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    CRREL team members along with OUSD and Milrem Robotics staff with the company’s THeMIS UGV. According to Milrem Robotics, the THeMIS is a modular, unmanned platform designed for various applications, including logistics, reconnaissance, medical evacuations and operational support. Photo by Mike Parker, CRREL.

    CRREL teams up with special forces to test autonomous technology in Norway

    The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and Norwegian Special Operations Command hosted a joint Technical Experimentation (TE) this past winter at Camp Rødsmoen in Rena, Norway, giving technology developers the opportunity to interact with special operations forces and evaluate in the field how their products potentially meet their needs.
  • Two people in vests and hardhats observe a debris removal operations site

    Contracting enables speed, precision in USACE’s wildfires recovery effort

    Contracting is a critical capability that ensured recovery operations from the outset of the Southern California wildfires recovery mission moved with speed, efficiency and precision.
  • Lavonna Begay, civil engineer in the Albuquerque District’s Hydraulics and Hydrology Section, takes notes during the kick-off meeting for the cultural preservation study of Isleta Pueblo’s historic Pottery Mound site, April 7, 2025.

    Pottery Mound cultural preservation study kicks off with sponsor meeting

    Recently the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Albuquerque District and the Pueblo of Isleta met for a kickoff meeting to begin a cultural preservation study of the pueblo’s historic Pottery Mound site. The Pottery Mound study is the first Tribal Partnership Program cultural resource preservation project within the Albuquerque District under recently updated guidelines.
  • Mike Davis, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Public Affairs specialist, works at an emergency command and control vehicle April 21, 2025, while deployed in support of Hurricane Helene response efforts in Asheville, North Carolina. Davis is the Nashville District Employee of the Month for February 2025. (USACE Photo by Bobby Petty)

    Strategic communicator recognized for effectively publicizing dam operations

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 24, 2025) – A proactive strategic communicator and storyteller in Public Affairs is being recognized for effectively publicizing water management operations at dams throughout the Cumberland River Basin during recent high-water events impacting middle Tennessee and western Kentucky.
  • Lt. Col. William South will be taking command of the 926th Engineer Battalion in Birmingham, Alabama. In his civilian position, he is a contracting officer at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, April ‎3, ‎2025, photo by Chris Putman.

    ‘Every Contract Supports a Soldier’: Reserve Officer Brings Mission Focus to Huntsville Center

    As the U.S. Army Reserve, USAR, celebrates its 117th birthday this month, Lt. Col. William South will celebrate a milestone of his own: taking command of the 926th Engineer Battalion in Birmingham, Alabama. South’s civilian position is as a contracting officer at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. He said he looks forward to the full-circle moment as he first enlisted in the 926th Battalion’s Alpha Company in 1997.