healthy, secure, safe, and sustainable environment for this and future generations. The EM CX provides quality assurance for all USACE environmental remediation work, expert technical assistance to USACE offices worldwide, and technical expertise to DOD and Environmental Protection Agency panels and advisory committees, as well as promotes technology transfer and lessons learned, develops guidance documents, and develops and instructs high-level training. This portfolio also includes the Military Munitions Design Center and Remedial Action Team that conducts ordnance investigations, remedial designs, and clearances of Formerly Used Defense Sites, range support actions and construction sites; and the Chemical Warfare Materiel Design Center, which provides support to Department of the Army, DOD, State Department, and Defense Threat Reduction Agency worldwide and investigates and remediates chemical munitions. The Facilities Explosives Safety program offers technical expertise to the U.S. Army and all of USACE in the design and construction phases of any facility that will house ammunitions and explosives. Other programs supporting environmental efforts include global operations in Afghanistan to conduct land mine and range clearance, environmental footprint reduction, and Task Force POWER (Protect Our Warfighters and Electrical Resources); Missile Defense Agency (MDA) support in Poland; and land mine clearance at the Story Training Area in South Korea. Huntsville Center also is the Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BMDS) Mandatory Center of Expertise, which supports MDA’s BMDS program. Two long-term environmental projects to remediate chemical warfare materiel and conventional munitions are underway at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. At Redstone Arsenal, the 20- to 30-year, $500 million-plus project is inspecting 17 sites where it is suspected that chemical munitions were buried in underground trenches. The 17 sites of high priority are sites with munitions and explosive concerns. According to Huntsville Center Project Manager Ashley Roeske, multiple sites are being investigated to determine the nature and extent of contamination associated with the disposal and suspected burial of World War II-era munitions and explosives of concern, including chemical warfare materiel. Through records, historical research, sampling and previous cleanup efforts, the Army has put together a detailed picture of what was potentially buried in approximately 6 miles of trenches at Redstone Arsenal after World War II. They include U.S. mortars and projectiles as well as ordnance brought from Great Britain, Germany, and Japan for disposal. Results of these investigations will be used to develop a final Recommended Action Plan for subsequent remediation efforts. At Martha’s Vineyard, Huntsville Center is partnering with the New England District to clean up military munitions from three Formerly Used Defense Sites. All three areas were used to train and practice bombing maneuvers during World War II. In all its projects, Huntsville Center partners with USACE divisions and districts in the planning and on-site execution of projects. This coordination and definitization of roles and responsibilities between the Huntsville Center and the geographic district ensures that USACE is providing the best possible services to our customers and stakeholders.
BY THE NUMBERS The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville: • Provides specialized technical expertise, global engineering solutions, and cutting-edge innovations through centrally managed programs in support of national interests. • Certified, professional workforce of more than 1,000 employees with an expeditionary mindset capable of pioneering solutions to unique, complex, and high-risk missions in strengthened partnerships with the USACE enterprise, key Department of Defense stakeholders, and strategic allies. • Has programmatic and functional boundaries in lieu of geographical boundaries, executing programs and projects that: - A re national or broad in scope; - Require integrated facilities or systems that cross geographical division boundaries; - Require commonality, standardization, multiple site adaption, or technology transfer; - Require a centralized management structure for effective control of program development, coordination, and execution; and - Require functions to be performed that are not normally accomplished by a headquarters USACE organizational element. • Annually obligates more than $2 billion through some 5,000 contract actions. • Manages nearly 3,000 ongoing projects at all times. • Supports five business portfolios: medical, facilities and base operations, energy, operational technology, and environmental. The portfolios comprise more than 40 different program areas, as well as seven mandatory and five technical centers of expertise, and 17 centers of standardization.
P.O. Box 1600 Huntsville, AL 35807 256-895-1694 www.hnc.usace.army.mil www.facebook.com/HuntsvilleCenter twitter.com/CEHNC USACE Environment: go.usa.gov/Kj3w
95