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  • December

    GSL technical staff provides pre-deployment training to Pacific Ocean Division

    Technical staff members with ERDC's Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) and also with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) Reachback Operations Center (UROC), recently traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii, to provide pre-deployment training to 565th and 62nd FEST-A teams with the USACE Pacific Ocean Division.

  • USACE leverages drought to perform lake maintenance

    Water levels at Tulsa District lakes were the lowest in years as the result of an extreme drought. The drought had many negative impacts on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and local communities, but USACE took advantage of the low water to perform routine necessary maintenance on facilities that are usually underwater.

  • Revolutionary Technology Bonds Concrete to Steel

    ERDC won a R&D magazine R&D 100 Award for development of a new corrosion-resistant vitreous coating

  • 2012 Corps of Engineers Handshake Partnership Program Grant

    ROUGH RIVER LAKE, KY – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District’s Rough River Lake was
  • Lt. Col. James A. DeLapp, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, comments after being installed as president of the Society of American Military Engineers Nashville Post during a meeting Dec. 14, 2011 in the Tennessee Engineering Center at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville, Tenn. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)

    DeLapp installed as SAME Nashville Post president

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Dec. 14, 2011) – The Nashville Post of the Society of American Military Engineers installed its new president today during an installation ceremony in the Tennessee Engineering Center at the Adventure Science Center.