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  • February

    Congressman Martin Heinrich (middle), a representative from Senator Jeff Bingaman’s office, Deputy Space Development & Test Directorate Deputy Commander Colonel Carol Welsch, Deputy Corps Commander Major Richard Collins and Honorary Space Development and Test Directorate Commander Mr. Dave Seely (President, Kirtland Federal Credit Union) participate in the ground-breaking ceremony at Kirtland AFB.

    More Space for Space Research at Kirtland

    A celebration commemorating the start of construction for an addition to a building used by nearly 200 employees of the Space Development and Test Directorate on Kirtland Air Force Base took place Feb. 3.
  • Accepting the award for the team was Rick Lainhart from the Los Angeles District, Cecilia Horner (middle) and Carol Wies-Brewer, both from the Albuquerque District.

    Corps Team Wins Superfund Award

    A team of Corps employees working on EPA’s Brown and Bryant Superfund Project recently won a Superfund award for Virtual Teams.
  • The Rio Grande as it flows through the Española Valley project area.

    Tribes Step Forward to Sponsor Work

    When the sponsor for the Española Basin project pulled its support for this flood risk management study in 1996, people assumed that the project was finished. But in 2004, an alliance of three Pueblos, Ohkay Owingeh, Santa Clara and San Ildefonso, devised a new, holistic vision for the project that made ecosystem restoration the centerpiece of river and flood management efforts.
  • Major Castellano talks about the Warriors in Transition at the District’s staff meeting.

    Warriors in Transition Make Key Contributions

    The Albuquerque District is one of a handful of districts in the Corps directly benefiting from the expertise of wounded soldiers assigned to fulfill key staff positions as part of the “Warriors in Transition,” or WT program.

  • January

    IWR Publishes Workshop Proceedings on Tolerable Risk Guidelines

    Proceedings of Exploration of Tolerable Risk Guidelines for the USACE Levee Safety Program (pdf,