At A Glance: Ebbing F-35 Training Center Construction Project: A 44,000-square-foot F-35 Academic Training Center. Location: Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Fort Smith, Arkansas. Investment: $74 million for the academic facility, part of an estimated $807 million total training complex. […]
At A Glance: HEC-RAS 2025 Release Software: HEC-RAS 2025 (Next-Generation Hydraulic Modeling). Developer: USACE Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) in Davis, California. Applications: Nationwide and global flood risk analysis, infrastructure design, and water resources decision-making. Key Upgrades: Enhanced modeling speed, improved
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At A Glance: FEST Mission Guam Personnel: Capt. Stephen O’Brien, USACE New England District project engineer. The Team: Forward Engineer Support Team (FEST) consisting of military leadership and six civilian technical specialists. Location: Guam, a strategic U.S. territory in the
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At A Glance: Kansas City District Upgrades Project: Modernization of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and 30+ conference rooms. Location: Richard R. Bolling Federal Building, Kansas City. Funding: EOC renovations are approximately $1.5 million, part of a $75 million nationwide
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At A Glance: Alaa Jafar’s Journey Role: Project Engineer and Contracting Officer Representative, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Background: Fled southern Iraq with her family in the mid-1990s, walking six days to reach safety in Syria. Education: Earned a master’s
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At A Glance: Fall Prevention Safety Stand-Down Event: 13th annual National Fall Prevention Safety Stand-Down (May 4-8, 2026). The Issue: Falls accounted for nearly 38% of all construction fatalities in 2023, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Standard: USACE
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At A Glance: The CMP Transition System: Construction Management Platform (CMP) powered by Kahua. Replacement: Retiring the long-standing Resident Management System (RMS). Model: A project-based, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), mobile-enabled cloud platform. Timeline: Phased deployment starting January 2027 across six phases.
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At A Glance: RRS Self-Verification Module New Capability: Automated self-verification for nationwide permit (NWP) activities. Efficiency: Immediate correspondence provided if an activity qualifies without a pre-construction notification (PCN). User Interface: Stepwise sequential questions guide the user through the verification process.
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At A Glance: General Leonard Wood Community Hospital Project: Replacement of a 1965-era facility with a state-of-the-art community hospital. Partners: USACE Kansas City District, JE Dunn Construction, RLF Architects, and the Defense Health Agency. Innovation: Implementation of “collaborative analytics” to
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At A Glance: Testing the Future of Infrastructure The Challenge: America’s locks and dams are operating well beyond their life expectancy, but failure risks hinder the adoption of new technology. The Solution: The Hydraulic Structures Experiment and Validation Model, a
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