an addition and improvement for the F-35 422 Evaluation Squadron Facility at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas. The renovations will add a 16,000 square foot building and improve 4,000 square feet inside the existing facility.

    District keeps projects moving along in Las Vegas area

    LAS VEGAS – It’s been said that what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. However, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District is working on military construction projects in and around the Las Vegas area that will have effects across the country and around the world. One project at Nellis Air Force Base is the addition and renovation at the 422 Test Evaluation Squadron building. “The project will add a 16,000 square feet facility and there will be renovation of 4,000 square feet of the existing building,” said Mark Porterfield, project engineer at the District’s Nellis Resident Office. “Construction began in early June and the project is due in March 2013”