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  • TAD Employee Awarded HR Manager of the Year

    How does a mechanical engineer win the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Human Resources Manager of the Year Award? It’s easy to understand if you know Margaret Jones. Jones, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Transatlantic Division’s Business Integration Division Chief, was presented with the award Dec. 15 during an award ceremony at the Division headquarters in Winchester, Va.

  • USACE STEM Professionals Share Love of Engineering, Architecture with Area Students

    Volunteers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Transatlantic Division and the Middle East District visited with students at Winchester’s STARBASE Academy Nov. 10.

  • Records management team among best in the Corps

    By all accounts, Donna Sherman, the records manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District, embodies the quiet professional. The only permanent records management employee when she took charge of the records holding facility eight years ago, she now leads a staff of four employees who manage over 13,600 boxes of paper records for the district.

  • MED Volunteers Spark Students’ STEM Interest

    Volunteers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District’s information management team worked with rising 5th grade students at STARBASE Academy Winchester July 16 to explore some aspects of IM careers.

  • MED’s successful value engineering recognized, honored

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District’s Center of Standardization for Contingency Standard Design received the Gordon Frank Award for Outstanding Value Methodology in Government at the 2015 SAVE Value Summit in San Diego June 9.

  • Transatlantic Division commander promoted to Maj. Gen.

    Maj. Gen. Robert D. Carlson, the commanding general of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Transatlantic Division, was promoted in a ceremony at the Pentagon May 15. Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, the USACE commanding general and 53rd chief of engineers, promoted Carlson. This was the second time he promoted Carlson; the first time was to brigadier general. Bostick noted that Carlson is a great leader, coach and mentor.

  • USACE deployments offer personal, professional development

    Deploying with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to places in the CENTCOM area of responsibility like Afghanistan or to the U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility in support of Operation Inherent Resolve can be a rewarding and challenging experience.

  • Soldier attends Marine Corps court reporter training after joining district team

    Sgt. 1st Class Jason Trumbull, a court reporter for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District, was the first Soldier to attend the Marine Corps court reporter course at the Naval Justice School in Newport, R.I. The organization estimates bringing Trumbull on board will save the government more than $100,000 per year.

  • Work paused for safety stand-down, highlighting fall prevention

    Falls are the leading cause of death in the construction industry so each year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration asks employers in the construction industry to participate in the voluntary National Fall Prevention Stand-Down. This year’s National Safety Stand-Down, which raises awareness of preventing fall hazards, is May 4-15. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District asked contractors on each project to set aside some time to pause their work and conduct a focused safety talk on ladder safety, scaffold safety or other fall protection topics.

  • Middle East District offers Soldiers unique experiences working with Civilians

    With only a handful of uniformed personnel working side by side with civilians, the work environment at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District, is quite different from what Soldiers would encounter at their average duty station. Though Soldiers come to work in uniform each day, they are working in a corporate environment, with fewer than 10 active-duty peers surrounded by coworkers in business clothing.