DIRECTORY USACE’s Finance Center provides responsive and professional day-to-day operating finance and accounting support worldwide. This support includes the full range of customer services, payments, disbursing, accounting, and financial reporting for civil works and military programs appropriated funds and revolving and trust funds. The Finance Center is responsible for performing research, analysis, development, installation and systems maintenance for the USACE Financial Management System (CEFMS) and for the USACE Enterprise Management Information System (CEEMIS). The Finance Center has the principal responsibility for providing overall operating finance and accounting functions for USACE. This mission is accomplished with a dedicated, professional staff of accountants, accounting technicians, and various other support personnel. In keeping with the Commander’s vision, the Finance Center has built the bench with a talented and motivated staff that is cognizant of the costs of operation and continues to achieve greater efficiencies through improved business processes and enhanced financial systems. The Finance Center searches for ways to reduce costs by identifying and eliminating duplicative processes, taking advantage of leading technology, encouraging e-commerce, and improving business processes. USACE ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER 3909 Halls Ferry Road • Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199 Tel: (601) 636-3111 The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) supports the nation and armed forces. ERDC research and development saves Soldiers’ lives, improves homeland security, enhances the economy, reduces disaster risks, and improves the environment. Its technologies and expertise support warfighters, military installations, and USACE civil works missions as well as other federal agencies, state and municipal authorities, and U.S. industry (through innovative work agreements). ERDC R&D focuses on four primary technical areas: • Military Engineering – deployable force protection; environmental effects on sensor performance; adaptive protection; austere entry and maneuver; weapons effects; and antiterrorism; • Geospatial Research and Engineering – terrain analysis for signal and sensor performance; geospatial and temporal information structure and framework; geospatial reasoning; geo-enabled mission command; and imagery and geo-data sciences, including human terrain analysis; • Environmental Quality and Installations – adaptive, resilient, and sustainable installations and infrastructure; military materiels in the environment; and risk-based decision analysis; and • Water Resources/Civil Works – inland and coastal navigation hydropower; flood risk management and coastal systems; water supply and emergency management; environmental restoration, regulation, and stewardship; water resources infrastructure; and system-wide water resources.
ERDC Headquarters is located in Vicksburg, Mississippi, along with four of its seven laboratories – the Coastal and Hydraulics, Geotechnical and Structures, Environmental, and Information Technology laboratories. Other laboratories include the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois; Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire; and the Geospatial Research Laboratory in Alexandria, Virginia. These laboratories provide a wide range of research expertise that can collectively address diverse and complex challenges. ERDC has a staff of more than 2,500 engineers, scientists, and support personnel, with an annual research program budget exceeding $1.1 billion. Its staff includes more than 1,060 engineers and scientists, many with advanced degrees (32 percent hold doctoral degrees and 44 percent have master’s degrees). The center has more than $1 billion in research facilities, including unique national assets. It manages the DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Program and five DOD Supercomputer Centers around the country (one is located at ERDC Vicksburg). The center hosts the DOD’s largest and most powerful supercomputer, putting ERDC in the top tier of computing capacity. Other world-class facilities include the world’s most powerful centrifuge, blast effects simulators, physical models of river and coastal projects, specialized chemistry and analytical labs, frost and ice engineering facilities, a large shake table, and a 1,800-foot coastal research pier. Its research is recognized throughout the Army, DOD, the nation, and internationally. ERDC – Innovative Solutions for a Safer, Better World! U.S. ARMY GEOSPATIAL CENTER 7701 Telegraph Road • Alexandria, VA 22315-3864 Tel: (703) 428-3736 The U.S. Army Geospatial Center (AGC) is a direct reporting center under USACE to provide timely, accurate and relevant geospatial information, domain expertise, training, and reachback capabilities to our warfighters across the operational environment. As a knowledge center for geospatial engineering expertise, the AGC coordinates, integrates, and synchronizes geospatial information requirements and standards across the Army, as well as develops and fields geospatial systems and capabilities to the Army and DOD. The AGC supports the Army, DOD, and the nation through: 1) enterprise development and system acquisition support synchronizes geospatial policies, priorities, program strategies, and technologies across Army acquisition, ensuring efficient integration; provides geospatial domain expertise to Army programs and Network Integration Evaluations; develops, acquires, and fields engineer and intelligence capabilities; and evaluates the Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities; 2) warfighter support and production that collects, creates, and provisions strategic-operational-tactical imagery, elevation data, geospatial information, and mission-related products; provides information on water-location quantity and quality, and provides training, technical support, and reachback capabilities to the field; and 3) research, development, technology, and evaluation (RDT&E) that conducts RDT&E focused in current and emerging geospatial
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