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Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (VTAM) is the IBM subsystem that implements Systems Network Architecture (SNA) for mainframe environments. [1] VTAM provides an application programming interface (API) for communication applications, and controls communication equipment such as adapters and controllers. In modern terminology, VTAM ...
This office defines policy and guidance, and it plans direction for the organizations within the Corps. The Chief of Engineers is currently a lieutenant general billet but in the past has been held by field grade officers as low as major. Civilian oversight of the Chief of Engineers is provided by the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works).
On April 30, 2010, Dr. Jean released a music video for her song, produced and edited by Kenny Veenstra, "Dr. Jean's Banana Dance". [9] [10] "The Guacamole Song", the incorrect but more well-known name for "Dr. Jean's Banana Dance", rose rapidly in October and November 2015. [11] The song gained 33 million views and quickly became an internet ...
Thomas Paul Bostick [1] (born September 23, 1956) [2] was the 53rd Chief of Engineers of the United States Army and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [3] [4] Since the creation of West Point in 1802 as the Nation's first engineering school, Bostick is the only African American graduate of the academy to serve as the Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S ...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Deputy Commanding General for Civil Works and Emergency Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Not applicable: Major General Jason E. Kelly [130] U.S. Army: Great Lakes and Ohio River Division: Commanding General, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (LRD) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Major General
In 1969, IEEE awarded him the renowned Edison Medal for "fundamental contributions to the arts of communication, computation and control; for leadership in bringing mathematical science to bear on engineering problems; and for guidance and creative counsel in systems engineering", [1] a tribute that eloquently summarized the wide spectrum of ...
In November 2009, the US District Court for Eastern Louisiana held the US Army Corps of Engineers responsible for the flooding from the two east IHNC levee breaches (and dozens of others) because the federal agency failed to properly maintain the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO). As of June 2011, the federal government has appealed the ruling.
Richard "Dick" Horace Battin (March 3, 1925 – February 8, 2014) was an American engineer, applied mathematician and educator who led the design of the Apollo guidance computer during the Apollo missions during the 1960s. [1] Battin was born on March 3, 1925, in Atlantic City, New Jersey to Martha Scheu and Horace L. Battin.