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    USACE FED Safety Office

    USACE FED Safety Office

    CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea – The Far East District (FED) safety office held its inaugural American
  • Construction workers with AECOM work in the coffer dam to prepare the foundation April 25, 2019 for concrete placement as part of the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project Lock Chamber Contract, which is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District. The Tennessee Valley Authority project is located on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tenn. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)

    Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project builds on Joint Risk Register

    CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (April 26, 2019) – As Corps of Engineers officials and their contract partner prepare to place concrete for a new navigation lock at Chickamauga Dam on the Tennessee River, they are actively working together to reduce safety risk as well as construction risks that could affect contract costs and schedule, and identify opportunities for improvement as part of a headquarters pilot program called the “Joint Risk Register.”
  • Trinidad Lake project office manager Kim Falen and District Commander Lt. Col. Larry Caswell stand by one of the ECCVs, April 17, 2019.

    Trinidad Lake hosts DTOS exercise

    Five Emergency Command and Control Vehicles (ECCVs) and about 25 staff from around the country set up at the lake’s project office April 15-19, 2019, for an exercise to assess the readiness of the ECCVs and the DTOS support teams, which are part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers response in the event of national emergencies.
  • The U.S. Army Corps Engineers Mobile District constructed Building 4221, a 5-story facility that will serve as the Program Office Administration Building for NASA at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The building will house Marshall's Human Exploration Development & Operations Office, its Science & Technology Office and the NASA Engineering & Safety Center, along with others. (NASA photo by Fred Deaton)

    USACE MOBILE DISTRICT, NASA CELEBRATE CONSTRUCTION COMPLETION WITH RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY

    MOBILE, Ala. – With a celebratory air on Earth Day 2019, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District and the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center opened the doors to its latest successful joint venture, the completed Building 4221, a $38 million major construction project built by the Corps for its NASA partners at its Huntsville, Alabama campus.
  • Ruel C. Binonwangan gives a tour of the almost completed transmitter facility

    The Miracle Project: delivering a world‐class project and meeting stakeholders' expectations

    On 5 March 2019 the Transmitter Project was completed at Yokota Air Base, Japan and turned over to the end‐users. It's a part of the growing Military Construction (MILCON) Program under Yokota Resident Office's (YRO) area of responsibility in support of the missions in the United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) / United States Special Operations Command Pacific (SOCPAC).