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    A screen shot of the Corps Acquisition Management system recently implemented at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. CAM is billed as a faster Oracle-based application with a web-based user interface. It houses all contract actions by fiscal year in one consolidated system allowing for real-time analysis of the entire contract workload.

    Huntsville Center improves project acquisition tracking

    How Huntsville Center project managers and contracting officers track project acquisition, contracting and production processes is transitioning to a new system that will ensure the Center’s mission is met more effectively and save resources.
  • Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, presents the Hedgehog Award to members of a spillway gate bulkhead repair team at the district headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 15, 2015. The award is given quarterly by the Nashville District to individuals or team of employees to recognize excellence. Cheatham Dam is located in Ashland City, Tenn. From Left to Right are Terry Hudgins, Josh Marcum, Murphy, Larry Myers, Chris Sherek and Ramiro Santoyo.

    Cheatham repair team receives Nashville District’s Hedgehog Award

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 15, 2015) – A repair team at Cheatham Dam received the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Hedgehog Award today in recognition of the team’s work to repair the dam’s spillway bulkheads in preparation for a $9.2 million spillway gate repair contract.
  • Kim Adkins, Readiness and Contingency Operations, Operations Chief for the Northwestern Division was recently recognized as 2014 Emergency Manager of the Year by the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters. Her recognition as Emergency Manager of the Year spotlights her role as the Civil Emergency Program Manager for POD during day-to-day operations and in support of disaster response operations.

    2014 Emergency Manager of the Year

    Kim Adkins, Readiness and Contingency Operations, operations chief for the Northwestern Division was recently recognized as 2014 Emergency Manager of the Year by the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters. Adkins recently returned to the Northwestern Division after spending the last four years working as the POD Civil Emergency Program Manager for the Readiness and Contingency Operations Division. Since returning to NWD, she has deployed to Washington State in support of the wildfires that struck the eastern part of the state in August.
  • COVINGTON, Va. -- Gathright Dam's intake tower casts a shadow over Lake Moomaw. The earthen and rolled rock-fill dam, pictured in the upper right-hand corner of the photo, impounds the flow of the Jackson River and creates Lake Moomaw, serving both flood control and recreational purposes. (U.S. Army photo/Kerry Solan)

    Final Gathright Dam pulse release of 2015 scheduled for Wednesday

    Operators at Gathright Dam near Covington, Virginia will conduct the final pulse release of the year Wednesday. The pulse, conducted by the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will begin at approximately 6 a.m. and end at 1:30 p.m. and will increase levels 3 to 4.5 feet in the Jackson River.
  • This map, which shows a portion of the Connecticut shoreline, is an example of a storm surge map. The map shows the extent of surge that can be expected as a result of a worse case combination of hurricane landfall location, forward speed, and direction for each hurricane category.

    USACE storm surge maps helping to reduce risk during hurricane season

    “Hurricane Sandy represented one of the largest scale evacuations declared in recent history in the