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In the Fall of 2017, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) initiated a Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study [58] to evaluate various proposals to address storm surge in the New York and New Jersey harbor area. The New York Harbor Storm-Surge Barrier, modified to increase permeability, is represented by two of five alternatives ...
In October 1999, the Corps of Engineers established a system of laboratories, called the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). [2] The ERDC was a consolidation of seven, pre-existing laboratories: the Coastal and Hydraulics, Environmental, Geotechnical and Structures, and Information Technology Laboratories in Vicksburg, Mississippi; the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory ...
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.
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Capital Engineers: The US Army Corps of Engineers in the Development of Washington, DC 1790-2004 (Office of History, Headquarters, US Army Corps of Engineers, 2011). online; Shallat, Todd. "Building waterways, 1802–1861: Science and the United States Army in early public works." Technology and Culture 31.1 (1990): 18-50. excerpt; Shallat, Todd.
Congress required all federal agencies to submit annual financial reports in 1990. The Pentagon finally got around to complying in 2018, and it still hasn't passed an audit.
The Army Geospatial Center (AGC) [2] (formerly Topographic Engineering Center (TEC)) is a Major Subordinate Command of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. [3] It is located in Alexandria, Virginia, within the Humphreys Engineering Center adjacent to the Fort Belvoir military reservation.
Constituted 7 December 1917 in the National Army as the 46th Engineers Organized March–April 1918 at Camp Sheridan, Alabama Converted and redesignated 18 September 1918 as the 46th Regiment, Transportation Corps Regiment broken up 12 November 1918 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: