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  • Pivotal Warfighter System Awarded Army’s Greatest Invention of the Year Honors

    The U.S. Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command recently selected the Topographic Engineering Center’s (TEC) BuckEye program, a highresolution, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) and 3D mapping system, as a 2006 Army Greatest Invention of the Year for the center’s development of a leaner, faster, more efficient method of collecting and disseminating geospatial intelligence information to deployed Soldiers.

  • Batesville resident Ken Bright awarded coveted de Fleury Medal for service in Iraq

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 25, 2007 – Ken Bright, a Batesville resident, was presented with the Engineer Regiment’s Bronze Order of the de Fleury Medal for his service to the Corps of Engineers and the Nation, most recently following two tours of duty in Iraq in direct support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

  • Local Soldiers Teach Orienteering Class to Area High School Students

    Orienteering is a cross-country sport in which competitors use a map and compass to find their way through unfamiliar terrain. Sergeants Brian Follmer, Jason Redmon, and Sylvia Tumball are teaching the three-day course, which consists of classroom and field instruction. Students are using a compass and pace count to navigate their way across the campus in order to find several points on a pre-set course.

  • Dr. Bob Hunt receives Distinguished Service Award from American Water Resources Assn.

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 3, 2007 – Dr. Bob Hunt, a civil engineer in the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, received the 2007 Distinguished Service Award for Water Resources in Tennessee from the American Water Resources Association April 18 at a ceremony in Nashville.

  • Jean Todd, Corps of Engineers Contracting Officer, to receive national acquisition award

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 22, 2007 – Jean Todd, contracting officer for both the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Corps’ Louisiana Recovery Field Office in New Orleans, has been selected to receive the General Services Administration’s 2007 Ida Ustad Award for Excellence in Acquisition.

  • Joint team travels to China

    Stan Simpson, a Corps water manager for the Savannah River Basin, recently joined a team from the Conservancy and traveled to China, where a series of dams on the Yangtze are planned. The Conservancy is conducting a series of workshops, led by Andy Warner, to define the environmental flow needs of the river and to find a way to meet the needs of nature and the growing Chinese population, so both can continue to thrive.

  • Laynetta Monroe and Sgt. Sylvia Tumball Join TEC

    Laynetta Monroe recently joined the Major Systems Branch, Vicksburg Consolidated Contracting Office

  • Johnston joins Civilian Employee Fund Council

    The council provides TEC with approximately $3 per civilian employee on the unit manning document each year. These funds help finance the Holiday and Picnic Committee activities.

  • Mississippi River Commission announces Memphis portion of high-water inspection trip

    MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 9, 2007 -- The Mississippi River Commission will conduct the Memphis District portion of its annual high-water inspection trip on the Mississippi River April 16-17, 2007.

  • Salamonie, Roush dam investigations near completion

     Louisville, KY -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District has nearly completed