Dec 31, 2012

A historic mission for the 401st Army Field Support Brigade came to an end Nov. 12 when AFSBattalion-Bagram issued 49 M1114 vehicles to the Afghan National Army under a Foreign Military Sales case.

Dec 31, 2012

An operations and intelligence noncommissioned officer, Sgt. 1st Class Scott Barkalow, was part of a mounted patrol in Eastern Afghanistan in February 2003 when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.

Dec 30, 2012

Soldiers from the 4th Brigade Support Battalion, 27th Brigade Combat Team, a New York Army National Guard unit, deployed with the 401st Army Field Support Brigade across the battle space in Afghanistan were recognized for their work supporting equipment retrograde missions during several awards ceremonies recently.

Dec 29, 2012

Commander's Awards for Civilian Service were presented to three RDECOM Field Assistance in Science and Technology Center personnel Dec. 25 in recognition of their work in RFAST-C's prototype integration facility located here.

Dec 28, 2012

Col. Mark A. Paget, commander, 401st Army Field Support Brigade, Bagram Airfield, provided a welcome brief and new marching orders Dec. 27 to the recently arrived Logistics Civil Augmentation Program support officers on their task and purpose to meet drawdown goals in Afghanistan.

Dec 27, 2012

"Faces of the Force" is an online feature highlighting members of the Army Acquisition Workforce. Produced by the U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center Strategic Communication Division, and working closely with public affairs officers, Soldiers and Civilians currently serving in a variety of AL&T disciplines are featured every other week.

Dec 26, 2012

Holiday message from the ECC commanding general and command sergeant major.

Dec 26, 2012

Dec 25, 2012

Brig. Gen. Scottie D. Carpenter, commanding general, 311th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), an Army Reserve unit headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., visited the 401st Army Field Support Brigade headquarters at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Dec. 24 to learn more about 401st missions and meet some of the Soldiers, civilians and contractors who provide logistics support and selected Coalition forces across the battle space.

Dec 21, 2012

The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is giving its workforce the financial push it needs to creatively pursue projects that could yield high rewards.

Dec 21, 2012

UIJEONGBU, South Korea -- Christmas came early for the children at Isaac House orphanage in Uijeongbu as Soldiers and civilians from Camp Red Cloud visited them Dec. 13.

Dec 21, 2012

Fort Huachuca, AZ. - The doors to Hangar 3 at Libby Army Airfield lay open allowing the large, American flag hanging from the ceiling to wave freely in the breeze. Soldiers and community figures alike wait patiently while staring off into the horizon. They catch a glimpse of a plane getting closer as it nears the staging area and know that the time has finally come for their colleagues, loved ones and friends to return home.

Dec 21, 2012

WATERVLIET ARSENAL, N.Y. -- The Watervliet Arsenal heard the community's call for support this holiday season and it responded, as it has for nearly 200 years, with workers reaching deep into their pockets to provide support to hundreds of Albany-area children, as well as to national non-profit organizations. The Arsenal raised nearly $60,000 in the way of cash, toys, and clothes for the Troy Salvation Army, City of Watervliet Head Start Program, and for the Combined Federal Campaign.

Dec 21, 2012

The Voluntary Protection Program Safety Santa visited the employees at the Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center this week. He also left them a poem.

Dec 20, 2012

Watervliet Arsenal's historic "Big Gun Shop" in New York State has seen a lot of action since the first brick and mortar were laid there nearly 130 years ago.

Dec 20, 2012

The Army is applying integration lessons learned from completed Network Integration Evaluations as it continues production of networked vehicles to support fielding efforts to 10th Mountain Division (LI).

Dec 20, 2012

Red River Army Depot marked another milestone Thursday, December 6 by becoming the first TACOM Life Cycle Management Command site to achieve the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Voluntary Protection Programs Merit Status. The depot is the largest organization to receive merit status in the region. Members and partners of Red River gathered for a celebration ceremony.

Dec 20, 2012

Soldiers know the value of smoke grenades in various scenarios, yet the grenades contained potentially harmful chemicals. Now, the Army is working to produce pyrotechnic smoke grenades that are not only safer but also as effective as earlier grenades.

Dec 20, 2012

PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. (Dec. 20, 2012) -- Capt. Lee Stuckey, an active duty Marine and professional mixed martial arts fighter, said he is proof that anyone can be affected by the horrors of war.

Dec 20, 2012

FORT LEE, Va. (Dec. 20, 2012) -- More than 70 Army officers -- most of them lieutenants in training at the Army Logistics University here -- received their gold or silver German Armed Forces Proficiency Badges during a lunchtime ceremony Friday in ALU's multipurpose rooms.

Dec 20, 2012

FORT LEE, Va. (Dec. 20, 2012) -- When Staff Sgt. Ariesa Griffin came to shop at the Fort Lee Holiday Helper toy store last week, she easily blended in with the hundreds of other military members who came before her. That is until the program manager asked her, "How many children do you have?" She responded, "Nine," a number that grabbed the attention of several board members nearby.

Dec 20, 2012

FORT LEE, Va. (Dec. 20, 2012) -- First Lt. Cleveland Richard and 1st Lt. Tyrell Thompson hailed from different parts of the country and didn't know each other, but their compatibility was such a foregone conclusion that Jim Platt, who knew both back in 2005 as prep stars, thought they should get acquainted.

Dec 20, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 20, 2012) -- Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III presented Coins of Excellence to 18 Fort Lee and Fort Eustis Soldiers and civilians during a Dec. 12 ceremony at the Pentagon.

Dec 20, 2012

The Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal, Ala., Operations and Services Directorate is taking on the challenge of changing the culture of communication.

Dec 20, 2012

After 56 years of teaching leaders of the Army, the Army Materiel Command Logistics Leadership Center is closing its doors in January.

Dec 20, 2012

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Rallying from a slow start, the headquarters staffs from the Army Contracting Command and the Expeditionary Contracting Command have surpassed this year's Combined Federal Campaign goal of $50,000.

Dec 20, 2012

Retirement ends juggling military, civilian careers

Dec 20, 2012

Anniston Army Depot's 2012 Christmas Cheer program delivered 3,660 pounds of gifts and 22 bicycles to Calhoun County's Department of Human Resources office in Anniston Dec. 19.

Dec 20, 2012

It's the holidays and the depot currently has a number of employees deployed, which brings to mind the first time depot civilians were called to overseas duty. Twenty-two years ago, Iraq invaded Kuwait, setting off one of the largest and fastest deployments of U.S. forces and equipment since the Vietnam War. Anniston Army Depot also deployed to Southwest Asia, sending more than 300 employees to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, to support and upgrade over 900 M1 tanks with firepower and survivability enhancements.

Dec 20, 2012

The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command recently made a rapid response to a request for UH-60M parts from Mexico to ensure they sustained the flight capabilities of two of three Blackhawk helicopters delievered last year through FMS as part of the Merida Initiative.

Dec 20, 2012

Jonathon Vanover, a production machinery mechanic, was named the Directorate of Public Works' safe employee of the quarter for the fourth quarter of 2012. According to the justification for Vanover's award, he faces tasks requiring him to be in potentially dangerous situations on a daily basis.

Dec 20, 2012

Two documents - one promising to support employees and position them for success, the other committing to provide quality products and services to customers - were signed by Depot Commander Col. Brent Bolander and Keith Colbert, the director of Community and Family Activities, Dec. 6 at the Berman-Varner House.

Dec 20, 2012

For the second year in a row, the Fort McClellan Cemetery Wreaths Committee memorialized the veterans interred at McClellan, Ala., with a holiday wreath ceremony, Dec. 15, 2012.

Dec 20, 2012

Army Contracting's online magazine is now online! View it in a flip version or as a .pdf

Dec 20, 2012

Holiday video greetings are a tradition at Army Contracting Command. Employees around the world submit their holiday wishes which are published on YouTube.

Dec 19, 2012

Brian Simmons started out as a "fairly typical" government worker right out of college, but Dec. 14 he said farewell to a mission he grew to love as a member of the Senior Executive Service. Even upon retirement, Simmons talked about his command rather than reflecting on his career.

Dec 19, 2012

Military buildings are typically named after persons deceased who have made significant contributions to an organization, but recently the Hon. John McHugh, Secretary of the Army, granted an exception to that rule.

Dec 19, 2012

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center received a letter of gratitude from U.S. Ambassador to Albania Alexander A. Arvizu Nov. 21. The note thanked the organization for a successful demilitarization operation that destroyed a recently discovered stockpile of chemical munitions in Tirana, Albania.

Dec 19, 2012

The U.S. Army honored three civilian employees at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., Dec. 1, 2012, for their commitment to enriching students' experience in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, commonly known as STEM.

Dec 19, 2012

Employees rewarded for excellence

Dec 18, 2012

U.S. Army engineers have developed a system for detecting possible threats by identifying potential threat locations on unimproved roads.

Dec 18, 2012

By all accounts 2012 was a banner year for the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command in terms of carrying out its mission of overseeing the Army's Security Assistance Enterprise and managing its Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program.

Dec 18, 2012

This is an exciting time for the Army Aviation and Missile Command. We are coming down from over a decade of war and focusing on new challenges that will test how we maximize our capabilities with limited resources. Through it all, Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) has been critical in its support to aviation maintenance and nowhere else is this support more evident than with its sustainment of the UH-60 Black Hawk fleet.

Dec 18, 2012

Army Announces Consolidation of Intelligence Training at Fort Huachuca

Dec 18, 2012

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- The U.S. Army Materiel Command and the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command hosted a cafeteria groundbreaking ceremony here, Dec. 17, to feed its roughly 1,700 employees.

Dec 18, 2012

Three command sergeants major toured the 401st Army Field Support Brigade's headquarters in Afghanistan to receive briefings on its various missions.

Dec 18, 2012

An expert panel recently recommended to the Defense Department that thermal and chemical technologies may present the best disposal options of the more than 69,000 Cold War-era M55 rockets containing nerve agents currently stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot. The committee on "Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors from Nerve Agent Rockets Stored at Blue Grass Army Depot" of the Board on Army Science and Technology at the National Research Council completed its nine-month review in October. The panel teamed to offer guidance on technologies and options for the disposal of the rocket motor sections of the M55 rocket.

Dec 17, 2012

Winter means more than the arrival of cold weather; it's also the height of basketball fans' favorite time of year.

Dec 17, 2012

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Computational and Information Sciences Directorate, Atmospheric Modeling Applications Branch located at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., is developing a Weather Running Estimate-Nowcast (WRE-N) tool.

Dec 17, 2012

When the SDDC Training Symposium and Traffic Management Workshop were cancelled this year, a vital link between the command and its customers was severed.

Dec 17, 2012

The Army Materiel Command's top civilian met Dec. 13 with senior leaders from organizations at Rock Island Arsenal. Brig. Gen. John F. Wharton, commanding general of the Army Sustainment Command and senior mission commander of RIA, hosted John B. Nerger, Army Materiel Command executive director to the commanding general for his first visit here.

Dec 17, 2012

In honor of Pine Bluff Arsenal's military Families and to celebrate November as Military Family Appreciation Month, a prayer breakfast was held Nov. 29 at the PBA Community Club. Theme of this year's recognition is "Army Families -- Strong, Caring, Resilient."

Dec 17, 2012

Pine Bluff Arsenal's (Ark.) Directorate of Logistics recently received a 2013 Chevrolet Volt into its inventory of motor pool vehicles.

Dec 15, 2012

Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., officials along with members of the Civil Air Patrol, laid 162 wreaths in honor of the fallen service members from the Garden State, Dec. 15, 2012.

Dec 14, 2012

Dec 14, 2012

The Army Materiel Command's top civilian visited the Department of Defense's only vertically integrated metal manufacturer on Thursday. John B. Nerger, Executive Deputy to the Commanding General of the Army Material Command, took a one hour tour through the Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center. This was Nerger's first visit to RIA-JMTC assuming his role as the top executive at AMC in May 2011. His tour started at the Army's only active foundry where Col. James O. Fly, Jr, commander RIA-JMTC, showed how the Arsenal can take raw scrap metal and make new parts to support Army and Joint products.

Dec 14, 2012

The Army Sustainment Command hosted a five-day "Wholesale Academy" training course at the command headquarters Nov. 26 -- 30.

Dec 14, 2012

The newly elected Illinois 17th U.S. Congressional District representative met with senior leaders from organizations at Rock Island Arsenal on Dec. 10.

Dec 14, 2012

Eight major Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., tenant organizations agreed to a partnership, Dec. 14, 2012, with Harford County Public Schools to expand educational outreach efforts in science, technology, engineering and math, commonly known as STEM.

Dec 14, 2012

Sgt. 1st Class Eric Mainu is a contracting officer assigned to the 412th Contracting Support Brigade's 638th Senior Contingency Contracting Team at Fort Riley, Kan.

Dec 13, 2012

WATERVLIET ARSENAL, N.Y. -- An inspection team toured the Army's Benét Laboratories last Friday and this visit tested the ability of this premier weapons research and design center to reduce their scientific jargon to an elementary level of understanding. Maybe, elementary is the wrong use of verbiage because, after all, these were high school students.

Dec 13, 2012

Fort Huachuca, AZ. - The 2012 United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence Instructor of the Year Award will be presented to Sgt. 1st Class Brandon Kroviak, Company D, 2-13th Aviation, common core instructor, on Friday at Fort Rucker, Ala.

Dec 13, 2012

Fort Huachuca, AZ. - A collaborative effort to fundamentally redesign institutional training is underway, and the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence, or USAICoE, Fort Huachuca, is playing a critical role.

Dec 13, 2012

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- The U. S. Army Materiel Command chooses 19 to honor with the Louis Dellamonica Award for Outstanding AMC Personnel of the Year.

Dec 13, 2012

The 402nd Army Field Support Brigade came together as one to celebrate the brigade's 6th birthday on Oct. 16 at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.

Dec 13, 2012

While it doesn't seem much like the holiday season with unseasonably warm temperatures, it is sneaking up on the Midwest. There may not be snow at Rock Island Arsenal, Ill., yet that doesn't mean it isn't the season of reflection and great cheer.

Dec 13, 2012

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- A scene decimated by a suicide bomber or an improvised explosive device leaves little evidence of what life was like before its destruction. It does, however, leave traces of life in fingerprints that can be collected by weapons intelligence personnel and analyzed at forensic laboratories to identify the enemy behind the explosion.

Dec 13, 2012

The only U.S. Army Signal Corps officer to attain the rank of four-star general was honored Wednesday for his expertise in military technology and mentoring to soldiers.

Dec 13, 2012

There will be a little more joy for some Fayetteville/Fort Bragg area children this year, as Soldiers and Army civilian employees of the U.S. Army Forces Command, G4 (Logistics) Directorate came together to aid the Cumberland County, N.C., Department of Social Services by providing Christmas gifts for 135 area foster children.

Dec 12, 2012

An official from the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center was named to the Governor's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Advisory Council in Massachusetts.

Dec 12, 2012

Mr. Nelson "Ned" Keeler, director of the U.S. Army Communication-Electronics Command's Software Engineering Center, moving on to a new assignment as the Deputy to the Command General of the U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon, Ga., after nearly five years with the command

Dec 11, 2012

WATERVLIET ARSENAL, N.Y. -- To help put this year's Pearl Harbor Day remembrance into perspective, one of Watervliet Arsenal's oldest living retirees this week recalled life at the Arsenal during the early days of World War II.

Dec 11, 2012

The Ammunition Hall of Fame program is now accepting nominations through Jan. 30, 2013.

Dec 11, 2012

Senior leaders from across the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command shared opportunities for test and evaluation contracts with members of industry and small business during the ATEC segment of the Advance Planning Briefing for Industry and Small Business Forum at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., Dec. 5.

Dec 11, 2012

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Much of the details of Jay Loomis' career are secretive, as a matter of national security, but what is not a secret is that his 40-year career as a radar frequency sensors expert has made a lasting impact on the Army's aviation and missile efforts. Loomis is retiring this month after a long Army career, the last two decades of which were spent as a senior research scientist at the Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center. A retirement ceremony in his honor was held Nov. 30.

Dec 11, 2012

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - Team APG enjoyed a special visit by Linda Via, the wife of Gen. Dennis Via, commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), Nov. 30.

Dec 10, 2012

A two-day rehearsal of concept drill was conducted by the 401st Army Field Support Brigade to review past practices, discuss what worked and what did not work and lastly plan for future equipment retrograde missions.

Dec 7, 2012

Mission and Installation Contracting Command officials realigned six field directorate offices into four Dec. 4 in a strategic effort to bring consistency to its operations and improve contract administration and oversight.

Dec 6, 2012

The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command presented contracting opportunities Dec. 5 as part of APG's first installation-wide Advanced Planning Briefing for Industry, or APBI, conference.

Dec 6, 2012

Lt. Col. Robert Rouse's first months in command have been filled with a variety of process improvements. The commander of DLA Distribution Anniston, Ala., took command in June and said he is finally settled in and adjusted to his new job. "I've got a great team here and we're making a lot of headway in performance and standardization," he said. A tenant on Anniston Army Depot, Distribution Anniston provides receipt and storage of equipment, parts, weapons and vehicles in support of the depot's mission, its tenants and the warfighters.

Dec 6, 2012

In 2007, the Paladin/FAASV line in the depot's Combat Vehicle Repair Facility was reworked and streamlined, making it more efficient for the assembly processes required for those vehicles. At the time, the changes earned a Shingo award -- one of the most prized honors for an industrial center. As time has passed, however, the streamlined work areas have become much more valuable for their ability to transform when needed. One such transformation is taking place now as Paladin and Field Artillery Ammunition Support Vehicle overhauls share the space with M113 foreign military sales repair operations. At any given time on the line, there may be up to 20 vehicles from a combination of seven vehicle platforms.

Dec 6, 2012

Lt. Gen. Patricia E. McQuistion, Army Materiel Command's (AMC) deputy commanding general, and more than 60 team members from AMC and subordinate commands conducted a Depot Assessment Visit here Dec. 4-5.

Dec 6, 2012

More than 1,100 business and economic development representatives from across the country gathered Dec. 4-6 for the first installation-wide Advanced Planning Briefing for Industry here.

Dec 5, 2012

When the Arsenal leadership agreed to invest $1.7 million for a new electrical substation that would feed power to one of the most critical manufacturing processes called the rotary forge, little did they know that the Arsenal may be venturing into uncharted waters.

Dec 5, 2012

The year was 2008 and the on-going war in Iraq was a dangerous landscape for Soldiers on the ground, especially convoys traveling to and from base camps.

Dec 5, 2012

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala.-- Army Contracting Command has realigned two of its contracting offices that serve overseas customers.

Dec 4, 2012

WATERVLIET ARSENAL, N.Y. -- The Arsenal announced this month that it received a $7.8 million contract to provide the Australian Army, via BAE Systems, with 19 M776 155mm cannons as part of the U.S. State Department's Foreign Military Sales program.

Dec 4, 2012

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, employees of the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) gathered Nov. 14 for a Town Hall meeting. Part of recalibrating the workforce toward the future meant addressing the swirl of talk about lower defense spending as overseas wartime operations unwind, as well as the potential for automatic budget cuts from sequestration.

Dec 3, 2012

Gen. Dennis L. Via, Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command, visited several major supporting commands here, Friday.

Dec 3, 2012

RDECOM's Aviation and Missile Center successfully demonstrates low-level autonomous behaviors in a flight over the Diablo Range.

Dec 3, 2012

Ballistics and material research experts told Army senior leadership on Friday that novel approaches to basic research are advancing new findings in Soldier head protection solutions against blunt impact and even shock waves.

Nov 30, 2012

The U.S. Army recently announced that the M2A1 .50 Caliber Machine Gun was among its top 10 "Army Greatest Inventions" for the 2011 calendar year. The M2A1 includes new modern features and design improvements that make it easier and safer to use including a quick change barrel, fixed headspace and timing and a new flash hider that reduces the weapon's signature by 95 percent at night.

Nov 30, 2012

Gen. Dennis L. Via, commanding general, U.S. Army Material Command, visited several major supporting commands here, Friday.

Nov 29, 2012

LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT, Chambersburg, Pa.--A new route clearance vehicle welding positioner at Letterkenny Army Depot was dedicated to the memory of Sgt. Andrew H. McConnell, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash. in a ceremony at the maintenance facility on Nov. 28.

Nov 29, 2012

TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. -- A training instructor here has been named a depot Employee of the Quarter. Robert Jones was honored for the junior category award as Tobyhanna's 2012 Employees of the Quarter for the third quarter.

Nov 27, 2012

According to Army transportation experts assigned to Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, U.S. military units with equipment that is lost, damaged or destroyed during transport have another good reason to complete a Transportation Discrepancy Report, also known as a TDR.

Nov 27, 2012

Sensors Branch employees here did one better when tasked to reduce the direct labor hours (DLH) to repair and test the AN/PSS-14 mine detector. Program Office Countermine leadership (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.) required that Tobyhanna Army Depot reduce the DLH for repairing and testing the detector by 15 percent.

Nov 27, 2012

U.S. Army scientists are developing new technologies, including smartphones that detect and identify chemical and biological agents, to empower Soldiers.

Nov 27, 2012

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate (ARL/SLAD) concluded work on Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) 13.1 at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), New Mexico in mid-November 2012. They had completed their work on NIE 12.2 only months earlier. NIE 13.1 was the fourth in a series of twice-annual, Soldier-led events designed to evaluate the effectiveness of multiple networked devices in a tactical, operational test environment. The NIEs, of which the most recent event involved 3,800 Soldiers, are led by a group known as the Triad: The Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC), the Brigade Modernization Command, and ASA (ALT)'s System of Systems Integration Directorate.

Nov 27, 2012

The team effort within the Mine Resis¬tant Ambush Protected Vehicle facility at Red River Army Depot was recently rec¬ognized for not only getting the job done but doing it ahead of the time planned for it. The employees completed the MRAP Capsule 10/20 repair program one month before the program was scheduled to be complete.