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  • USACE sets the Pace with Completion of Everglades EAA 10A Project

    SOUTH BAY, Fla. (Sept. 25, 2025) —--The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District, celebrated a ribbon cutting ceremony for the completion of Contract 10A for the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Reservoir Project with its federal, state, and local partners in South Bay, Fla today.

  • Finding Leadership in Synergy

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Sept. 18, 2025) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District celebrated the completion and graduation of the 2025 Leadership Development Program Course during a ceremony at district headquarters at the Prudential Building on Jacksonville’s Southbank.

  • ASA visits Jacksonville Districts' South Florida EAA Project

    SOUTH BAY, Fla. – The Honorable Adam Telle, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) and Maj. Gen. Jason Kelly, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations, visited the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District keynote project at the Central Everglades Planning Project Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) phase Aug. 22, 2025.

  • South Atlantic Division commander leaves Jacksonville District in sync with District's 'people and projects'

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – The commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (SAD) South Atlantic Division, Brig. Gen. Zachary L. Miller visited the Jacksonville District and multiple projects in South Florida.

  • Jacksonville District’s Ashley Foster Named USACE Emergency Manager of the Year

    Ashley Foster, an Emergency Management Specialist with the Jacksonville District, was named the 2024 USACE Emergency Management Specialist of the Year. She is recognized primarily for taking on additional workloads, revamping Jacksonville’s Emergency Operations Center’s (EOC) Planning Section and through her efforts in recruiting, training and leveraging technology.

  • Jacksonville District Construction Team enhances partnerships to support military and civil works missions

    In a discussion with Gene Morisani, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District Chief of the Construction Division talks about District Construction Division’s ongoing construction projects in Florida, that primarily focus’ on ecosystem restoration, coastal storm risk management, and navigation improvements that keep this well-oiled machine running.

  • Go jump in a lake?   478th Civil Affairs Battalion glad to oblige  

    LAKE OKEECHOBEE --U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 478th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) and paratroopers assigned to the British 4th Parachute Regiment, conducted land and water airborne operations during Lagoon Leap 2025, in Homestead Air Base and a Deliberate Water Jump into Lake Okeechobee Fla., May 14-16th, 2025.

  • Jacksonville District Engineer promoted to Army Captain

    MAYPORT, Fla. - May 31, 2025 - This week at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District celebrates the promotion of 1st Lt. Peyton Pisacane to the rank of Army Captain in a ceremony officiated by U.S. Army Maj. Matthew Westcott, deputy commander for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District at the Sea glass Club on Naval Air Station Mayport.

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers MURDEN Dredges Naval Station Guantanamo Bay

    GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA (May 12, 2025)–Waterway Navigation is the U. S Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) earliest Civil Works mission. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, called upon the Wilmington District’s Dredge MURDEN for an innovative mission to help clear critical shoaling to maintain safe and efficient navigation conditions for military and commercial vessels in the harbor.

  • USACE’s Operation Blue Roof contractors Install Final Blue Roof in Florida

    POINCIANA, Fla. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and its contractors commemorated the last day of Operation Blue Roof Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, installing the final blue roof in central Florida as part of recovery efforts following Hurricane Milton. This marks the end of the Operation Blue Roof program that provided temporary roofing protection to Florida homes damaged by Milton. The program covered more than 8,296 roofs and collected 11,502 Rights of Entries (ROES) from multiple counties throughout Florida.