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  • May

    This year the Tulsa District had some of its most deserving employees compete for the Oklahoma Federal Executive Board statewide recognition awards. One of Tulsa District’s employees, Keystone Lake Manager Willy Jeffries, was presented the “Outstanding Community Service Award” for his community work around Keystone Lake and his role in leading fourteen Corps of Engineer employees who volunteered to fight the 2012 Mannford wildfires.

    Corps employee presented Oustanding Community Service award

    This year the Tulsa District had some of its most deserving employees compete for the Oklahoma Federal Executive Board statewide recognition awards. One of Tulsa District’s employees, Keystone Lake Manager Willy Jeffries, was presented the “Outstanding Community Service Award” for his community work around Keystone Lake and his role in leading Corps employees who volunteered to fight the 2012 Mannford wildfires.

  • New Traffic Restrictions at East Fork Campground

    A photo of the bridge is available for media use at this site:
  • Capt. Matthew Fry (left), Sgt. 1st Class Solitaire Washington (center), and Maj. Robert Duke (right) board the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District's Debris Vessel 1 in Washington Harbor as part of an Officer's Professional Development training.

    Royal Engineers learn from U.S. Army, help achieve shared goals

    As most engineers know, obtaining a Professional Engineer (P.E.) license is a daunting and difficult
  • ARLINGTON, Va. – Randy Barton, an Arlington National Cemetery engineering technician, lights a temporary flame using a torch that was lit from the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame at the cemetery April 29, 2013. The temporary flame will burn while the permanent flame undergoes repair and upgrade work to install new burners, a new igniter and new gas and air lines. Work on the burner itself will take about three weeks to complete. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

    Repairs begin on JFK Eternal Flame

    ARLINGTON, Va. -- Contractors began work here Monday, April 29, on the burner of the President John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, which has been lit since 1967. Technicians from Meltech Corp., Inc.; based in Landover, Md.; built an 8-foot temporary fence and installed a temporary flame at one of the most visited sites in Arlington National Cemetery.

  • Army MATOC: First awards under $7 billion renewable energy contract

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, working with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force, awarded the first of its kind Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Multiple Award Task Order Contracts for the first technology under this contract to support renewable energy on Defense Department installations.