May 9, 2012

Maj. Gen. Camille M. Nichols will become the U.S. Army Contracting Command's first commanding general at a 10 a.m., assumption of command ceremony, May 17, at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.

May 9, 2012

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- As the U.S. Army reduces in size, reclassification into the acquisition corps may be an option for qualified Soldiers who want to stay in the Army.

May 7, 2012

The last U.S. Army mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle to depart from Iraq arrived at the Port of Beaumont, Texas, May 6, 2012, on its way to the 1st Cavalry Brigade Division Museum at Fort Hood, Texas, for preservation and display.

May 3, 2012

Learn more about Michelle Brown-Earlywine, defense travel administrator and headquarters' super-user for the Automated Time Attendance and Production System.

May 3, 2012

BG Harrison discusses the importance of ethics among the ECC workforce.

May 2, 2012

Prototype Integration Facility extends support to Soldiers

May 2, 2012

Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody, commander of Army Materiel Command, was honored by the USO during a luncheon in New York City, May 1, 2012.

May 2, 2012

BG Ted Harrison's welcome message to the ECC workforce

Apr 27, 2012

Lessons learned from a contracting intern's developmental assignment to Kuwait and Italy.

Apr 27, 2012

Army civilians in the grades of GS-14/15 and equivalent employees, may now begin the self-nomination process for entry into the Army's Senior Enterprise Talent Management program.

Apr 27, 2012

A capabilities approach to establishing a continency contracting office.

Apr 26, 2012

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala.-- Nearly 50 children joined their parents during the Army Contracting Command's Bring Your Child to Work Day to learn what ACC employees do on a daily basis.

Apr 25, 2012

Alabama A&M recognizes ACC employee

Apr 20, 2012

Brig. Gen. Theodore Harrison accepted the reigns of the U.S. Army's Expeditionary Contracting Command in a change of command ceremony today at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.

Apr 19, 2012

One of more than 266,600 participants in this year's Boston Marathon, Col. Jeff Gabbert maintained one simple thought throughout the 26.2-mile trek through the historic Massachusetts city - finish the race.

Apr 19, 2012

Did you know the U.S. Army Contracting Command is on many of your favorite websites? Watch our short video to learn more.

Apr 18, 2012

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany - Staff Sgt. Booker Jordan battled it out with other noncommissioned officers and was selected the 409th Contracting Support Brigade's NCO of the Year during an intense three-day competition here March 28-30.

Apr 18, 2012

Learn more about Ruby Mixon, chief of the ACC-APG Policy Support Branch who enjoys traveling and attending Broadway plays.

Apr 18, 2012

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Dr. Carol E. Lowman, executive director, U.S. Army Contracting Command, will host a Change of Command ceremony for the U. S. Army Expeditionary Contracting Command, Friday, April 20, 2012 at 10 a.m.

Apr 16, 2012

Despite a climate of tighter scrutiny of defense spending, the expansion of the acquisition workforce will continue to be an ongoing goal, a top Army acquisition executive said March 22.

Apr 12, 2012

Learn more about Deborah Van Heest, ACC executive assistant and author.

Apr 6, 2012

New directive encourages greater Army civilian professional development

Apr 4, 2012

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Command of the Mission and Installation Contracting Command changed hands during a ceremony here March 28 attended by Fort Sam Houston leaders, local civic dignitaries and members of the command.

Apr 4, 2012

Senior leaders from Army Contracting Command, major ACC contracting centers, the Expeditionary Contracting Command and the Mission and Installation Contracting Command met at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, March 27 to review selected command programs, priorities and initiatives.

Apr 4, 2012

Learn more about Roderick W. Redman, Contract Cost/Price Analyst at ACC-Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

Apr 4, 2012

Army officials have announced the tightening of recruitment and reenlistment standards to reduce end strength and reshape the force to meet future requirements.

Apr 3, 2012

The Senate wanted to hear how the Army maintains oversight over contractors vs. DOD civilian employees and an Army senior leader explained a tool that was developed seven years ago to monitor the contract workforce.

Mar 28, 2012

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Mission and Installation Contracting Command officials here marked their move to the historic Long Barracks with a ribbon-cutting ceremony today attracting more than 250 distinguished military visitors, local civic leaders and guests.

Mar 28, 2012

A native of Aibonito, Puerto Rico, Master Sgt. Julie A. Saorrono was recently recognized for her contributions in support of the Army Contracting Command's premiere pre-deployment exercise, Joint Dawn 2012, held at Fort Bliss, Texas, Jan. 19 until Feb. 3.

Mar 28, 2012

After almost six months as the Army Contracting Command's Deputy to the Executive Director, Harry Hallock sees thing from a brand new perspective.

Mar 23, 2012

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - For the military, contingency contracting tends to reference combat operations or natural disasters, but in reality, they can occur anytime, anywhere and sometimes for positive reasons such as preparing for a visit from the president of the United States.

Mar 23, 2012

After rubbing elbows with elite educators at the world-famous Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and graduating cum laude, Mark Rinaldi did what only the brightest, highly sought-after college student would do. He started working for the Army Contracting Command--Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., in its Massachusetts office.

Mar 23, 2012

"It's the most wonderful job in the world," Kathie Potter said, about her duties with the Army Contracting Command's Deployable Cadre Program.

Mar 23, 2012

The relationship between the U.S. Army Contracting Command and the Military Surface, Deployment and Distribution Command's Acquisition directorate may be unique, but senior officials from both agencies agree they share a common goal, supporting the joint war fighter.

Mar 23, 2012

MADISON, Ala. - Travon Landry doesn't consider himself to be a bluegrass music fan. He's into rap and hip-hop. But he's got a lot of the bluegrass standard, "Rocky Top," in his future.

Mar 23, 2012

Little miracles happen every day. Just ask Charles and Shellie Scott about Jordan Grace Scott. Born 16-weeks premature, Jordan entered the world much sooner than expected.

Mar 23, 2012

SAN ANTONIO, Texas--Volunteers from the 410th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, demonstrated their commitment to service by serving meals to almost 250 homeless men, women and children at the Haven for Hope transformation center here Feb. 11.

Mar 21, 2012

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait -- Army Contracting Command-Kuwait and the 408th Contracting Support Brigade hosted the 2012 Kuwait Vendor Conference at the Kuwait Hilton Resort here, March 11.

Mar 21, 2012

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. -- Army Contracting Command Executive Director Carol Lowman and Command Sgt. Maj. John Murray visited ACC-Rock Island March 15 to meet with ACC-RI leaders on a variety of topics, tour the facilities and host a town hall with approximately 500 attendees.

Mar 21, 2012

Lt. Col. Martha K. Brooks is this year's recipient of the North Alabama Chapter of Federally Employed Women's Military Meritorious Service Award.

Mar 21, 2012

Learn more about Maj. Donald Leath, a reservist with the 915th Contingency Contracting Support Battalion, Baltimore, Md., and a branch chief with the Army Contracting Command-National Capital Region, Alexandria, Va.

Mar 21, 2012

The latest issue of ACC Today is now available online. View in pdf or flip versions.

Mar 19, 2012

The Army will begin to shape the force by implementing the Qualitative Service Program, beginning with a centralized selection board that will convene after April 1, 2012.

Mar 15, 2012

Army Contracting Command will select its Noncommissioned Officer of the year during three days of competition, May 21-23, at Camp Bullis, Texas.

Mar 15, 2012

This week's employee spotlight features Master Sgt. Cynthia Perryman from the 903rd Contingency Contracting Battalion in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Mar 15, 2012

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Three Army Contracting Command employees have won Army Materiel Command's 2010 Louis Dellamonica Award for Outstanding Personnel.

Mar 15, 2012

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Officials here have developed an Acquisition Workforce Civilian Leadership Development Program offering contracting professionals a structured, detailed roadmap for career management.

Mar 9, 2012

Approximately 50 U.S. Army Contracting Command - Rock Island employees attended a Lunch and Learn event March 7.

Mar 8, 2012

A March 1 ribbon-cutting ceremony 1 symbolically marked the point that all deploying and redeploying contractors will be processed through Camp Atterbury, Ind.

Mar 7, 2012

Learn more about Sgt. 1st Class Lascelles Cuff, ECC's CBRN NCO

Mar 7, 2012

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. -- For three Army Contracting Command -- Rock Island employees, the pursuit of competition is the equivalent to the pursuit of happiness.

Mar 1, 2012

As a child, Deborah J. Hunter's curiosity would lead her down a path resulting in a brush with a significant historical figure.

Mar 1, 2012

Learn more about Kane E. Leedy, a contracting officer at ACC - Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Feb 29, 2012

The Security Assistance Command and the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation hosted an acquisition workshop for USASAC employees Feb. 16. Two three-hour workshops were conducted by video teleconference and were available to the work force in morning and afternoon sessions.

Feb 29, 2012

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Members of the 621st Contingency Contracting Team at Fort Campbell, Ky., deployed in August to provide dedicated contracting officer support and subject matter expertise during the 5th Special Force Group (Airborne) capstone training exercise conducted in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Feb 28, 2012

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Found at one of the largest training installations in the Army responsible for training infantry and armor Soldiers, experts at the Installation Contracting Office-Fort Benning, Ga., remain focused despite having one of the busiest missions in the Mission and Installation Contracting Command.

Feb 23, 2012

The U.S. Army is immersed in a series of ongoing efforts to find fiscal efficiencies while continuing to harness needed innovation, in many cases, to deliver life-saving technologies to Soldiers in Afghanistan, said the Army's top acquisition official.

Feb 23, 2012

Plans are in motion for the Soldiers and civilian employees at the U.S. Army Contracting Command and the U.S. Army Expeditionary Contracting Command headquarters to relocate their operations to Building 4505 on Redstone Arsenal as their permanent facility.

Feb 23, 2012

Learn more about Mark Mohler, a quality assurance specialist with the 413th Contracting Support Brigade - Regional Contracting Office, at Fort Shafter.

Feb 22, 2012

The Army's method of attack for addressing the retrograde and reset mission from Iraq was to link the industrial base to the operational force by focusing on four strategic imperatives: visibility, accountability, velocity, and triage forward.

Feb 21, 2012

Deploying to locations that cover a third of the globe, members of the 409th Contracting Support Brigade, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, regularly find themselves supporting U.S. Africa Command in remote parts of the African continent.

Feb 17, 2012

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- The U.S. Army Materiel Command announces its winners of the 2011 Maj. Gen. Keith L. Ware Public Affairs Awards Communication Competition. First place winners will represent AMC at the Department of the Army level of the competition.

Feb 16, 2012

Joint Dawn 2012, held from Jan. 19 to Feb. 3 at Fort Bliss, Texas, brought together a joint-service group of contracting professionals for a contingency contracting pre-deployment mission readiness exercise.

Feb 16, 2012

Learn more about ACC's new G-1, Bill Baxter

Feb 15, 2012

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- The Mission and Installation Contracting Command deputy to the commander was appointed to the Senior Executive Service today during a ceremony here today recognizing exceptional skills and abilities in transforming the government.

Feb 13, 2012

"Joint Dawn 2012 is the beginning, not the end of your preparation to deploy," said Heidi Shyu, acting assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, via a video message to the exercise participants, Jan. 27, 2012.

Feb 13, 2012

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Purchasing the billions of dollars worth of items needed by warfighters is a big job often reserved for seasoned contracting professionals in theater.

Feb 10, 2012

The U.S. Army Contracting Command Office of Small Business Programs has two upcoming workshops.

Feb 9, 2012

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Expeditionary Contracting Command's Regional Contracting Office-Miami is being realigned under the Mission and Installation Contracting Command, the U.S. Army Contracting Command announced today.

Feb 8, 2012

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2012 -- While the U.S. military will shrink in the coming years, the contracting career field will buck the trend and grow, officials at the U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center said.

Feb 8, 2012

Members of Team C4ISR showed promise becoming a reality to Lt. Gen. Susan S. Lawrence, the Army's chief information officer/G6, Jan. 30, 2012, during her visit to the C4ISR Center of Excellence.

Feb 8, 2012

Learn more about Silentip LeRoy a contract specialist assigned to the Mission and Installation Contracting Command - Presidio of Monterrey, Calif.

Feb 8, 2012

The operations of the Army Contracting Command-Picatinny have expanded to include an ACC contracting activity at Fort Dix, creating a new organization officially established in October 2011 called the Army Contracting Command-New Jersey.

Feb 7, 2012

View the latest edition of the U.S. Army Contracting Command's award-winning magazine online.

Feb 3, 2012

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Your phone rings: "Please report to your appointed shelter" the message says. Within the hour, a F5 tornado rips through your neighborhood. Approximately 1, 600 tornadoes occurred across the states in the 2011 tornado outbreak. Locally, homes were flattened and thousands were left without power, including Redstone Arsena

Feb 1, 2012

Learn more about Jackie Lynne Pinkston an acquisition services group program manager assigned to the Mission and Installation Contracting Command at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

Jan 31, 2012

FORT BLISS, Texas -- Uniformed contracting officers training here as part of the two-week U.S. Army Contracting Command pre-deployment readiness exercise Joint Dawn 2012 are benefiting from a growing role by civilian contracting professionals.

Jan 30, 2012

U.S. Army Contracting Command is holding a pre-deployment joint readiness exercise called Joint Dawn 2012 at Fort Bliss, Texas, from Jan. 19 to Feb 3, 2012.

Jan 30, 2012

FORT BLISS, Texas -- In a surprise visit Jan. 26 with U.S. Army Contracting Command participants of the Joint Dawn exercise, Command Sgt. Maj. Ronald T. Riling, U.S. Army Materiel Command, lauded the Soldiers' efforts in supporting the war fighter in theater.

Jan 29, 2012

FORT BLISS, Texas -- Forty-five members from throughout the Mission and Installation Contracting Command are among the more than 250 participants teaming together here in support of the two-week U.S. Army Contracting Command pre-deployment readiness exercise Joint Dawn 2012.

Jan 27, 2012

D3I explained more in depth to local defense industry

Jan 24, 2012

The Chief of Staff, U.S. Army announced today that Brig. Gen. (P) Camille M. Nichols will assume command of the U.S. Army Contracting Command.

Jan 20, 2012

A medical research contract established through the Army Contracting Command -- Aberdeen Proving Ground has led to the nation's first full face transplant and the first combination face and hands transplant.

Jan 19, 2012

Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Raymond T. Odierno issued his Marching Orders Jan. 2012, titled "America's Force of Decisive Action."

Jan 18, 2012

Redstone Arsenal, Ala., happened to be a test ground for more than missiles and helicopters on Jan. 10-11, 2012.

Jan 17, 2012

From firing a new enhanced performance round to actively seeking input from mid-career managers, Heidi Shyu's whirlwind visit Dec. 20, 2011, to Picatinny Arsenal included a town hall in which she underscored the need to streamline acquisition.

Jan 15, 2012

The U.S. Army, through the System of Systems Integration (SoSI) Directorate, announced that it is seeking interested industry and government sources with mature solutions to enhance existing network systems capabilities to participate in the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) 13.1 event, scheduled to occur in Oct/Nov 2012 at Fort Bliss, Texas and White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), N.M. The NIE is a series of semi-annual evaluations designed to further integrate and mature the Army's tactical network, and accelerate and improve the way network technologies are delivered to Soldiers.

Jan 12, 2012

The U.S. Army Contracting Command Office of Small Business Programs has scheduled the first workshop of 2012.

Jan 12, 2012

The Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Regional Contracting Office has won RCO of the Year for 2011.

Jan 12, 2012

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Officials from the Mission and Installation Contracting Command welcomed Command Sgt. Maj. Rodney J. Rhoades as its command sergeant major during a change-of-responsibility ceremony here Jan. 9.

Jan 6, 2012

Thanks to the employees of the Army Contracting Command's Missile Logistic Division, Soldiers serving in Afghanistan felt the Christmas spirit miles away from home.

Jan 5, 2012

Three full facial transplants have been accomplished with funding from an Army contract and officials at the Natick Soldier Systems Center hope the technology can be used on wounded warriors.

Jan 5, 2012

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Admittedly, growing up on the streets of Atlanta in the late 1970s searching for trouble was producing a harsh reality for a teenager whose alternative of leading a straight path in uniform was furthermost from his thoughts. Like many teens whose angst after graduating high school is often typified by a contemptuous demeanor, 18-year-old Clinton Jackson didn't want anybody, let alone his parents, telling him what to do.

Jan 5, 2012

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait -- More often than not, changes in an organization occur with each rotation of leadership. For some leaders, a vision of a fit workforce begins with setting the example. The 408th Army Contracting Support Brigade, Army Contracting Command-Kuwait took on The Biggest Loser Challenge here.

Jan 4, 2012

Gen. Ann Dunwoody, U.S. Army Materiel Command commanding general, is beginning the year with a strong sense of pride.

Jan 3, 2012

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait -- Does every member of your organization know or understand how their individual job performance contributes to the mission as a whole? Do your managers fully understand how to manage their teams by aligning day-to-day work to the vision and mission of the command?

Dec 29, 2011

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Senior decision makers with the Mission and Installation Contracting Command here will soon have a new planning tool that allows them to better gauge their effectiveness in executing the acquisitions mission.

Dec 28, 2011

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- The director of the Mission Contracting Office-Fort Knox, Ky., retires today after almost 38 years of service to the government.

Dec 28, 2011

A 12-minute compilation video of all 70 U.S. Army Contracting Command holiday greetings from employees around the world.

Dec 21, 2011

Rock Island, Ill - It took only eight working days for employees of Army Contracting Command -- Rock Island to gather its collective goodwill, but it could very well have a life-long impact on one Quad City Area family.