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  • July

    COL Teresa Schlosser Command Photo

    ERDC makes history again with new incoming commander

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) will hold a change of command ceremony at its main headquarters on the Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 14, 2022.
  • Jeffrey Fritz at construction site.

    Deputy chief of construction and engineering to retire after 41 years

    After dedicating 41 years to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Deputy Chief of the Construction and Engineering Division Jeffrey Fritz is deciding to retire. His four decades of service certainly made an impact – so much so that his colleagues described him as a “walking Wikipedia on all things Corps of Engineers.”
  • Hero of the Month

    Hero of the Month

    Jonathan “Jay” Aya-ay is LRH’s Chief of Planning Branch in Planning, Programs, and Project Management Division. He is currently acting as Chicago District’s Deputy District Engineer for Project Management. While traveling back to his hotel from dinner one night while in Chicago for the Corps-wide Planning Chiefs meeting, he encountered an intoxicated man lying on an escalator to the subway.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District’s Mike Wielputz shows contractors how to conduct an Atterberg liquid limits test, which assesses the water contents which define the limits of various stages of consistency for fine-grained soils, as part of providing training on materials laboratory testing standards and necessary certifications in Powidz, Poland as part of the munitions storage area construction efforts June 29, 2022. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District construction involves building more than 50 bunkers, using roughly 17,500 cubic meters of concrete and the training is part of ensuring the project and its on-site concrete laboratory meet all required standards. (U.S. Army photo by Chad Gartrell)

    Materials engineers help ensure U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project success in Poland

    POWIDZ, Poland -- With the construction of more than 50 munitions bunkers getting underway for the
  • East Lynn Recovery Team Recognized

    East Lynn Recovery Team Recognized

    Colonel Putnam awarded the Commanders Award to the East Lynn Recovery Team for their exemplary contributions during the recent flooding event and campground slip during May of 2022.