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  • Power teams rapidly deploy to help east coast communities

    Recently, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers emergency response personnel deployed to various states in the eastern U.S. to help with response and recovery efforts after Hurricane Irene left a path of destruction from North Carolina to Vermont. This was the first time USACE deployed multiple power teams and their resources to multiple states simultaneously.

  • Citizen scientists key to success for Bald Eagle survey

    SAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 3, 2012) -- A key annual event in the recovery of Bald Eagle populations takes place January 4-18, when hundreds of citizen scientists take to the field for the 34th annual Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey. "The survey is a true public-private partnership with hundreds of volunteer citizen scientists taking part, in addition to federal, state, and NGO (Non-Government Organization) biologists. Forty-three states continue to actively participate, with over 740 standardized survey routes across the country," said Wade Eakle, the 2012 national survey coordinator and an ecologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE.

  • NOVA UAV program soars

    “The NOVA has been developed to provide a technological edge for us,” said Larry Taylor, NOVA UAV program manager. “Its specialty is detecting and monitoring change over time. We have used it for levee monitoring; we have detected anomalies in the levees that weren’t detected by ground observation.” In addition to the levee monitoring the NOVA has also been used for wildlife surveys, regulatory permit reconnaissance, invasive species contract assessments and invasive species acreage estimation.

  • USACE Galveston District employees Building Strong in Afghanistan

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, has been a supporter of the war efforts in both Iraq and Afghanistan, contributing dedicated military and government personnel to war zones for more than a decade.

  • Flood damaged Mississippi River and Tributaries System gets emergency repair funds

    Presidentially declared disaster areas along the Mississippi River will receive much needed repair

  • Army Corps Offers Update on the Arthur Kill Deepening Contract

    New York ‐‐ The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are improving the main shipping channels in the Port by deepening them to a depth of 50 feet, allowing more efficient access to the world’s largest oceangoing ships.

  • Emergency contract awarded to Upper Michigan firm

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announces contract award for emergency dredging in St. Joseph

  • CERL's COBie is National Institute of Building Sciences Approved

    ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) recently received word that the National Institute of Building Sciences has approved the Construction-Operation Building information exchange (COBie) as part of the U.S. National Building Information Model (NBIMS-US) standard.

  • 2nd Brigade Soldiers Have New Place to Call Home

    Four hundred 2nd Brigade Combat Team Soldiers will begin moving into a new home soon. The New Barracks Complex on Schofield Barracks’s Lyman Road officially opened in late December during a maile lei untying / ribbon cutting ceremony attended by the Corps of Engineers, the Garrison’s Directorate of Public Works, 25th ID’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team and Corps’ contractor Absher Construction.

  • Corps adds Atchafalaya Basin to Inspections

    NEW ORLEANS – A little more than a week after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers activated the first