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Corps of Engineers completes Army’s largest solar array installation
The largest solar power system in the U.S. Army is coming online at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., and officials gathered Jan. 16, to mark the occasion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The Energy Savings Performance Contract, or ESPC, project, awarded and managed by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, provides the sprawling desert [...]
Boeing Makes Best-And-Final Contract Offer to SPEEA
Boeing today presented the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) union with its best-and-final contract offer, agreeing with the union’s approach to extend the terms of the previous contract for current employees. The proposed four year contract would roll forward the current agreement, except for proposals explicitly agreed upon by both parties during [...]
Airforce top engineers give tips on saving energy, money
Summer is officially under way. While it means fun in the sun for Airmen and their families, it can be an expensive, wasteful time of year for the Air Force. Utility bills on installations often rise drastically as air conditioning units and sprinkler systems work to keep up. The Air Force spends more than $1 [...]
Army Engineers Spur Development of Tactical Microgrids
U.S. Army engineers are leading research on tactical microgrids to deliver more efficient power to Soldiers across combat zones. These microgrids are designed and built to provide power independently of traditional grids and to integrate multiple sources of energy for use and storage. DESIGNING POWER SOLUTIONS FOR COMBAT The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering [...]
Army develops generator 1.5 tons lighter than current option
U.S. Army engineers were recognized for their collaborative efforts with small business to develop a transportable 100 kW generator that is 3,150 pounds lighter than those currently in theater. Members of the Research, Development & Engineering Command’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, or CERDEC, received an Army Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, Phase [...]
Army Engineer School launches ENFORCE 2012
The Army Engineer School Wednesday launched ENFORCE, its annual regimental conference, bringing together more than 300 military engineers to focus on future operations, capabilities, threats and how the regiment will engineer in future conflicts into 2020. Aside from common themes that are looked at yearly, such as how engineers are trained at the institutional level, [...]
Corps of Engineers building ‘energy strong’
Sustainable design is an integral part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ military construction program. Since fiscal year 2008, every new construction project in the Savannah District is designed to meet standards of the Leadership in Energy in Environmental Design, or LEED, rating system, which is the same sustainability model used by the private [...]
Combat engineers tunnel into leveled buildings to save lives
Responding to a simulated improvised nuclear device in downtown Phoenix as part of the 2011 Arizona Statewide Vigilant Guard exercise, about 60 combat engineers from the 235th Engineer Company (Sapper), 579th Engineer Battalion, 49th Military Police Brigade, California Army National Guard, out of Petaluma, Calif., picked up their ropes and jackhammers and dug into the [...]
Corps of Engineers, coalition forces improve power for Afghans
Residents in Helmand and Kandahar provinces will get some improvement in the amount of electricity they receive, thanks to an interim measure designed to reduce the number of daily circuit interruptions occurring at the Kajaki Dam power house on the Helmand River. While residents will see the results of the interim measure — the installation [...]
