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  • Army MATOC: First awards under $7 billion renewable energy contract

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, working with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force, awarded the first of its kind Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Multiple Award Task Order Contracts for the first technology under this contract to support renewable energy on Defense Department installations.
  • Going Green: Wind turbine installed on Fort Buchanan

    The first of three 275-kilowatt wind turbines to be erected on Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, started producing energy April 19. The turbines are part of a 10-project energy and water reduction effort that, in addition to installing wind power generation, includes solar photovoltaic systems, and water conservation measures.
  • Housing Planning and Response Team members complete Level 2 certification training

    Six members of Huntsville Center’s Housing Planning and Response Team recently completed Level 2 Certification training, making them eligible to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency in response to a disaster. The training included classroom training as well as field exercises at multiple locations that the State of Virginia is considering for development of temporary community sites to have prepared prior to a major event occurring.
  • No longer used safety shelters at McAlester Army Ammunition Plant being removed

    Using fiscal year 2012 funds and working with the Corps of Engineers Tulsa District and McAlester garrison, the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s Facilities Reduction Program is managing the antiquated underground safety shelters and two small facilities along a line of bomb production facilities.
  • Investigation of munitions response sites kick off in Pine Bluff, Ark.

    A survey team from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, visited Pine Bluff
  • Tuscaloosa Army Reserve Center damaged in 2011 tornadoes demolished by FRP

    It’s been almost two years since Alabama experienced the deadly tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011,
  • Huntsville Center ends munitions disposal mission in Iraq

    At one time, it would have been easy to call Iraq the most dangerous place on Earth. Years of war and slipshod munitions accountability during the Saddam Hussein regime had turned the country into a thicket of unexploded ordnance.