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  • April

    USACE; Buffalo District; Detroit District; Small Business; Industry Day

    Small Business are the Backbone of USACE Mission Delivery

    To help deliver the mission the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers leverages a unique expertise – small business professionals. Led by the Office of Small Business Programs, their job is to integrate small businesses capabilities into USACE projects. Small business professionals’ mission – to make outreach to small businesses bigger and better, bringing them in to add more value to the projects that the Corps of Engineers works on. To accomplish this task, outreach is being leveraged to lead the small business program into the future.
  • Researchers from ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory hold paintings made by students from Fred Ipalook Elementary School in Utqiagvik, Alaska. The paintings were affixed to the solar panel array by the Joint Integrated Support for Operations in Polar Seas project team

    Multi-laboratory project explores ways to deliver manpower, supplies over complex Arctic shorelines

    Earlier this month, Integrated Support for Operations in Polar Seas (ISOPS) team members – comprised of interdisciplinary personnel from ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory – conducted fieldwork in Utqiagvik, Alaska, aimed at accelerating development of environmental support tools for Logistics-Over-The-Shore (LOTS) operations across Arctic coastal boundaries.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District Park Ranger, Jim Merkley, explains planting procedures for the American Chestnut seedling to the volunteers at Patoka Lake, Dubois, Ind., Apr. 26, 2024.

    Reviving History: Patoka Lake’s new orchard aims to regenerate American Chestnuts

    A project vision has come to fruition at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Patoka Lake in Dubois,
  • Jette overlooking the bay.

    Mobile Harbor Deepening Project Beneficial Use of Dredging Material

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District routinely creates value from dredged sediments through beneficial uses such as beach nourishment, enhancing wetland habitat, and brownfield reconstruction.
  • A large number of floating cranes can be seen at the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. The MV Dali, the container ship which struck the bridge, is visible in the distance.

    Large flock of cranes nibbles at Key Bridge wreckage

    Having removed roughly 3,000 of the estimated 50,000 tons of mangled iron trusswork, rebar, and concrete resting on the bottom of the Patapsco River, the cranes supporting the Francis Scott Key Bridge response still have much work ahead of them.