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LOS ANGELES DISTRICT - Aspiring engineer, student trainee earns Corps internship, inspires minds along way
Taylor Brown, student trainee with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, front row, second from left, along with her teammates, holds up her trophy she won as a member of the Arizona State University Concrete Solutions team during...
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SACRAMENTO DISTTICT - 24-Hr USACE course harnesses the power of fall protection training
Brad Lein, right, training program manager of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fall Protection High Hazard Working Group, leads the second iteration of the USACE Fall Protection Competent Person 24-Hour Course, Feb. 8. Fifteen USACE Sacramento...
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ALBUQUERQUE DISTRICT - More than 40 volunteers count eagles at annual Abiquiu Lake Event
Some of the 43 volunteers who took advantage of nice weather to attend the annual Midwinter Bald Eagle Watch and Survey event held at Abiquiu Lake, Jan. 7, 2023, are pictured as they look for eagles.
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  • March

    From left to right: Robert Burch, CEO of RA Burch; Col. Julie Balten, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District commander; Brig. Gen. Curtis Taylor, commanding general of the National Training Center and Fort Irwin; Col. Jason Clarke, Fort Irwin garrison commander; and Lt. Col. John Williams, deputy commander for Operations Group, National Training Center, break ground for the new Simulations Center March 23 at Fort Irwin, California.

    Corps, partners break ground on new Simulations Center at Fort Irwin

    Senior leaders with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Fort Irwin broke ground March 23 on a new Simulations Center at the installation, which is home to the National Training Center. “It has been a 10-year journey to get us here, but this is a critical inflection point in Fort Irwin’s history, and, more importantly, in where we are going as an Army,” said Brig. Gen. Curtis Taylor, commanding general of the National Training Center. “It just so happens that this project came to fruition in just the right time.”

  • December

    From left to right, G. Patrick O’Dowd, executive director, Salton Sea Authority; Col. Julie Balten, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District; and Cindy Messer, chief deputy director, California Department of Water Resources, celebrate after signing the Imperial Streams Salton Sea Feasibility Cost-Share Agreement during a Dec. 16 signing ceremony near the shores of the Salton Sea in Mecca, California.

    Corps, partners sign agreement to move forward on study to aid Salton Sea

    On a sunny December day near the shores of the Salton Sea, three agencies signed an agreement to collaborate on ways to aid the ailing lake. Representatives with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, California Department of Water Resources and the Salton Sea Authority signed a cost-share agreement during a Dec. 16 outdoor ceremony at the North Shore Yacht Club in Mecca.
  • Justin Gay, deputy district engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, third from right, along with other LA District representatives from the Corps' Palmdale Resident and Edwards Air Force Base offices, pose for a picture in front of the new air traffic control tower following a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the completion of the tower Nov. 30 at Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California.

    Corps joins Air Force to unveil completion of air traffic control tower at Plant 42, described as ‘center of the aerospace testing universe’

    From the top of a 160-foot air traffic control tower at Air Force Plant 42, one may understand why Brig. Gen. Matthew Higer, commander of the 412th Test Wing, Edwards Air Force Base, California, refers to the area as the ‘center of the aerospace testing universe.’

  • October

    Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commanding general and 55th chief of engineers, center, signed a chief’s report Oct. 14 recommending the Port of Long Beach Deep Draft Navigation Plan to Congress at the Corps’ headquarters in Washington, D.C. The plan could be included in the next Water Resources Development Act. A separate bill to appropriate funding to the plan would also have to be passed by Congress for the plan to move forward to construction.

    Corps’ chief signs report to move Port of Long Beach deep-draft navigation project forward

    Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District and the Port of Long Beach are one step closer to improving navigation efficiencies and safety for existing and prospective commerce within the port with the signing of a chief’s report for the project. The Port of Long Beach Deep-Draft Navigation Feasibility Report – which aims to improve and modify existing channels in the port by deepening them to accommodate larger cargo ships – was signed Oct. 14 by Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon, the Corps’ commanding general and 55th U.S. Army chief of engineers, at the Corps’ headquarters in Washington, D.C.

  • December

    Professionals with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District representing a variety of technical disciplines lent their time and expertise to public stakeholders Dec. 3, 2020, during the 2020 Los Angeles River Flood Awareness Workshop.

    Workshop welcomes stakeholders to discuss LA River mission with Corps’ experts

    Professionals with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District representing a variety of technical disciplines lent their time and expertise to public stakeholders Dec. 3, 2020, during the 2020 Los Angeles River Flood Awareness Workshop.
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