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  • October

    Participants in the groundbreaking ceremony for the new dorm were (L to R): Tech. Sgt. Matthew Smith, Airman 1st Class Samantha Crenshaw, Command Chief Master Sgt. Paul Henderson, Airman 1st Class Andrew Athanasiadis, and Airman 1st Class Kyle Riess.

    Corps Awards Contracts for Cannon Expansion

    District Project Manager Joe Almers and others attended a ground breaking ceremony for a new, 96-person dormitory at Cannon Air Force Base, in Clovis, N.M., Aug. 27, which is one of several Corps’ projects that are part of the base’s expansion. The increase in people and planes require new housing and new maintenance facilities, and the District awarded several contracts in fiscal year 2012 to accommodate those needs.
  • Adam Hamm, Civil/Structural Engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District, is conducting quality assurance by making sure the reinforcement for the concrete column has the correct spacing during the construction of the Al Dahkel elementary school in Dahuk, Iraq, Feb. 21, 2008.

    Military OCO mission supported by USACE civilians

    At that moment, months of planning were put into action, and Rebmann, a program analyst with the USACE Buffalo District was on her way to Afghanistan.
  • From L to R: District Project Manager Alicia Austin Johnson, District Commander Lt. Col. Antoinette Gant, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Vice-Chair Eugene Abeita, and MRGCD Chief Engineer Subhas K. Shah accept the award for ecosystem revitalization work in the Rio Grande Bosque, providing foraging and nesting habitat for 80 percent of vertebrate species in the region.

    Bosque Project Earns Chief of Engineers Award of Excellence

    The Chief’s Awards of Excellence Program recognizes superior projects of innovation accomplished by the Corps and private sector design and construction community partners around the world. The District’s Ecosystem Restoration (Rt66) Project was selected for an Environmental Honor Award.

  • CORPS OF ENGINEERS TO DREDGE BUFFALO RIVER - Goal is completion of maintenance dredging begun last year

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District is removing approximately 40,000 cubic yards of

  • UAV Program Conducts Successful Demonstration

    Nearly 40 people from Jacksonville District and other federal agencies were able to witness the award-winning Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system during a demonstration on September 5 near St. Augustine.